Clever use of a roundabout

tin79

I was just walking back from the shops - crossing beside a roundabout. I had crossed one side and was on the island waiting to cross to the other.

A car came round the roundabout. Passed the first exit and then braked suddenly and stopped.

I couldn't believe it when they went to reverse back as it seemed they wanted to take the first exit but missed it! The whole point of a roundabout seemed lost on them.

As they had started to reverse a car came from behind them and beeped so they had to stop.

What they did next was even worse. They went to just past the traffic island and went up the wrong side on it on the RHS of the road and then veered back into the lane they originally wanted to take!

Seriously how stupid are some people!!

There was a couple on their 60s (I would guess) with the woman driving and the man waiving furiously. Funny and infuriating at the same time.

Nissan micra BTW to keep the clichés going.

See any similar idiocy lately?

tcawley29

Was nearly in a crash recently when I went to overtake an elderly man driving a 99 Landrover. Just as I was beside him he steered sharply right nearly hitting the left of my car if I hadn't swerved into someones driveway. Done well to keep control of that.
I'm not slating all elderly people on this, however this man clearly shouldn't have passed his medical test when his driving licence was last up for renewal.
/rant

Bpmull

tin79 wrote: »

See any similar idiocy lately?

I was driving up the motorway from cork on the way back to Kilkenny a few weeks ago. Really heavy rain. But as I approached the toll bridge there was a micra reversing up the motorway in the overtaking lane. I was absolutely shocked. He was even a good few hundredth metres away from the toll station and he was still reversing away :eek: and to top it off he had no lights on in heavy rain. I was genuinely shocked when I drove passed him slowly going opposite ways on the same side of the motorway. It was a man about 60-70.

tin79

Bpmull wrote: »

I was driving up the motorway from cork on the way back to Kilkenny a few weeks ago. Really heavy rain. But as I approached the toll bridge there was a micra reversing up the motorway in the overtaking lane. I was absolutely shocked. He was even a good few hundredth metres away from the toll station and he was still reversing away :eek: and to top it off he had no lights on in heavy rain. I was genuinely shocked when I drove passed him slowly going opposite ways on the same side of the motorway. It was a man about 60-70.

Shocking. What is it about micras that attracts the crazies?

seanaway

Entering a roundabout in Waterford a while ago. Car in front slowed, indicated left and proceeded to go all the way around to the third exit when she indicated right!
Unreal.

S28382

M9 outside Kilkenny is a favourite place for the old peeps to be driving down the wrong side of the off ramp onto the motorway. A fair few folks dont really seem to know what they are doing when they get in a car and how dangerous their stupidity can be.

tayto lover

Were they Green Micras?
I find the Green ones very dangerous.

tin79

seanaway wrote: »

Entering a roundabout in Waterford a while ago. Car in front slowed, indicated left and proceeded to go all the way around to the third exit when she indicated right!
Unreal.

Saw the exact same thing today. 04 D silver Merc estate in Northwood Santry heading into McDonalds in Gullivers retail park... you know who you are!

tin79

tayto lover wrote: »

Were they Green Micras?
I find the Green ones very dangerous.

No. 50:50 silver and rust in this case.

daithi1970

when I started driving first, a friend of mine advised me to always ignore peoples indicators and react solely on the basis of what they actually do..wise words indeed..

daithi

seagull

I was told when learning to drive that the only assumption you can make if someone has their indicator on is that it works.

Muckie

Remember a coming to a round about one foggy morning.

Coming thru the mist towards me, the wrong was a battered people carrier.

One of thoses "oh god moments", so shocked i didn't even beep.

The son of a b*tch probably didn't even know what they had done wrong.

These people carry their, many kids and family members around each and ever day...frightening.

Lofty123

Driving to Cork last week, when I drove onto the Dunkettle interchange/roundabout, guy in the lane beside me (city exit) in a white Transit had obviously missed his exit to the tunnel and proceeded to REVERSE back into traffic to try and take the tunnel exit. Much blowing of horns and screeching tires ensued. Didn't see the outcome as the lights changed and i had to move on.:mad:
One of the busiest interchanges in the country, hopefully he was caught on camera!

alias no.9

Approaching the Kingswood interchange onto the N7 from Grangecastle on monday evening, both lanes had a few cars in convoy from the when the lights back at the Nangor road had turned green. I was in the left hand lane behind a van and there were a few vans/cars in the right hand lane. When a car already on the roundabout had passed, the van in front of me proceeded to plough right around the roundabout to the third exit, 3 o'Clock on the clockface, cutting through a line of traffic going from the right hand lane through to the second and third exits.

jimgoose

My personal "favourite" is Roundabout Girl. You get the bright-orange young wan in some little ****box cage (freshly-minted full license of course, so she knows everything) sailing magnificently on to the roundabout in spite of the fact that she is looking directly at you already one-third of the way around the bloody thing. Her facial expression usually says "what are you doing there in my way?!?". These episodes make me long for a D9 bulldozer.

