LOL. Reckless Porsche Driver in Video has 911 for sale on PH

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

danllama said:

Alucidnation said:

Why the fk should everyone else on the road have to adjust and take action because of his driving?

The bloke is a and that video should be handed to the police.

Edited by Alucidnation on Sunday 22 October 08:14

Because they're trundling along at 40mph in a bunched up queue like lemming idiots. HTH.

Yes, we all get that 40mph drivers are irritating, but that's no excuse to brake test someone and swerve at someone else.

Put it another way, plod would probably not pull him for the overtakes in isolation, but probably would for the mentioned misdemeanors.

[danllama]

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

danllama said:

Alucidnation said:

Why the fk should everyone else on the road have to adjust and take action because of his driving?

The bloke is a and that video should be handed to the police.

Edited by Alucidnation on Sunday 22 October 08:14

Because they're trundling along at 40mph in a bunched up queue like lemming idiots. HTH.

Yes, we all get that 40mph drivers are irritating, but that's no excuse to brake test someone and swerve at someone else.

Put it another way, plod would probably not pull him for the overtakes in isolation, but probably would for the mentioned misdemeanors.

I was answering alucid's question, which he made no mention of those things. If the guy feels the need to brake test and swerve for being flashed at, on his head be it. People react differently to different things. To the people doing the flashing, they should consider the consequences of what they do before doing it.

In short, mind your fking business and you won't have a bad time.

I do agree with you that plod would be involved if witnessing his behaviour, but that wont really matter to you when your face is buried in a tree trunk.

[Bonefish Blues]

Donbot said:

Didn't appear to be anything wrong with the overtakes there. If the oncoming driver thought the Porche was going to hit them they would be taking evasive action, instead of casually flashing him.

When the camera car passed the oncoming car it was at a virtual standstill. In short, he did take the only evasive action open to him in that scenario.

His flashing also looked rather urgent to me, as opposed to casual - you know, the sort of fooook, car, coming fast, accident - type of flashing.

[Wait Here Until Green Light Shows]

So it's ok to overtake and then brake test is it? This chap is a fairly steriotypical weapons grade nob. Hopefully he'll wrap himself round a tree soon before he hurts someone.

[delboy735]

168
Being overtaken. If a driver is trying to overtake you, maintain a steady course and speed, slowing down if necessary to let the vehicle pass. Never obstruct drivers who wish to pass. Speeding up or driving unpredictably while someone is overtaking you is dangerous. Drop back to maintain a two-second gap if someone overtakes and pulls into the gap in front of you.

169
Do not hold up a long queue of traffic, especially if you are driving a large or slow-moving vehicle. Check your mirrors frequently, and if necessary, pull in where it is safe and let traffic pass.

Why have folk cherry picked rule 163, when these apply equally.

[Bonefish Blues]

Where does 168 apply in the clip?

[vonhosen]

danllama said:

Alucidnation said:

Why the fk should everyone else on the road have to adjust and take action because of his driving?

The bloke is a and that video should be handed to the police.

Edited by Alucidnation on Sunday 22 October 08:14

Because they're trundling along at 40mph in a bunched up queue like lemming idiots. HTH.

(Alleged) Poor driving by others doesn't excuse poor driving by the Porsche driver.
You can't up the ante & be an absolute because somebody else is being a bit of

Edited by vonhosen on Sunday 22 October 15:37

[danllama]

Wait Here Until Green Light Shows said:

So it's ok to overtake and then brake test is it? This chap is a fairly steriotypical weapons grade nob. Hopefully he'll wrap himself round a tree soon before he hurts someone.

Please quote where I said that.

You can't, because I didn't.

He might be and do what you said, or he might have just been having a bad day which was compounded by idiots in front of him. Who knows...

[danllama]

vonhosen said:

danllama said:

Alucidnation said:

Why the fk should everyone else on the road have to adjust and take action because of his driving?

The bloke is a and that video should be handed to the police.

Edited by Alucidnation on Sunday 22 October 08:14

Because they're trundling along at 40mph in a bunched up queue like lemming idiots. HTH.

(Alleged) Poor driving by others doesn't excuse poor driving by the Porsche driver.
You can't up the ante & be an absolute because somebody else is being a bit of

Your first point is true. Your second point is not true. He clearly proved you can up the ante.

[DJFish]

People drive badly everyday, sometimes it's a one-off, sometimes it's a regular occurrence for them.
The only reason this bloke was in the press was because he was driving a Porsche.

