Bad Drivers

Volvoboy

this is soooo gonna sound like a taxi driver bitch fest.. ..anywho

Somthing i've noticed in the last few years of driving a taxi, that some people are so oblivious to the ways of driving a car that they really shouldnt be allowed to look over a wall of a car park.

I've no real hatrid for anyone type of driver young, old, boyracer, bmw driver.

They all have been known to do stupid things, thankfully i dont come into contact with them all to often when i'm working as i'm a nite driver.

But driving in the daytime on messages i would get spouts of road rage :mad:

Not saying that i'm innocent i've been known no to use a indicator one more than one ocasion :eek:

What i'm really trying to get across is i hate all other road users equally


/rant

Cookie_Monster

Everyone on the road but me is a moron!

/Thread

:D:D

captainosull

Given the inate, lack of intelligence within the Irish population, Im amazed there arnt thousands killed on the roads every day.

gofaster_s13

And Taxi drivers are all brilliant drivers and arent at all prone to making up their own rules of the road:rolleyes:

Bluefoam

My turn to rant:

Taxi drivers should not be allowed out of the bus lanes where one is provided - I'm sick of buses and taxi clogging up the road and causing mayhem by playing their childish overtaking games - even though they have their own purpose built superhighway!!!!

BTW, are taxi drivers supposed to use the bus lane when they have no passengers? I thought this was against the law?!?

Volvoboy

Bluefoam wrote: »

My turn to rant:

Taxi drivers should not be allowed out of the bus lanes where one is provided - I'm sick of buses and taxi clogging up the road and causing mayhem by playing their childish overtaking games - even though they have their own purpose built superhighway!!!!

BTW, are taxi drivers supposed to use the bus lane when they have no passengers? I thought this was against the law?!?

Only if your prebooked you can drive in the buslanes without somone, of course when ever im in a bus lane i have a passanger or i'm prebooked.

Voodoomelon

I saw the best one ever today about 30 minutes ago.

Coming down the pictured street in Dundalk by the Tax Offices from left to right, down to the lights at the blue square. There was a Micra in the middle of the road (red square) hogging both lanes and me sitting behind it in the right lane.

The lights were turning orange and we were still a good 100 metres from them. All of a sudden a Passat CC comes tearing down the narrow road at about 50kmph, with two wheels up on the path and two of them on the road, squeezing past the Micra and the other cars infront. All the way down the path he flew and through the lights, leaving a cloud of dust behind him.
Absolute MADNESS. Is there really anything that justifies getting home 2 minutes earlier?

adrian522

Was driving down through Rathmines just now. Theres a traffic lights there opp. the swan centre, where the right lane is for turning right up by the swan centre towards Ranelagh. The left lane for going down into rathmines.

The green filter is on and i'm waiting in the left lane front of the queue. This taxi driver comes flying down the right hand lane (overtaking everyone) just as the filter goes off and the full green comes on, then swerves into the left lane and proceeds to carry on straight ahead. Gives me a huge dirty look for beeping him out of it, I mean seriously wtf?? People like that shouldn't be on the roads.....

Yakult

Just a few days ago I came over a hill and shock shock horror horror a women coming against me on my side of the road on the mobile phone... :eek:
That was a day after seeing the english ad where the girl is texting and veers to the wrong side. The fact that she didnt even cop it for a few seconds, i came within metres of a head on collision while trying to slow from 60.. :mad:

She was lucky I didnt crash into her, gave her a heartfull gesture

Wish I got her reg to report her.

stealthyspeeder

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Everyone on the road but me is a moron!

/Thread

:D:D

I agree!
This clip is funny but 4-5 mins in nails it perfectly!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxxXXxuCNq0

Gary ITR

Volvoboy wrote: »

Only if your prebooked you can drive in the buslanes without somone, of course when ever im in a bus lane i have a passanger or i'm prebooked.

