Overtaking
Posted: Fri 7 September, 2007 Filed under: Charm School, Driving, Travel, Weirdness 3 Comments »Over the last few weeks, as I’ve said before, I’ve been doing a lot of driving – commuting between home and Cambridge, roughly 110 miles per day. In that time I’ve also seen a huge dollop of bad driving. I’m not saying I’m a perfect driver – Gawd knows, I’ve made enough mistakes as well in that time. But there’s a couple of things that drive me mental every time I see them, and they both involve overtaking. Just for reference, this is usually done on motorways and dual-carriageways, rather than single-carriageway roads.
First, I don’t get the entire thing of starting an overtaking manoeuvre and then indicating. It drives me potty. OK, it’s slightly better than the tosspot BMW drivers who all appear to have their indicators turned off by default.
Second – and this is the big one – is the people who pull out to overtake, and then either stick at 5mph above whatever vehicle they’re overtaking (and so take forever to do it) or even worse, slow down! Why? What’s the fucking point? Well, except for being the sort of selfish festering bell-end who enjoys blocking up lanes and screwing things up for other road-users, of course.
I’ve mentioned my bug bear in the area before but I’ll repeat it anyway…
Those people who move out to overtake without PROPERLY assessing the entire road. By that I mean the people who will happily pull out into my path as I overtake, causing me to slow down or change course (which is BAD according to the highway code), without seeing that, behind me is an entire stretch of open road!!
I am a MAGNET to these people, and one day I’m going to think “sod it, and plough straight into the back of them”. OK, not really. But ARGH!!
with my acident the other week, i think people should have driving tests every so often and if they dont come to sratch 1 take there drivers licence of them and make them to a bigger test till they pass the test,
as something needs to be done cos the starndard of peoples driving are terrible and its a wonder more people are not hurt or killed while on the road
You guys should try driving in Ireland. I mean seriously, you haven’t a fucking clue. The driving is so shite, it’s even got it’s own website. http://shitedrivers.com/