Jackass Driving

LolaDub

I'm sure we've all had our experiences of RIDICULOUSLY bad driving but after an incident yesterday i had to post. Came to the junction at the Terenure side of Templeogue Village from Rathfarnham, green light and the car i'm in as a passenger is going straight through. Another car, a 4x4 is coming from the opposite direction and signaling to our left, their right. They passed the white line and obviously we expected them to yield to our right of way but they didn't, just kept coming despite the car being about 20 feet away from them! Ended up swerving and braking to avoid them into the oncoming traffic lane (thankfully there wasn't any traffic) and onto the island dividing the lanes. The 4x4 didn't even slow down or stop at all! Absolutely fuming we were! :mad:

superjosh9

yep it's annoying alright.

last night on the loughlinstown roundabout I was going straight through on the N11. I was doing about 60 kph and already on the roundabout when a guy drove straight across my bow from the first entrance. I slammed on the brakes and gave him the old head-shake. I wasn't even in the left lane, was weird. I can only assume he was drunk or drugged up.

OP, just a note - my instant first reaction is always to get on the brakes as soon as possible - simply to avoid situations like you mentioned of having to veer into oncoming traffic. I know, easier said than done sometimes! So many loons about like you've come across!!

LolaDub

Come across a few alright, the driver did brake-i'll edit that now. But he had to swerve with the few feet between us we would have had a bad crash. The 4x4 didn't stop, slow down or anything just saw us had a frightened face and kept trotting along.

superjosh9

that's because he was in a 4x4! evidently he can do anything! jerks...!

Captain Slow IRL

Exact same thing happened me a few weeks ago, except we were both going the same direction, I was turning left, him right - I beeped at him and the @sshole flipped me the birdie.
Black 04 C, x5 - I haven't forgotten about you :evil:

Kamili

I think dublin drivers (not all of them mind!) are the most rude, discourteous people on the face of this planet.
I had one randomer get out of his car and proceed to scream at me through the window because I didn't let him out onto the road where I quite obviously had right of way. I was on the road and he had pulled out, blocking traffic and expected me to get out of his way, nearly took the side off my car!!! I think he was just jealous, cos me, being a female, drives a flashier sportier car than him. I was rather frightened by it.

Scottie99

I feel your pain.........I drive the 40 foot artics for a major supermarket. I get to meet all types of bad drivers every day. I don't think they realise how much damage I can do, especially fully laden! I've been undertaken on the hard shoulder, I've had people try a undertake me while I'm turning left.............the list goes on and on.

The driving in this country is shocking!

Kamili

Scottie99 wrote: »

I feel your pain.........I drive the 40 foot artics for a major supermarket. I get to meet all types of bad drivers every day. I don't think they realise how much damage I can do, especially fully laden! I've been undertaken on the hard shoulder, I've had people try a undertake me while I'm turning left.............the list goes on and on.

The driving in this country is shocking!

I so much want to learn to drive one of them!!! (seriously)

Having lived in the UK too drivers there are so polite, its lovely!

LolaDub

Its crazy how anyone can out themselves behind the wheel driving like that. Do people get into cars thinking of them as penis extensions or do they realise the damage they can do? Coming out of smithfield heading towards finglas a few weeks ago there were 2 lanes becoming one, traffic wasn't really heavy and cars were just slowing down going in order. A van driver undertakes about 6 cars at 50/60k and just turns into the lane without signalling, forcing another car into the oncoming traffic lane, then just speeds off again!

Also a pet peev of mine is when people use the right lane on the motorway for normal driving ir not overtaking when theres no traffic at all!

rainshowers82

I know its been said before but irish drivers are becoming more and more impatient and unbelievably dangerous! I find that at night they become downright unreal! For Example Friday night just gone i was driving home from work around 7.30pm from limerick to cork before you come to rourkes x. There are double white lines and a very bad bend in the road. The car two cars behind me proceeded to pass those cars out and pull in in front of me (narrowly missing my car) and before he had even straightened up he was off again heading straight into a row of traffic.... we narrowly avoided a major pile up as we all slammed on our breaks! it annoys me so much when people like that endanger everyone lives just because they are in a hurry!! :mad:

I also agree about the idiots who use the right hand lane of the dual carraigeway for normal driving instead of the left hand lane!

