Idiots driving cars

Rocker

You see them every day.  Drivers going around roundabouts with a mobile phone to their ears.  Usually held to the right ear by the left hand.  Idiots.

I saw a different kind of idiot driving in town recently.  He was wearing headphones, bright white over ears.  Ignoring the obvious danger through not being able to hear, surely such behavior is breaking some driving law.  Using a mobile phone while driving is.  So must wearing headphones while driving.

What does it take for people to decide to act responsibly in these matters?

octatonic

I hear you.

I had a guy in a white Audi changed lanes almost on top of me today.

I was overtaking on a 2 lane A road.

He indicated precisely 0.00000001 seconds before to moved into the lane.

I accelerated ahead of him because if I didn't then I would be dead (on a motorbike).

He caught up to me at the lights and apologised- he clearly didn't look and he had a his iPhone earbud hanging out of one ear.

What annoys me is when people drive when driving is not the thing they are paying attention to.

jonnyburgo

My bro n laws mate got killed on his bike on tuesday, by all accounts a driver on the other side of the road overtook, hit him head on. Wife and 3 kids left with nothing.

Dominic

Probably the first time you noticed because big white headphones but you would be amazed how many people drive with earplugs attached to ipods in their ears - seen so many idiot pedestrians walk straight over junctions with these on and nearly get run-over because they are sensorily deprived

makes you wonder tho ' what about deaf drivers ?  

octatonic

jonnyburgo said:

My bro n laws mate got killed on his bike on tuesday, by all accounts a driver on the other side of the road overtook, hit him head on. Wife and 3 kids left with nothing.

Sorry to hear it, Jonny.

That is terrible.

jpttaylor

My dad was hit a few years ago on his motorbike by a car coming out of a junction and saw just before the crash that the other driver was on his phone. He was lucky to get away with some minor bruising to his arm and a written off bike, but others aren't so lucky.

In a way, you have to feel for the police in trying to get through to idiots like that. Last year at a Kent Police driving course (stupid mobile speed cameras) they made all of us realise just how dangerous it can be. They just don't appreciate the seriousness of what can happen if you lose concentration of the car for a few seconds.

Sambostar

People are crazy in cars, especially when they go troppo.  They do all need a reality check.  Everyone is shouting wanker at so and so this evening on the way home, yet traffic was hardly moving.  I don't get it, I really don't get it.

slacker

Many steering wheel attendants have no idea what's going on around them. I reguarly see people on the phone (some hold it in front of them in a Im not on the phone posture), texting, talkin to their friend whilst looking at them. 

I do 4 junctions of the M1 into that roundabout hell aka Milton Keynes. I often see people enter the motorway without looking, leave without looking, change lanes without looking. 

Best/worst thing I ever saw was a guy calmly standing 5ft from his car on the hard shoulder talking on the phone. [i]the car was on fire[/i]

octatonic

Sambostar said:

People are crazy in cars, especially when they go troppo.  They do all need a reality check.  Everyone is shouting wanker at so and so this evening on the way home, yet traffic was hardly moving.  I don't get it, I really don't get it.

Ok, calling custard on this.

Only Australian's use the word 'troppo'.

If you search on this forum for the word 'troppo' only you and I use it.

You are Australian.

Sambostar

OK then, but if you want to be like that, you are fucking middle class Brit through and through and through.

PC_Dave

The thing I've noticed recently is the amount of people running red lights, and also not looking before pulling out of a roundabout junction. It's absolute madness!!

fretmeister

Everyone of them thinks it won't happen to them.

They are often wrong.

octatonic

Sambostar said:

OK then, but if you want to be like that, you are fucking middle class Brit through and through and through.

Indubitably. 

Stevepage

slacker;1104178" said:

Many steering wheel attendants have no idea what's going on around them. I reguarly see people on the phone (some hold it in front of them in a Im not on the phone posture), texting, talkin to their friend whilst looking at them. 



I do 4 junctions of the M1 into that roundabout hell aka Milton Keynes. I often see people enter the motorway without looking, leave without looking, change lanes without looking. 

Best/worst thing I ever saw was a guy calmly standing 5ft from his car on the hard shoulder talking on the phone. the car was on fire

Aahh the M1. Filled with silly fuckers in German cars with no idea they aren't the only people on the road. Love it.

breakstuff

octatonic said:

I hear you.

I didn't.Had my headphones in.

Adam_MD

I almost hit a police car head on this afternoon coming home. They were overtaking a van while going round a bend which put them in my lane and directly in front of me as I came round the same bend from the other direction.

They had their lights on but no siren. I appreciate they were responding to something but there's no point ending up in hospital or dead on their way to a call.

Sambostar

Should have done a handbrake and hit then over the head with a crowbar

Clarky

more than once a week I have someone drive across the front of me when I get a green light..

people are getting more and more impatient and jumping lights

it makes me so angry when I see this

my oldest was almost killed and two of his best pals were a few years back because of this..

Axe_meister

I blame the Internet. Everybody expects everything to happen immediately.
I personally love driving and don't let myself get wound up.
Yes I like to drive fast when safe but quite happy to sit and wait. The beauty of soft top driving.
I'd actually be interested I accident stats comparing soft tops to hard tops.

Fretwired

I blame Audi drivers. Audi drivers in white cars. Evil, evil people. I nearly got wiped out by one on Tuesday.

Sambostar

True that. There are Audi drivers that can afford their cars and there are Audi drivers who can't afford their cars, but the one thing that binds them is the fact that they are all wankers of the fresst degree.