What on the roads has annoyed you today?

[Parafox]

2 hours ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

No doubt in my mind that it’s worse than it was 15 -20 years ago. 
 

Takes 25-35 minutes to get from one end of Hinckley to another during rush hour. 

 

Hinckley's road infrastructure is diabolical.

 

There's only 1 main road going from Barwell through to Burbage and that goes through the centre of town past a major shopping centre and is always jammed up. It's only about 2 miles but there's 9 sets of traffic lights.

 

Then London Road incoming from M69 at the Brookside junction, again always so slow during busy periods.

 

Just wait until the huge Bloor development by Triumph is completed as well as this: Land outside Hinckley set for almost 900 homes after new plans unveiled - Leicestershire Live. The Northern Perimeter road is going to be impossible.

 

I know there's not a lot that can be done, but these roads were never meant for the volume of traffic there is now

Edited 31 December 2024 by Parafox

[ALC Fox]

People who don't clear their cars of snow before they head out on the road. Saw one car with snow covering the entire rear windscreen and another just dump a big pile of snow on the road from its roof, creating an unexpected hazard on an otherwise clear and ice-free road.

[Free Falling Foxes]

Saw a car towing a trailer that was over full of branches and what not earlier today.

The straps he had used to 'secure' this load, had broken free and were dangling behind the tailer. Consequently, this not insignificant horticultural load, was being deposited on the road as a sped past.

I retrieved some from the road but how much more was lost along the way, I can only guess.

I'm sure he would have been had by the local constabulary for having an insecure and dangerous load if spotted.

Edited 8 January by Free Falling Foxes

[Parafox]

2 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Saw a car towing a trailer that was over full of branches and what not earlier today.

The straps he had used to 'secure' this load, had broken free and were dangling behind the tailer. Consequently, this not insignificant horticultural load, was being deposited on the road as a sped past.

I retrieved some from the road but how much more was lost along the way, I can only guess.

I'm sure he would have been had by the local constabulary for having an insecure and dangerous load if spotted.

 

Key words.

 

I have a mate who is in the police service. He tells me that there are not enough random patrols to deal with this kind of thing and they consider them too trivial when they are more fully occupied dealing with people with MH issues and domestic disputes or "dommies" as  they call them.

 

The local police teams will show a presence when there is a targeted deterrent action taking place such as a focus on shoplifting or non-violent crimes or anti-social behaviour or moped/motorcycle thefts etc but, day to day, they struggle to manage.

[Parafox]

The idiot I was behind on a main 40mph A47 who randomly decided to brake to allow another car to take a right turn across the flow of traffic.

 

I had to brake hard and blasted my horn only for the driver in front to put a hand up in a "what's you're issue" gesture.

 

That kind of thing results in rear ending and it's a fail in a driving test exam.

 

 

Edited 8 January by Parafox

[Grebfromgrebland]

Retirement can make people tetchy and angry.

 

Maybe try meditation, relaxing podcasts and breathing techniques.

 

And try to be nice. Some people are just crap drivers no amount of blasting your horn or flashing will fix that. 

[Fox92]

13 hours ago, Parafox said:

The idiot I was behind on a main 40mph A47 who randomly decided to brake to allow another car to take a right turn across the flow of traffic.

 

I had to brake hard and blasted my horn only for the driver in front to put a hand up in a "what's you're issue" gesture.

 

That kind of thing results in rear ending and it's a fail in a driving test exam.

 

 

Honestly the amount of times I'm driving on a motorway and someone who just brakes randomly for no reason. I don't get it. Usually the people just sat in the middle lane.

[Parafox]

12 hours ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

Retirement can make people tetchy and angry.

 

Maybe try meditation, relaxing podcasts and breathing techniques.

 

And try to be nice. Some people are just crap drivers no amount of blasting your horn or flashing will fix that. 

 

Hopefully your opening sentence was tongue in cheek.

 

I sounded my horn in context of making the other driver "aware of my presence and position on the road", to quote the Highway Code.

 

I am nice.

[Grebfromgrebland]

Just now, Parafox said:

 

Hopefully your opening sentence was tongue in cheek.

