Safe Speed Forums

"Manchester" paper of 15 Feb also had this snippet

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Mobile Phonewits and Foglight users, you know the blind gits that need thier fogs on in in the clear !!

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I'm not making myself out to be a perfect driver or anything, I'm far from it, but when driving I am too busy concentrating on the road ahead to spend time peering through peoples' car windows to see if they are using a phone, putting on makeup etc.

As far as annoyances while driving are concerned, I'd say:
1) Being tailgated. Especially when I'm on or just below the speed limit on a known camera'd road.
2) Talivans. And contractors' vans that I mistake for Talivans.
3) People who turn right at roundabouts without indicating.
4) Speed Humps, potholes and other "traffic calming" measures.
5) Inner-city road systems that get changed every five minutes - new traffic light phasing, bus lanes, new right turn restrictions, new one way streets etc. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
6) The entire road system of Reading, for the reasons specified in (4) & (5)
7) People who drive their 10-15 year old kids to school when the distance is walkable.
8) Road Rage, in all its forms.
9) All Post Offices with parking outside do not sell Road Tax. Grrrr!

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Tailgaters and the idiots who overtake on hazards ect to fill my safe following gap (usually braking in front of me too as they 'squeeze' in) and there is no chance of further progress as the traffic is heaving.
Drivers who speed up as I safely overtake.
Drivers who sound their horn, flash their lights and gesticulate wildly as I overtake safely.
Drivers who refuse to stop at a zebra crossing or worse, drive around the pedestrian.
Drivers who block entrances and exits when stationary.
Lazy scumbags who insist in parking in a disabled space when they are in perfect health. Mother and child space maybe as I believe if you choose to have children then that’s your problem but a disability, in general is not self induced.
Indicating right to cross a roundabout.

That will do!

Chavs in hatchbacks
Scrotey kids on sports scooters/mopeds
Mobile phone users
Bikers who think they're Valentino Rossi, and the road is a track
Anyone with a headlight out
Anyone with a rear fog-light on when it's not foggy
People who sit at the lights then put the right-turn indicator on when the lights go green

1) Lane hoggers
2) Fog lights (unless visibility is severly reduced)

With regard to Paul W's comment on parent and child spaces. Dont be surprised if a mother bangs her door into your car whilst attempting to extract her child from a car seat whilst parked in a normal space because some selfish twat has parked in one of the few parent and child spaces.

Personally I would put all disabled / parent & child spaces in an enclosed section of car park with a barrier exit. Then anyone would be able to park there but only those who needed the wider spaces would be exempt from paying to leave.

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Nick

People that are in a right hand lane at the traffic light and wait for the light to turn green before indicating right.

Totally agree with the disabled thing. I am a disabled driver and use crutches. Some people think that they are just free spaces and have even been sitting in the car drinking coffee and refused to move/totally ignored me when I show then my blue badge and ask them to please move.

No mention of pointless speed limits and enforcement thereof?

I found it most annoying when a police car on motorway who ignores all the dangerous driving, speeding, sudden braking, swerving and tailgating going on behind him but pulls you over for daring to overtake him because it was the safest and most legal thing to do...

I don't see how waiting until the lights turn green before indicating is annoying though?

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Andrew.

Well, if the car in front isn't indicating right you assume they are going straight on, so you join the outside lane as there are less cars queueing there. Then the lights go green, they move forward 2 feet and turn their right indicator on. You now have to wait for all the oncoming traffic to clear before you can proceed. If you'd known they were turning right you'd have queued in the left lane.

Inconsiderate driving like that annoys me too. As a biker I'd just like to see other road users paying more attention to their driving and less to the distractions within their vehicle.

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speed cameras
the dreadful state of the road surfaces
the lack of sight lines at junctions and bends
wrongly painted road markings
People who put you under pressure around corners that may be deisel spilled (m271 redbridge! )
small cars with loud exhausts
inexperianced bike rides buzzing round the rear
mobile phone drivers (especialy the ones in £20,000 cars )
40mph HGV's on a long and winding road (and no over taking place)
unnecessary road narrowing / congestion scheemes

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Speed limit sign radio interview. TV Snap Unhappy
“It has never been the rule in this country – I hope it never will be - that suspected criminal offences must automatically be the subject of prosecution” He added that there should be a prosecution: “wherever it appears that the offence or the circumstances of its commission is or are of such a character that a prosecution in respect thereof is required in the public interest”
This approach has been endorsed by Attorney General ever since 1951. CPS Code

People that pull out on you without indicating then drive slowly.

Usually in tatty old Jap 4x4's

Not indicating left on approach to a roundabout.

(when turning left, obviously.....!)

I love how undertaking (presumably meaning being undertaken) made it so high into the original list. Surely if you are undertaken so much that you feel the need to whinge about it, you are in the wrong lane!

I think my top annoyance is people who clearly have no intention of overtaking the vehicle in front, but still insist on following so close that it's impossible to overtake without overtaking both at once.

The real clever arse who dips his lights when coming towards you and then gives it full beam just before you pass each other.

I just wonder what goes on in people's heads sometimes

Things that annoy me most on the road?

My own mistakes and imperfections...

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Paul Smith
Our scrap speed cameras petition got over 28,000 sigs
The Safe Speed campaign demands a return to intelligent road safety

Front fog lights. Why???
People that don't watch what they are doing, driving pointing at stuff.
speed limited trucks.
Pot holes.
worn out road markings
pushing in at contra flows
Drivers that hog DC or Mways, KEEP LEFT!!!
Me today finding that every lane I was going in was stationary or near stationary and the others we moving, then happening across an ambulance that was scooping up cyclest when I could have gone a different way
and finally the paranoia about watching that bloody clock in the centre of my dash

The reverse is also an annoyance - the drivers who don't pay attention when you do indicate in good time that you're turning right, come bombing right up to your rear bumper and then, when they finally DO figure out that you're not going anywhere soon, give you a rear-view full of mainbeam and/or a less than friendly blast of their horn as they try to push their way into the other lane to get by...

Middle-lane sitters
Outer lane sitters ([John Major voice] "70 mph is as fast as you can go")
Wimmin in 4WD's that park where the wheels stop turning
'Ladettes' in Chav GTI's who survive by making others avoid them
Diesels
Octagenerians in Korean 'white-goods' cars
Lexus drivers that sneer at Merc drivers
Merc drivers
BMW's
MPV's (the 'new' Volvo owners)
Tw@ts that overtake you at 45 in a 30 limit, then drive at 45 in the following NSL
Drivers that do emergency stops for wildlife
Tree Huggers driving to protest sites in 1953 Bedford Duple coaches
Drivers that suddenly brake when they realise they are in an 'off-filter' lane
Drivers joining a motorway that go straight from the slip to the outer lane
F*****G CARAVANNERS

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Aquila



Licat volare si super tergum aquila volat...

MGBGT

What wrong with caravaners?

The only problems I have with holding up traffic whilst towing is when I am stuck behind slow vehicles (eg Volvos or Micras driven by people wearing hats!)

If I find I am holding up traffic I pull over when I can, costs me nothing as on holiday I am not usually in too much of a rush.

I could rant on about horse boxes but hey, we'vd all got to live together.

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Nick

unfortunately you're the only one in the country who does this, hence people's hatred of carvans.