4 x 4 driver, dropping off privately educated boy outside my house, on the pavement, forcing my son out of the way!

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garrrr

he came out of the house, pissing down raining cats and dogs, to cross the road to catch the bus, this woman in a huge black 4 by 4 drove him off the pavement to drop off her precious
i was fuming.
despite being in my dressing gown i really wanted to go out and bang on her window

YANBU, get her number plate and report her

dont see why the make of car or where her son goes to school matters, but what she did was dangerous and potentially illegal.

Sounds horrible and like she was driving badly. Nothing to do with where he goes to school though ! I am going to hide behind the sofa now

YANBU to be pissed off at bad and potentially dangerous driving.

YABU to think that type of car and type of schooling is relevent.
A small fiesta driven by a single parent of a child at a state school would hurt just as much if it hit you.

YABU - you didn't really expect anything more from a 4 X 4 driver did you?

It's not just the 4x4 driving mothers of privately educated children that do this. I once had to stand in front of a car that was trying to drive across a corner of pavement to avoid waiting in a queue of traffic. It was right opposite a primary school as all the children were coming out - I had my three dses with me, when this muppet (whose child went to the primary school opposite) tried to drive across the pavement in front of my children. I thumped on his bonnet and forced him to reverse back onto the road.

It was most satisfying, I promise you. Are you going to watch out for her in future so you can tell her if she does it again you'll be reporting her to the police for dangerous driving?

OK.

But my disabled son regularly gets shouted at, sworn at and pushed aside by drivers trying to park outside my house to run their children into the state primary opposite.

What has the type of school got to do with anything? Or the type of car for that mater.

"some twat" would have covered the driver rather better than the type of car and type of school

the boy actually looked like that boy from 6th sense, only in a blazer and tie.
i spose i would have been just as annoyed at the ford fiesta, probalby not though. hmm

Would you have been just as angry if it hadn't been a 4x4?

i think the sort of person who drives their privately educated child to school in a 4x4 probably has an inflated sense of entitlement and is more likely to behave badly.

it was a huge one, the arrogance of the woman sums it up really.

makes note to get up earlier tomorrow and actually be dressed and ready to pounce

exactly what..goat

Why wouldn't you have been just as annoyed at a ford fiesta? Would it have left more socially worthy injuries?

I think that large cars are generally more agressive looking or intrude upon the vision more than a small car, so I kind of get the whole anti-4x4 movement.
But I think its a crock of shit. all cars have the potential to cause injury or death if they are not driven with due care and attention regardless of size or social stature of the person driving it.

drives you insane doesn't it? Was your Ds ok?
I had similar experience earlier this year as i took DCs to school - we were waiting on the pavement opposite school, about to cross the road when a mum drove up and mounted the pavement(double yellows and ziggy zaggy lines on the road of course!) and missed DD2 by less than 12". I was so shocked and angry that I went up and thumped on her window and had a go at her. This is so unlike me - I normally wouldn't say boo to a goose .

I then broke down in tears when I took the kids into school and had teachers flapping round me ( was very pregnant too so maybe they thought I might faint or something!)

Your woman probably didn't see him because she was in such a big car. At least she is making use of her cars ability to mount pavemnts - that justifies having a 4x4 doesn't it?

Wow, sweeping generalisations from the goat there and it's not even lunchtime yet.

i am right though

Yes of course you are goat. And all people who live on council estates are poor and drive white xr2's with huge exhausts at high speed past the local park.
Also, all mothers drive people carriers and can't park them properly.
Then you have the white van man.......

Erm, no you are not goat. No inflated sense of entitlement here.

I agree with goat

The only absolutely appalling parker around here is the driver of the disabled bus. Can't think how he got his licence. All over the pavement and halfway across the road. But I hope the neighbours don't assume that my dd has an inflated sense of entitlement just because she's got a wheelchair. Or that all disabled people have a huge sense of entitlement. Or even that all taxidrivers have one.

"i think the sort of person who drives their privately educated child to school in a 4x4 probably has an inflated sense of entitlement and is more likely to behave badly."

What a rude, ignorant, sweeping generalisation.
I was privately educated and I would never dream of doing something like that and neither would any of the people I went to school with or their parents. Plenty of whom drove 4x4s.

If you're rude, you're rude wherever your children are educated and there are plenty of very rude parents at state schools as well

how did this become about wheelchairs?

it isn't. But then it isn't about car types or school either.

I drive a 4 x 4 and privately educate my children. I am a considerate driver and people always look very startled when I let them out, don't run them over.

TBH you get a lot of people driving aggressively at you in a 4 x 4 so I think it works both ways.

I drive one since I had two write offs in 3 months both caused by cars driving into me from side roads when I was on the main one. So i replaced my honda civic with a tank basically. I do also drive down farm roads everyday (defensive).

oTOH That woman is a moron and should not be on the pavement.

i dont know how ds is.
will ask him when he comes back
she was a rude and dangerous driver who i will look out for again.

Totally agree with itsmeolord and Fobilou.
Another (former) 4x4 driver and mother of privately educated children here.
What a rude and unhelpful sweeping generalisation.
perhaps OP comments about the school and car says more about her than the driver.