A new survey has revealed the British motorist's top 10 most hated driving habits.
Top of the list is tailgating, which is the biggest complaint for 66 per cent of the 1000 drivers questioned. It seems that, according to the research done by ICM on behalf of Kwik-Fit, nothing aggravates the British motorist more than the sight of somebody else's nose glued to their backside (easy, SimonSaid - ed). This is closely followed by failure to indicate, the top gripe for 62 per cent of respondents, and dangerous overtaking at 57 per cent. The full list is as follows:
- Tailgating, 66 per cent
- Failure to indicate, 62 per cent
- Dangerous overtaking. 57 per cent
- Jumping traffic lights, 35 per cent
- Middle-lane hogging, 34 per cent
- Dangerous late-braking, 31 per cent
- Hesitant driving, 31 per cent
- Undertaking, 30 per cent
- Fast-lane hogging, 25 per cent
- Being slow away from traffic lights, 21 per cent.
We've a couple of other suggestions for this list. How about people who slam the anchors on at the first sight of an amber light? Or people who drive at the wrong speed for the road (too quickly or too slowly). We also hate the failure to understand the concept of 'merging in turn' at road obstructions and leaving entire lanes empty, impatient folk swerving around stopped busses and nearly causing head-on collisions, people not aware they've got a headlight out, badly fitted/incorrectly adjusted xenon lights dazzling everybody - we could go on. And on.
But instead, and before we have some sort of stress-related aneurysm, it seems a good time to open the question to you: what road habits really 'grind your gears'? Do you agree with the 'Top Ten' above?