What gets my goat is this, seems to always happen on James' St and Thomas St., is the taxing driver driving half in one lane and half in the other while creeping along looking for a fare. I was in a taxi a while back stuck behind one of these morons and the friver told me they do it to stop other taxis getting ahead and nicking a fare. I mean come on

Another to watch out for is repmobiles. I think any company car I didn't get brand new had been crashed before I got it.
Reps drive along filling out order forms, on the phone or checking their journey plan to see where to go to next. I know I was a rep for long enough

masseyno9

Saw a ridiculous piece of motorway driving the other day. Not the usual stuff but....

Driving along the M50 northbound on monday, and saw a foreign reg'd car (possibly czech) in middle lane, with hazard lights on, travelling at ~70km/h. Note this was in the 100km/h part, not the 60 zone. There wasn't a sinner in the inside lane! Only on catching up closer I saw what was happening. He was being towed!! I noticed the towing car was a left hand drive too, although had been correctly registered. Another thing I noticed was that the towing was being done using a rope. This is now not allowed AFAIK.

I thought this was ridiculous and considered ringing trafficwatch but I didn't have the number, and by the time I could have stopped, phoned directory inquiries, and rang and described the incident, they probably would have left the motorway anyway.

PS: The fact that the drivers were, in all likelihood, foreign is irrelevant IMHO, but just something i noticed.

The Big Red Button

Today I was driving down a 2-lane one way street. A battered old jeep pulled out of a side street straight in front of me, he didn't stop at all to check for traffic on my road! I had no choice but to swerve into the other lane to avoid him, luckily there wasn't a car there at the time.

Because I wasn't driving too fast at the time, I doubt there'd have been any injuries involved anyways, but my car wouldn't have been in great condition after it.

But guess what? There was a Garda car driving right behind me at the time, and I saw them pulling him in and going over to him as I drove off!

Almost every time I'm driving, I see one or two examples of really bad, dangerous drivers. I have to admit it was good to see someone getting caught for once That sounds mean and horrible, but he honestly was completely in the wrong and if I'd been driving faster things might have been a whole lot worse!

ardmacha

I was waiting for the LUAS as Stephen's green in Dublin on Sunday night. A car came from the Green/Harcourt St junction, along the LUAS tracks over the footpath at the end of the LUAS tracks and seemingly proceeded along Stephen's Green North towards Kildare St (this bit is two way). This was all done at a sedate pace, as if this was normal.

micko2009

gofaster_s13 wrote: »

And Taxi drivers are all brilliant drivers and arent at all prone to making up their own rules of the road:rolleyes:

+1

I drive every day in the city and Taxis drivers are without doubt the worst offenders. The list of bad driving errors is endless, my rage is getting higher thinking about them! :mad:

Damien360

Volvoboy wrote: »

this is soooo gonna sound like a taxi driver bitch fest.. ..anywho

Somthing i've noticed in the last few years of driving a taxi, that some people are so oblivious to the ways of driving a car that they really shouldnt be allowed to look over a wall of a car park.

I've no real hatrid for anyone type of driver young, old, boyracer, bmw driver.

They all have been known to do stupid things, thankfully i dont come into contact with them all to often when i'm working as i'm a nite driver.

But driving in the daytime on messages i would get spouts of road rage :mad:

Not saying that i'm innocent i've been known no to use a indicator one more than one ocasion :eek:

What i'm really trying to get across is i hate all other road users equally


/rant

As you are a Dublin taxi driver, I am sure you are prone to the classic all along the quays that all taxi drivers think is a right. Tear down a bus lane with standstill traffic on 2 lanes to your right. Then approaching a right turn (across the other side of the road), stick on the indicator and try squeezing through 2 stationary lanes to your turn. No wait, not that one, it looks a bit choc a block and then try cross back over to repeat move at next right turn. Bet you were looking for credit for using an indicator.

Rant over

Seth Brundle

feckin BMW drivers!

actually, feckin foreigners driving BMW taxis!

whacker30

micko2009 wrote: »

+1

I drive every day in the city and Taxis drivers are without doubt the worst offenders. The list of bad driving errors is endless, my rage is getting higher thinking about them! :mad:

with you on that one, i think that taxi drivers in fact think they own the road and us peasants (everyone else but taxi drivers) are just there to annoy and anger. Maybe we should start paying our road tax to the taxi regulator or drivers themselves.....

