more like young ****s on mobiles - nearly had a crash three times due to some young idiot being on his mobile and then cutting across in front of me at a roundabout without indicating. Oddly enough every single time they were driving Smarts. Very tempted to just get out and push it off the road out of my way.

more like young ****s on mobiles - nearly had a crash three times due to some young idiot being on his mobile and then cutting across in front of me at a roundabout without indicating. Oddly enough every single time they were driving Smarts. Very tempted to just get out and push it off the road out of my way.

Bit harsh against young drivers me thinks - there's loads of older drivers, who just dont look or even have a clue!

I'm a 27 year old self-employed person, and have had a clean licence from age 17, and have never had, apart from a cracked windscreen, an insurance claim. I cover around 20,000 miles a year in my car (+ what i drive in my wife's and hire cars) and have always had big cars (Learnt to drive in a Mondeo 1.8TD at age 17, 2.2 CRD Chrysler at age 19, 2.5 CRDi Sorento at age 23 and now the Superb at age 27)

I dont think you can stereotype a bad driver; they come in all shapes and sizes, ages and vehicles. - maybe if there was more prosecutions by police etc, and more, higher cost fines, it would have an impact... if it was possible to report those drivers on the phone, I feel i could do at least 10 per day!

Al.

I dont think you can stereotype a bad driver; they come in all shapes and sizes, ages and vehicles. - maybe if there was more prosecutions by police etc. ...

Those were the days, Al!

We're now in the second decade of the CPS being the ones who decide whether to prosecute and their criteria include "the prosecution is in the public interest." Bad driving cases are far from always successful (AKA "stone bonkers," as we used to say), so, if there's the slightest chance of a "Not guilty" plea, they'll mark it up as "NFA." Those that plead guilty don't get into the papers, or if they do, page 14, perhaps one column inch.

After a while of having good cases rejected as worthy of taking to Court, it's not surprising that some officers prefer to concentrate on thefts and assaults, rather than motoring offences, which - before the advent of the CPS - were bread and butter, especially probationary Constables.

Not that I'm biased at all - the CPS lost me a Guilty plea once!

Ray

Stolen from the motorcycle club website I also subscribe to, but sums it up for me

A day from the diary of a BMW driver...

The other day I was cruising along as usual coming onto one of my motorways,

which was very busy with inferior cars.

First off, I couldn't believe that the volume of traffic DIDN'T slow down for me AT ALL as I came off the slip road!

I had to squeeze into a barely big enough gap between two cars in order to get onto my motorway!

The driver of the car behind me did realise his mistake though and honked an apology to me with a long blast of his horn.

Unbelievably, I had to do the same again before I could get to the BMW lane.

Anyway, once I was in the BMW lane and posing along at 110 mph enjoying the adulation that the inferior car drivers were giving me,

I noticed an inferior car ahead of me which was not only in the BMW lane of my motorway, but was driving at a ridiculous 70 mph!

Naturally, I got within a foot or so of his rear bumper and flashed my headlights to remind him he shouldn't be in the BMW lane of my motorway and to get out of my way.

Of course, once he realised it was a BMW behind him, he did just that, but I could hardly believe it when he pulled straight back out behind me!

He also tried to keep up with me and when he realised I would out-run him, he put on some blue lights in his front grill and urged me to get onto the hard shoulder so that he could congratulate me on my excellent car.

Needless to say, I was eager to oblige and when we had stopped, the man gave me a piece of paper confirming what I already knew - that my car goes fast!

Apparently he wants everyone to know what a superior car I have, so I had to take my drivers licence to a police station to be sent away to have some points put on!

(They're not free points either - they're £20 each and I was only allowed 3.)

But the man at the police station said that because I drive a BMW, it won't be much longer before I earn the full 12 points, and then I won't even NEED a driving licence, so they will take it off me!

See, now THAT'S the sort of respect you get when you own and drive a BMW!

Not seen that before, very funny and sadly some of it rings true.

In real life the outside lane, well the M4 anyhow is the "German" car lane, BMW's, Audi's & Merc's, all belting along to some job that must be so much better than mine, that they are in such a hurry to get to work.

It's not only dodgy driving you need to watch out for...drving on a B-road near Stafford this afternoon a Black Labarador decided to jump into my path just before I was committed to a fast right hand bend! Luckily, I saw the dog before the apex and was able to brake and honk my horn. The dog ran off suitably chastened and avoiding any oncoming traffic.

Not indicating to change lanes seems to be getting more common.

When conditions allow I tend to travel at between 70 and 80mph on my commute to work up the A19 and regularly experience other drivers just randomly drifting out into lane two.

It's not normally a problem as they've as much right to be there as I have but indicating first would give me a few more seconds to lift off the accelerator and reduce my speed without having to brake.

Whether they just don't look (or care) or are unable to judge my speed I don't know. They often indicate to pull back in after seeing that I approached them much quicker than they expected but it's a little late by this point.

On my old car I was able to pull past and give a quick left, right, left, right, left flash of the indicators but on my Octavia I have the 'three flash' set up which just makes it look as though I've gone mad!

Now why do you suppose this would happen?Jealousy? Possibly. Incompetant driver who felt the need to be offensive to other road users and would likely have reacted the same whatever I was driving?Probably. An isolated incident? Hopefully. Caused by or exascerbated by my actions in any way? Honestly no. My wife even wondered what was wrong with the 'gentleman'.

Nothing to do with you, or what you were driving, just an idiot- the type who thinks 65mph is enough for anyone and who deosn't give a hoot about lane disciplne. See them once in a while.

Interesting responses, Thank you all.

Just imagine how much more we would all enjoy driving if everyone on the road was courteous and signalled correctly etc. :sun:

Mark.

Interesting responses, Thank you all.

Just imagine how much more we would all enjoy driving if everyone on the road was courteous and signalled correctly etc. :sun:

Mark.

Yep, agree with these sentiments!

BTW, loved the BMW post, it's all true, even when you drive one you notice it! When I had mine I found the drivers of the "superior" (read: more expensive!) models look down on you and behave as if you really are a fly in their ointment.....