LightningBolt

I was coming up to a roundabout with two lanes on approaching, I was in the left lane with a 40ft truck nosed slightly in front of me (at most a car length) in the right lane. The ****er decided to drift across lanes just at a bus stop before the roundabout. I'm thankfull that there was no bystanders at the bus stop as it could have turned very ugly.

rainshowers82

There has been many a time that i have been nearly wiped out by trucks at roundabouts they have no regard what so ever for drivers! :eek:

Mr. Presentable

rainshowers82 wrote: »

There has been many a time that i have been nearly wiped out by trucks at roundabouts they have no regard what so ever for drivers! :eek:

I think most drivers don't appreciate how much extra room a truck needs to negotiate a roundabout.

I also have formed the opinion that Irish drivers are no worse, or better, than anyone else. UK drivers, so often touted on these boards as the standard to which we must aspire, are just as ignorant and brutish as we are.

Anan1

nipplenuts wrote: »

I also have formed the opinion that Irish drivers are no worse, or better, than anyone else. UK drivers, so often touted on these boards as the standard to which we must aspire, are just as ignorant and brutish as we are.

I dunno, nipplenuts. Have you driven on any of the 6 lane sections of the M50 yet?

Heroditas

Yesterday I was on the Outer Ring Road heading from the Penny Hill back towards Lucan. A tool in a white souped up banger decided to sit in the bus lane all the way up to the traffic lights at the crossroads with Ballyowen Road. I and a couple of cars ahead of me were comfortably doing nearly 100kmph yet tosser in the white car insists of undertaking us about 200m from the junction and then insisting on putting two wheels up on the island to pass another car to get into the right hand turn lane. I think he gained about 5 seconds by doing all this. :rolleyes:

I hope he wraps his car around a big tree in a dark lane some night.

Spootie

Thing that never ceases to amaze me is some drivers need to pull out wide when they are turning left. I was behind a woman today coming up to a set of lights. She put on her indicators to turn left and got into left hand lane. I was going straight so stayed right. Next thing she pulled out right in front of me to take her turn totally oblivious of my presence. Only that I was a bit weary of her based on earlier observations I would have been into her. She was not driving a 40 ft truck!

Scottie99

rainshowers82 wrote: »

There has been many a time that i have been nearly wiped out by trucks at roundabouts they have no regard what so ever for drivers! :eek:

But were you in the right lane?

Daithi McGee

/rant

This evening I came across a car reversing back down the Ballymount (North) exit of the M50 to get back on. I swear to God I nearly stopped to tell him JUST KEEP GOING AND GO THROUGH THE LIGHTS TO GET BACK ON YOU FUKING DICKWAD

I hate people who reverse on motorway slip roads.

I HATE THEM! Find a fuking roundabout or something ffs! Jesus Christ!

/end rant

That felt good

Kamili

Daithi McGee wrote: »

/rant


I hate people who reverse on motorway slip roads.

It is also illegal!

Mr. Presentable

Anan1 wrote: »

I dunno, nipplenuts. Have you driven on any of the 6 lane sections of the M50 yet?

Yes, most days.
I have also driven the M1 at South Leeds.

You see the same things on both - mostly people driving along the middle lane. And drivers with yellow plates cutting in and out across lanes in excess of the limit.

Admittedly in the UK the police are proactive in showing drivers where they should be, but that doesn't reflect the quality of driving here.

I'm not saying Irish drivers are great or good, just that they are basically the same as others, with the same shortcomings.

Mr. Presentable

Daithi McGee wrote: »

I hate people who reverse on motorway slip roads.

Ah, yes. And the ones who reverse on the motorway to get back to a missed exit.

chickenhawk

Not the worst display of driving I've ever seen but the one that made the least amount of sense happened a couple of weeks ago.

I was driving along a 2 by 1 road (in the left hand lane of the 2 lane section). A car caught up to me and tailgated me by about 5 foot, going at 100kph) and didn't make any attempts to overtake. About five minutes later just after our section turned into a 1 lane section and the other side of the road had two lanes the car behind me overtakes me. She crosses a double white line with traffic in both lanes approaching the opposite side of the road.

