Worst driving examples

Bruthal

Whats the worst examples of driving you have seen on the roads?

One of the worst i seen was a few years ago where someone was reversing slowly because they had missed their right turn on a 60mph road and i nearly ran into them as it was on a bend.

Any others?

Stheno

Driving south on the northbound M7 @ 120 kph (approx)

Reversing up the hard shoulder of J10 on the M7 as they'd missed the slip road (saw that a fair few times to be honest, something with that particular junction!)

Hogzy

Not one of these threads again

Stealthirl

the 3 f##ktards on the M4 last night who ziped by me in the overtakeing lane doin 120+ [est] ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD IN THE FOG :eek: @ 2am

the road was closed est bound from maynooth to celbridge west exit

x in the city

cant see this lasting much longer...:pac:

Bruthal

x in the city wrote: »

cant see this lasting much longer...:pac:

No not with all our great drivers

Mr.Boots

Saw a traveler trying to punch his missus in the face a few times while doing 60/70 kph and driving up my arse on the bad bends on the N11 at the tap.
Was funny enough to watch in the mirror realy.
She was reay good a ducking and diving...plent ofpractice i guess.

Bruthal

Mr.Boots wrote: »

Saw a traveler trying to punch his missus in the face a few times while doing 60/70 kph and driving up my arse on the bad bends on the N11 at the tap.
Was funny enough to watch in the mirror realy.
She was reay good a ducking and diving...plent ofpractice i guess.

She probably battered him once they got home.

Bruthal

Hogzy wrote: »

Not one of these threads again

Not another lettin on mod:eek:

Bruthal

Anyway lock it up if its been done too much before. I have not looked at the motors forum that much.

spank_inferno

N11 southbound at the Ashford Exit flyover.

A woman (quelle surprise!) stationary on the hard shoulder.
Her idea of merging onto the motorway was to pull from being stationary 90 degrees right into the driving lane.

I wasn't driving fast so an emergency lane change averted disaster.
Had it been busier and this not possible I would have been a goner!

Bruthal

spank_inferno wrote: »

N11 southbound at the Ashford Exit flyover.

A woman (quelle surprise!) stationary on the hard shoulder.
Her idea of merging onto the motorway was to pull from being stationary 90 degrees right into the driving lane.

I wasn't driving fast so an emergency lane change averted disaster.
Had it been busier and this not possible I would have been a goner!

You would have to ask what is going on in a drivers mind that does that, it seems the most simple item to work out what should be done there to merge in, regardless of whether they think there is cars approaching or not. People get into cars and the thinking process switches off. I seen it a few times that exact same thing.

Crasp

I was on my motorbike indicating to turn right onto a side road. I pulled up to the break in the solid white line (junction was on a left bend with excellent visibility) and waited for the oncoming traffic to pass. The car behind me used the space I had left (for cars going straight on) to drive around me and take the exit I was waiting for.

Bruthal

Another one 3 years ago, dense fog, and a fella behind me going mad to get past, eventually when i could i pulled in and let him by. He took off like a rocket, and a couple of miles later i see his car badly damaged and already a few people around his car, from hitting of all things a bull on the road, killed it stone dead.

v240gltse

thought i'd seen it all but early yesterday morning on M8 very dense fog and I notice this dark shape ahead of me which turned out to be some numpty in a 4x4 ( english reg) with NO LIGHTS at all on .

When I pulled into the over taking lane and drew his attention to him having NO LIGHTs he gave me the 2 fingers and then flashed me repeatedly when i passed him and then continued to drive with no light on.

thanks god i saw him in time otherwise i may not be writing this !!!

--Kaiser--

Overtook a girl on the dual carriageway (carefully as she seemed to be swaying around in the lane). I glanced in the window and she was on the phone, no big surprise there, except in her other hand she had a cup of coffee so she was steering with her elbows. I was so shocked I didn't think to report her reg

cython

spank_inferno wrote: »

N11 southbound at the Ashford Exit flyover.

A woman (quelle surprise!) stationary on the hard shoulder.
Her idea of merging onto the motorway was to pull from being stationary 90 degrees right into the driving lane.

I wasn't driving fast so an emergency lane change averted disaster.
Had it been busier and this not possible I would have been a goner!

Another one off the N11 southbound, cleaned up from the time I angrily posted it in Ranting and Raving:

I was in the overtaking lane of the carriageway, in a string of cars that was overtaking the inside lane, all fine and legal. Lo and behold, some idiot in a red Audi joins the road around Bray, and merges into lane 1, the driving lane. Now I don't know what it was that caused it, but from the moment he merged into that lane, I had a feeling I knew exactly what was going to happen next, and sure enough I would be proven right. No sooner has he straightened his car in lane 1, than he proceeds to move into lane 2, only indicating, and I can presume observing, when he has the manoeuvre half completed.

I will once again that I was part of a faster moving string of traffic in lane 2, which was overtaking lane 1, and maintaining a safe distance from the car in front of me when this clown decided to move out, at which point his rear bumper was only a few feet ahead of my front one. Needless to say that we suddenly had 3 cars occupying a length of road at a speed was only really sufficient for 2 cars, so I had to brake pretty harshly, and hope I didn't get rear-ended. When I flashed my lights and blew the horn, in the futile and unlikely hope that I would be pointing out a genuine mistake the driver had made and been unaware of, rather than being deliberately dangerous, he proceeded to flip me the bird, and brake further, probably hoping to scare me!

My sentiment towards this "driver" (as the word I would like to use is only likely to be censored!) remains as it was at the time, and I only hope when he ensures his inevitable candidacy for a Darwin award by crashing at high speed, it is into an inanimate object, rather than a person or occupied vehicle.

Cosmic Penguin

robbie7730 wrote: »

Whats the worst examples of driving you have seen on the roads?

One of the worst i seen was a few years ago where someone was reversing slowly because they had missed their right turn on a 60mph road and i nearly ran into them as it was on a bend.

Any others?

Did that happen anywhere near Straffan?

Viper_JB

I was driving on the M1 heading north, before meath and the toll booths etc. when the car in front of me slams on the breaks and comes to a complete stop in the middle of the motorway...well in the driving lane, the driver then proceeded to pull into the hard shoulder so that she could reverse down back to the last exit. I can only assume it was to skip the toll...some people are just mental behind the wheel, no concept of any sense of danger or consideration for anything else on the road.

KamiKazi

Had one f*cker in a boy racer sh1theap overtake me on a narrow road with about six inches between my leg and the side of his car.

Hopefully the price of a new wing mirror has made him cop on a bit

Bruthal

Cosmic Penguin wrote: »

Did that happen anywhere near Straffan?

No it was on the road from waterford to passage east i think it was.

Cosmic Penguin

robbie7730 wrote: »

No it was on the road from waterford to passage east i think it was.

I had the same thing happen me - Was behind a car going into a corner, when we met a clown reversing back for a missed turn - Took about 10 years off my life