RE-Educating Drivers - Seriously
- 30 December 2010 02:0486811I was amazed today to see how many cars driving on the motorway without their lights on in the fog and some it of it quite dense in places too -
I should be used to it by now - as they don't seem to know where their indicators are very often
obvioulsy not aware of the braking distance or it could be that I have a magnet attached to the boot of my car which is why they drive so close to it.
The instinct to just pull out in front of me, because they have been waiting for about 2 seconds at a junction.
The red traffic light used to mean stop when I did my test, how many still race it because they are special and don't need to abide by the rules.
Curtesy of letting someone pass when it was your right of way - Bet most of them don't even know what "right of way" means.
Not to mention speeding - being on a mobile phone (doing both at the same time)
These are just a few of the irritations drivers of the road today give me, please feel free to add some more
The roads will never be safe until people start to respect the rules and abide by them, to many accidents - to many people's lives have been destroyed by people driving erratic
- surely big changes are needed to make a difference. - Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,709
30 December 2010 03:3186814dont talk to me about right of way - as a pedestrian I am fed up with being honked at by cars turning into a side street (for reference I, the pedestrian has right of way) and as a responsible cyclist I am sick of car drivers cutting me up to turn left into side streets (if you cannot safely make the manoeuvre right of way rests with the road user in front of you).
Also the complete inability in Dover for the majority of motor vehicle drivers to adhere to the speed limit is frankly now beyond a joke.
And finally surely having your stereo so loud that I can hear it 200 yards away from inside my house must constitute "driving without due care and attention""Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi - 30 December 2010 07:1486815Ross, we were remarking on that only last night - we could hear the pulsing "music" of a car down the road, through double glazing. And where are the police when traffic thunders down Park Avenue and Maison Dieu Road, where there are schools and care homes as well as ordinary residential houses and pedestrians? I know - they are sitting concealed near dual carriageways catching soft and less risky options. AND - don't get me started about those drivers who tragically lose the use of their indicators, relying on my psychic abilities to drive safely despite them.
- 30 December 2010 08:5586818I am guilty of one of those.. music.. i like it loud... and when on my way to work i like to blast the cobwebs away, but if i think i am not concentrating i do turn it down however.
But i will say it was mainly the young uns who werent using their lights, and in that weather it was stupid, and they didnt understand the whole flashing my lights at them to advise..
indicators are a bug bear of mine, i swear i want a sign that flaps up when i hit a button ... - 30 December 2010 09:3086819Sorry wrong post
- 30 December 2010 11:3786830I walked from Shepherdswell to Dover yesterday along singleledge lane because it is a quiet road,the mist and fog was very thick in places and because of the nearby motorway sometimes difficult to hear the traffic.
I was surprised that about 40 % of drivers were not only going to fast but many had no lights on.If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble! - 30 December 2010 12:5886836Cutting corners on roundabouts. Worst offenders lurk frequently at the Duke of York's waiting for me to turn right off the A2 towards town, when they whizz up on the inside and try to force me onto the roundabout before shooting off down Jubilee way to get their ferry. Other places: Aycliffe roundabout Folkestone-bound where foreign trucks don't observe the lane markings. Priory roundabout where traffic in the lane marked with a left arrow goes straight on and carves you up on the nearside.
Trucks on the A20 disobeying the no-overtaking rule going uphill. Once saw a foreign heavy delaying three marked police cars with blues and twos for nearly a mile on that stretch. They didn't stop him though, not their job obviously.
PG.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson - 30 December 2010 20:0686895the most dangerous thing to me, and i see it every day without fail is drivers negotiating a right hand turn into the fast moving and busy folkestone road whilst having a pleasant chat with their friends on the mobile phone.
as for indicators i had reached the conclusion that cars purchased locally did not have them fitted as standard. - Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
30 December 2010 20:1886899so like has been said on another thread it's not just cyclists that are a problem(some) so peter there is a bigger pictureALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 31 December 2010 01:3286915And like has been said here and on the cyclists thread, the bigger picture is that when it comes to the antisocial behaviour that we all see day in and day out, that needs to be dealt with whenever a police officer sees it in order to engender a respect for the law.
To say they might be on a different job is just a feeble and pathetic excuse for saying they can't be bothered.