What on the roads has annoyed you today?

[HighPeakFox]

54 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

Which even though really frustrating is actually completely fine.

Pretty sure it's not. 

[AbbeyFox]

Wow I could post around ten things a day on this thread. I drive to work at 5am and encounter no end of ***** even at this hour.

People on push bikes with no lights or hi Vis. People doing about 70 on a 30, taxis doing u turns with no indication, that was just Friday morning.

[ALC Fox]

Not so much annoying as perplexing.

 

On the northbound M1, a van indicates and moves over into the hard shoulder but doesn't slow down. Then the car in front does the same but almost immediately comes back onto the road before the van does the same.

 

Both vehicles then leave the motorway at the next junction. I guess either they were travelling together and the car in front could have pulled into the hard shoulder thinking the van was stopping, but then that doesn't explain why the car moved over second but back onto the road first. So I think that they weren't travelling together and after the van driver's brain fart moment, the car driver had one themselves thinking the van behind them had moved into a lane that took them off the motorway.

 

It was very odd to witness.

[Zear0]

The herbert who's closed a lane on the J22 roundabout 2 days ahead of the doing any actual work. 

 

Bell. 

[Free Falling Foxes]

Out walking this morning, it took me quite a while to cross an approach to a roundabout.

As I waited, there must have been 30 or more vehicles approaching or leaving said roundabout.

Not one indicated as they approached or turned off the island.

I know this has been mentioned often on here before but I would say that a majority, nay, a vast majority of drivers don't bother indicating any more.

[dillonpanthers87]

On 02/11/2025 at 19:53, AbbeyFox said:

People on push bikes with no lights or hi Vis

this so much. All dark hours. E-scooters too.

[abc]

On the way to KP on Tuesday at the roundabout with a church on it next to Braunston Park, a van and a car just gently turned right and pootled round the roundabout the wrong way. They got away with it, but blimey!

Edited 6 November 2025 by abc
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[RoboFox]

Witnessed probably one of the most batshit maneuvers I've ever seen in all my 20+ years of driving in rush hour traffic this morning.

A car in front of me literally slows down from 70mph and STOPS in the middle lane of the A40. Drivers are having to brake hard to not cause a pile up. 

 

She sits there and waits for a space in fast moving traffic on the outside lane, pulls a slight U-Turn and makes the exit that she obviously missed, narrowly avoiding being obliterated by a HGV going at probably 60mph in the process. 

 

I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

 

 

Edited 11 November 2025 by RoboFox

[foxfanazer]

Went out on a 20 minute journey and had 3 people pull out in front of me without looking. It's generally scary that some people are allowed to drive 

[wurmer]

1 hour journey on M1 - counted 53 cars sat in lane 3 oblivious to the world.

 

boils my piss.

[Parafox]

6 hours ago, foxfanazer said:

Went out on a 20 minute journey and had 3 people pull out in front of me without looking. It's generally scary that some people are allowed to drive 

 

Where I live, I turn left from my road and within 300mts there's side roads leading to and from Mcdonald's and then Morrison's.

 

I can promise you that at any time of day, someone will drive straight out in front  to me causing me to brake.

 

McDonald's... young drivers..

 

Morrison's... not so.

[Legend_in_blue]

Why is it that those people with front facing cameras below their rear view mirror are always poor drivers?

 

Following one always leads to some sort of annoyance on the road until they disappear off into a side street.

 

 

 

 

[CornwallFox]

Lack of streetlights. There's no bloody streetlights down here 😂

And pheasants. Can't move for pheasants. 

[NAKC20]

9 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

Lack of streetlights. There's no bloody streetlights down here 😂

And pheasants. Can't move for pheasants. 

Just put a head torch on every pheasant, sorted

[foxfanazer]

9 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

Lack of streetlights. There's no bloody streetlights down here 😂

And pheasants. Can't move for pheasants. 

Same here in Norfolk. They pretend to run to safety as well and then dart back at the last minute 

[Uncle Monty]

I've been living in the usa for ten years and the standard of driving over here compared to the UK is shockingly bad (only the states I've visited, about ten).

 

Only 50% of drivers use their indicators, people always pull out in front of you, nobody knows how to merge and everybody shits themselves at the rare sight of a roundabout. Their driving test is pretty easy too. The theory was laughably easy.

 

I live in state with lots of old people and there's a lot of accidents too. Honestly, it's genuinely scary driving around. Has anyone here driven in Florida? That is an experience. I was on the highway there and witnessed an oap doing 90+ on the hard shoulder only to drive past them flipped over several miles later. 

