View Full Version : Some people really can't DRIVE!
On a round-a-bout, the outer lane... just slowly cruising around it, while some stupid driver was in the middle lane next to me.. signalled to move left in the MIDDLE OF THE ROUND-A-BOUT! I had to slow down and turn so aggressively I kurbed my front wheels.
She just drove off.. so I floored it and when I caught up to her, I started beeping then she just smiled and laughed at me............... :suspect:
Not good.
paddymarsden
20-09-2007, 16:37
dam man....did u get her reg ? report her to the police, someone ran me off the road with no damage to my car but they went and pulled him over
Jinata (http://www.micra.org.uk/member.php?u=4535), your description is not clear, however are you sure she was in the wrong? at some point she would have to indicate and move left, your actually taught to do this in the highway code.
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/17.htm
had some woman laugh at me once and driving very aggressively behind me so i turned off the engine, got out and started seriously mouthing off at her.... see soon stopped smiling! lol made me feel better anyway :p
unless you want to be arrested thats a really bad idea. The best option is to just ignore it and drive on.
easier said than done tbh i cannot stand tail gaiters and i certainly wont be bullied by anyone including road users! its a shame the police aren't tougher on tail gaiters they never seem to give a crap....
There is a signal (not in the highway code) involving 1 or 2 fingers, for these types of drivers, quite often I combine it with the horn.
Jinata (http://www.micra.org.uk/member.php?u=4535), your description is not clear, however are you sure she was in the wrong? at some point she would have to indicate and move left, your actually taught to do this in the highway code.
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/17.htm
Im positive. Let me rephrase what I said. :sleepy:
Alright.. I was on a 2 lane road, leading to a round-a-bout. The woman was on the right lane and I was on the left. We both approached the round-a-bout at the same time, as it was free to go. Our intention was to go straight ahead. Once we both passed the first left on the round-a-bout. She signalled, to move to the left lane on the round-a-bout; whilst I was currently next to her, driving around it. So I moved out of the way, and she was just getting closer and just pushed me onto the kerb.
Understand? fwn
jaguarjamie
20-09-2007, 17:04
She was in the right if she was slightly in front of you.
you can be in either the first or second lane if your intentions are to take the second exit A.K.A straight over.
yeah, but she should have gone straight over staying in the right too, not cut over to go on the left hand lane cutting Jinata up. Providing it did exit into two lanes obviously. Either way, she sounds like one of the bullies who thinks people should wait for her, esp as she was laughing. Silly moo. Jinata, you know what to do if you see her again ;)
Jinata, you know what to do if you see her again ;)
B*tchslap that b*tch lols
sammyboi
20-09-2007, 19:41
She was in the right if she was slightly in front of you.
you can be in either the first or second lane if your intentions are to take the second exit A.K.A straight over.
From what i was taught, this is correct!! It is recommended that you use the left lane to take the second exit (aka. straight over) but it is possible to also use the right lane aswell. But still, she should have slowed down or something, once she saw that your intensions were to go the same way she was going because she basically cut you up.
Worse than that she had the cheek to laugh.
:doh:
I've been cut up so many times.
jabran200
20-09-2007, 22:47
tell me about it, people just see micras and take the ####, Constantly used to get overtaken etc. Now i don't allow these people to overtake if i'm doing the speed limit i allow them to get stuck i.e over taking when there is an island ahead or very short space as they just get scared and pull back themselves.
Some people see the micra and automatically assume you are some old age person, imagine how the elderly must feel being constantly over taken and peopel taking the ####. It's appalling how people see it as ok these days.
jaguarjamie
20-09-2007, 23:01
tell me about it, people just see micras and take the ####, Constantly used to get overtaken etc. Now i don't allow these people to overtake if i'm doing the speed limit i allow them to get stuck i.e over taking when there is an island ahead or very short space as they just get scared and pull back themselves.
Some people see the micra and automatically assume you are some old age person, imagine how the elderly must feel being constantly over taken and peopel taking the ####. It's appalling how people see it as ok these days.
(Y) (Y) (Y) (Y) (Y) (Y) (Y) This is so true.
I havent had it happen to me in my micra yet but ive had so many chavs in little 1.0 chav-chariots try to thrash my primera out on the roads... what can ya do but leave them standing?! They think its gonna be an old bloke but when they can see its a young lass, they get even more wound up!! :wasntme:
The other woman is in the wrong. She should definitly have come off in the right hand lane if it was a dual carriageway, but it sounded like she cut across without checking her blind spot.
If it's a dual carriage way one side of the roundabout, and a single road on the opposite side, there's usually enough space for two cars to pull off and for both lanes to merge, otherwise the traffic would be merged before you reach the roundabout.
The number of times i've seen people cut across the inside of roundabouts when going straight over, or switching from one lane to the other when leaving a roundabout is rediculous. It's a serious problem for many drivers. Its even worse when the other person doesn't acknowledge there own mistake and assume the other person is in the wrong place
And people wonder why road rage exists?
Britto_1.3Si
21-09-2007, 07:12
dont think it really matters what car your in it happens regardless
Soixantaine
21-09-2007, 07:40
Speaking as on old bloke who drives a Micra, I find the assumptions that non Micra drivers have about our cars and their drivers very irritating at times. I probably drive in a rather more spirited manner than most of my contemporaries and that fact that my car is a Super S with alloys and the obligatory chrome bean-can seems to get the blood up on the "chav-chariot"
and BMW pilots. The very fact that I happen to be in front of one of them seems to cause a serious case of distance-myopia with them and on more than one occasion their car was so close I could note the colour of their eyes.
Once I had a lad tail-gate me so closely I felt obliged to tap the brake pedal which caused him to brake hard and nearly prang his car. He gave me plenty of room then until on a straight stretch I eased off and he was able to struggle past, exhaust farting and popping. I think he was gob
-smacked to see this old silverback behind the wheel as he passed.
My wife (considerably younger than me) drives an M reg Micra and has had
numerous occasions when some weedy cretan, or other, in an SUV, or other,
tail gated, cut her up, or cut her off. I'm sure it was just because she was driving a Micra.
I think (rant almost over) the thing that most causes the Victor Meldrew in me to emerge (like Jeckell and Hyde) is the bully in the big car coming at me, his lane partially blocked by parked cars, my lane clear, who crosses the line, six feet of clearance to the parked car, causing me slow down and take evasive action. Van drivers seem to get particular pleasure out of doing this.
And please spare a thought for OAPs: we'd rather not get old but considering the alternative it's better than nothing (which is the alternative). Most of you will be 60 plus in forty years or so and, frankly speaking, I think it could be a pretty sh---y world to live in.
Sorry to go on so long but I got on a roll there.
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