One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3

[Blanchimont]

WJNB said:

Blanchimont said:

There must be rewards for special driving on the road, as knob driver 1 I had to "pleasure" of encountering today would win every time.

Dicksplat decided that everybody must go how quickly he deemed acceptable, ignoring the fact it's a 50 limit, and he was only doing 35. When it went into a DC he straddled both lanes. As soon as opportunity arose I may have dropped back, and floored it around him before he had time to react. Cue horn,full beam, wker sign the works.

I may not have helped by flooring it onto the other side of the DC to get past him, but it seemed to work as the van behind me did it, and then he resided back into L1.

I seriously don't know what gets into some people.

Simple, bitterness & envy. I drive a flash expensive car so like to rub it in as I go by with a cheery wave & a BIG smug grin.

My car isn't exactly flash. It's an RS Megane. Although seeing a 22 year old kid in one may annoy some people.

[DavidJG]

Chris1255 said:

Totally oblivious driver of a big black 4 x 4 tank who decided that joining a 70mph section of the A3 at 40 was a good idea. Not great fun being stuck that. Seems to be getting more and more common that people are clueless about matching your speed to the traffic when merging.

I tend to be very alert for this style of driving on motorway slip roads. Seems to happen a lot when exiting service areas. If I have the feeling that the person in front will do this I'll actually hang back and go very slowly until I've got enough road to get up to speed and merge without catching the knobber who's trying to merge at 40 or less. Apologies to anyone behind me who doesn't understand why I'm doing it, but it does make merging onto the motorway a whole lot easier and safer.

[Thunderace]

Woman on the Handy Cross roundabout at High Wycombe at rush hour last night who thought it was a good idea to turn left from lane 4

[yellowjack]

DavidJG said:

I tend to be very alert for this style of driving on motorway slip roads. Seems to happen a lot when exiting service areas. If I have the feeling that the person in front will do this I'll actually hang back and go very slowly until I've got enough road to get up to speed and merge without catching the knobber who's trying to merge at 40 or less. Apologies to anyone behind me who doesn't understand why I'm doing it, but it does make merging onto the motorway a whole lot easier and safer.

I do this too. Especially at Jct 4a southbound onto the M3. Soooo many idiots pootle down at 40mph, then proceed to force their way into traffic that is flowing around 50% faster than them. I will hold back further up the slip when my 'spidey sense' starts to tingle, then accelerate up to a decent joining speed (to match a gap) when they've cleared the slip road. At it's worst, I once saw a myopic pensioner stop her car at the dotted line and try to join the M4 as if she were turning out of a suburban side road, complete stop, left indicator, the works. Textbook stuff for turning out of Acacia Avenue onto Greater Whinging High Street, but utterly suicidal on a slip road onto one of Britain's busiest motorways...

[silverfoxcc]

Now there is a variation, the LH indicator! did she rally want the hard shoulder?
Still on indicating
tts who, on roundabouts,
Still indicate right when exiting left
Dont indicate at all on exiting

It is getting more common

[Monkeylegend]

Thunderace said:

Woman on the Handy Cross roundabout at High Wycombe at rush hour last night who thought it was a good idea to turn left from lane 4

She probably saw the name of the roundabout.

[Krikkit]

yellowjack said:

DavidJG said:

I tend to be very alert for this style of driving on motorway slip roads. Seems to happen a lot when exiting service areas. If I have the feeling that the person in front will do this I'll actually hang back and go very slowly until I've got enough road to get up to speed and merge without catching the knobber who's trying to merge at 40 or less. Apologies to anyone behind me who doesn't understand why I'm doing it, but it does make merging onto the motorway a whole lot easier and safer.

I do this too. Especially at Jct 4a southbound onto the M3. Soooo many idiots pootle down at 40mph, then proceed to force their way into traffic that is flowing around 50% faster than them. I will hold back further up the slip when my 'spidey sense' starts to tingle, then accelerate up to a decent joining speed (to match a gap) when they've cleared the slip road. At it's worst, I once saw a myopic pensioner stop her car at the dotted line and try to join the M4 as if she were turning out of a suburban side road, complete stop, left indicator, the works. Textbook stuff for turning out of Acacia Avenue onto Greater Whinging High Street, but utterly suicidal on a slip road onto one of Britain's busiest motorways...

