Speed Up Driving Campaign

Paladin

Does anyone else think that we need a new driving campaign for drivers that cause insane unnecessary delays? We need a policing force to start punishing ridiculous slowness!

Next time some silly dothery old woman takes 30 seconds to accelerate from a green light, she gets points on her license! When a person has more than 3 cars in a tailback behind them cause of their slowness they get FINED.

How many crashes are caused because a normal person needs to get to work on time but is stuck behind some meandering moron at 20mph? Even the safest drivers get frustrated at this. Is it any wonder that every now and then people just take the risk and overtake because they NEED to be on time?
If there is a crash its the overtaker gets ALL the blame. He/she deserves some blame alright, but NO blame at all is ever attributed to the fvckwit that was pissing about at walking pace. I dont think thats right. On main roads 35-45mph is too bloody slow!!!

"Slow down boys" campaign?
"Hurry the hell up to a normal speed yet within the speed limit you slow twats" campaign I say. We need a referendum on this!

Sleipnir

How many crashes are caused because a normal person needs to get to work on time but is stuck behind some meandering moron at 20mph?

Well the crash would usually be causing by the as*hole who drives 3 feet behind the slow guy and then overtakes while trying to glare at the driver.

You are more likely to become a statistic then they are.
"You're dead, I'm alive. Now who's the moron?"

Sposs

Have to agree with you,theres nothing more annoying than a person doing 40 on a motorway or 20 in a 40 zone. :mad:

zag

Ok. I will agree that I do get very annoyed behind doddery ould wans, and farmers and such. It's very annoying, sometimes I can feel my face burning up and I usually say things like fcuk siht cnut damn!

But then, sensiblity takes over. I say to myself, "How much time can I save by overtaking this moron?" The answer is ten minutes. Is it worth risking your life, risking breaking your friends, family and loved ones hearts, and risking the life of everyone else on the road with your impatience? I think no.

jesus_thats_gre

I agree completely. Speed limits are set for a reason!! While it's obviously not as dangerous to drive at 40 mph on a main road as it is to drive 70 mph on a main road, you do have to consider what happens when a person doing 60 mph (within the law) meets a person doing 40mph (20 mph below the limit) on a road where over taking is not easy. Situations like these are impossible in avoid in this country and depending on the person behind, they may make a risky manouver to get past if they have been held up for long enough.

While the responsibility still lies with the person who attempted the manouver, the person in front should be held responsible in some way for not driving with due care and consideration as in my opionion, they were driving carelessly!

jor el

You don't have to risk life and limb everytime you overtake a slow git on the road you know. All you need to do is wait a bit, don't be driving right up behind them as you won't be able to accelerate before passing, and you could drop a gear to get the speed up and then go. Simple, quick and safe. There should be lessons on safe overtaking, or it should be part of the driving test, as no-one in this country seems to have a clue how to go about it.
Even if it only saves two minutes, it's worth it. It's not all about the time, but just the frustration of being stuck behind some git in a Micra or Yaris, it's always a Micra or Yaris :mad:

ChipZilla

Need I say more:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3694201.stm

Spokeswoman for the RAC in Scotland, Sue Nicholson, said: "People who drive as slowly as that cause as much difficulty and danger on the road as people who speed."

jesus_thats_gre

Originally posted by ChipZilla
Need I say more:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3694201.stm

Spokeswoman for the RAC in Scotland, Sue Nicholson, said: "People who drive as slowly as that cause as much difficulty and danger on the road as people who speed."

Good article...

I really believe strongly about it. If people are unable to drive at the designated speed limit they shouldn't be allowed to drive. If someone does not have a reasonable excuse for going 20 mph under the legal limit, they either lack ability or lack confidence. Both are just as deadly on a main road!!

What is the point of the goverment spending billions yearly on road projects to speed up traffic and reduce delays when you got biddy who didn't even have to sit a test refuses to go over 40 mph on a main road with a tail back of 10 cars behind her... Traffic light queues are getting longer and longer every year, the green sequence could allow for up to 20 cars to drive through but only 10 get through, why? Because someone at the top of the queue is not properly aware of their surrroundings to anticipate the change in lights and the pending moving of traffic. Sitting behind some people, they won't release their handbrake until the car in front has began moving. These individual, harmless delays are fine in themselves, but if 1 in 5 of us are doing it, the problem is massive! We all know what I am talking about I think!