 

I sounded my horn in context of making the other driver "aware of my presence and position on the road", to quote the Highway Code.

 

I am nice.

Yeah it was tongue in cheek but I do think generally people need to be more zen.

 

This isn't aimed at you in particular but I drive a lot have changed my mind set to just give everyone a pass even if they're acting like a grade 1 idiot.

 

You never know what kind of day someone else is having or about to have. 

 

 

 

 

[adam1]

21 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

Yeah it was tongue in cheek but I do think generally people need to be more zen.

 

This isn't aimed at you in particular but I drive a lot have changed my mind set to just give everyone a pass even if they're acting like a grade 1 idiot.

 

You never know what kind of day someone else is having or about to have. 

 

 

 

 

Someone watched BBC3 at 7pm last night....

[Grebfromgrebland]

28 minutes ago, adam1 said:

Someone watched BBC3 at 7pm last night....

I didn't actually what was on? 

 

TBF I forget bbc3 existed

[Dr The Singh]

Receiving cold food at a restaurant.  Totally unacceptable 

[adam1]

6 hours ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

I didn't actually what was on? 

 

TBF I forget bbc3 existed

 

[adam1]

7 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

Hopefully your opening sentence was tongue in cheek.

 

I sounded my horn in context of making the other driver "aware of my presence and position on the road", to quote the Highway Code.

 

I am nice.

I am with @Parafox on this.

 

This is a prime example of where drivers are completely ignorant of other road users. Yes they have let the other person across, but they had complete disregard to the flow of traffic in their lane which includes those behind them. They could have caused an accident.

[Grebfromgrebland]

15 minutes ago, adam1 said:

 

Must be something in the air!

[HighPeakFox]

1 hour ago, adam1 said:

I am with @Parafox on this.

 

This is a prime example of where drivers are completely ignorant of other road users. Yes they have let the other person across, but they had complete disregard to the flow of traffic in their lane which includes those behind them. They could have caused an accident.

Me too - I call it 'virtue signal driving', where the driver does something apparently generous in a situation where they cause a greater degree of danger by not just understanding the priority or indeed looking in the mirrors.

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, adam1 said:

I am with @Parafox on this.

 

This is a prime example of where drivers are completely ignorant of other road users. Yes they have let the other person across, but they had complete disregard to the flow of traffic in their lane which includes those behind them. They could have caused an accident.

 

Thanks. 

 

It wasn't as if she slowed but kept moving, she came to a complete stop. 

[Zear0]

16 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

Thanks. 

 

It wasn't as if she slowed but kept moving, she came to a complete stop. 

Fine with the use of the horn, but if there's no accompanying gesture there's literally no point.

[Parafox]

Just now, Zear0 said:

Fine with the use of the horn, but if there's no accompanying gesture there's literally no point.

 

I couldn't as I had one hand on the horn button and the other on the steering wheel. 

 

I did it in my head, though. Several times.

[Bellend Sebastian]

Me not planning my route properly and allowing Google maps to send me down untreated roads with shit loads of black ice on. Mercifully hardly any other vehicles, but crikey that was frightening

[UniFox21]

The amount of drivers without lights on today during the freezing fog. So many just appeared because they decided lights weren't needed

[Parafox]

18 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

The amount of drivers without lights on today during the freezing fog. So many just appeared because they decided lights weren't needed

 

Fecking annoying.

 

How can anyone driving not think, I need lights on when even these idiots encounter other idiots without lights on?

[ALC Fox]

Some selfish so-and-so on the M6 tonight not only hogging lane three of four at 60-65 mph but also having a very obvious FaceTime on a mounted phone and very clearly paying most of his attention to the call he was on

[Parafox]

19 hours ago, ALC Fox said:

Some selfish so-and-so on the M6 tonight not only hogging lane three of four at 60-65 mph but also having a very obvious FaceTime on a mounted phone and very clearly paying most of his attention to the call he was on

 

A week or so ago, I pulled alongside an artic and the driver had a film playing on his mobile.

 

A "professional" driver of a vehicle capable of killing.

 

As someone who has a class 1 licence, this is appalling and shames the rest of us.

[lcfcsnow]

Noticed it doesn’t take long for roads to flood now even without much rain for weeks