Joe 90

jimgoose wrote: »

My personal "favourite" is Roundabout Girl. You get the bright-orange young wan in some little ****box cage (freshly-minted full license of course, so she knows everything) sailing magnificently on to the roundabout in spite of the fact that she is looking directly at you already one-third of the way around the bloody thing. Her facial expression usually says "what are you doing there in my way?!?". These episodes make me long for a D9 bulldozer.

Dunno about the D9, you might have problems driving on the roads these days but manys the time I've felt the urge to get myself an old Land Rover with a bit of an RSJ for a front bumper. By Land Rover I mean Land Rover, not a Range Rover with a badge.:D

Joe 90

tin79 wrote: »

Shocking. What is it about micras that attracts the crazies?

Not just Micras in Ireland either. Just as bad here just to the East of London. Almeras pretty bad too and 1 series BMs with little diesel engines. They seem to be in favor with young Asian wimmen wearing veils these days.

Foxhole Norman

I was waiting to pull onto a round about when some wan decided it would be great if she stopped to let someone onto the roundabout on a different exit. How some people get their licenses astounds me.

Caliden

Joe 90 wrote: »

Dunno about the D9, you might have problems driving on the roads these days but manys the time I've felt the urge to get myself an old Land Rover with a bit of an RSJ for a front bumper. By Land Rover I mean Land Rover, not a Range Rover with a badge.:D

"Inside lane on the roundabout with the right indicator on?, they must be taking the exit!"

R.O.R

tayto lover wrote: »

Were they Green Micras?
I find the Green ones very dangerous.

Funny you should mention that. On the way home last night, a fewf k's from home, the line of traffic in front of me started braking fairly heavily. 80km/h limit and we end up doing 28 according to the Nav.

There is a plant machinery company off the road, and quite a few farms in the area, so when the big van in front started the overtake I was expecting either a big truck with a digger on, that was about to turn off, or some form of Tractor.

Nope - Green Micra.

Unfortunately, it was just approaching a bendy ish section without long enough sight lines to safely overtake, so ended up stuck behind the stupid old wan for about 1km doing between 25 - 28 km/h, with an ever increasing line of cars behind.

Thankfully she went the other way to me at the roundabout.

butbut

Yes yes all these stories make me a firm believer that the driving test should be a lot longer a lot harder and people should be made sit it regularly every, 3-5 years would be good. Unfortunately most Irish people think driving is a right not a privilege.

jimgoose

Joe 90 wrote: »

Dunno about the D9, you might have problems driving on the roads these days but manys the time I've felt the urge to get myself an old Land Rover with a bit of an RSJ for a front bumper. By Land Rover I mean Land Rover, not a Range Rover with a badge.:D

Aye. Mate of mine had a proper, Horrible Old land-Rover some years back. They're magnificent.

butbut wrote: »

Yes yes all these stories make me a firm believer that the driving test should be a lot longer a lot harder and people should be made sit it regularly every, 3-5 years would be good. Unfortunately most Irish people think driving is a right not a privilege.

From my cold dead hands. Signed, an ADI.

alias no.9

Joe 90 wrote: »

Dunno about the D9, you might have problems driving on the roads these days but manys the time I've felt the urge to get myself an old Land Rover with a bit of an RSJ for a front bumper. By Land Rover I mean Land Rover, not a Range Rover with a badge.:D

One of these in matt black

butbut

jimgoose wrote: »

From my cold dead hands. Signed, an ADI.

I tip my cap to you sir I would genuinely be too terrified to pursue that line of work. Could they not bring in a spatial intelligence test to right off the completely useless before they even begin to try. I had a recent situation driving down a narrow street behind another car with cars parked along it (obstruction was on our side) we had to pull in to allow an oncoming car pass. There was room and more to spare for two cars to pull in but the old chap decided to simply turn in at the most bizzare angle preventing me from getting forcing me to reverse half way down the length of the street (in the time it had taken to negotiate the old rover 75 into the rather large area a line of traffic had built up behind the oncoming car meaning there was nothing they could do) What stood out for me was that once he had pulled in he was waving the other car to pass, he was completely oblivious to the fact I was behind him. Its afternoon in the city centre there is almost always a car behind you!!

