What on the roads has annoyed you today?

[st albans fox]

The opposite happened to me when I was up last week (ie. Made me chuckle’ ) 

i noticed a sign on the ring road which said ‘All Tourist Routes’ ………

[Parafox]

On 09/07/2025 at 12:30, Trav Le Bleu said:

Modern cars with teeny teeny indicators that you can barely see in bright conditions.

 

Seems to be a bit of a trend.

 

This. And some models with rear indicators so low down that they cant be seen if you're not immediately behind them.

Edited 11 July 2025 by Parafox

[adam1]

People not understanding what lane they want to be in. 

 

1) Anstey

 

Stadon Road into the Nook.

 

Two lanes and three exits. The exits are Cropston Road (left), Leicester Road (staggered straight over), Bradgate Road (right). The  Left lane is marked left and straight over. Right lane is marked right.

 

Why do people go into the right lane to go straight over and then cause a collision? Surely the dim wits will clock the three possible exits marked on the road and deduce which lane they need to be in.

 

 

2) A46 junction with Anstey

 

Driving from Anstey over the A46. Three lanes. Two marked straight, one marked right. The one marked right is to go around the roundabout for either Gynsills Lane or the A46. 

 

So why do people in the middle lane turn into the gynsils lane and have a collision/near miss/cut up people in the correct lane?

 

Every ****ing time I use either of these junctions I witness this. At what point do we start to take licences off people?

[Sol thewall Bamba]

VW Transporters AGAIN. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

Been going home along Blackbird Road more often than usual over the last couple of weeks and I think yesterday was the first time I've been through the Five Ways junction where everybody that wanted to go down Fosse Road was in the correct lane for it. It's a shite junction even after all the money spent on it but short of having bollards that pop up out of the ground I'm not sure what they can do about it. 

 

There's at least two big yellow signs saying what lane goes where and markings on the lanes themselves and still people get it wrong

[Parafox]

4 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Been going home along Blackbird Road more often than usual over the last couple of weeks and I think yesterday was the first time I've been through the Five Ways junction where everybody that wanted to go down Fosse Road was in the correct lane for it. It's a shite junction even after all the money spent on it but short of having bollards that pop up out of the ground I'm not sure what they can do about it. 

 

There's at least two big yellow signs saying what lane goes where and markings on the lanes themselves and still people get it wrong

 

I have only been that way once since the junction was remodelled and I went straight on from Blackbird Road to Fosse Road.

 

I didn't take much notice but I seem to remember there's no left turn from Blackbird Road towards Frog Island. Am I right and if so where does that traffic go if there's no left turn?

[Bellend Sebastian]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

 

I have only been that way once since the junction was remodelled and I went straight on from Blackbird Road to Fosse Road.

 

I didn't take much notice but I seem to remember there's no left turn from Blackbird Road towards Frog Island. Am I right and if so where does that traffic go if there's no left turn?

Yes, that's right. The left lane is the one that goes into Fosse Road, and this is segregated from the other 2 lanes (both A50 North) but only to start with - once the separation ends there's nothing to stop cars from the middle lane going up Fosse Road, the problem being that there's already a lane heading into it that it feels like they're not expecting given how often folk just veer into it, seemingly without looking. 

 

Also, because there's often a queue in the lane for Fosse Road that's longer than the one for the middle lane some of the cutting across is probably deliberate. You've got to keep your wits about you, I'm struggling to think of anywhere I drive where there are so many near misses

[Trav Le Bleu]

The white van driver who ran me off the road when I was cycling home, leaving me with a gashed eye, dislocated shoulder, possible broken bones (still in hospital waiting for x-ray results) several grazes and mangled glasses.

 

Oh, and thanks for stopping buddy! (For clarity, they didn't - but thanks to the two off duty paramedics, off duty policeman, doctor and other passersby who did while the ambulance was on the way).

Edited 27 August 2025 by Trav Le Bleu

[grth2004]

19 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

The white van driver who ran me off the road when I was cycling home, leaving me with a gashed eye, dislocated shoulder, possible broken bones (still in hospital waiting for x-ray results) several grazes and mangled glasses.

 

Oh, and thanks for stopping buddy! (For clarity, they didn't - but thanks to the two off duty paramedics, off duty policeman, doctor and other passersby who did while the ambulance was on the way).

Ohh crap thats rough , hope someone got his details. 
Get well soon 

[Trav Le Bleu]

Just now, grth2004 said:

Ohh crap thats rough , hope someone got his details. 
Get well soon 

They did. I was too busy staring at the sky.

[Bellend Sebastian]

1 hour ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

They did. I was too busy staring at the sky.

