Really Really Stupid People

[Alex225]

I'm sure anyone who drives regularly will notice the idiots on the road, I'm sure most of us on this forum pride ourselves on being a fairly decent driver. No one is perfect but you'd imagine car enthusiasts probably make that effort to be good at what they enjoy. We all witness stupid driving and hopefully let it pass us by as annoying as it is but now and again there's that one bit of driving that really stands out and extra stupid.

Yesterday, as we know the weather was rubbish. Not extreme where I was but very wet and I was on the M25, lane one just taking it easy at about 60mph.

We then have Mr Toyota in his people carrier indicating to pull off the next junction which he does. He then changes his mind and decides to indicate right and proceed across the solid white lines and hatches. I see this and start to slow down in case, he was going pretty slowly at this point.

The really stupid part of all this, other than the driving across solid white lines is then attempting to merge immediately into lane one, in front of me at around half my speed. Forcing me to brake harder than I'd have liked in that weather. I hit the horn and fortunately he did the logical thing and moved to the hard shoulder.

To cap it off, he pulled straight back into lane one and then aggressively flashes his headlights at me.

Genuinely some people are absolutely unreal as no amount of logic, common sense or consideration for safety could warrant genuine stupidity.

So anyone else got stories of inexplicable morons.......

 

[saff]

We all have them I would guess. A rant on here is better than road rage and the possible catastrophic results. We just try to drive in a safe and correct manner and be prepared when we encounter the inevitable idiots out there.

 

[Marquisofraspberry]

My local force are doing this......Operation Snap | West Mercia Police

This ensures offenders are punished but little is done to educate in the first place.

I know it boils down to the driving public doing the polices job for them, but they have no resources.

 

[Merc220cls]

Complete waste of your own time IMO
I recently reported a vehicle (white van) with three occupants fairly late at night (10.30pm) travelling straight for me in a one way street which was a single lane. I simply waited without any horns blazing or gesticulations until he reversed back through the three No Entry signs
Whilst reporting this to Police Scotland I felt it was me being interrogated for such an event and let them know Just how I felt.
I’ve been saying for years driving standards are getting worse and it ain’t going to get better soon.
With the storms we’re experiencing just now, earlier this morning I was being tailgated on a local country road whilst travelling around 50 mph which I considered more than enough.
You just need to look at the damage to our local hedgerows and fences to count the number of incidents in recent times. There are two at exactly the same spot within days caused by cars travelling from both directions.

 

[bob6600]

I don't do much motorway driving these days but yesterday had a function to attend to up the M6 I went. The rain and wind was so bad that there was standing water in lane 3 and there were signs to state this. Traffic was moving at around 50mph and I could feel the water under my right tyres as it stood on the edge of lane 3. Amazingly the woman in her Q5 thought it would be a good idea to tailgate me - so close I couldn't see her numberplate. I kept a decent distance to the car in front (my brother) but she just got closer. Annoyed, I slowed down slightly to keep a good distance as cars hitting the water would brake as there was a risk of aquaplaning. Still up my bumper, I had no choice but to very lightly touch my brakes just to illuminate my brake lights. She then backed off. I hate unnecessarily applying brakes on the m'way as it can be dangerous but it was the only way to get her off my bumper. I knew I could stop if I had to, she had no chance.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Wife's car was written off last year, by a lady who did not understand that one does not simply change lanes on a roundabout without looking to see if the chosen destination lane is, in fact, as one may expect, already occupied......

Completely failed to acknowledge being in the wrong, claimed no fault with the insurance and tried claiming for whiplash ...........

Luckily I took many photos and formed a very solid defence document to submit when the suggestion was made that court may be an option.

All the nonsense very rapidly evaporated. .........

I do a 50 mile round trip to work each day, the amount of oblivious fools who fail to notice road markings, signage, other road users, pedestrians etc.... is shocking.

Not to mention those who choose to drive through the new forest at 60mph because getting up earlier is too taxing, in the dark where there's a real chance of encountering deer, ponies and highland cattle............. Gah!

 

[190]

I drove over a windy M62 on Saturday and back on Sunday generally at 60 mph and with a cautionary eye on what was going on well into the distance. Sunday was worst for wind and they initially had information signs up for 40mph. A tad unrealistic I thought and sure enough no one slowed down at all, They were belting up lane 3 at well over 70 mph. Later when the overhead gantries on the smart motorway section posted 50 MPH they did slow down but only because of the cameras.

