What is the most stupid thing you've seen another driver do . . . .

[peterjca]

Thankfully I was a passenger in a car at the time, going round a large roundabout on the inside lane when we suddenly had to stop. Coming towards us was an old banger with an elderly couple inside, going round the inside of the roundabout the wrong way. I gave up thinking about how on earth they could have got there.

[GringoRojo]

a few years ago my buddy was towing his flatbed car trailer (heading home) when the traffic lights he was approaching changed to red. it was a bit of a brisk stop, but he had room and time. what he didn't expect was the bump and crash he suddenly felt, and upon looking in his rear view mirror could see an elderly lady in a corsa (IIRC) looking very pale and a lot closer than she should have been. turns out she had been tailgaiting him and when he stopped quickly the front of the car dipped, raising the back, lifting the towbar and thus lowering the rear of the trailer at just the right angle for the little old lady to bounce up onto the trailer.

same buddy used to import ex swedish army volvo trucks - 4x4 and 6x6 wheelbases. he'd travel over to sweden, buy the truck and drive it back, heading straight to the local DVLA office to register it. one time he'd parked a 6x6 in two spaces (yes, they're big) outside the DVLA office in Glasgow and came out to find a towtruck fitting the wheel clamps to lift the 6x6 volvo onto the flatbed to take to the pound. he just stood there and watched (in kinks) as the operator started the hoist to find that it wasn't up to the job of lifting the volvo and proceeded to instead roll the towtruck onto it's side.

[Robbie8666]

in my early days of riding I used to carry a spanner in the top of my boot, it is amazing what a light tap on the window or door of a car would do to make drivers realise there wrong!!

although i have had some scary moments in my car, 1 time driving back to see a friend when a car cut me up at a roundabout. I pulled alongside him at the next set of lights and asked him if he knew his highway code, at which point he got out of his car went to his boot and pulled out a shotgun!!! yes officer I did go through the lights on red and yes I broke the speed limit!! however I drove to the local police station & reported him!!

he denied the incident and produced a licence for his firearm! whether it was renewed!!

[Skinbeatersam]

Last night myself and my lady were driving home, when we came to a set of traffic lights, and waited behind about 4 or 5 cars. The lights went green, and yet, everyone failed to move. Obviously, there was some obstruction, and as I couldn't see, and it was late I declined in tooting my horn, and decided that I should be patient.


Anyway, the obstruction wasn't something serious other than some twat in a Carrera GT, who was chatting to his mates on the street, rather than paying attention to what's going on.


After about 5 Mississippi's, others started to beep the dude, so his mate got in the car and he then drove off, and slowed to about 5mph, to hold us all up. I could see, what was going on by this point, so I joined in the chorus of tooting to try and persuade him to drive normally, and stop being a selfish twat. He then opened his door and shouted, rather aggressively, for us all to 'fuck off' and then drove off, and then AGAIN, quickly slowed to 5mph. We had had enough, and a little Austin Metro type car started to over take him, so what do you think he decided to do??


That's right, he sped up to match the speed thwarting the little cars attempt and nearly forcing it into some island bollards.


The little car did manage to over take him, JUST, only to be met with tailgating, beeping and flashing high beams.


What a twat!!


In the end he went off to terrorize someone else.


Am very fed up of these people. Thinking of getting a camera, so I can shop these dudes . . . . . . . .

[Skinbeatersam]

Haven't posted here for a little while. People haven't been driving as bad as all that, or if they have, then I haven't really paid much attention.


Had a good one the other day though. . . .


I was waiting at the lights on me Fazer and someone who looked like Dappy drove up in a Smart car.


I noticed that he was now on the phone (not a handsfree) He then decided to run the light at about 4mph, across the junction, then stopping at the pelican crossing. Realising he is a knob, he then reversed back to the starting point at about 2mph. (Does this mean he ran the light twice??)


Anyways, he finished his phone conversation, and then looked at me, and gave me that 'Bet I can beat the bike look', and failing to take his car out of reverse, nearly front ended the Merc, behind him when the lights changed.


Fool.

[Lawrence]

First day of my DAS we (instructor, me and one other) were heading to the DSA place to see if we could watch a mod 1 test taking place.  Just before we got to the centre some dozy woman with her kids in the car pulled out of a side turning at about 2mph, on the phone.  Instructor pulls up alongside and she looks at him and shouts "Sorry, I'm on the phone!" through the window  :rolleyes

[Skinbeatersam]

Some people are totally ridiculous.