Why didn't she overtake in the perfectly safe two lanes we were driving on??

I didn't adjust my speed the whole time because I had my niece in the back and I'm always extra careful when driving with her.

dade

last night small roundabout in swords a taxi driver decided to pull out right in front of me. I'm taking the third exit and he's oat what would be the second exit (straight ahead) to me. he just runs right out in front of me without looking to see if there was any oncoming traffic. he then starts yelling at me cause i had the audacity to beep at him and screams "everyone makes mistakes" mistakes from muppets i can take but something like that from someone that drives for a living?

oh and some kiddie in a red 91 D corolla heading north on the Malahide road yesterday afternoon tailgating switching lanes every few seconds just to get one car ahead. guys could have been only 3 feet from the rear of a bus at one point in a bus lane. i really did hope to see him in a wall or something, but idiots like that tend to take others with them and walk away from it themselves.

I've also seen a cyclist tailgating a double decker, the bus pulls into a bus sup and he went into the back of it. i wet myself laughing at him.

Redderneck

In Killaloe-Ballina there's a bridge which has a lights-controlled one way system controlling traffic from one town to the other. On the Ballina side there is side road access by Molly's Pub onto the 'main' bridge road where cars can either turn left back up the hill into Ballina, or turn right onto the bridge for Killaloe side.

I'm stopped at this side road, waiting the green to turn right & over the bridge. I get a green. I move out, cautiously - not one, two or three, ahhh no, six vehicles break their red light and barrell down the hill from Ballina village to barge their way over the bridge.

As it's a side road, it's a quick change light for me. By the time the 4th or 5th vehicle had gone past, I was faced with a red light again. This is the third time in the last 10 days this has happened.

What the hell am I supposed to do - break the light like the fcukwits who cut me up? Sit pretty & wait for the next series of fcukwits to cut me up again? Given how slowly the light sequence is, you can be quite a while stuck there even if everyone follows the rules.

Yesterday, I made use of the fact that what I drive isn't small and I just continued to pull out flashing my light and horn blaring. Brown underpants for at least two of the fcukwits who had to anchor themselves. But I'm aware that I can't make that my regular solution; there will be material damage and or somone sooner or later will get hurt and I know I would be held liable to some/all extent. I don't want to go there - I just want to cross the fceking bridge, legally & safely.

Draupnir

Driving home on the M7 to Dublin yesterday from Kildare and had the pleasure of one of those people who can't use Motorway lanes properly. 02 Almera, driving along at about 95kmh in the overtaking lane and causing all kinds of hassle for me. He seemed to pick up the pace everytime I wanted to use the lane to overtake just to make things awkward for me, which I reckon added about 10 minutes onto my total journey time.

Why can't people drive on Motorways? I hate the middle lane brigade too, grrrr.

His boot was open and bouncing up and down too!

ergonomics

Was driving from Cashel to Urlingford on Friday, and used the Cashel bypass. Just before I joined the new motorway section a middle-aged woman in a VW Passat pulls out in front me causing me to slam on the breaks. She turned left to join the motorway and I followed behind her. The were cars coming up in the inside lane so I had to follow behind her before I had a chance to merge. I kid you not, she was going 50km/h in a 120km/h speed limit. Stupid div.

Delirium

Had 2 bad experiences over the weekend. Coming out of Birr heading for Tullamore. Heading up a hill which is a 60, due to a right turn halfway up the hill. 1 car, followed by 2 vans which in turn is followed by another car.
The last car puts the boot down starts over taking, nearly rear ends the car turning right, swerves and basically runs one of the vans into the hard shoulder.:eek::eek:

The other was coming down from portlaoise last night, near mountrath a guy in a jeep with a large trailer, for a horse I think. No lights on the trailer and it was so big you couldn't see the lights on the jeep. Only way the car closed to him managed to spot him in time was due to lights from oncoming traffic creating an outline of the trailer.:eek::eek:

5uspect

Redderneck wrote: »

In Killaloe-Ballina there's a bridge which has a lights-controlled one way system controlling traffic from one town to the other. On the Ballina side there is side road access by Molly's Pub onto the 'main' bridge road where cars can either turn left back up the hill into Ballina, or turn right onto the bridge for Killaloe side.