EPM

OK, this is a taxi driver complaint but others are as guilty it's just taxi drivers do it more often as it's the nature of the work and all that.

Driving behind a taxi and all of a sudden the hazards come on and it stops in the moddle of the road to let passengers out. Then they have to pay, spend 2 minutes looking for change in their handbag, then they have to get change from the driver. Then she has to get the shopping out of the boot, can't figure out how to open the boot, driver has to get out to open the fcukin boot and then finally after about 3 minutes he gets back in and moves on.

In the meantime there's 30 cars behind him seriously screwing up the next 5 turns of the traffic lights up ahead and making a lot of people late while he goes along his merry way as he's first to the lights. In fairness, I know it's nice to be dropped off to your door but if it's not a place you can stop, drive on until you can pull in. Fecktards:mad:

patrickc

I remember back in the days of the toll bridge, coming up to the express lane where ya threw your money into the basket and on you went, anyhow this old lady in front gets out, opens her boot takes out her hand bag and went rummaging through it, FFS like

GTE

I was in Clare a week or two ago on a winding country road. It wasn't a particularly wide road, it had tall stone walls either side and I got to a right hand turn where due to the walls I couldnt really see 100 meters ahead of me so I took it easy, this was just after a left hand turn of a similar type.

Id say that sounds normal?
Well, just before I get to this turn a truck barrels up behind me and passes me out on the turn. He then cut infront of me and I had to slam on the brakes (I keep typing breaks ) to avoid being smashed into this stone wall. Im utterly scared by it since Im only 3 weeks driving at the time so I back off but I expressed my . . . disapproval with the horn.

Then the road straightened out and there was another truck on front of this madman and he was taking it easy as he should on the narrow road. This insane driver accellerates (I could see the black smoke out of the exhaust and he tried to over take this guy approacing another turn. He must have seen another car coming because he did hard lock back into his lane, I thought he was going to jack knife or something bad because of it.

How stupid and oblivious to your surroundings must you be to be such a dick and do something like that on those kind of roads, any roads.

bigar

Bus lanes should be mandatory i.e. if there is one, busses and taxis are not allowed on the general lane in any case except if the bus lane is blocked or if they need to make a turn. A bus stopping at a halt is not blocking, so taxis and busses need to wait behind.

This will benefit the general lane greatly.

Driving to Dunshaugling I am often stuck behind a bus doing 50 (or lower) in the general lane where you can go faster. The bus lane just remains empty.

prodriver.eu

Sorry, there are no bad drivers out there, just none prober educated and trained.

Approx +- 50% of professional drivers of Bus, Coach, Truck, Taxi or Van and private driver would be +80%.

It is time to stop this and asked the RSA to get this right.

scooby man

i dont even know where to start.. araaaarrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhh i hate people with slow reactions (traffic lights,indicating,turning off

Omcd

bigar wrote: »

Bus lanes should be mandatory i.e. if there is one, busses and taxis are not allowed on the general lane in any case except if the bus lane is blocked or if they need to make a turn. A bus stopping at a halt is not blocking, so taxis and busses need to wait behind.

This will benefit the general lane greatly.

Driving to Dunshaugling I am often stuck behind a bus doing 50 (or lower) in the general lane where you can go faster. The bus lane just remains empty.

Didn't you know - that's not a buslane, it's an undertaking lane for impatient idiots, the ones who fortunately havn't the nerve to go the other side whilst playing chicken with on coming traffic and blind bends to make a car length or two in the endless stream of traffic :rolleyes:

markpb

bigar wrote: »

Driving to Dunshaughlin I am often stuck behind a bus doing 50 (or lower) in the general lane where you can go faster. The bus lane just remains empty.

The reason most bus driver move out of the bus lane early is because cars, in a desperate effort to stop the bus getting in front of them at the end of the bus lane, will accelerate wildly from several hundred meters behind or sit in the yellow box. I've seen more than a few close calls where people cut off the bus as it's pulling out. A few stupid, selfish idiots cause bus drivers to drive the way they do.

