Another driver causing you to crash
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NordicCrankShaft said:
Over here there's f
king idiots have no qualms about pulling out from a junction into your path, one road in particular I can guarantee that the car at the junction will stop, look at you coming towards them for 5-10 seconds then pull out, really fking winds me up. They also don't even bother to accelerate to the appropriate speed as to not make you have to jump on the brakes.
Sounds like an average day in London.king idiots have no qualms about pulling out from a junction into your path, one road in particular I can guarantee that the car at the junction will stop, look at you coming towards them for 5-10 seconds then pull out, really fking winds me up. They also don't even bother to accelerate to the appropriate speed as to not make you have to jump on the brakes. 
crofty1984 said:
Depends how honest they are. A car swing right across the front of my dad. Dad avoided him and hit a wall. If he'd clipped the car it would be an open and shut case of other driver at fault. As he didn't there wad a risk that the insurers would say "so you drove your car into a wall. Full stop."
As it happens the other guy had the decency to own up.
I've had similar. Driving on a SC NSL road around a left hand bend past the right turn to a small hamlet. Suddenly out of the right turn comes a small white van with no intention of stopping.As it happens the other guy had the decency to own up.
another angle, as I saw it on approach... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.9581863,0.117429...
This caused me to brake right on the bend. I got around OK but was heading too far left, into an open, unfenced field. So I tried to correct it, over corrected and spun backwards into a gate post on the right. Damaged the gate, and wrote off my car ('A' pillar damage + low value = uneconomical to repair).
A bit faster and I'd have hit the van despite braking (they were unsighted due to a hedge on their approach to the junction, and proceeding at a speed from which they'd never have stopped at the Give Way line). A LOT faster and I'd have been through ahead of the van. If I'd not tried to correct the spin I'd have headed into a flat, dry, open field. If I'd been more of a driving God I'd have not overcorrected and caught it OK.
In the end I managed to find the gate owner to provide my insurance details, and she was sympathetic. Turns out that the tiny road through the hamlet is used as a rat-run by lots of couriers and commuters who show no care for the safety of other road users. I'd have probably been better off hitting the damned van to be honest. I also ended up with a much less satisfactory car as the insurance payout meant I bought an older, higher mileage model of the one that had been written off.
I'll happily admit that I probably should have eased off a bit more on approach and been more aware of the potential for traffic joining from my right. But still, it's a bitter pill to swallow when you are stuffed into a gatepost while the ass hat who caused it to be like that roars off into the distance, possibly even unaware of what just happened. And the road they emerged unsafely from? Appropriately enough, it was "Cock Lane"...
twoblacklines said:
Almost crashed a few times by assuming the moron driver infront is going to go when lights turn green etc... and they don't because too busy on their phones. Learn't pretty quickly to check the car and not the lights.
Assume nothing. I was taught that from the very start when it comes to moving off at traffic lights. People stall, fail to engage a gear, stop to think about which direction they want to go, and sometimes even pause deliberately to engineer a crash (scammers). Until the space ahead of you is empty, you can't begin to think about moving into it. Green light means "proceed if the way ahead is clear", and not "go". NordicCrankShaft said:
Over here there's fking idiots have no qualms about pulling out from a junction into your path, one road in particular I can guarantee that the car at the junction will stop, look at you coming towards them for 5-10 seconds then pull out, really fking winds me up. They also don't even bother to accelerate to the appropriate speed as to not make you have to jump on the brakes.
I hate this. If you're going to pull out in front of me, do it ASAP rather than randomly waiting 10 seconds and then pulling out. Don't get the thought process there at all.king idiots have no qualms about pulling out from a junction into your path, one road in particular I can guarantee that the car at the junction will stop, look at you coming towards them for 5-10 seconds then pull out, really fking winds me up. They also don't even bother to accelerate to the appropriate speed as to not make you have to jump on the brakes. Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff