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And it came this afternoon outside one of our local primary schools.

At 3:30 pm today, I watched a young woman driving a Corsa SRi perform a u-turn, mount the pavement, speed past a Crossing Patrol and have to swerve violently to avoid collision with the rear door of a parked vehicle into which children were being loaded.

The traffic flow was stop - start as buses and cars negotiated parked vehicles and pedestrians crossing as I drove home. She erupted from the oncoming lane into the gap between my car and the one in front and attempted a u-turn, mounted the pavement and took two reverses to return to the road correctly. The gap that had formed in the time that she had taken to turn was about 200m and she floored it away, passing the Patrol at around (I estimate) 40 mph. Still accelerating, she then had to avoid the car being loaded, swerving so wildly that the woman loading her children screamed. I had managed to note her registration and I pulled over to make sure that the woman loading her children was OK - she was very shaken and irate.

I asked her to ring the Police when she got home and report the incident, as I was going to as well, which I duly did. The Trafpol I spoke to was most helpful and told me he would set a lookout message, pending the other witness contacting him. I have not heard any further.

Whilst objecting to some of the cretinous speed limit placings in this country, there are those that surely have their place and watching a young woman doing up to 45 mph on a 30 limit, with speed humps, having displayed poor maneuver control and around a thousand kids leaving the two schools in the area, I hope my actions result in this murderous 'ladette' being banned from ever driving again.

I feel that most other SafeSpeeders would do the same if they had witnessed the utter stupidity I watched this afternoon.

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Aquila



Licat volare si super tergum aquila volat...

I've noticed that the most dangerous drivers around our two local schools are also ladettes. (And some of the young mums aren't much better!)

Sounds fair enough to me!

Gotta say I agree wholeheartedly with you on that one MGBGT.

I was involved in a similar incident last year with some middle aged chavette who was under the deluded impression she was still 17 years old even though she has borne 7 children to 5 different fathers.

There I was quite happily burbling down the road at just above tickover towards my sons school when all of a sudden the aforementioned waste of space came wheelspinning out of a side turning and ended up fishtailing all over the place.

Quite how she managed to "fishtail" a FWD car I still haven't worked out, but believe me when I say that it was a rather worrying piece of driving especially as she was heading towards me while I was on 2 wheels (as well as the hundreds of kids running around outside the school).

When I did eventually come face to face with her, her attitude was "what the fuck has it got to do with you how I drive?"
Now I was always taught that it was wrong to hit a woman during my childhood, but I was seriously losing patience with this mouthy bitch who had not only nearly had me off due to me having to take evasive action, but could quite easily have found a child in her path at any point in time.

To cut a long story short, the argument became so heated that one of the other parents called the police.
The police turned up, split us up, asked to see both our driving documents, and then promptly arrested her.

The reason for her arrest.........................No License, No Insurance, No MOT, Bald tyres, etc, etc, etc

6 months later the crazy bitch is back on the road and her attitude hasn't changed in the slightest (except she has a tendancy to give me a wide berth now).
I don't know if she has passed a test since, although I seriously doubt it judging by her standard of driving.

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What makes you think I'm drunk officer, have I got a fat bird with me?

I reckon that you'd be doing the community a favour if you "grassed her up"!

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"Politicians are the same the world over... We build bridges where there aren't any rivers." - Nikita Kruschev

I recon you'd be doing the community a better service if you'd but her out of her misery.

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Science won over religion when they started installing lightning rods on churches.

Every contribution to this post confirms what I have thought for some time. It is that recklessness and hedonism in driving needs the ruthless treatment. 40 years of permissiveness has given us the 'Me, Myself, and I' society.

At the moment, every person who goes over some arthimetical figure is thumped regardless. This has caused such huge resentment that Government and Police have completely lost the plot.

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Good manners maketh a good motorist

With a mere 7 children, she probably was still 17, just a bit of a minger.

And that, my friend, sums it up more succinctly than I have seen in a very long time! Well said, sir!

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Aquila



Licat volare si super tergum aquila volat...

madness, i'm glad you reported it.

i have been on the receiving end of road rage when the numpty behind me decided that i was taking too long to turn right from a minor to a major (absolutely no safe gaps, it was dark and there was the risk of people overtaking left turning traffic just prior to the junction and being obscured by the lead car - i'd been there for about 30 seconds)

he proceeded to continue to honk his horn and mouth abuse at me before deciding to overtake onto the wrong side of the road, stop beside my driver window and continued to hurl abuse and give me the finger, etc before accelerating away in a wheelspin causing a bus to emergency stop (god help if anyone had been overtaking the bus) - i got his reg and reported it to the police and found out that this particular driver had a notoriety for being reported, and was going to be investigated which was a nice result.

safedriver, good point about the "I'ism" culture present in todays society..

Mrs civil engineer reportated a dangerous driver after a car full of burberry hit her door mirror.

Result?

she was threatened with prosecution if she didn't produce her licence in 7 days (lost during house move)

letter a few months later saying that they were closing the investigation.

W*nkers!