Who are the worst drivers ?

[FCUKWIT1]

Re: me

I have issues with overweight bulltulipters driving 2 X '8' series BMW's at the same time :lol

[OrangeHopper]

Re: me

We are all the worst drivers. Few of us try to avoid getting into others perceived driving space or remain calm when other invade ours.

Only occasionally do you see someone who is deliberately driving safely and avoiding potential fractious situations but still gets where they want to be as quickly as everyone else.

[wendigo100]

Re: me

I passed an advanced driving course.

At least I now know what I do wrong.

[SupremeSpod]

Re: me

I passed an advanced driving course.

At least I now know what I do wrong.

Is it true that when you pass they give you a badge for your flat-cap and a ceremonial pipe?

[ZATHRAS999]

Judging by the increase in casualties involving plod, I'd say the Police.

Last week while dropping the significant other at her sisters for the day, very clearly the police had sirens going and lights flashing. One driver was forced to brake when he thought better of forcing his way across. Another driver did.

Either one of these could have resulted in a serious accident. In other instance a policeman had to be cut out of his car because some idiot decided to overtake a car and drove headlong into the police car.

It's not fair to just blame the police for these accidents but also the arrogance of the drivers who seem to think they can ignore emergency vehicles, thinking they will give way to them!

As for the OP's original question - Africans, equally for arrogance and an assumption that people will give way to them regardless of the prevailing rules.

Cyclists of any race who seem to think that the rules of the road do not apply and will routinely ignore traffic lights, drive at pedestrians on the pavement. Do not look carefully when they are bouncing between pavement (which is illegal) and the road.

[ZATHRAS999]

My favourite game is chav-baiting. Let them think they've got a chance in their mod-ed 1.2 Nova and then squeeze on the power so they can't quite get past and listen to them revving the bolloxs off it to save face. Quick two fingers, clog it and then off into the distance

I like doing that in my Skoda. Up they came pushing the engine for all it's worth to it pass me, then slow down to it's normal speed. I then catch them up and overtake while still doing the posted speed limit.

Did this to one walnut and my passenger said the picture on the blonde next to him was priceless. One assumes he was showing off his chavmobile to his girlfriend when I showed what a pile of poo it really was. This of course was BC (Before Chav) when Skodas were the but of every joke going.

PS The people telling Skoda jokes now just look sad and unoriginal so don't bother :rolleyes

[zeitghost]

"Cyclists of any race who seem to think that the rules of the road do not apply and will routinely ignore traffic lights, drive at pedestrians on the pavement. Do not look carefully when they are bouncing between pavement (which is illegal) and the road"

Had a classic version of this the other day.

Follow clown on bike up road.

Get within 10 yards of blind bend.

Clown on bike becomes vaguely aware of large bloo volvo.

Sort of indicates right by wave of hand.

I assume that he's about to go up a lane.

Clown on bike goes across road onto pavement, past some parked cars & nearly gets squashed by large bloo volvo as he comes back across the road to the correct side.

Still haven't quite worked out what that was supposed to achieve.

Particularly on a blind bend.

[SupremeSpod]

Israeli taxi drivers...

I amused one this morning when I said "They need to buy you a faster car". He was clogging the bollox off his skoda-diesel-audi-derivative-is-it-feck on the way into work. He wasn't just fast, he was bloody dangerous!!! But tough old spod wasn't going to show any fear, oh no sirree-bob!

[ZATHRAS999]

Still haven't quite worked out what that was supposed to achieve.

Maybe he was practising for his attempt at getting a Darwin Award. Either that or he failed in an attempt (I'm assuming he survived)

[OwlHoot]

Re: me

> Few of us try to avoid getting into others perceived driving space or remain calm when other invade ours.

I used to be a bit chippy about people tailgating me and flashing to overtake on the motorway, although I'm no slowcoach myself; but now I'm happy to pull over and let them overtake - The way I see it, if someone has the bottle (one word for it) to drive six inches behind you at 95 MPH then they'll do the same with the car in front and the car in front of that ... In other words demented drivers are handy at clearing the traffic ahead and saving me the risk and trouble.