 

[Deleted member 37751]

Intelligence looks in a mirror and sees ignorance.

Ignorance looks in a mirror and sees intelligence...

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Almost forgot, this chap yesterday thought he had an amphibious van......

I usually splash through the ford here in the wife's landy but it must have been 4ft deep yesterday.......

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[Tonygw]

Traveling down the M1 yesterday in dstorm Dennis, the gantry on the not so smart motor way pops up to 60mph and the message board displays, report of an obstruction.
The obstruction was a little old lady doing about 35mph in the left lane.. on a motorway.....

 

[Deleted member 6183]

Traveling down the M1 yesterday in dstorm Dennis, the gantry on the not so smart motor way pops up to 60mph and the message board displays, report of an obstruction.
The obstruction was a little old lady doing about 35mph in the left lane.. on a motorway.....

Sounds pretty smart to me.

 

[Tonygw]

Ah I suppose if you put it like that then yes, the system works

which is nice...

 

[Yex]

I had to do a full lap of the M25 on Saturday, Grays to Kingston Upon Thames and back, clockwise as I did not want to be caught up in any wind closures of the Dartford Bridge later in the day when coming back. Myself, the wife and a friend just gave up at the level of stupidity being demonstrated by other drivers and ended up just laughing at what we saw and predicting even sillier levels of stupidity, some of which nearly came true. Lane discipline is a thing of the past, indicators and mirrors appear to be optional extras in cars these days, braking distances are now measured in MM not hundreds of feet in wet weather, 80+mph is OK with standing water and phone use in lane 3 or 4 when p155ing down appears the norm. As mentioned above we witnessed several occasions where cars looked for all intent and purposes to be using the slip road (no indicators though) but then veered back into lane 1 or lane 2 without any warning across the chevrons regardless of occupancy of those lanes..

My ire was stoked again on Sunday when I came home to find a white van parked across my drive with no occupants. The wife heard me pull up and came out to say it had been there for at least 30 minutes but she had not seen the driver when it was parked. I sounded my horn and nobody appeared. I looked round the van and nobody appeared so I decided to shake it in the hope the alarm would go off and cause the owner to come back - no alarm went off. I checked the doors and they were all open, including the rear doors that when opened revealed a full transit van's worth of Amazon boxes to be delivered. I then knocked off the handbrake and rolled it back 20 feet and left it at a jaunty angle to the road and pavement but still allowing traffic to pass. At this point the driver came out and started waving his arms about and shouting until I put on my annoyed face and started walking towards him purposefully inviting him to continue with his approach and face the consequences. When he ducked behind one of the parked cars as I was explaining the consequences of me calling the local Amazon warehouse and asking them if leaving several thousand pounds worth of goods in an open van for 35 minutes was in their business model he immediately backed down and said he would leave if I let him.

Fcukwits everywhere these days.

 

[saff]

Almost forgot, this chap yesterday thought he had an amphibious van......

I usually splash through the ford here in the wife's landy but it must have been 4ft deep yesterday.......

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So that's where my feckin' parcel got to!

 

[flying haggis]

you should have taken photos of the van with the doors open and sent them to amazon

 

[Mr. B]

 

[Deleted member 65149]

So anyone else got stories of inexplicable morons.......

I'm sure we could fill a library with the stories we all have.

 

[Deleted member 6183]

I've a sneaking suspicion that other drivers think that I'm a bit of a d1ck.

 

[Deleted member 65149]

I've a sneaking suspicion that other drivers think that I'm a bit of a d1ck.

Of course they do. I've read countless times that BMWs aren't equipped with indicators, so you stand no chance of being thought of as anything else. Indeed, BMWs' oft reported lack of indicators are more contagious than coronavirus, having infected the majority of other cars on the road if my observations are anything to go by. So it's all your fault.

 

[Deleted member 113659]

I've a sneaking suspicion that other drivers think that I'm a bit of a d1ck.

As well as forum members.

I do find it funny how ‘moaning/winging’ threads seem to thrive but the threads involving nice stuff die on their ****.