CreepingDeath

Taxi drivers are the worse drivers on the road, full stop.
They're basically aggressive and force their way through traffic as if they're part of the emergency services.... it's a bloody taxi sign not blue flashing lights.

The best location to see taxi scumbaggery is Westbound up the Dublin quays on the way to Heuston Station.
A couple of traffic lights after the Civic offices there's a left hand turn only lane which taxis regularly use to plough straight ahead cutting up other drivers who were in the proper lane to go straight ahead.

scooby man

women drivers [sake]

Cookie_Monster

prodriver.eu wrote: »

Sorry, there are no bad drivers out there, just none prober educated and trained.

Approx +- 50% of professional drivers of Bus, Coach, Truck, Taxi or Van and private driver would be +80%.

It is time to stop this and asked the RSA to get this right.

What?

Private drivers 80% what?

You make no sense :mad:

Volvoboy

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Taxi drivers are the worse drivers on the road, full stop.
They're basically aggressive and force their way through traffic as if they're part of the emergency services.... it's a bloody taxi sign not blue flashing lights.

The best location to see taxi scumbaggery is Westbound up the Dublin quays on the way to Heuston Station.
A couple of traffic lights after the Civic offices there's a left hand turn only lane which taxis regularly use to plough straight ahead cutting up other drivers who were in the proper lane to go straight ahead.

Pfft you know nothing of my work!

Cappo

Don’t usually post about “near misses” “bad driving” but this one takes the piss!

Sunny day that was yesterday I decided to head North to some of the great driving roads near Kilkeel in Co. Down. Heading out on the M1 after Dublin Airport I am passing a line of trucks at about 120kph and I spot a people carrier hogging the overtaking lane at about 100kph – I hang back a bit – (4-5 car lengths) and as we cross the Malahide estuary - he hits the brakes, jams on, slows to about 50, sticks his mobile out the window and proceeds to take pictures of the collapsed rail track on the other side of the motorway!! I was really lucky there was a tiny gap between the trucks and that the Cappuccino was nimble enough able to zip in and handle it. I shudder to think what would have happened if it had been wet. Didn't even have time to use the horn. Stupid *******! Oh and yes - the back of the car was full of kids taking pictures too!

After calming down, cleaning my underwear I had a great day – some lovely roads up there

GTE

Cappo wrote: »

he hits the brakes, jams on, slows to about 50, sticks his mobile out the window and proceeds to take pictures of the collapsed rail track on the other side of the motorway!!

Insanity! Glad you had fun on the roads though!

Omcd

markpb wrote: »

The reason most bus driver move out of the bus lane early is because cars, in a desperate effort to stop the bus getting in front of them at the end of the bus lane, will accelerate wildly from several hundred meters behind or sit in the yellow box. I've seen more than a few close calls where people cut off the bus as it's pulling out. A few stupid, selfish idiots cause bus drivers to drive the way they do.

Part of the problem there is the yellow box is way too long for the general Irish drivers lack of respect for road rules. If you wait for it to be clear before crossing it, you are likely to get driven around as the traffic behind just sees acres of space opening up in front of a 'hesitant' driver, not to mention all the traffic coming down the bus lane that shouldn't be, so the box will never be clear. Cutting off a bus though is totally inexcusable.

colsers22

I know this one comes up a lot, but people driving in the overtaking lane on the motorway is driving me nuts! I'm up and down to Galway a bit on the M6, last weekend some silly cow drove the whole way from Enfield to Ballinasloe in the overtaking lane. The only time she moved in was when she met road works. This is so dangerous and moronic. Why do people do this?
The Government need to launch some sort of TV campaign to educate people on the rules of motorways.

BlackWizard

I was so impressed with all the drivers on the M6 on my journey back from Galyway a few months ago. I was saying to my passenger when I got to the M50 how courteous they all were. They moved right out of the overtaking lane when I approached them. Even from distance!