I'm stopped at this side road, waiting the green to turn right & over the bridge. I get a green. I move out, cautiously - not one, two or three, ahhh no, six vehicles break their red light and barrell down the hill from Ballina village to barge their way over the bridge.

As it's a side road, it's a quick change light for me. By the time the 4th or 5th vehicle had gone past, I was faced with a red light again. This is the third time in the last 10 days this has happened.

What the hell am I supposed to do - break the light like the fcukwits who cut me up? Sit pretty & wait for the next series of fcukwits to cut me up again? Given how slowly the light sequence is, you can be quite a while stuck there even if everyone follows the rules.

Yesterday, I made use of the fact that what I drive isn't small and I just continued to pull out flashing my light and horn blaring. Brown underpants for at least two of the fcukwits who had to anchor themselves. But I'm aware that I can't make that my regular solution; there will be material damage and or somone sooner or later will get hurt and I know I would be held liable to some/all extent. I don't want to go there - I just want to cross the fceking bridge, legally & safely.

I know that spot, its a nightmare when traffic is heavy. The lights are quite long and I guess I see why those twats try and break the lights out of impatience. The sooner the new bridge is up the better.

Willodub

On Wolfe Tone Quay in Dublin this morning, heading towards James Joyce bridge. Quay has 4 lanes - bus lane, left hand lane for straight on, middle lane and right turn lane. The middle lane finishes near the end of the quay and the traffic in it is supposed to merge into the left lane to go straight on up the quays.

I'm in the left hand lane going straight on. Dolly bird in a Micra comes flying up the middle lane, over the hatch markings and into the lane I'm in, causing me to slam on the brakes and nearly go into the bus lane to avoid her. Beeped but no reaction. Stupid cow

W

Blazer

Hate trucks on the road..some of them be flying it and barely take the bends on the road..
Another thing I dislike about truck drivers is a lot of them don't stop at roundabouts..they just assume that the cars will stop for them.

John Mason

On the Ratoath Road, near the Ballycoolin Industrial Estate in Dublin 11/15, there are major road works going on and there is a stop/go system in place.

Well on friday, so woman decided to ignore the stop signal for her and continued to drive, she end up meeting a long line of traffic coming towards her and had to reverse the whole way back, she is so luck she didnt met a HGV going a little bit fast but i was looking at her and she was laughing, she thought this was hillarious. the words mind and boggle come to me.

also driving home from Wicklow to Coolock at 7pm last night, i think everyone in the country should be made do ten driving leesons on how to use motorways. in fairness, you pass your driving test, and you drive on the motorway no leesons or anything

Delirium

Had another stupid situation yesterday. Coming down the dual carriageway from Ennis to Limerick. A guy in a van on the inside lane, and a woman on the outside lane, no other traffic in front of them or behind me. She obviously knew the van driver. She got his attention by beeping at him and driving along side him.
Suddenly for no reason, they both come to almost a complete stop while occupying both lanes and pulled into the hard shoulder. Was thankful no one was following behind me. Couldn't understand why the woman didn't move to the left lane and slow down in that lane.:mad:

madds

Was driving through Clonee one morning last week and the female driver behind me was....eating a bowl of cereal as she drove! Every 10 secs or so she'd take her eyes off the road to have a rummage with her spoon, and then lift it up to her face. I couldn't believe it as there were occasions where her eyes were off the road for a good 3 to 4 seconds.

Honey-ec

I have so many of these, it'd be funny if it wasn't so bloody frustrating.

Driving down Templeville Rd from Templeogue Village. Came to the roundabout near Templeogue College. I'm in the inside lane going straight on, there's a woman in the outside lane, INDICATING RIGHT. We both enter the roundabout at the same time, and low and behold, she tries to take the second exit (straight on) as well. I got in ahead of her and she starts blaring the horn at me for "undertaking" her...

Twice since Saturday I've been behind people who indicated right at the crossroads in Baltinglass but actually continued straight on towards Tullow.

