Speechless!

[Colonial]

Why do I get the feeling that most of the Mumsnet wind up posts are by sad middle aged men trying to provoke a reaction to suit their own agenda?

Most replies to those kind of posts are actually sane and rational. ..

[Martin4x4]

NiceCupOfTea said:

This has been done to death on the advanced driving forum. Yes it's retarded of the overtakee to accelerate, but just as retarded for the overtaker to press on if it's unsafe. Regardless of face saving or lesson teaching, drop back in behind if it becomes dangerous.

God alone knows what happened here - only thing that can be said for sure is that the op contributed towards it.

As I expressed earlier I have significant doubts it even happened, however assuming it did.

Perhaps the over taking car did brake, perhaps they never had the chance. In the posters account the over taking car hit a vehicle pulling out of the side junction.

Given the limited evidence at hand, we have the posters confession as to their culpability by speeding up when being over taken. The culpability of the vehicle pulling out is obvious. The over takers culpability is unknown and given what we 'know' appears on the surface to be largely the innocent party.

Edited by Martin4x4 on Sunday 19th April 09:30

[Tribal Chestnut]

Colonial said:

Why do I get the feeling that most of the Mumsnet wind up posts are by sad middle aged men trying to provoke a reaction to suit their own agenda?

They must be a little bored with posting in the NPE section of this site.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Surely if you go to overtake and the person you are overtaking decides to increase their speed, surely the thing to do is to brake, abandon the manoeuvre and drop back in behind. Not to accelerate further, go for it and end up having a collision.

[DoubleSix]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Surely if you go to overtake and the person you are overtaking decides to increase their speed, surely the thing to do is to brake, abandon the manoeuvre and drop back in behind. Not to accelerate further, go for it and end up having a collision.

Did you read the post above yours?

[IATM]

This is the worrying problem on our roads - Its such a poor attitude to have and I notice it every single day.
People just seem to go mental when they THINK someone is trying to get "above" them and this is in all parts of life.

Ohh they got a better car than us, oh they have started to shop in waitrose, oh they are coming in faster than me on the road; its a case of these people thinking "who the hell do they think they are I will show them"

It is essentially the rat race....

She has from what we are told (of course might not be the full story) caused an accident because she couldn't bare the thought that someone might overtake her - God forbid.

[k-ink]

Unfortunately a scarily large proportion of our moronic population seem to think overtaking is illegal and morally wrong. Their self appointed role in life is to dish out justice to anyone attempting to make safe progress past their dawdling. In their warped minds attempted murder is perfectly acceptable. These lunatics often have the backing of their equally insane peers.

Perhaps it is time everyone is forced to read the Highway Code annually. Then you have to pass an online test to maintain your license. The ignorance, brain washing and sheer lunacy out there is staggering.

[Rawwr]

I've had people do the same to me; accelerating to try and prevent an overtake, leaving vast plumes of black dusty smoke in their wake.

And that's when I've been on the Fireblade.

[Martin4x4]

Rawwr said:

I've had people do the same to me; accelerating to try and prevent an overtake, leaving vast plumes of black dusty smoke in their wake.

And if you brake and drop back they will attempt to get their 'revenge' for your 'audacity'

Slow down, brake check etc.

[Rawwr]

Martin4x4 said:

And if you brake and drop back

On a 1000cc sports bike, I'm yet to need to resort to that option. If I was overtaking a P1, Veyron, La Ferrari, 918 or something of that ilk, I'd perhaps consider it but they're quite a rare sight on the B-roads around here

[Jasandjules]

Has anyone reported it to plod? Stupid ar***les like this should not be allowed on the roads.

[RobinBanks]

"Thread deleted

Message from MNHQ: As you can imagine, we've received a fair few reports about this thread. We've had a trawl through and it seems to have it all - PAs, troll hunting, bunfighting and latterly, a spot of sock puppeting."

If you're a PA are you not allowed to use Mumsnet?

[Rawwr]

Prolapsed Anus?

[DrDoofenshmirtz]

FurtiveFreddy said:

Mumsnet OP said:

I live in a key marginal seat, so getting a lot of crap from the Tories and their propaganda. they felt the need to put the same leaflet through my door and under my windscreen wiper. The wiper was already fragile and had been taped back together but this has messed it up.

Disappointing she didn't try to blame Thatcher...but I LOL'd anyway.

[john2443]

DrDoofenshmirtz said:

FurtiveFreddy said:

Mumsnet OP said:

I live in a key marginal seat, so getting a lot of crap from the Tories and their propaganda. they felt the need to put the same leaflet through my door and under my windscreen wiper. The wiper was already fragile and had been taped back together but this has messed it up.

Disappointing she didn't try to blame Thatcher...but I LOL'd anyway.

That's why I don't vote Tory, bloody windscreen wiper breakers

Thatcher, Thatcher, wiper snatcher!

[Sargeant Orange]

Despite the likely trolling on the thread, it's another worrying insight into the type of people we share the roads with. Many of them to be found outside your local primary at 3pm on weekdays

[Bennet]

Aren't we supposed to be driving enthusiasts on this forum? If I'd gone for an overtake, my target had sped up and I'd ended up in a head on collision, I'd still be mainly blaming myself.

[Limpet]

[quote] DoraGora Fri 17-Apr-15 19:03:29
If the OP was below the speed limit, the police have nothing to talk to her about.
[/quote]

Ah the end product of years of policing roads by speed camera. I know a few people who think that as long as you're not speeding, you're driving safely.

[SuperPav]

There's a lot of discussion on here... Surely the solution is obvious?

[boz1]

Bennet said:

Aren't we supposed to be driving enthusiasts on this forum? If I'd gone for an overtake, my target had sped up and I'd ended up in a head on collision, I'd still be mainly blaming myself.

Quite; although it is clearly immensely stupid and dangerous for a car being overtaken to accelerate, it surely has to be a very poorly judged overtake in the first place for this to make any difference?

Unless the person being overtaken has already dropped a gear and has quite a powerful car (clearly not the case on the mumsnet discussion) they would not be able to make an appreciable difference to whether or not you have the space to safely complete your maneuver.

I can't think of an overtake I've gone for where I think the other party would have had a chance of putting me in danger just by accelerating.