[DILLIGAFF]

Recently sitting on a bench munching a sarnie. Young bloke in a pimped up Nova pulled up to the main road from a side road opposite. Then without being aware of the cars behind him waiting to turn left had to make A REALLY important call on his mobile. When the cars behind overtook him to exit the junction he gave each one the finger like it was all their fault. Turns out he was waiting for his girlfriend who was shopping. :rolleyes

[alan sherman]

Silly woman in a golf estate didn't look on one of the roundabouts on the A31 and just carried on over the roundabout without stopping to give way.  Jeez it scared the crap out of me, so I asked my wife to pull over in the next layby and I took over the driving....

Thank god there was no-one coming around the roundabout or that would have hurt.

[DryRob]

When I was at college a girl told me she'd pulled onto a roundabout, into the path of a lorry, panicked and put he hands over her eyes...

she was on a lesson but still  :eek

[Skinbeatersam]

Loving the stories. My favs today in the rain, are the ones who can't decide what they are are doing.


'Turn Right . . . . . . . . NO LEFT!!. . . . . . No probably right. . . . .No Left!!! Emergency stop, then accelerate fast and repeat'


All the while I am trying to bloody pass safely!!

[AdieR]

Saw one in a BMW reading a broadsheet newspaper in heavy traffic.

A young lad in a tarted up Corsa belting past on my RHS when I'd indicated and positioned for it (the rest of the traffic passing on the left might have been a clue if his IQ was higher than his finger count).

A 4x4 coming the wrong way up a one-way road.

The one that amused me wasone I saw on my local news a while back - muppet following his twat-nav the the letter, twat nav took him off the road, and he nearly drove the car over a cliff. Another twat-nav fail was the wagon driver who followed the bloody thing blindly and got wedged between 2 buildings!

[JZS 600]

Applying mascara whilst on the way towards the Backwall Tunnel in morning rush hour.

"Lady" in a rather large Merc.

[Looney tune]

Re: What is the most stupid thing you've seen another driver do . . . .

Buy a nissan micra

[splurter]

One of the most stupid things i seen a driver do was nearly knock my 6ft 5 19 stone mate off his bike,he then proceeded to stick two fingers up at him and drive off even more stupid.
His stupid mistake was soon corrected when he got stuck in traffic and my mate squeezed through his window grasping hands full of his neck. :lol

[Skinbeatersam]

Brill, anyone got any good confrontation stories??


My mate, rugby prop on a bicycle, was nearly knocked off by knob in an Audi TT who wasn't looking when emerging from a junction. Called my mate a foccin twat, and then sped off. Of course my friend caught him up at the lights, took his keys from the car and then, basically made him apologise. Funny thing was, his passenger was siding with my friend, and helped convince this guy, that he was just a little rich boy twat.


:-)

[Phil TK]

Once saw a floozie driving a sports Merc run a red and nearly take out on a despatch rider in Tower Hill, his reaction was to simply laugh and shake his head. At the next set of lights he still kept his cool and pulled alongside to gently explain how stoopid she was but she wound up her window and gave him the finger. tsk
  The despatcher responded by spitting a really massive nasty green gob on her windscreen and rubbed it all over nicely, the look on her face was a picture. Fantastic, and of course mopsy tries to wipe it off with her wipers making visibility through the screen nil. As the lights changed she couldn't move off, the last I saw was her getting out of her car armed with a tiny hanky to the sound of an angry horns from everyone behind.

:evil :lol

[DILLIGAFF]

Saw a bloke in a BMW race an unmarked police car up the A3............................ oh no. That was me  :car

[Skippernick]

Following a twat in a car who started to indicate left with a left turn approaching, all good so far.
He started to slow down for the turn and then stopped in the road, fortunetly i avoided him with my thumb firmly pressed on the horn.

[Chillum]

I had a confrontation riding into London one morning, the A12 junction down to Charley Brown's roundabout. Some wanker is a beaten up piece of shit decided to cut in at the last minute because he thought he saw a gap, except that I was in it - I managed to swerve to one side and slow down in time (just) but I was a bit red-misty - so I booted the side of his (crappy) door and left a big boot mark down it.

I proceeded to filter down towards the roundabout, slowed down slightly by another biker in front that wasn't all that brave about squeezing through (it gets a bit narrow down the middle as you get down the off-ramp).

Anyway, a check of my mirror showed me that the bloke who's door I'd booted had abandoned his car at the top of the ramp and was running down the middle after me waving an effin' great iron bar. He looked like a wrestling version of side-show bob, so I shit meself.

I was mentally urging the guy in front to hurry the foc up, and I admit to a small flutter of panic as this guy was rapidly approaching my back. Luckily a coach had blocked the way ahead a bit (trying to stop the bikes filtering) but had left a 1 ft wide gap the other side of him, so I managed to get round the coach and ahead of the other biker - hoping to $deity that he didn't get a clobber in my stead.

I got away, but I learnt a valuable lesson that day - always check your escape route!