Bank Holiday Driving

bandit197

The bank holidays seem to bring out some crazy behaviour on our roads..

Was travelling on a National road today following another car doing 95 - 100kph. This car and caravan appeared behind us and he sat on my bumper for a bit before making a few attempts to overtake.

No hard shoulder so I couldn't let him off but I backed off a bit to give him plenty of room. He went out a few times but had to go back in due to approaching traffic.

Wife or partner in the front with him and a back seat full of kids. Madness really.

I overtook the car in front and didn't see them after that. I didn't want to hang around there.

I hope they got wherever they were going safely. Anyone who ever got a fit of the 'sways' when towing something will know what I mean.

Mc Love

Overtaking with a caravan - dangerous!

CiniO

Mc Love wrote: »

Overtaking with a caravan - dangerous!

Overtaking with a caravan - not necessarily dangerous.
Overtaking with a caravan at 100km/h - dangerous.

bladebrew

agreed everyone appears to go a bit mental on bank holiday weekends,
i saw plenty of tailgating and speeding, and one guy in douglas (cork) with a few kids in the car turning, no indicator while on the phone:mad:
as long as he wasnt smoking i suppose:)

isnt the speed limit with a caravan 80km/h?

Compton

bladebrew wrote: »

agreed everyone appears to go a bit mental on bank holiday weekends,
i saw plenty of tailgating and speeding, and one guy in douglas (cork) with a few kids in the car turning, no indicator while on the phone:mad:
as long as he wasnt smoking i suppose:)

isnt the speed limit with a caravan 80km/h?

I think there is an 80km/h limit if you're towing, but it goes ignored by many.. just like a lot of other limits..

JMSE

I often muse that its not the driver behind you that is the problem, its the driver behind them. Drivers give in to pressure from behind and find themselves taking chances just to stay ahead of the posse behind who are on their heels

bandit197

JMSE wrote: »

I often muse that its not the driver behind you that is the problem, its the driver behind them. Drivers give in to pressure from behind and find themselves taking chances just to stay ahead of the posse behind who are on their heels

Agreed.

But in the time I seen him there was nobody behind him . In a way I guess I gave in to the pressure of him sitting on my bumper but I had two options.

A: Stay where I was and watch him eventually overtake me and my passengers and most probably the car in front and spend the next few miles looking out for an overturned car and caravan

or B: Bugger off when it was safe to do so.

I took option B

Buford T Justice

CiniO wrote: »

Overtaking with a caravan - not necessarily dangerous.
Overtaking with a caravan at 100km/h - dangerous.

Correction, driving with a caravan at 100km/h is dangerous. And fwiw, it doesn't need to be a bank holiday weekend for the wally's to be out. I see some batshit crazy stuff nearly ever weekend.

bandit197

Buford T Justice wrote: »

And fwiw, it doesn't need to be a bank holiday weekend for the wally's to be out. I see some batshit crazy stuff nearly ever weekend.

Yeah, true. And the standard is not improving.

Mc Love

On the subject of towing - on the way to work this evening and 4x4 in front of me towing a trailer with the lights on it and reg except that the lights dont work!

corktina

how many times did you see a car indicate left with the trailer indicating right?:rolleyes: