One person driving the wrong way? Consider yourself lucky. I was on the A64 t'other day and EVERYONE was going the wrong way. Honestly, dunno what's happened to driving standards in this country.
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Whats the worst example of driving you've ever seen?
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Posted 2 years ago #
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We went to Goa last year & spent many a happy hour in the Fishermans Cove just watching the driving antics. Not one accident though.
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TBH...
I don't think any drivers are good. I think it is easy for people to convince themselves they are better and more capable than they are, smooth and safe in inverse proportion to their egos.
Every time I ride on the roads I see stupidity, dangerous driving, arrogance, selfishness and impatience. These are standard qualities of a human being upon sitting behind a steering wheel and starting the engine.
Even Disney could see that:
http://www.copenhagenize.com/2010/01/driving-makes-you-goofy.htmlPosted 2 years ago # -
Not the worst driving by a long way,but....
A member of our esteemed constabulary driving his patrol car,pulling away from traffic lights whilst holding his radio/phone to his face,& not seatbelted up either.I was stood alongside waiting to cross the road at the junction.
FFS,if roles were reversed he'd soon have flagged me down & issued the fixed penalty.
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I once worked with a guy who was about 6' 4" and drove with his nose pressed against the windscreen. It meant he couldn't see the speedo properly so had to choose a car with a dangly bit on the speedo needle so he could roughly work out what speed he was going based on the position of the dangly bit.
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1980s. My mum getting me and my sister ready to go to school, when my father appears, walking up the drive. A short time later, a tractor appeared with a trailer. On the trailer is his Audi Quattro with half a hedge where the front wing should be.
FAIL.
15 years later, I've been to see a friend in Myrthr before he went travelling for 6 months. Driving home in the p*ssing rain, I realised I'd missed my junction to get on the A40. Forced to join the opposite carriageway, I booted it only to realise I'd entered a tight 270 degree bend way to quick. Lifting off, the back end let go and the thought that went through my mind was "In F1 they countersteer to flip it round" when BANG! I bounced the back of it off the Armco and rolled to a halt on the grass on the inside of the bend. Standing there in the rain, the car was a good 18" shorter.
FAIL.
It's all in the genes it would seem...
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I once saw a 3flatcaps night ride end in a sprint for the yew tree , culminating in 2 lads going down .
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Riding along with a mate on the road bikes, mondeo overtakes us-nice and wide, immediately mitsubishi FTO over takes us and mondeo and disapears off down the winding undulating road...1/2 mile later....FTO upside down steam escaping from the crumpled body, c0ckend driver clambering out in his shiney suit!
Been showing off his new heap of crap to his mate in the mondeo, but didnt know the road went into a dip/tight right
He hit the black/white chevron sign which he drove up and was flipped over!
Cue me and my mate stopping and giving him a right mouthfull and laughing at him at the same timePosted 2 years ago # -
There is practically a warning everyday on the radio in this part of Germany of someone who is driving in the wrong direction on the Autobahn. I just can't see how someone could be so stupid as to mistake the exit lane for the entry lane. It became such a problem in Austria that they have now fitted those flaps in the road that only let you drive over them in one direction on a lot of the exit roads.
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After rolling my Rover last year when a tyre blew I'm probably not best placed to comment, but having a place in The Gambia opens your eyes to some amazing driving, & some equally amazing uses for a car. Thankfully speeds are never that high.
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Yesterday, as I was having my morning coffee fix, I saw a woman trying to reverse park a Megane into a large parking space. Behind the space was parked another Renault. She used it as a bumper a couple of times, never managed to get closer than some 3 feet to the curb, then drove off. Later in the day she popped into my shop to get a kiddie bike. We got talking about Skerries, she complained about other people's parking their cars so close to each other nobody else can use the spaces.
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Before they finishedthe m40 you used to drop onto sections of it then off again onto local roads. well i was travelling in the fast lane behind a couple of other cars when the all started pulling left rather fast into the middle lane. when the car in front did the same I was left facing why. An old couple in an escort was driving the wrong way down the motorway waving at everyone and thanking them for moving out of there way smiling.
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Hairychested, my parrallel-parking attempt was soo bad a few years ago that a middle-aged BMW driver actually offered to park the car for me. My GF couldnt stop laughing (no I didnt take him up on it).
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About 2 weeks after passing my test I came face to face at night with a car travelling down the A3 the wrong way, without its lights on, I missed it and was on the phone to the police in seconds.
Needless to say I was rather shaken up!
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So you used your mobile while you were driving?
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I do loads of miles and see stupid stuff all the time (business men in top end motors having road rage with each other is pretty commonplace), but TBH the scary incidents are those involving lorries. Two particularly stand out for me. I was doing 50 in a 50 limit - one of those areas that used to be dual carraigeway and has since been reduced to one carriage way with the aid of hatching and red tarmac. Next thing I know a foreign artic is flying past me - there's no way he was limited, he must have been doing 70 mile an hour - straight across the hatching. An articulated lorry doing those kind of speeds coming into a residential area and accident blackspot doesn't bare thinking about .
Plus, of course, the lorry drivers that don't notice the queue of traffic in front. I've seen numerous near misses (including evasive hard shoulder action) which I probably wouldn't consider as being the worst examples of driving...if I hadn't seen the results of a crash on the A14 where one didn't miss. The cab of the 7.5 tonner between the two artics was about 30 cm wide and I'm certain the emergency services looking underneath weren't talking to the (former) occupant.
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So you used your mobile while you were driving?
Yep, the only time I have ever done so!
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