[Johnny5hoods]

Is overtaking in small gaps illegal? Not necessarily. But ..... here's the thing. There is only so much acceleration we can exploit in an overtaking maneouvre before we start giving other drivers a really bad day. Just because we know we can make it in the gap we've allowed, doesn't mean the oncoming driver knows that too, and it can really scare people. As a driver of a pretty quick car, I like to monitor myself in regard to this. I now constantly balance the temptation of power with the awareness that there are drivers out there who need the rest of us to think about their sensitive or nervous dispositions. There are drivers out there who may be coming home from the hospital after their mother just died, or may be very nervous drivers after a bad accident, or may even have a heart condition. I don't want to be a selfish driver. And aware that at times in the past I have been just that, I don't want to be like that any more. Power is an intoxicating temptation, but I would rather be a decent human being.

[av185]

Johnny5hoods said:

there is only so much acceleration we can exploit in an overtaking maneouvre before we start giving other drivers a really bad day

Not really.

[DavidJJ]

Where's Reg Local when you need him?

[jonobigblind]

“no test pilots”

Because I’m already the Chuck Yeager wannabe round here mush

[OddCat]

First overtake of camera car was fine. Big gap. He even indicated to move back in bless him.

Not sure what the brake testing was about. Maybe the white car in front braked (some idiots do that when a car comes up quickly behind them - despite it being a totally retarded thing to do).

The other overtakes are too far ahead to really see what was happening.

Most folks are incapable of judging speed / distance.

People who flash on being cleanly overtaken are annoying. Same with people coming the other way where there is no chance of collision and the overtaker is well back on his/her own side before the meet point. As has been said earlier, if they have time to flash it can't be that bad otherwise they'd be taking avoiding action and not having time to flash (flashing therefore being confirmation that all is well !). Flashing is a "telling off".

We've all encountered someone doing a sporty overtake coming towards us. And we've probably all done it at soome point. Best thing to do is ease off, cover he brake, help the bloke blend back in.

If it is something cool (400+ bhp) it is more forgiveable. Well for me anyway....

Edited by OddCat on Sunday 22 October 17:29

Edited by OddCat on Sunday 22 October 17:30

[vikingaero]

All I saw on the video was: Guy in car overtakes and gets all of one car ahead. Whoopee! Then brake checks = dhead. Then dhead in car overtakes another car, oncoming car flashes and dhead shows his true nature by swerving at that car. In my tiny mind brake checkers and reactions like that would mean a lifetime ban for inappropriate psychological attitude for the road. Probably the type of guy who would glass someone for spilling their pint.

[Markbarry1977]

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[OddCat]

Markbarry1977 said:

What’s worse is those 5 knobs would be bumper to bumper notnleaving a gap just to prevent an overtake even though they have no intention of overtaking anybody themselves. Boils my piss. If your not going to overtake then drop back a few car lengths and leave room for those that want to. Not sitting two inches back in a dream world.

Yup. Exactly this ^^^^^

[OddCat]

As someone once said:

"You should never have someone behind you unless you have someone in front of you"

This is aimed at the bloke at the front of any queue. You should either get a move on or let the bloke behind pass......

[Markbarry1977]

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

mrfunex said:

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

I don't think it was that bad, not a great show admittedly. Both his overtakes were on straights, and I think the flashing car nervously over-reacted. His protest swerve in response was a dhead move mind, what if that had scared the other driver and he over compensated for it, in to a tree.

Exactly. You have no idea *at all* how the oncoming driver is going to react.

A friend of mine, years back, performed an overtake, leaving a little less room than he thought, on the way home from work. The oncoming driver did exactly as you say, and overreacted. Swerved into the hedge and unfortunately hit a tree within the hedge. The oncoming driver was killed more or less instantly and shortly after my friend went to prison for 6 months.

It was ‘interesting’ to hear the story from both sides. On one hand, my friend; who made an error of judgement and spent half a year inside, and a further two years on a tag, no driving licence loss of job, etc etc. On the other, a family with no father, who viewed the ‘killer’ as getting away with it as he was only sentenced to 6 months.

Food for thought. Certainly slowed me down.

Jesus, that is sobering stuff indeed.

I know fermit and sexy Sarah are from the Nottingham area. I’m from Newark and a similar thing happens on the a46 ring road. Single carriageway but easily wide enough to have a third middle lane to allow for overtaking.

Last year a driver decided to do an overtake of a lorry just after the Farndon Island easily enough room for three cars. The young girl coming the other way had recently passed her test and panicked. Swearved and lost control going down an embankment and died in the accident.

If she hadn’t panicked, there would have been plenty of room. There was footage from a dashcam in the lorry the driver doing the overtake was passing. He got sent down when in reality the new driver panicked herself off the road.

There was a thread on here recently about green p plates. I think they should be mandatory for all new drivers.