I am perfectly aware on how to overtake but you got to admit there is nothing more frustrating that being caught behind one of these people, especially when you can look beyond them and see a clear road!! Everyone has experience of this and that is the problem!!

How many times have you been on the fast lane of the motorway and some person, totally oblivious to there surroundings I must add, sit side by side with the person in the slow lane for 5 minutes. And then when they finally get past, they stay in the fast lane. The eventual cause of this is for people to undertake on the slow lane, thus causing potential accidents again.

SantaHoe

Originally posted by Sleipnir
the as*hole who drives 3 feet behind the slow guy and then overtakes while trying to glare at the driver.

lol, funny cause it's true

jesus_thats_gre

Its all true. Thats the frustrating thing... The crazy drivers hightlight what the slow drivers are doing wrong and the slow drivers show what the idiots are doing!!

Its all cause and effect!! And that sounds so corny!

ChipZilla

Originally posted by jesus_thats_gre
Good article...

I really believe strongly about it. If people are unable to drive at the designated speed limit they shouldn't be allowed to drive. If someone does not have a reasonable excuse for going 20 mph under the legal limit, they either lack ability or lack confidence. Both are just as deadly on a main road!!

I dunno about here, but I did my driving test in Scotland. I failed the first time for 'hesitation' - doing 50 in a 60. I didn't make that mistake the second time People do get done there by the cops for careless driving by allowing a queue to build up behind them. From what I remember of the Highway Code, you have to pull over when safe to do so to allow a queue of traffic to pass - if you don't notice a queue in your mirror you are seen as driving without due care and attention. Dunno what The Rules Of The Road have to say on the matter though...

Doodah7

Originally posted by jor el
It's not all about the time, but just the frustration of being stuck behind some git in a Micra or Yaris, it's always a Micra or Yaris :mad:

All of the worst drivers on the roads are Micra drivers be it the old or new model. There must be some genetic link they have to the heap of sh1t.

Nissan Dealer: Ah this looks like a muppet, you will love this Micra

Muppet:- Oh yes please because I can now zoom at 37mph and I won't bother with the optional indicators thanks.

I think in certain states in the USA, it is illegal to drive slowly and cause a tailback ie there is a minimum speed on rads as well as a maximum.

Sleepy

You should have to resit your driving test every ten years or so...

Lifeguards have to requalify every 2/3 years to work , why shouldn't this extend to drivers?

jongore

The idiots who drive a 40 in the fast lanes, they refuse to pull in and by the end of a mile I'm ready to chew bricks!

Karoma

Originally posted by Sleepy
You should have to resit your driving test every ten years or so...

Lifeguards have to requalify every 2/3 years to work , why shouldn't this extend to drivers?

damn straight.

Civilian_Target

Yeah, hear hear, you should be tested on your driving every 10 years.

Drivers like my mother are a hazard to other road users. She just can't drive, she's all over the road, she slows by 10 miles an hour every time a car comes towards her (no matter how wide the road is), she brakes chaoticly, she can't dip her headlights or indicate, and she's lethal on roundabout.

Even as a pedestrian, drivers that can't park/indicate are very annoying!

ur mentor

interesting point about millions (billions) being spent on roads. in 1969 true- it took two hours 15 mins from dublin airport in a Ford anglia to go 80 miles southeast. in 2004 it takes less than this at 4 or 5 am but 3 hrs 10 at mid afternoon- in a dearer faster car bty.
dont blame slow drivers. its a balance between road capacity- at different speeds- and road usage volume. planners got it wrong. they r human.:cool:

Redshift

I was with a mate of mine before christmas who was doing 30mph in a 40 zone He actually thought the limit was 30 infact I think it used to be and he got pulled by the guards. Who were interested to know why he was only doing 30. They told him thay suspected that he was not in full control of the vehicle and all that lark. So they do take some notice of it.

Originally posted by tallpaul
Nissan Dealer: Ah this looks like a muppet, you will love this Micra

Muppet:- Oh yes please because I can now zoom at 37mph and I won't bother with the optional indicators thanks.

They always seem to take the option of the front fog lights. I saw one last night with no headlights at all on just the fog lights glaring up from their cheap plastic bumper blinding every other road user because the driver has some idea that it makes their Micra look kewl:rolleyes:

Töpher

My nan has a habit of using the car in-front as a brake :dunno: Scary driving. Its when someone like her and someone going too slowly meet that things get seriously wrong. I refuse to sit in a car with her now, (whether she's driving or not!!). :ninja: