An epidemic of insanely slow drivers

[njw1]

robinessex said:

When I worked in a large engineering company, I ordered some flashing yellow lights. When the box was opened, it also contained a blue one. I still have it. !!! I'm desperately trying to remove naughty thoughts from my brain.

Years ago my mate fitted some blue side light bulbs to his car hence it appeared to have blue flashing lights if you switched the headlights on and off, the car also happened to be a Volvo S60...

* It wasn't big and it definitely wasn't clever and I'm no way condoning it but....

[Cragski85]

Mikehig said:

Driving back to Surrey from Folkestone yesterday evening, I encountered a lot of idiots bimbling along in the 3rd lane of sections of motorway that are 4-lane, with at least one clear lane inside them and often two. Clearly there is a common sub-species of the MLM - the "OLBO".....Outer Lane Bar One!!

Got exactly the same thing on the m5 daily then when the motorway goes back down to 3 lanes they just sit in the 3rd lane for a couple of miles at 60mph oblivious to the world around them until they get why the angry bmw driver keeps flashing them.

[MC Bodge]

Cragski85 said:

Got exactly the same thing on the m5 daily then when the motorway goes back down to 3 lanes they just sit in the 3rd lane for a couple of miles at 60mph oblivious to the world around them until they get why the angry bmw driver keeps flashing them.

The lane hogs who move over following a flashing, but then almost immediately return to Lane 2/3 of a virtually empty motorway confuse me.

There must be some conscious thought invovled.

[Hoofy]

M4cruiser said:

Hoofy said:

Get on Facebook and find their FB page - they might have posted about it. I saw one last week about some police force pulling over a couple of MLMs and charging them with "Careless Driving" for doing 55 on a motorway. Can't find it now - I knew I should have saved the post!

The lane position must have something to do with it, if they really were in lane 2 when lane 1 was available.
Doing 55 in a 70 isn't too bad, and before you all rage, I have to say I was in the back of the car for my son's driving test, and he struggled up to just over 50 in a 70 dual carriageway, and passed. Stayed in left lane though, as is correct.

However, with reference to the previous zillion pages of this thread, yes doing under 40 in a 70 is mental.

Yes, they were MLMing. The FB post said that they were in the middle lane not just doing 55. I have been known to do 55 in a 70 in the left lane. I did 35 in a 40 in the left lane this afternoon.

[Mr Tidy]

MC Bodge said:

Mr Tidy said:

I'm getting thoroughly pissed off with this assumption that insanely slow drivers are all elderly - they really aren't.

I'm 66 and went out today in a light snow flurry and just about every other driver was driving insanely slowly, including a Blue Jazz, and they all looked at least 20 years younger than me!

But was that because you couldn't see that conditions were bad and were driving far too quickly?

Not at all my prescription hasn't changed for about 10 years, but at least I get them tested. Do you?

[Smint]

MC Bodge said:

The lane hogs who move over following a flashing, but then almost immediately return to Lane 2/3 of a virtually empty motorway confuse me.

There must be some conscious thought invovled.

As a truck driver i don't blame them keeping out of the left hand lane, in many sections its ruinous for vehicles especially cars with unfit for purpose tyres and suspension, yes we know they chose elastic bands and concrete springs because some motoring hack told them to (and must fill the arches) but i do have an appreciation of why they keep out of what have become 'truck' lanes.

As i said upthread, please keep the the hogs to yourselves in the outer lanes and leave us elephant racers to our free flowing tram lines and pot holes

[vikingaero]

Driving to work this morning and there is a car going ~ 25-28mph in a NSL 60 zone. It is dark and there's light rain, but you have lights and wipers. No-one can overtake because of oncoming traffic.

I'm the 4th car behind, just biding my time, but the van behind is clearly irritated and drives a few feet from my bumper. I'm not sure how I have control over the bimbler in front, but I'm getting the angst over which I have no control.

[mobile chicane22]

Small Skoda with what appeared to be the world’s largest sat nav suckered right in the middle of the windscreen.

Never more than 30 mph regardless of the 50 and 60 zones which were clear and ice / snow free.

Passed it clean at 55 mph in a 60 as did the two cars behind me.

[8IKERDAVE]

I must admit I lost my temper last night driving home from the gym around 7pm. A road I regularly drive which is a 30mph limit with average cameras along it and some lump in front of me in a Nissan Crapquai doing 13mph and braking everytime a car came the other way. Whoever was behind the wheel should not have been in control of any vehicle (maybe a Skaeboard at a push). I had enough of him eventually and overtook (which is something I never do in a 30 limit). Of course the main bean came on behind me .

If only he/she/them/it had focused that energy on pressing the accelerator down another couple of mm there would have been no need for the overtake. Their attention soon moved to the person who was originally behind me who also overtook them. Classic 'everyone on the road is a lunatic and I'm a safe driver' attitude.

[Hoofy]

vikingaero said:

Driving to work this morning and there is a car going ~ 25-28mph in a NSL 60 zone. It is dark and there's light rain, but you have lights and wipers. No-one can overtake because of oncoming traffic.

I'm the 4th car behind, just biding my time, but the van behind is clearly irritated and drives a few feet from my bumper. I'm not sure how I have control over the bimbler in front, but I'm getting the angst over which I have no control.

The only thing you can do is pull over or somehow let them pass so they can annoy the person in front. If I'm stuck behind someone in a similar position and there's basically a wall of light behind me, I let them overtake and the dick in front holding everyone else up gets to lose their eyesight instead.