I've seen this as well - last time I was behind someone that did it they'd already accelerated to 55mph before anchoring on for the give-way markings.

silverfoxcc said:

Now there is a variation, the LH indicator! did she rally want the hard shoulder?

Actually she was technically correct (although completely against the accepted standard), if you think about the way you exit a normal junction you are giving way to traffic already in the lane, and joining the flow, therefore indicating left.

[zedx19]

Watched a program last night which I'd recorded a while back called, "Saved". On it various people escape death through the selflessness of others. One event involved a family driving down the motorway, who had a blow-out and crashed into the central reservation. On the build-up the bloke driving the car said, "I was driving down the motorway in the middle lane, I didn't like the slow lane and my wife told me to stay out the fast lane, so I tended to stick to the middle lane".

KNOB!

[Hooli]

zedx19 said:

Watched a program last night which I'd recorded a while back called, "Saved". On it various people escape death through the selflessness of others. One event involved a family driving down the motorway, who had a blow-out and crashed into the central reservation. On the build-up the bloke driving the car said, "I was driving down the motorway in the middle lane, I didn't like the slow lane and my wife told me to stay out the fast lane, so I tended to stick to the middle lane".

KNOB!

Proof cars are too safe A good old fashioned car would have killed him & got rid of one st driver.

[alpha channel]

I've been behind a few dawdlers on slip roads, thankfully the few times I've come across them it's been on a generally quiet dual carriageway, and like DavidJG I've tried to keep a buffer zone so I can get up to something approaching the flowing traffic speed.

This morning I had a stupid bint in a white Insignia (oil burner of course, I can't remember the last time I saw a petrol powered one) sat five feet off my back bumper (this in the Rover so sat low, low rear and big window equal lots of visibility and I couldn't see the grill) and hovering around the centre line on the straight bits of road almost like I'm deliberately slowing the line of the traffic in front of me to spite her.

Anything approaching a bend or on various roundabouts she'd be left behind and, when she could overtake quite legitimately didn't until the straight bit of dual carriageway south of Sedgefield when she wanted to toddle off down to Stockton (and promptly welded herself to the Fiesta that was in front of her, although I noticed not quite as close).

[Geekman]

I don't usually post in this thread as I'm sure many people look at my driving and think "knob", but I encountered an amazing example of stupidity a few days ago.

There was an accident on the 2 lane section of the A1, so both lanes had to merge into one. I could have driven all the way up to the merge point and pushed my way in, but I decided to merge nice and early, into a large gap in front of a new L405 Range Rover. As soon as I put my indicator on, he accelerated to close the gap. No problem, I thought - he's clearly a bell end, I'll just merge behind him. And sure enough, the car behind let me in with no drama.

So, I'm behind him for a mile or so, at which point we've passed the accident and the road turns back into 2 lanes. I wait for him to move over but he seems unwilling to do so, despite a good few hundred metres of clear road to his left. So, I move to the inside lane and begin to pass him at around a 5-10mph speed differential.

As soon as I draw alongside him, he boots it, but I've got loads of clear road in front of me, and a considerably quicker car, so I end up a good way in front of him. But I don't want to drive at that speed for the whole journey, so once I've lost sight of him, I slow back down and continue on my way.

A few minutes later, he comes blasting past, swerves in front of me, and slams on the brakes. I had a pretty good idea he was going to do that, so it's not a massive problem - I decide to move in behind a truck and let him go as I'm not in any real hurry anyway. He then moves in front of the truck, and slows to around 40MPH. Truck overtakes him, I stay behind him for a minute of so, then decide to overtake. He swerves into my lane as I'm passing, but isn't brave enough to properly try forcing me off the road.