So I went to turn on my lights.. I had the full beams on for the full journey

I really dislike people who drive with full beams or anything like that.

moogles198

I drive north along the R132 every evening towards Swords. At the airport there's a bus lane leading to the Airport roundabout and every single evening cars abuse the bus lane. A lot of the time it's people heading for the M1 and using the bus lane to skip the queue which is usually around ten minutes. They then force their way around the roundabout in the wrong lane effectively making a right turn from a left lane and even though I'm going straight through the roundabout I've been forced back around by cars cutting in front of me. I can't use the left lane at the roundabout as the cars abusing the bus lane are then blocking that part of the road. This happens every day and several paople I work with have experienced it too. I reporterd the last guy who did it to me as when I sounded my car horn he stuck his fingers out the window at me as if I was in the wrong. If he hadn't done that I'd probably have done nothing as usual, but he really peed me off. The Gardai gave him a verbal caution. I'd urge everyone to use the traffic watch number 1 890 205 805 - I've only used it twice in five years as there's always the danger of being seen as a crank - but in both cases my complaint was followed up.;)

chiefwiggum

met a woman reversing up the slip road of the motorway at kildare village outlet center today and she thought a polite wave made it ok to do it!!!!!!!!!

BlackWizard

I can't get over the amount of people driving in the construction lane on the M50. It's always women too. Then it's even more strange when they try to come back onto the M50, which is usually where the slip road onto the M1 or some other exit is. Causes a massive tail back.

squod

Volvoboy wrote: »

this is soooo gonna sound like a taxi driver bitch fest.. ..anywho

Somthing i've noticed in the last few years of driving a taxi, that some people are so oblivious to the ways of driving a car that they really shouldnt be allowed to look over a wall of a car park.

I've no real hatrid for anyone type of driver young, old, boyracer, bmw driver.

They all have been known to do stupid things, thankfully i dont come into contact with them all to often when i'm working as i'm a nite driver.

But driving in the daytime on messages i would get spouts of road rage :mad:

Not saying that i'm innocent i've been known no to use a indicator one more than one ocasion :eek:

What i'm really trying to get across is i hate all other road users equally


/rant

I hate you too.:P

Stark

chiefwiggum wrote: »

met a woman reversing up the slip road of the motorway at kildare village outlet center today and she thought a polite wave made it ok to do it!!!!!!!!!

Probably realised that despite what the radio ads said, it wasn't taking her to Donegal.

ergonomics

I've noticed two things happening a lot in Limerick recently.

The first it approaching a roundabout in the right hand late and turning left, or in the left hand lane and turning right. It is so dangerous and I don't know how anyone can justify it.

The second is more of an annoyance than a danger. Behind a car approaching traffic lights. The lights are either green already or have just turned green as the car approachs. There is nothing ahead, but the first car in line still feels it necessarily to come to a complete stop to check that the lights are still green before carrying on. How green does a light have to be for you to go through it?

sogood

prodriver.eu wrote: »

Sorry, there are no bad drivers out there, just none prober educated and trained.

Approx +- 50% of professional drivers of Bus, Coach, Truck, Taxi or Van and private driver would be +80%.

It is time to stop this and asked the RSA to get this right.

As a coach driver,I had to attend a one day course last week, as part of a five year course, at one day per year ( yes, you're reading that right!) set up by the RSA. The end result of it will be achieving a CPC, certificate of professional competency.It is obligatory, as I can be stopped by a guard and asked for proof (receipt) of the fact that I have done this years module, and in 5 years time, an employer who uses a driver without a CPC will be liable to a fine of 5,000 euro, with the driver being liable for 1,500.It was a total waste of time and cost me 70 euro. One of the interesting statistics thrown up was that the drivers with the highest accident rate and fatalities are the male car drivers between the ages of 19 and 24. The drivers with the lowest rate, being right at the bottom of the table, are Coach drivers. So why drag US into this fiasco of an exercise and not the aforementioned young males? I have been driving coaches, accident free for 30 years, and have avoided/prevented countless accidents, just through common sense and awareness. I'm not blowing my trumpet here, just stating facts. Another example of the RSA being so totally out of touch with the reality that exists on our roads and embarking on a soft touch money making racket. If it hadnt been obligatory, you can be sure I wouldn't have attended. Sorry about the length of this post, but it could have been longer!