[Heaveho]

Hoofy said:

vikingaero said:

Driving to work this morning and there is a car going ~ 25-28mph in a NSL 60 zone. It is dark and there's light rain, but you have lights and wipers. No-one can overtake because of oncoming traffic.

I'm the 4th car behind, just biding my time, but the van behind is clearly irritated and drives a few feet from my bumper. I'm not sure how I have control over the bimbler in front, but I'm getting the angst over which I have no control.

The only thing you can do is pull over or somehow let them pass so they can annoy the person in front. If I'm stuck behind someone in a similar position and there's basically a wall of light behind me, I let them overtake and the dick in front holding everyone else up gets to lose their eyesight instead.

If they're driving as slowly as that, the limit doesn't come into it. I'm overtaking at the first opportunity, they can flash until their bulbs fail as far as I'm concerned.

[Monkeylegend]

Heaveho said:

Hoofy said:

vikingaero said:

Driving to work this morning and there is a car going ~ 25-28mph in a NSL 60 zone. It is dark and there's light rain, but you have lights and wipers. No-one can overtake because of oncoming traffic.

I'm the 4th car behind, just biding my time, but the van behind is clearly irritated and drives a few feet from my bumper. I'm not sure how I have control over the bimbler in front, but I'm getting the angst over which I have no control.

The only thing you can do is pull over or somehow let them pass so they can annoy the person in front. If I'm stuck behind someone in a similar position and there's basically a wall of light behind me, I let them overtake and the dick in front holding everyone else up gets to lose their eyesight instead.

If they're driving as slowly as that, the limit doesn't come into it. I'm overtaking at the first opportunity, they can flash until their bulbs fail as far as I'm concerned.

Statistically 29% of accidents are caused by driving above the speed limit which means that 71% are caused by driving below the speed limit so the van driver knew it was safer to drive faster.

[Sixteen Stone]

Monkeylegend said:

Heaveho said:

Hoofy said:

vikingaero said:

Driving to work this morning and there is a car going ~ 25-28mph in a NSL 60 zone. It is dark and there's light rain, but you have lights and wipers. No-one can overtake because of oncoming traffic.

I'm the 4th car behind, just biding my time, but the van behind is clearly irritated and drives a few feet from my bumper. I'm not sure how I have control over the bimbler in front, but I'm getting the angst over which I have no control.

The only thing you can do is pull over or somehow let them pass so they can annoy the person in front. If I'm stuck behind someone in a similar position and there's basically a wall of light behind me, I let them overtake and the dick in front holding everyone else up gets to lose their eyesight instead.

If they're driving as slowly as that, the limit doesn't come into it. I'm overtaking at the first opportunity, they can flash until their bulbs fail as far as I'm concerned.

Statistically 29% of accidents are caused by driving above the speed limit which means that 71% are caused by driving below the speed limit so the van driver knew it was safer to drive faster.

You forgot the percentage of those driving AT the speed limit.

[Wardy78]

Monkeylegend said:

Heaveho said:

Hoofy said:

vikingaero said:

Driving to work this morning and there is a car going ~ 25-28mph in a NSL 60 zone. It is dark and there's light rain, but you have lights and wipers. No-one can overtake because of oncoming traffic.

I'm the 4th car behind, just biding my time, but the van behind is clearly irritated and drives a few feet from my bumper. I'm not sure how I have control over the bimbler in front, but I'm getting the angst over which I have no control.

The only thing you can do is pull over or somehow let them pass so they can annoy the person in front. If I'm stuck behind someone in a similar position and there's basically a wall of light behind me, I let them overtake and the dick in front holding everyone else up gets to lose their eyesight instead.

If they're driving as slowly as that, the limit doesn't come into it. I'm overtaking at the first opportunity, they can flash until their bulbs fail as far as I'm concerned.

Statistically 29% of accidents are caused by driving above the speed limit which means that 71% are caused by driving below the speed limit so the van driver knew it was safer to drive faster.

Way under 29%! Don't fuel the idiots!

[king arthur]

Presumably there's considerable overlap between "exceeding speed limit" and "travelling too fast for conditions".

[Jo-say8k]

king arthur said:

Presumably there's considerable overlap between "exceeding speed limit" and "travelling too fast for conditions".

And reckless/ in a hurry?

[Unreal]

Nearly all the people I know who have crashed their cars maintain there was diesel on the road. Surprised that's not mentioned.

Nothing in there about mechanical defects, black ice or fog, potholes, phone use, cyclists or ignoring red lights either.

Some of those headings look very broad.

[king arthur]

Unreal said:

Nearly all the people I know who have crashed their cars maintain there was diesel on the road. Surprised that's not mentioned.

Nothing in there about mechanical defects, black ice or fog, potholes, phone use, cyclists or ignoring red lights either.

Some of those headings look very broad.

Those would come under "careless/reckless" and "travelling too fast for conditions" I assume. If you skidded on black ice, you're going too fast for the conditions, it's not the ice's fault for being there.

[Smint]

Unreal said:

Nearly all the people I know who have crashed their cars maintain there was diesel on the road. Surprised that's not mentioned.

Nothing in there about mechanical defects, black ice or fog, potholes, phone use, cyclists or ignoring red lights either.

Some of those headings look very broad.

Wasn't the standard reason coppers who crashed at night gave 'black dog loose'.

You can see Diesel on the road, rare to encounter these days, just as slippery is previous salt spread which turns to mush in the following evenings when the damp arrives.

[Giantt]

Just remember...the only car your responsible for,is the one your driving,if you can't handle other drivers doing it 'their' way,relax