Pique

seanaway wrote: »

Entering a roundabout in Waterford a while ago. Car in front slowed, indicated left and proceeded to go all the way around to the third exit when she indicated right!
Unreal.

But you're supposed to keep indicating until...ohhh.

That's messed up. Shouldn't the thing auto-cancel? Maybe there was a wiring problem?

Doom

I nearly rear ended a car when they stopped on a dual carriageway to let some fella out of a petrol station.
Another one I was on my motorbike coming out of a roundabout only to meet a campervan my lane coming straight at me.....:eek:

tayto lover

R.O.R wrote: »

Funny you should mention that. On the way home last night, a fewf k's from home, the line of traffic in front of me started braking fairly heavily. 80km/h limit and we end up doing 28 according to the Nav.

There is a plant machinery company off the road, and quite a few farms in the area, so when the big van in front started the overtake I was expecting either a big truck with a digger on, that was about to turn off, or some form of Tractor.

Nope - Green Micra.

Unfortunately, it was just approaching a bendy ish section without long enough sight lines to safely overtake, so ended up stuck behind the stupid old wan for about 1km doing between 25 - 28 km/h, with an ever increasing line of cars behind.

Thankfully she went the other way to me at the roundabout.

I've had several near things with auld wans in little fridge-magnet Green Micras. Scary things those Green Micras. I stay well clear of them now.

Conmaicne Mara

Galway, on the Headford road just passed the Woodies (etc) exit, I'm in the left lane, planning on taking the second exit. All I can remember of the other car was it was green with a girl driving, something like a Punto I think.

So everything is grand pass first exit, indicate, next thing little green car is veering over into me, not my lane, but me, would have bet the farm on her hitting me. Car behind me, car in front, peds on the footpath so all I can do is lean on the horn, because I've no place to go. I've a hard time convincing myself some days that the next bit happened, but it did.

She veers off away to the right as we exit the roundabout onto the road there the far side of Dunnes Stores heading for the Menlo roundabout (can't remember right name of it). There she is, sat sideways in her seat looking back at me while her car heads for the high footpath/lane divider. Bang, mounts footpath, thump, down into far lane of oncoming traffic :eek:

So what does she do? Bang, back up onto footpath, thump down into her original lane, then veers across into my lane ahead of me (slowing the hell down to put distance between me and crazy lady). To put icing on the cake she then runs the red light and zooms off through the next roundabout.

I had my fiancees son in the back seat. He's been glued to events and leans forward "Con, is she supposed to do that?"............ Me shaking head slowly, picking jaw up off steering wheel,"Erm, no"

tcawley29

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Galway, on the Headford road just passed the Woodies (etc) exit, I'm in the left lane, planning on taking the second exit. All I can remember of the other car was it was green with a girl driving, something like a Punto I think.

So everything is grand pass first exit, indicate, next thing little green car is veering over into me, not my lane, but me, would have bet the farm on her hitting me. Car behind me, car in front, peds on the footpath so all I can do is lean on the horn, because I've no place to go. I've a hard time convincing myself some days that the next bit happened, but it did.

She veers off away to the right as we exit the roundabout onto the road there the far side of Dunnes Stores heading for the Menlo roundabout (can't remember right name of it). There she is, sat sideways in her seat looking back at me while her car heads for the high footpath/lane divider. Bang, mounts footpath, thump, down into far lane of oncoming traffic :eek:

So what does she do? Bang, back up onto footpath, thump down into her original lane, then veers across into my lane ahead of me (slowing the hell down to put distance between me and crazy lady). To put icing on the cake she then runs the red light and zooms off through the next roundabout.

I had my fiancees son in the back seat. He's been glued to events and leans forward "Con, is she supposed to do that?"............ Me shaking head slowly, picking jaw up off steering wheel,"Erm, no"

Must have been doing her makeup :pac:

Conmaicne Mara

tcawley29 wrote: »

Must have been doing her makeup :pac:

I'd say she was just after doing shots the way she was going.

dbrunson

Was heading to Cork from Galway running late for a wedding doing around Ninety on the motorway, the missus gets a call on the mobile and its the bride, thinking something is wrong i look over at my wife, i then see the car beside me braking sharply, so i look forward and there is an Opel Corsa coming towards me ( on the wrong side of the motorway ) i swerve into the inside lane ( thanks to the s80 on the inside lane having jammed on his brakes i could) and the driver of the corsa continued on her merry way, all be it with a massive **** in her pants, she was miles from any exit so had travelled at least 6 mile up the wrong side of a motorway . Only for the quick reaction of the driver beside me we would have been toast, thanks bro