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I nearly hit a new ferrari when I was leaving work yesterday wg=hich had clearly jumped a red light or is it that the rules don't apply to the likes of him?
 
I had some old codger trying to undertake me on the way home - twice - actually he sort of succeeded - a shame the bus lane was technically available to him for another 10 minutes or so or it would have made a more entertaining video.
When I asked why he was trying to push me out of the queue for the lights and onto the other carriageway he said "you're only a bicycle". Such a shame he didn't say "road tax" too ...

I say "old codger", but he was only about 10 years older than me - it's a state of mind.
 
Yesterday I witnessed a scooter rider undertake a car that was turning right onto a side street, and all whilst holding a mobile phone with his right hand and fucking texting on it while steering with his left! Had he been blindfolded it would not have looked much worse than it already was.
 
Yesterday a car approached steering erratically, the driver was holding a phone to his ear.

I don't often see people phoning whilst driving these days.
 
Today I saw somebody do something that was not quite to my personal taste. It's something that, were our situations reversed, I personally would not have elected to do due to superior visual acuity, spatial awareness and motor skills.

Am I doing it right?
 
Your daily transport experiences are unlikely to have much in common with those of the average U75er.

Why not stick a camera on your vehicles and show us ?
 
OK then, "passing" on the passenger side to get in front of you.
There are drivers in the UK who will use the wrong lane to jump a queue.
Or like the arsehole cyclist who knocked me off my bike last year, trying to pass me on the inside as I was completing my overtake.
 
Johnny Canuck3 said:
We call that 'passing on the right'. It's mentioned in the Motor Vehicle Act.
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There don't seem to be a lot of Canadian videos of dodgy driving - so may I assume everyone is well-behaved over there ?

I suspect it's a big deal with a lot of us in the UK because our road safety is actually nearly the best in the world.
 
gentlegreen said:
Your daily transport experiences are unlikely to have much in common with those of the average U75er.

Why not stick a camera on your vehicles and show us ?
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I'm in enough trouble with the filth without giving them evidence on a plate.
 
Fewer people seem to indicate nowadays, I nearly got knocked off my bike when the arse decided to turn left across me, if he'd indicated we both would have known where he was going :mad::mad:
 
Not just driving standards.
Pedestrians are pretty random these days.
I witnessed this sequence on the way home - and it's far from uncommon :-



I encounter two sets of lights on my homeward commute and people take the piss almost every time.
 
gentlegreen said:
Not just driving standards.
Pedestrians are pretty random these days.
I witnessed this sequence on the way home - and it's far from uncommon :-



I encounter two sets of lights on my homeward commute and people take the piss almost every time.
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Whether on an engine or pedal-powered two wheeler, I've always found pedestrians to be the most reckless road users of them all. I guess a combination of them being the least lethal group around and enjoying de-facto immunity from prosecution means their antics rarely get discussed in the media, but they are dodgy as fuck as far as I'm concerned.
 
There is a road junction near where I live that has "No right turn" signs in every direction. Today a car stopped to wait for a break in oncoming traffic to make an illegal right turn. As he waited, cars coming towards him and cars behind him all beeped their horns. I was on foot on the pavement and looked back to see what all the noise was about. The beeping continued as he continued to wait for a gap and eventually turned right with more cars beeping at him. His drivers window was open and as he pulled into the road I was on he stared at me as if to say "Why are you looking at me". I don't know if he was aware of why everyone around was hooting their horns.
Lots of drivers take that illegal right turn but there is no need, just a few yards up the road is turn off that leads in the direction they want to go in.
 
Today I saw a lady reversing back up the entry ramp to the M25 as she'd got halfway down and noticed there was a traffic jam on the motorway itself, so clearly had decided to find an alternative route.
 
Hocus Eye. said:
Lots of drivers take that illegal right turn but there is no need, just a few yards up the road is turn off that leads in the direction they want to go in.
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There's a 'no left turn' on my commute home which car drivers sometimes make, usually taxis. Quite common to be cycling up the inside of a traffic queue then have someone do this right in front, had a couple of near misses (it's an angled junction, so they're turning about 110 degrees). One of those places I wish I had a camera.

Further up this road is a dual carriageway on approach to a major junction with the inner ring road. A couple of days ago I saw someone do a U-turn across the paved central bit just ahead of the lights (there's no fence). Wasn't particularly busy and there's a gyratory up at the junction that would have allowed them to get to the same place in about a minute. Other drivers just looked on in bewilderment. Twat.
 
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gentlegreen said:
Not just driving standards.
Pedestrians are pretty random these days.
I witnessed this sequence on the way home - and it's far from uncommon :-



I encounter two sets of lights on my homeward commute and people take the piss almost every time.
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I guess if you don't know the junction, its hard to tell, but in all honesty it looks like there's shit all particularly dangerous in this vid.
 
I saw somebody driving really well today.
I gave him a big thumbs up at the traffic lights but I think he was just confused.
 
Ill admit, I think I accidentally jumped a red light today, it was one of those ones where it goes orange, and you think to yourself "Yes, no, yes, no, er..... yes....." and by then its too late and you're through it.

However yesterday I did see a pig car just drive through an already red light with no siren or lights on.

Didn't get it on my camera unfortunately :(
 
sim667 said:
Ill admit, I think I accidentally jumped a red light today, it was one of those ones where it goes orange, and you think to yourself "Yes, no, yes, no, er..... yes....." and by then its too late and you're through it.
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But an amber light means stop. No decision to be made, tbf.

edit: just reread that and it's sounds unnecessarily confrontational. Wasn't my intention.
 
The Boy said:
But an amber light means stop. No decision to be made, tbf.

edit: just reread that and it's sounds unnecessarily confrontational. Wasn't my intention.
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Ah it was just one of those, I was late, I'd spent 15 mins waiting whilst two chelsea tractors couldn't get past each other in the road, and both refused to reverse, I'd been cut up numerous times on the M25, and someone had blocked my turning onto a main road but basically parking in the "do not enter unless your exit is clear" box, whilst the barriers were down at a level crossing.

Wasn't in a town centre, so no pedestrians to plough through and traffic was clear, but still silly and 100% my fault. I do hope there wasn't a camera there though :hmm:
 
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