Was driving down the Tallaght dual-carriageway a few years back, had just passed roundabout into Balrothery and the lights just after that. Next thing, the car directly in front of me slams on his brakes. I'm about to beep at him when I spot, through his windscreen, a car coming the wrong way down the dual-carriageway in our lane. My first thought is that it's someone trying to get away from the cops or something. We all bail over into the hard shoulder. Car starts slowing as he spots us, then stops, does a u-ey and then potters back off up, not a bother on him. Guy driving was about a hundred years old and I'd say had no idea whatsoever that he was even on the wrong side of the dual-carriageway until he saw all the oncoming traffic.

Delirium

Actually, just thought of another one. Was doing my driving test. Approaching a roundabout and taking the exit at my right as I approach it, only other exit being on the left (no straight ahead). Also, it was a one lane roundabout. Indicated, got in the correct lane. As I was going around the roundabout, the woman behind passed me on the inside to 'over take' me. :eek:
Had to mount the roundabout to avoid an accident. The tester actually joked that someone needed driving lessons. He didn't give me any marks for the mounting of the roundabout.:)

L1011

Think I saw the pinnacle of middle-lane idiocy a few weeks ago: middle aged woman in an SUV pulling out from the Belgard Road straight in to the middle lane of the N7 where she puttered along at no more than 75km/h... obviously thinks she's not slow enough for "slow lane"... would love to be able to take licences off people for stuff like this if it was possible.

Heroditas

MYOB wrote: »

Think I saw the pinnacle of middle-lane idiocy a few weeks ago: middle aged woman in an SUV pulling out from the Belgard Road straight in to the middle lane of the N7 where she puttered along at no more than 75km/h... obviously thinks she's not slow enough for "slow lane"... would love to be able to take licences off people for stuff like this if it was possible.

I bet she was on the phone too :mad:

plissken

koth wrote: »

Actually, just thought of another one. Was doing my driving test. Approaching a roundabout and taking the exit at my right as I approach it, only other exit being on the left (no straight ahead). Also, it was a one lane roundabout. Indicated, got in the correct lane. As I was going around the roundabout, the woman behind passed me on the inside to 'over take' me. :eek:
Had to mount the roundabout to avoid an accident. The tester actually joked that someone needed driving lessons. He didn't give me any marks for the mounting of the roundabout.:)

Maybe im wrong, but is it not the accepted rule of using roundabouts that the left lane is for the first and second exits while the right lane is for third and all subsequent exits. therefore at the roundabout you describe that has no exit straight ahead would the left lane not be the right one to use for going left and going right (ie taking the second exit) while the right lane would only be used for the third exit (ie turning back in the direction you came from) meaning you were in the wrong lane or have i misunderstood your description of the roundabout completely

Delirium

plissken wrote: »

Maybe im wrong, but is it not the accepted rule of using roundabouts that the left lane is for the first and second exits while the right lane is for third and all subsequent exits. therefore at the roundabout you describe that has no exit straight ahead would the left lane not be the right one to use for going left and going right (ie taking the second exit) while the right lane would only be used for the third exit (ie turning back in the direction you came from) meaning you were in the wrong lane or have i misunderstood your description of the roundabout completely

Put it this way, if I had used the same lane as her, the tester would have marked me for it. The right-hand exit was after 12 o'clock so, the right hand lane would be for the exit I was using. The other driver exited to the same road as myself and basically used the wrong lane to get past me.

My understanding is if the 3rd exit is straight ahead you can stay in the left lane. Open to correction, but thats what all documents and teachers have told me.

5uspect

As I understand it you can use the left lane for the first exit and only the second exit if there are two lanes on that exit. This applies to standard configuration roundabouts with 4 exits. In the case above the second exit is really the third, so rules for the third exit apply.

ztoical

Great fun driving up to Dublin couple of weeks ago....coming in on the N7, pretty busy but everyone is moving along grand. Was moving at bang on 100 on the inside lane when I came up to a pink [yes pink] Micra going at around 60 - could see inside the car and it looked like the inside of some teenage girls bedroom [all the pink playboy crap you see in argos] and two young ones sitting up front having a great old time, I keep seeing the driver take both hands off the wheel to a gesture to her friend. Debating wither to flash at them to move in when a big 4x4 comes bombing up behind me and starts flashing like crazy at me. I moved out of the way but the pink Micra stays where it is. 4x4 man goes nuts beeping and flashing at them. I end up over taking them due to them going so slow, 4x4 man moves in, overtakes them, moves into inside lane and takes off. I moved back into the inside lane to over take a truck in front of me and in the mirror I can see girls in pink car making faces at me [I'm also female, not much older then them and driving a much older green mirca thats full of rubbish] All of a sudden they speed up, move into the middle lane and try to overtake me.

