******s that wont pull over.
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These people have pissed me off very much, 3 times in 3 days.
Day 1 - Old gimmer doing 28mph in a 60 zone. Queue of about 6 cars behind, making no attempt to even drive at a reasonable pace. Increases speed to 35mph when we hit the 30 zone.
Day 2 - Old gimmer, 25 mph in a 60, came crawling off the roundabout that leads onto the 60, at about 0.0001mph. Managed to sneak up and get an overtake on fairly quickly though.
Day 3 - w
king fking bd milkfloat. Single carriageway country lane. 15 fking miles per hour. For about 1.5 miles. There was 2 laybys, a farm entrance and even a few driveways he could pull into. Did he? Nah did he bks. There's no real overtaking opportunities either due to the amount of bends. By the time he turned off i'd lost count at the 40+ cars behind us.
I hope someone sts in his milk. Prick.
Day 1 - Old gimmer doing 28mph in a 60 zone. Queue of about 6 cars behind, making no attempt to even drive at a reasonable pace. Increases speed to 35mph when we hit the 30 zone.
Day 2 - Old gimmer, 25 mph in a 60, came crawling off the roundabout that leads onto the 60, at about 0.0001mph. Managed to sneak up and get an overtake on fairly quickly though.
Day 3 - w
king fking bd milkfloat. Single carriageway country lane. 15 fking miles per hour. For about 1.5 miles. There was 2 laybys, a farm entrance and even a few driveways he could pull into. Did he? Nah did he bks. There's no real overtaking opportunities either due to the amount of bends. By the time he turned off i'd lost count at the 40+ cars behind us.I hope someone s
ts in his milk. Prick.waxaholic said:
And relax, you maybe that old duffer one day driving along within the limits safely getting from A to B
What exactly is safe about driving at low speeds (far lower than that expected of a road)?Would you consider it 'safe' to do 50mph in lane 2 of the M6?
Surely by your standards that would be the safest way to travel a stretch of motorway when it actual fact it is the most dangerous.
I live in rural Norfolk, winding roads, very few dual carriage ways. You see this all the time, 20 - 25 miles an hour under the speed limit, queue of cars behind, driver completely oblivious to what's going on behind or too bloody arrogant to care, but either way no chance of them pulling over.
Eventually someone runs out of patience and goes for a stupid overtake, this is when people die.
If you want to drive well under the speed limit fine, but you have a moral duty to move over when you are holding people up or you may be (at least 50%) responsible for a very serious accident with very serious consequences.
It's a subject close to my heart as I've been involved in a crash caused by this and been in numerous near misses. As has my girlfriend on a regular basis, as she drives 60 miles a day on these roads.
Eventually someone runs out of patience and goes for a stupid overtake, this is when people die.
If you want to drive well under the speed limit fine, but you have a moral duty to move over when you are holding people up or you may be (at least 50%) responsible for a very serious accident with very serious consequences.
It's a subject close to my heart as I've been involved in a crash caused by this and been in numerous near misses. As has my girlfriend on a regular basis, as she drives 60 miles a day on these roads.
RS404 said:
I live in rural Norfolk, winding roads, very few dual carriage ways. You see this all the time, 20 - 25 miles an hour under the speed limit, queue of cars behind, driver completely oblivious to what's going on behind or too bloody arrogant to care, but either way no chance of them pulling over.
Eventually someone runs out of patience and goes for a stupid overtake, this is when people die.
If you want to drive well under the speed limit fine, but you have a moral duty to move over when you are holding people up or you may be (at least 50%) responsible for a very serious accident with very serious consequences.
+1000000Eventually someone runs out of patience and goes for a stupid overtake, this is when people die.
If you want to drive well under the speed limit fine, but you have a moral duty to move over when you are holding people up or you may be (at least 50%) responsible for a very serious accident with very serious consequences.
I'm well tired of po-faced holier than thou, 'I drive at a safe speed' types who have never been involved in an accident but caused dozens.
I live near Epping Forest and it's like the fking twilight zone for this problem.
Come from any direction and whilst you have a contingent of fkwittery as you do in all places, get within 5 miles of Epping itself and wallop! down to 40 in a 60 with queues of zombies all in a line all scared to overtake. They also go at 40 in 30's, round blind corners in the town, past schools you name it.
When there's a 40 zone however they will be doing 45 or 30 but not 40, oh no, this speed is reserved for 30 and 60 limit roads.
50 limit roads are taken at 40 or 60 but not 50.
fking stupid bling bling estuary Essex s in st diesel cars on tick with povvo mis-aligned number plates spelling wkA or SH4ZZ4 etc mostly as well.
This subject boils my piss.
king twilight zone for this problem.Come from any direction and whilst you have a contingent of f
kwittery as you do in all places, get within 5 miles of Epping itself and wallop! down to 40 in a 60 with queues of zombies all in a line all scared to overtake. They also go at 40 in 30's, round blind corners in the town, past schools you name it.When there's a 40 zone however they will be doing 45 or 30 but not 40, oh no, this speed is reserved for 30 and 60 limit roads.
50 limit roads are taken at 40 or 60 but not 50.
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king stupid bling bling estuary Essex s in st diesel cars on tick with povvo mis-aligned number plates spelling wkA or SH4ZZ4 etc mostly as well.This subject boils my piss.
There was a complete oxygen thief with a 'BRAKE' sticker in the window doing this t'other day, farting along at 45mph. When I overtook there was the usual indignant flashing of lights at what a crazy roadhog I must be, also went down a road today where lots of the neighbours had put big '30' speed limit stickers on their bins, tosspots.
I had to drive from Uttoxeter to Leeds to Aberystwyth on Sunday night - was very much looking forward to tearing up Snowdonia on completely empty roads. I had great fun for about 10 miles when I caught up with a Costa van. He was doing 40. That's fine - it was quite a big Merc Sprinter, and no doubt heavily laden. However he was driving on fecking dipped beam. I don't know the roads well enough to attempt an overtake when I could only see ten yards up the road, and even with suggestive pulling-into-the-middle-of-the-road-and-lighting-it-up-with-high-beam: nothing. We drove through five towns with literally scores of places he could have pulled in just to let me past, but no. Twenty miles I spent behind that mong. Twenty. Never once doing more than 40mph. Arghhhh!
The Crack Fox said:
If the speed limit is 60, and they're doing 30, surely you can make a safe overtake somewhere if you bide your time ?
Relax. There are bigger worries in the world.
You're right. I can. Unfortunately the Corsa sat behind the unreasonably slow driver can't or won't. This means the Focus driver behind the two of them can't overtake either. That leaves me having to make a 3+ car overtake, allowing for much more time and distance on the opposite side of the road. Relax. There are bigger worries in the world.
When the line of following cars is more than a few cars long you can't overtake a few at a time because that's "queue jumping" and the only correct course of action is to close the gap in front and force the overtaker to remain in the path of oncoming traffic.
Anyone not capable of making good progress should have their licence removed, no question.
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