At this point, I lost patience and buried my foot for quite a while, leaving him very far behind. If I'd been caught, I'd have lost my licence for a very, very long time, and I'm sure his behaviour wouldn't have been seen as any excuse, but I honestly don't know what else I could have done. If I'd have refused to pass him, I'm sure the cycle of brake test, accelerate, brake test would have continued, and you can't really slow to 20/30MPH on a busy A road.

[WD39]

Krikkit said:

WD39 said:

It must have been that because when I turned left soon after, he became a 'I will overtake you in the oncoming lane as you turn left' type of person.

Am I a knob for doing this when safe? I'd rather not slow down if I don't have to...

Even when 'safe',this manoevre is poor driving.

[WD39]

loafer123 said:

WD39 said:

Not at all. Not everyone wants to charge about recklessly. Just because you're impatient. r e l a x.

Or you could think about the number of people you are holding up by trundling along at 40mph everywhere.

My guess is you are retired. Fair enough. But the rest of us want to get home/to work/to pick up our kids/to see our dying mothers, so stop criticising and drive appropriately to the conditions and not your lifestyle.

I do not 'trundle' along at 40mph.

Far from it. It's just not fast enough for persistent speeders, who break the limit, or want to, at will each and every time.

Not retired, still working.

Edited by WD39 on Thursday 11th February 14:33

[Mafffew]

Thunderace said:

Woman on the Handy Cross roundabout at High Wycombe at rush hour last night who thought it was a good idea to turn left from lane 4

That roundabout is just a big bloody free for all. But then again, so is High Wycombe in general.

[Hooli]

Geekman said:

I don't usually post in this thread as I'm sure many people look at my driving and think "knob", but I encountered an amazing example of stupidity a few days ago.

There was an accident on the 2 lane section of the A1, so both lanes had to merge into one. I could have driven all the way up to the merge point and pushed my way in, but I decided to merge nice and early, into a large gap in front of a new L405 Range Rover. As soon as I put my indicator on, he accelerated to close the gap. No problem, I thought - he's clearly a bell end, I'll just merge behind him. And sure enough, the car behind let me in with no drama.

So, I'm behind him for a mile or so, at which point we've passed the accident and the road turns back into 2 lanes. I wait for him to move over but he seems unwilling to do so, despite a good few hundred metres of clear road to his left. So, I move to the inside lane and begin to pass him at around a 5-10mph speed differential.

As soon as I draw alongside him, he boots it, but I've got loads of clear road in front of me, and a considerably quicker car, so I end up a good way in front of him. But I don't want to drive at that speed for the whole journey, so once I've lost sight of him, I slow back down and continue on my way.

A few minutes later, he comes blasting past, swerves in front of me, and slams on the brakes. I had a pretty good idea he was going to do that, so it's not a massive problem - I decide to move in behind a truck and let him go as I'm not in any real hurry anyway. He then moves in front of the truck, and slows to around 40MPH. Truck overtakes him, I stay behind him for a minute of so, then decide to overtake. He swerves into my lane as I'm passing, but isn't brave enough to properly try forcing me off the road.

At this point, I lost patience and buried my foot for quite a while, leaving him very far behind. If I'd been caught, I'd have lost my licence for a very, very long time, and I'm sure his behaviour wouldn't have been seen as any excuse, but I honestly don't know what else I could have done. If I'd have refused to pass him, I'm sure the cycle of brake test, accelerate, brake test would have continued, and you can't really slow to 20/30MPH on a busy A road.

You'd have been ok with proof.

A mate once got stopped for 146mph on a bike & said he was making sure he got away from a moron who tried to knock him off twice a few mile earlier. The unmarked plod had seen it all & other units were dealing with the moron. My mate got asked not to go quite as quick if he had to do it again, at least not after the moron was out of sight.

Only sensible policing I've heard of for years tbh.

[ashleyman]

Hooli said:

You'd have been ok with proof.

A mate once got stopped for 146mph on a bike & said he was making sure he got away from a moron who tried to knock him off twice a few mile earlier. The unmarked plod had seen it all & other units were dealing with the moron. My mate got asked not to go quite as quick if he had to do it again, at least not after the moron was out of sight.

