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

[Liquid Knight]

Spotted a suspected drink diver Sunday night. Near head on collision off a roundabout, poor steering and throttle control, collision with a curb at fifty five miles per hour, crossed the centre lines twice before narrowly avoiding a head on collision.

I called it in (999) at that point and gave a commentary as I followed at a safe distance all the way to the driveway. The Police arrived thirty seconds after everyone had got out of the vehicle and couldn't do anything about it.

It was dark and neither my camera or I could see who the driver was.

But the vehicle is now on their watch list so no doubt it will be pulled over at some point in the near future.

Report a suspected drink driver today and save a life tomorrow.

[anonymous-user]

nonsequitur said:

I have no doubt that that he was tailing the lane two vehicle. Occasionally using lane three as a diverting tactic.

No, he wasn't. Diverting tactic? What are you on about?

[nonsequitur]

Jim AK said:

nonsequitur said:

I have no doubt that that he was tailing the lane two vehicle. Occasionally using lane three as a diverting tactic.

For 15 miles? Surely if the 1st car was an MLM he would have pulled him within 2 to 3 miles or made his presence felt with light or siren.

Im with OP. Lazy bd imo

Sometimes these surveillance ops. take time. ( See any TV reality cop show.)

Or he could have been following to the gangsters lair.

Conversely, he could be a police MLM. Sent to cruise that lane as a deterrant to others.

Or...

Edited by nonsequitur on Wednesday 25th January 18:20

[anonymous-user]

Liquid Knight said:

Spotted a suspected drink diver Sunday night. Near head on collision off a roundabout, poor steering and throttle control, collision with a curb at fifty five miles per hour, crossed the centre lines twice before narrowly avoiding a head on collision.

I called it in (999) at that point and gave a commentary as I followed at a safe distance all the way to the driveway. The Police arrived thirty seconds after everyone had got out of the vehicle and couldn't do anything about it.

It was dark and neither my camera or I could see who the driver was.

But the vehicle is now on their watch list so no doubt it will be pulled over at some point in the near future.

Report a suspected drink driver today and save a life tomorrow.

This is a question i've always had, say if you were following a drunk driver and you felt you should call 999, do you pull over to use the phone? or do you stay behind them on the phone and risk a driving ban?

[Cliftonite]

AVV EM said:

This is a question i've always had, say if you were following a drunk driver and you felt you should call 999, do you pull over to use the phone? or do you stay behind them on the phone and risk a driving ban?

You may use your handheld phone in an emergency (or in the circumstances you describe) if not practicable to park. But drive carefully!

Edited by Cliftonite on Wednesday 25th January 19:29

[jogger1976]

The absolute bellend in the silver Saab 93 who decided that he didn't need any lights despite it being so foggy that I could barely see more than 20 feet in front of me. tt!

The aggressive wker in the E Class who nearly t-boned me when he failed to give way at a roundabout. On the bloody phone, so I gestured for him to put it down.
Said wker then dangerously tailgated me, all the while giving wker signs and flashing his lights before executing a crazy overtake on a blind bend. WTF?!

[Jim AK]

nonsequitur said:

Sometimes these surveillance ops. take time. ( See any TV reality cop show.)

Or he could have been following to the gangsters lair.

Conversely, he could be a police MLM. Sent to cruise that lane as a deterrant to others.

Or...

Edited by nonsequitur on Wednesday 25th January 18:20

Police MLM, deterrent to others?

Perhaps you could explain that one........ This thread obviously needs educating!!

[993kimbo]

The utter throbber in a silver a3 coming the other way who overtook the bloke who was overtaking the tractor, almost forcing me off the road. The worlds gone mad. What's going on.

[Hol]

greenarrow said:

We've had thick fog for two days now on the south coast and lots of black ice- 31 accidents in Dorset on Monday morning alone, so a "knob" award tonight for the Subaru Forrester driver who came past me doing 80+ when visibility was less than 100 metres. Something about the tough 4 x 4 image that seems to make Subaru drivers in particular, invincible in inclement conditions!! Other than this, I have to say most people were, for a change, taking it steady....

Arrogant tt in a Forester, you say?

Was he also inbred looking and shouting about dominating the stairs?

[quoteunquote_sir_]

AVV EM said:

This is a question i've always had, say if you were following a drunk driver and you felt you should call 999, do you pull over to use the phone? or do you stay behind them on the phone and risk a driving ban?

Must have been about 15 years ago, I nearly got sideswiped by an obviously completely hammered Carlton driver hurtling out of a country pub car park on the edge of the New Forest that was pretty notorious for drunk drivers. Followed them for a while through the Forest as I was going that way anyway until I got some phone signal and then called the BiB who couldn't have been less bothered that I was using my phone when I explained that the driver had just left a pub and was struggling to keep his car on the road in a 40 limit at night with animals all over the road. Did the same, kept up the commentary, driver then presumably clocked what was going on or just wanted a race and booted it. I decided enough was enough and left it to the police to deal, in truth my mighty Metro 1275 was never going to keep up anyway and if I'd hit a horse or something I would never have forgiven myself. Shortly afterwards I rounded a corner and saw the drunk had stuffed his Carlton into a hedge pretty heavily in the absolute arse end of nowhere. Sadly, he wasn't badly injured and tried to flag me down. I drove off and saw the blue lights in the distance

[mikey k]

bmw535i said:

mikey k said:

993kimbo said:

The knuckle-dragging tradesmen in those 'sport' Transit/VW vans who feel it's ok to overtake in fog.