Oh man. Get well soon

[Parafox]

12 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

The white van driver who ran me off the road when I was cycling home, leaving me with a gashed eye, dislocated shoulder, possible broken bones (still in hospital waiting for x-ray results) several grazes and mangled glasses.

 

Oh, and thanks for stopping buddy! (For clarity, they didn't - but thanks to the two off duty paramedics, off duty policeman, doctor and other passersby who did while the ambulance was on the way).

All you needed was a passing fireman and you'd have a full house. 

 

Get well soon, we need our posties. 

[HighPeakFox]

23 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

The white van driver who ran me off the road when I was cycling home, leaving me with a gashed eye, dislocated shoulder, possible broken bones (still in hospital waiting for x-ray results) several grazes and mangled glasses.

 

Oh, and thanks for stopping buddy! (For clarity, they didn't - but thanks to the two off duty paramedics, off duty policeman, doctor and other passersby who did while the ambulance was on the way).

Mate, best wishes, and I hope justice is served.

[whoareyaaa]

Shame the kids are back roads are now busy as hell it was a joy driving back and from work the last 2 months and the council still pissing about with roadworks in every direction, people also have forgot how to drive within this time.

Edited 28 August 2025 by whoareyaaa

[Fox1970]

Incompetents who are quite happy, thank-you very much, to drive at 35mph on the road from Kettering (limit 60) regardless of the queue behind them and then just blithely continue at 35 mph when they enter the 30 limit in town. 

[CornwallFox]

Basically everybody on the M5 as they are unable to see that the left hand lane exists and seen to think that the centre and right hand lanes are both for dawdling in. 

[adam1]

9 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

Basically everybody on the M5 as they are unable to see that the left hand lane exists and seen to think that the centre and right hand lanes are both for dawdling in. 

Is it more prominent down south? I think so.

[Raj]

On 27/08/2025 at 21:12, Trav Le Bleu said:

The white van driver who ran me off the road when I was cycling home, leaving me with a gashed eye, dislocated shoulder, possible broken bones (still in hospital waiting for x-ray results) several grazes and mangled glasses.

 

Oh, and thanks for stopping buddy! (For clarity, they didn't - but thanks to the two off duty paramedics, off duty policeman, doctor and other passersby who did while the ambulance was on the way).

Hope your not too bad, presume your still properly shook up.

As a cyclist myself i've been lucky thus far with idiot drivers.

Hope they get the cvnt

[Trav Le Bleu]

Just as an update to this, I've broken my humerus, no dislocation. Basically means 6-12 weeks in a sling (left arm fortunately) and my left eye has the biggest shiner I've ever seen!

 

Thanks for all the messages people 😊 

[Parafox]

3 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Just as an update to this, I've broken my humerus, no dislocation. Basically means 6-12 weeks in a sling (left arm fortunately) and my left eye has the biggest shiner I've ever seen!

 

Thanks for all the messages people 😊 

 

Back to work tomorrow, then. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

4 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

Back to work tomorrow, then. 

The paramedics, both off duty and in the ambulance were absolutely fantastic. My experience once I reached LRI, less so 

[Raj]

11 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Just as an update to this, I've broken my humerus, no dislocation. Basically means 6-12 weeks in a sling (left arm fortunately) and my left eye has the biggest shiner I've ever seen!

 

Thanks for all the messages people 😊 

Get well soon pal

[CornwallFox]

5 hours ago, adam1 said:

Is it more prominent down south? I think so.

I just always notice it on the M5. It's becoming an issue everywhere, middle lane hoggers, people refusing to be overtaken, others brake testing etc, but on the M5 it's like nobody understands what the lanes are for.

[HighPeakFox]

I drove from the south coast to Chesterfield yesterday - the number of zombies in the middle of the road was noticeable.

 

To counter the narrative about cyclists, they have their bad eggs too. I was quietly driving below 30 very near to home, making my way up a hill that is carworthy but beloved of cyclists and walkers, and over the brow of the hill I was met with Mr RallyCross (and he clearly was cross), and on seeing me doing nothing wrong started yelling at me for a crime I wasn't committing. I sometimes think people get angry because they just don't want you to be there. Happily there was no altercation beyond that because I was too baffled by his projection to hang about, and he was actually travelling faster than I was.

[adam1]

Ring road yesterday. I pull up behind a Seat people carrier at the lights. 

 

Rear left tyre is flatter than a pancake. Car is leaning left.

 

Seat pulls off and I can see that the front left is just as flat.

 

Car being driven as normal.

 

They could be aware and are driving it home but.... I'm willing to bet they were not.