Of course by now we've made it to Newlands cross and are stopped by traffic lights. They are one lane over and one car back from me and I can them pointing at my car. Lights change, I stay in lane as I'm going to the Lusa stop at the red cow. Pink Micra gets in lane behind me and drives right up on my arse. I move into the lane to get into the car park and the follow me. Now we're waiting for the lights to change to go into the car park, pink Micra is right behind me and sees they are in the queue for the park and ride where they don't want to be and start freaking out. Its pretty funny to watch them in the mirror. They try to back up but there's another car behind them. They suddenly dart out back onto the road and nearly cause a major pile up, they were lucky it was a car with damn good breaks and not a bus or truck coming up behind them. I kinda wished they'd followed me into the car park so I could have stopped them and asked them WTF?

MarkR

This type of crap happens to me a lot. I've been able to avoid all bar one accident (double continuous white lines are for other people evidently)

Guy ran a stop sign entered a clearway and nearly T-Boned me. He decided obviously that he had waited long enough for people to wave him in. Next time I might not stop. It may get sore after a while, but if I let enough of them hit me....

Delirium

5uspect wrote: »

As I understand it you can use the left lane for the first exit and only the second exit if there are two lanes on that exit. This applies to standard configuration roundabouts with 4 exits. In the case above the second exit is really the third, so rules for the third exit apply.

Must try and find the document I found to show what I was taught regarding roundabouts. Any other documents I've found aren't that great as the only cover standard '+' shape rounabouts.

L1011

MYOB wrote: »

Think I saw the pinnacle of middle-lane idiocy a few weeks ago: middle aged woman in an SUV pulling out from the Belgard Road straight in to the middle lane of the N7 where she puttered along at no more than 75km/h... obviously thinks she's not slow enough for "slow lane"... would love to be able to take licences off people for stuff like this if it was possible.

Some wan in a ten year old Corsa did this again today! 4 manoeuvre overtaking to get past her, as my car gets to 100km/h far, far faster than a decade old granny-car...

Jumpy

ztoical wrote: »

Great fun driving up to Dublin couple of weeks ago....coming in on the N7, pretty busy but everyone is moving along grand. Was moving at bang on 100 on the inside lane when I came up to a pink [yes pink] Micra going at around 60 - could see inside the car and it looked like the inside of some teenage girls bedroom [all the pink playboy crap you see in argos] and two young ones sitting up front having a great old time, I keep seeing the driver take both hands off the wheel to a gesture to her friend. Debating wither to flash at them to move in when a big 4x4 comes bombing up behind me and starts flashing like crazy at me. I moved out of the way but the pink Micra stays where it is. 4x4 man goes nuts beeping and flashing at them. I end up over taking them due to them going so slow, 4x4 man moves in, overtakes them, moves into inside lane and takes off. I moved back into the inside lane to over take a truck in front of me and in the mirror I can see girls in pink car making faces at me [I'm also female, not much older then them and driving a much older green mirca thats full of rubbish] All of a sudden they speed up, move into the middle lane and try to overtake me.

Of course by now we've made it to Newlands cross and are stopped by traffic lights. They are one lane over and one car back from me and I can them pointing at my car. Lights change, I stay in lane as I'm going to the Lusa stop at the red cow. Pink Micra gets in lane behind me and drives right up on my arse. I move into the lane to get into the car park and the follow me. Now we're waiting for the lights to change to go into the car park, pink Micra is right behind me and sees they are in the queue for the park and ride where they don't want to be and start freaking out. Its pretty funny to watch them in the mirror. They try to back up but there's another car behind them. They suddenly dart out back onto the road and nearly cause a major pile up, they were lucky it was a car with damn good breaks and not a bus or truck coming up behind them. I kinda wished they'd followed me into the car park so I could have stopped them and asked them WTF?

Heh, if that car was coming from Limerick up the N7 then I see it on the way home pretty much every day.

Not good to make a fool of yourself in such an obvious car.