Not big, not clever and your van is still just a van.

watched a guy do this on a narrow rural road yesterday evening. First he overtook me and another van. Then he over took 3 more vehicles. Dick head!
3 miles down the road I was behind him as he pulled in to his drive

Overtaking isn't always to necessarily get somewhere before anyone else. I sometimes do it because I just like driving quickly.

I don't get why people get angry about it or try and stop you doing it.

Oh I'm not averse to a bit of overtaking in my M140i and McLaren
I get "making progress"
What I don't get is crawling past 2 or 3 vehicles on narrow lanes where you cannot see whats coming, putting several people at risk of a mass pile up. Then bullying his way in to none existent gap to prevent said pile up when something does come the other way Only to end up just in front of the fifth car in group a few miles down the road.

[Liquid Knight]

AVV EM said:

Liquid Knight said:

Spotted a suspected drink diver Sunday night. Near head on collision off a roundabout, poor steering and throttle control, collision with a curb at fifty five miles per hour, crossed the centre lines twice before narrowly avoiding a head on collision.

I called it in (999) at that point and gave a commentary as I followed at a safe distance all the way to the driveway. The Police arrived thirty seconds after everyone had got out of the vehicle and couldn't do anything about it.

It was dark and neither my camera or I could see who the driver was.

But the vehicle is now on their watch list so no doubt it will be pulled over at some point in the near future.

Report a suspected drink driver today and save a life tomorrow.

This is a question i've always had, say if you were following a drunk driver and you felt you should call 999, do you pull over to use the phone? or do you stay behind them on the phone and risk a driving ban?

Good question. I guess there would be a strong mitigating argument similar to the "Good Samaritan Clause" when administering first aid. In this instance my passenger got my phone out of the glove box and held it on speaker until she untangled my hands free kit.

Edited to add...

When you can use a phone in your vehicle

If you’re the driver, you can only use your phone in a vehicle if you:

: need to call 999 or 112 in an emergency and it’s unsafe or impractical to stop

: are safely parked

https://www.gov.uk/using-mobile-phones-when-drivin...

There is an exemption.

Edited by Liquid Knight on Thursday 26th January 11:57

[CaptainCosworth]

yellowjack said:

AJ02 KTT

Black 2 litre VW Golf GTi.

Wearing a grey terry-towelling 'tt cape' with the hood up, thereby eliminating peripheral vision. Check.
Speeding at a roundabout (that I was already on), entering at "I've no intention of slowing or stopping mph". Check.
Driving an unroadworthy st-heap. Check. No offside rear lights at all. Tail and stop lamps both out, and will probably remain so until August, when the hoodie-wearing twunt at the wheel will bh and whine as his 'immaculate, innit bruv' piece of crap inevitably fails the test. As it has since it's third MOT!!! And in 2010 it failed for both offside AND nearside 'stop lamps' not working.

...and is 115bhp really all that a 2 litre petrol Golf GTi makes??? My fking Mondeo is faster, quicker to 60mph,and I pay half the VED and get nearly twice the fuel economy. In a vastly more comfortable, well appointed car.

Yep, Mrs CC had a Mk4 Golf 2.0 GTi many moons ago - it was very slow and heavy. And for some reason if a car is going to have dodgy rear lights it's either an old Peugeot or a Mk4 Golf.

[Captain_Chaos]

All of the morons driving in fog with broken headlights. Counted 5 or 6 on a short run to the supermarket. Genuinely look like motorcycles until the last minute.

[Flibble]

Mong woman in large Audi snoozebox this morning. Pulls into a right hand turn box at traffic lights then fails to actually turn right. The lights cycle and she is now blocking lane 2 of a major dual carriageway, just sat there with a dopey look on her face, oblivious to the fact that she's holding up a several hundred yard queue of traffic.

[InitialDave]

CaptainCosworth said:

And for some reason if a car is going to have dodgy rear lights it's either an old Peugeot or a Mk4 Golf.

Not sure about the Peugeots, but aren't mk4 Golfs the ones where water leaking into the rear light clusters gets siphoned up the loom and into the ECU?

[AlexRS2782]

Captain_Chaos said:

All of the morons driving in fog with broken headlights. Counted 5 or 6 on a short run to the supermarket. Genuinely look like motorcycles until the last minute.

That describes 2 people that live in my road.

One with a Ford Ranger whose passenger side headlight hasn't been working since Christmas (well, bar the sidelight) so he's taken to driving around with his fog lights permanently on to counteract the light difference.

The second is a VW Up with it's driver side headlight only working on sidelights, so the person driving that has decided the best thing to do is just engage full beams instead.

[jogger1976]

Endless bellends with no lights, or broken lights, or dirty lights.

Stupid wker's tailgating, speeding and generally driving like aholes in gloomy, icy conditions over the last few days

Just generally getting pissed off with the sheer amount of selfish, inconsiderate and downright dangerous driving I witness on a daily basis.

[Liquid Knight]

jogger1976 said:

Endless bellends with no lights, or broken lights, or dirty lights.

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/100_fine_for_ely_motorist_displaying_dirty_number_plates_and_here_s_our_top_10_other_ways_motorists_might_easily_break_the_law_1_4864222



They're finally on it.

[993kimbo]

mikey k said:

Oh I'm not averse to a bit of overtaking.
I get "making progress" What I don't get is crawling past 2 or 3 vehicles on narrow lanes where you cannot see whats coming, putting several people at risk of a mass pile up. Then bullying his way in to none existent gap to prevent said pile up when something does come the other way Only to end up just in front of the fifth car in group a few miles down the road.

Couldn't agree more.

I like nothing more than overtaking in safe conditions. It's good for the soul.

Even better if it's a BMW, Audi or Range Rover Sport.