[SpacedX]

7 hours ago, Uncle Monty said:

I've been living in the usa for ten years and the standard of driving over here compared to the UK is shockingly bad (only the states I've visited, about ten).

 

Only 50% of drivers use their indicators, people always pull out in front of you, nobody knows how to merge and everybody shits themselves at the rare sight of a roundabout. Their driving test is pretty easy too. The theory was laughably easy.

 

I live in state with lots of old people and there's a lot of accidents too. Honestly, it's genuinely scary driving around. Has anyone here driven in Florida? That is an experience. I was on the highway there and witnessed an oap doing 90+ on the hard shoulder only to drive past them flipped over several miles later. 

"They are throwing themselves into the road gladly. Throwing themselves into the road to escape all this hideousness."

 

"Throw yourself into the road Darling - you haven't got a chance"

[Parafox]

8 hours ago, Uncle Monty said:

I've been living in the usa for ten years and the standard of driving over here compared to the UK is shockingly bad (only the states I've visited, about ten).

 

Only 50% of drivers use their indicators, people always pull out in front of you, nobody knows how to merge and everybody shits themselves at the rare sight of a roundabout. Their driving test is pretty easy too. The theory was laughably easy.

 

I live in state with lots of old people and there's a lot of accidents too. Honestly, it's genuinely scary driving around. Has anyone here driven in Florida? That is an experience. I was on the highway there and witnessed an oap doing 90+ on the hard shoulder only to drive past them flipped over several miles later. 

 

I've only driven in Florida when on holiday.

 

What surprised me was the lack of a central reservation on many highways. If there was one, it seemed to be hawser cables stretched between anchor posts.

 

Not "on the road annoyance" related but what I did like in Florida was the Cracker Barrel restaurants. It was several years ago but the one local to us was great.

 

 

Edited 12 November 2025 by Parafox

[Mike the Metal Ed]

I got beeped for turning right onto my own driveway, in a controlled manner that would guarantee I didn't end up ramming into my gates (I promise you I wasn't slow, and signalled right in enough time).

Next time I'll reverse in, in full accordance with the highway code, just because that takes ever-so-slightly longer.

[HighPeakFox]

Recently, getting flashed for having the temerity to make a legal overtaking manoeuvre. And likewise, when driving on the motorway, for not treating a signal to pull out in front of me as a demand - needless to say, slamming my brakes on would have been much more dangerous. 

[adam1]

On 16/11/2025 at 07:56, HighPeakFox said:

Recently, getting flashed for having the temerity to make a legal overtaking manoeuvre. And likewise, when driving on the motorway, for not treating a signal to pull out in front of me as a demand - needless to say, slamming my brakes on would have been much more dangerous. 

Get this a lot.

 

Always by somone doing about 35-40 on a single lane national speed limit. Never an unsafe overtake either. Only overtaking at 60mph max.

 

If you don't like it - DON'T ##****#&^ DRIVE!!!!!

[Parafox]

On 16/11/2025 at 07:56, HighPeakFox said:

Recently, getting flashed for having the temerity to make a legal overtaking manoeuvre. And likewise, when driving on the motorway, for not treating a signal to pull out in front of me as a demand - needless to say, slamming my brakes on would have been much more dangerous. 

 

Similarly, drivers joining a motorway or dual carriageway from a slip road, not understanding that it is their responsibility to, if necessary, slow down and join safely, and not the responsibility of any vehicle on the main carriageway to give way to them.

[Manley Farrington-Brown]

16 hours ago, Parafox said:

Similarly, drivers joining a motorway or dual carriageway from a slip road, not understanding that it is their responsibility to, if necessary, slow down and join safely, and not the responsibility of any vehicle on the main carriageway to give way to them.

Or even stop, if they have to.

That said, a lot of people could be more helpful and less oblivious of people joining from a slip road.

[Parafox]

6 hours ago, Manley Farrington-Brown said:

Or even stop, if they have to.

That said, a lot of people could be more helpful and less oblivious of people joining from a slip road.

Both are true. 

 

I do wonder if the failure to understand the correct procedure for joining a motorway from a slip road is down to previous regulations preventing learner drivers from being allowed on motorways. That said, they would still have been allowed on dual carriageways where the same rules apply. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

When you're driving on a country road at night and your car is casting a shadow that reaches the car Infront because of the headlights of the car behind.

 

You could turn your own lights off and still drive safely.