The worst driving ever... probably!
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I've just experienced probably the worst piece of “intentionally” bad driving I think I have ever seen! Travelling westbound on the M4 between Heathrow and Taplow the surface is being repaired, three lanes still but reduced width and the 3rd lane is separated from the inner two by marker sticks every 5 yards or so.
So there we are, inside lane tailing back for a mile with traffic queuing for the exit to Windsor, middle lane ok , outside lane where I was, separated from the other 2 doing a steady 40-50. Suddenly a woman one car ahead of me stops –dead - in the motorway, creeps through the lane separators into the middle lane then indicates left to exit at Windsor thus jumping the entire queue of traffic. WHAT IS SHE ON!
A couple of months ago a friend of mine's daughter was killed on the motorway when something stopped in the outside lane and she got rammed from behind by a truck. This BLOODY woman nearly did the same, oinly might not have been here that got stuffed!
So… if you see a silver VW Golf reg’ no. LF52 FVX (or similar last 3 letters) on the M4 being driven by a woman in her 30's give her a wide berth, she needs it!
Rich...
So there we are, inside lane tailing back for a mile with traffic queuing for the exit to Windsor, middle lane ok , outside lane where I was, separated from the other 2 doing a steady 40-50. Suddenly a woman one car ahead of me stops –dead - in the motorway, creeps through the lane separators into the middle lane then indicates left to exit at Windsor thus jumping the entire queue of traffic. WHAT IS SHE ON!
A couple of months ago a friend of mine's daughter was killed on the motorway when something stopped in the outside lane and she got rammed from behind by a truck. This BLOODY woman nearly did the same, oinly might not have been here that got stuffed!
So… if you see a silver VW Golf reg’ no. LF52 FVX (or similar last 3 letters) on the M4 being driven by a woman in her 30's give her a wide berth, she needs it!
Rich... 
R... 
This seems to be commonplace. Numpty sees their exit on the road (usually a roundabout) and has to take it no matter how many cars they cut up. I see it on the A404/M40 Handy Cross roundabout all the time.
Personally if I miss an exit I go to the next one and turn around, or go around the roundabout again. Is it that hard for other people to do the same? I think some people need a truck in their back seat before they will learn unfortunately.
Any BiB tales on this area of numptiness? Come on, there must be some ...
Personally if I miss an exit I go to the next one and turn around, or go around the roundabout again. Is it that hard for other people to do the same? I think some people need a truck in their back seat before they will learn unfortunately.
Any BiB tales on this area of numptiness? Come on, there must be some ...
206xsi said:
And the next junction in the original thread is not exactly far away, in order to facilitate a u-turn on the roundabout and approach from opposite way instead of endangering life...
Thats probably exactly why she did it because she would have to go *all* the way to the A4 roundabout and back down that little section of dual carriageway if she missed it...
My mum had the same thing happen in front of her on the A2 about 10 years ago, woman in a 205 stands it on its nose as she passes the junction she wanted, mum just about stops, bloke behind her swerves to avoid her straight into wall, further up the road there were about 10 separate accidents, this woman didn’t even stop or realise what she’d done 
lucozade said:
Is this going to be another bitch about BMW drivers thread!?
Nahh...we don't have to bitch about them. It's an accepted fact that 99% of BMW drivers are numpties, so why bother?
Sounds like you are being a little defensive?
>> Edited by Mr2Mike on Wednesday 3rd September 14:27
trefor said:That's why roundabouts are round
This seems to be commonplace. Numpty sees their exit on the road (usually a roundabout) and has to take it no matter how many cars they cut up. I see it on the A404/M40 Handy Cross roundabout all the time.
Personally if I miss an exit I go to the next one and turn around, or go around the roundabout again. [snip]
. I used to pass 1.5 miles X 2 lanes of traffic queueing at the approach to a roundabout at which the majority of traffic turned left. I sailed past in the outside lane, went all the way round the roundabout and off at the left hand exit everyone else was queueing for ... every blooming morning. Passed 5 miles of queueing traffic every day, no problem. And in several years I never saw anyone else do it!!! - Streakythats nothing, this morning, I was edging across to the white line on a single track country style road.. when the merc estate coming the other way tokk offence and me encroaching on his space, and took a SWING AT ME with his car, he lurched from the centre to the white line to try and ram me!!
apparantly, I didnt know this, but mercs actually own the road and have the right to dish out violence for anyone not sharing their views on how to use it. my fault.
I wish I had turned round and "explained" my point of view. I was too stunned to react for 30 seconds..
apparantly, I didnt know this, but mercs actually own the road and have the right to dish out violence for anyone not sharing their views on how to use it. my fault.
I wish I had turned round and "explained" my point of view. I was too stunned to react for 30 seconds..
We saw this happening on the A40 Westbound at the Offslip to the Target Roundabout about 6 weeks ago.
Traffic was very slow moving due to an incident on the A312.
People, were stopping in lane 2 of 3 at the bottom of the slip to get into the dedicated lane 1..this was in order to avoid the very long queue of about a mile.
As a result of this, they were causing people to brake and swerve etc etc.
I think that we stuffed about 10 cars for WDC in about 40mins and forced countless others to stay on the A40 Westbound, wishing them a nice day as we did so.
Traffic was very slow moving due to an incident on the A312.
People, were stopping in lane 2 of 3 at the bottom of the slip to get into the dedicated lane 1..this was in order to avoid the very long queue of about a mile.
As a result of this, they were causing people to brake and swerve etc etc.
I think that we stuffed about 10 cars for WDC in about 40mins and forced countless others to stay on the A40 Westbound, wishing them a nice day as we did so.
trefor said:Not just numpty women - also a favourite trait of blokes who just wont queue and think it is big and clever to cut in at the last minute.
This seems to be commonplace. Numpty sees their exit on the road (usually a roundabout) and has to take it no matter how many cars they cut up. I see it on the A404/M40 Handy Cross roundabout all the time.
tonyrec said:
People, were stopping in lane 2 of 3 at the bottom of the slip to get into the dedicated lane 1..this was in order to avoid the very long queue of about a mile.
Excellent .. that always annoys me on that bit.
It's one thing merging in with slowing traffic if there is a gap and nobody has to brake .. but another thing to sit right at the end and block lane 2 / 3!
Isn't the lane 1 marked quite far back with diamonds or something, signifying the divide? Should put a wall in, that'd sort it
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