Only sensible policing I've heard of for years tbh.

Can confirm. It's a long story but I was the victim of some road rage a few months back, I fled and was told I did the right thing at disobeying laws to get to safety by an unmarked traffic cop.

The story:
I was overtaking parked cars and had to swerve out to miss a vehicle immobilising pothole. I stupidly did this without clocking the idiot on the quad bike in my blind spot who was attempting to overtake me at WAY above the 30 limit. He must have thought I was aggressively blocking him to halt his overtake. After a few choice words and signals from him he got in front of me and attempted to stop my car. He blocked the road in front between the pavement and the centre crossing which housed a speed camera and got off his bike and tried my door handles whilst shouting and threatening me. I wasn't getting out whilst he had his helmet on.

I decided it was safer to flee, so started to turn the car round so as not to hit him. Eventually turned around and made a very swift noisy exit. Driving at least double the speed limit to get to safety I came upon a set of lights and ran the reds, this got the attention of the unmarked unit who flagged me down and the biker shot off in front. Luckily the unmarked unit saw EVERYTHING and I wasn't even told off. I told them I planned to break every single rule of the road to get away and they said they didn't blame me and would never charge someone in those circumstances. They never did find the biker but at least some police have got a realistic view of situations!

[scarble]

Blue DS3 driving like a knob, tailgating another car as they both speed towards a clearly red light, with "you're on CCTV" and speed camera sticker on back window.
We all go through a million sets of lights on roundabout.
I have ended up in front at the last set of lights before the sliproad, because I know the road and what lanes to go in and I accelerate down the slip road (only up to the limit I'd like to add).
He accelerates more slowly. Back in the distance, I see he's switched on some flashing red lights on his front grille. Have a suspicion this was directed at me in an attempt to scare me into slowing down because he can't let anyone pull away from him because then he will have to admit he has a small penis.
Well I did slow down, but only to get his plate. Doubt it's worth anything though.

[br d]

ashleyman said:

Can confirm. It's a long story but I was the victim of some road rage a few months back, I fled and was told I did the right thing at disobeying laws to get to safety by an unmarked traffic cop.

The story:
I was overtaking parked cars and had to swerve out to miss a vehicle immobilising pothole. I stupidly did this without clocking the idiot on the quad bike in my blind spot who was attempting to overtake me at WAY above the 30 limit. He must have thought I was aggressively blocking him to halt his overtake. After a few choice words and signals from him he got in front of me and attempted to stop my car. He blocked the road in front between the pavement and the centre crossing which housed a speed camera and got off his bike and tried my door handles whilst shouting and threatening me. I wasn't getting out whilst he had his helmet on.

I decided it was safer to flee, so started to turn the car round so as not to hit him. Eventually turned around and made a very swift noisy exit. Driving at least double the speed limit to get to safety I came upon a set of lights and ran the reds, this got the attention of the unmarked unit who flagged me down and the biker shot off in front. Luckily the unmarked unit saw EVERYTHING and I wasn't even told off. I told them I planned to break every single rule of the road to get away and they said they didn't blame me and would never charge someone in those circumstances. They never did find the biker but at least some police have got a realistic view of situations!

Nice to hear a sensible approach.

I was waiting to turn right at a roundabout a couple of years ago when a police car with blues and twos came flying up behind, neither me or the bloke in the left lane had any wriggle room to get out of their way, the two coppers were gesturing like mad and really badly wanted to get through. I shot round the roundabout and onto my exit which was a 30 with a lot of oncoming traffic, they followed me and were really close, I knew there was a lay-by about a half a mile up so I just floored it. I was in a very fast car and went way, way over the limit with them disappearing behind a bit! When I got to the lay-by I anchored on and tucked in, they screamed past me and the non driver gave me a thumbs up.

I think I was probably up at about 100 in a 30!

[Blown2CV]

Really.....

[br d]

Blown2CV said:

Really.....

No, I spend my time making up stories on the internet.