Driver etiquette

The junction at the blue bell has done my tits in for ages due to the number of arseholes that are still turning onto Fulwell Road or Dene Lane, when the green man is already on.

On Monday I witnessed some twat in a white van turning onto Fulwell Road when a big group of kids/parents had started to cross to get to school
 


Hank Scorpio said:
The junction at the blue bell has done my tits in for ages due to the number of arseholes that are still turning onto Fulwell Road or Dene Lane, when the green man is already on.

On Monday I witnessed some twat in a white van turning onto Fulwell Road when a big group of kids/parents had started to cross to get to school
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Walking past Kick Fit towards Holmeside in town after match the other week the traffic was backed up right down Toward Road to the junction. Bloke so desperate to turn left from Kwick Fit way he went through when the green man was on and stopped on the crossing. I was crossing with my son at the time when he pulled up right in front of us. I let him know I wasn't happy but he just held his hands up. Pointless.

See it all the time with the lollipop ladies near the school. Morons driving on holding their hand up. If you know you shouldn't be doing it don't do it.
 
ShieldsBlackCat2015 said:
YouTube channel UkDashCams has it all. Some of the most shocking acts of criminal and reckless and thoughtless driving. One of the worst and the one that always leads to a crash is drivers piling out of a side road into the camera car just yards from it. The one I hate is drivers overtaking on the other side of the single lane road and pulls back in narrowly missing you. It happened to my dad once on the road into Corbridge.

In my personal life I live in a cul-de-sac at the very bottom end of Shields’. A few yards from us is Cleadon and the start of the SR postcode. A part of the street layout allows drivers to make a turn without needing to reverse to get out. Yet they do. Right into a blind bend. A high fence makes it impossible to see whether or not theirs a car coming around the bend.

Speaking of which. Drivers coming down the incline at the entrance/exit do insist for some reason on indicating even though it’s a bend at the bottom and not a junction.
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Poor humblebrag.
 
Big Jeff said:
You should not flash your lights at other drivers other than to alert them that you are there.

The convention that flashing your lights for other reasons such as “you go first” is not in The Highway Code and can lead to misunderstandings and accidents.
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Nothing to stop them giving thumbs up / raising a hand in acknowledgement though is there?

There are plenty of safe ways drivers can extend courtesy to a fellow driver yet some drivers don’t even show any acknowledgement whatsoever.

It’s rude and ignorant and it boils my piss! 😡
 
gasman said:
Aye, this pisses me off too, most of the time it would make it easier for them to flash me out rather than have to do a 90 degree turn round me.
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On that subject, people turning right and cutting into the wrong lane in the road they're turning into without having any idea what's coming up to the junction or how close they are, because they can't turn properly. (Not a dig, just made me think of it)
 
KGC83 said:
The traffic officer wouldn’t give a toss either as it’s hardly the crime of the century.

As long as the pedestrian is safely out the way I really don’t see the problem.
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They probably wouldnt but its stuff like that traffic are more familiar with and more confident dealing with. Motorists will push boundaries. It starts with a pedestrian nearly across the crossing but then soon enough there'll be someone scaring the shit out of someone who has just gone past the car. Dont underestimate how many arse holes there is out there
KGC83 said:
What slowly move forward when the pedestrian is 75% across the crossing?

I bet I wouldn’t.

You keep following the rules to the letter. Weirdo.
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Id say you would in that its in contravention of highway code rule. Think wording is that you should give way to anyone on the crossing. Interpretation is that if anyone is on the crossing, you continue to give way. Its a minor rule but its still there
The King of Um said:
On that subject, people turning right and cutting into the wrong lane in the road they're turning into without having any idea what's coming up to the junction or how close they are, because they can't turn properly. (Not a dig, just made me think of it)
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Yup. Dont like that especially when they cant see into the junction
 
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Trying to save seconds on a short drive is pointless. It’s makes very little difference and you risk an incident.

People behave strangely behind the wheel and often are overly aggressive.

Better training for new drivers and a more stringent test would be my proposal but of course that does not address current drivers who seem to have forgotten all they were taught.
 
My wife and I make a regular journey at a time when there’s always a queue of traffic on a road just before some traffic lights. There’s an exit shortly before the traffic lights to the route we take to get home.

Yesterday morning a BMW appeared to nudge left in order to block our entry onto the exit. Typically people see the cars indicating left and move slightly to allow them to pass. It reduces the total length of the queue of traffic for everyone behind, after all.

That was a slightly irritating (possibly deliberate) breach of etiquette I thought.

But then as traffic moved forward as the lights changed, then stopped again as they turned back red, I noted that he had stayed where he was, only inching forward slightly. I was strongly tempted to exit from the passenger seat, knock on his window and ask him if he’d always been a twat or if he was just in a bad mood that morning. My missus is conflict averse and wouldn’t even peep her horn (oo err missus)

By the time we managed to edge onto the exit slip road I could see that he’d left around 3 to 3 and a half car lengths between him and the car in front. I could see in my wing mirror that quite a few cars behind us were also indicating left to turn onto the slip road but nobody could because this bloke was blocking the entrance to it.

Did I mention it was a bmw?

My wife was driving her Mini Cooper.

Bradley Cooper to play me on the film.
 
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Not so much etiquette, but when I was heading north on the m62/a1 yesterday afternoon it was absolutely bouncing with rain. Visibility was really bad due to the amount of spray, the amount of people driving with no lights on was mental. I was flashing them, putting my lights off and back on, my hazards etc and they remained oblivious to it.
 
SR7 said:
Not so much etiquette, but when I was heading north on the m62/a1 yesterday afternoon it was absolutely bouncing with rain. Visibility was really bad due to the amount of spray, the amount of people driving with no lights on was mental. I was flashing them, putting my lights off and back on, my hazards etc and they remained oblivious to it.
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This is the problem with signals to other drivers that are not in the Highway Code.

They are vague and nubulous and open to misinterpretation.
 

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