c***s on the road

[thistledo]

1 hour ago, alta-pete said:

I've told this story before but 25 years ago (wowzers!!) I was dropping keys into an office at the corner of West George Street and West Nile Street. I had parked on the yellow lines but once done I wanted to go up West Nile Street which meant crossing three lanes of traffic at the junction - impossible. My plan was therfore to wait for the red light on West George Street and nip out and left turn before the green light came on to let the West Nile Street traffic go.

Executed it perfectly until I looked in my mirror and saw I was being pursued at a gallop by two of Strathclyde's finest on horseback that had been waiting at the West Nile Street lights. Stil maintain that I'm the only guy to have been caught in the city centre after a hot pursuit by the county mounties. 

Did they have helmets with wee lights on them to let them know you were being stopped. If no I'd have simply driven away from them I think. 

 

Kinda reminds me of a time I accidentally (honest, no big team found) joined an orange walk in my car years ago, I was parked near St Enoch probably illegally as I was dropping someone off, looked ahead of me in some kind of tunnel vision saw a commotion up ahead, f**k driving that way and thought nothing of how quiet the opposite side of the road was, one illegal u-turn later I was sat behind about 4 police bikes, behind me was a few more and then behind them was the walk. The lead motorbike signalled for me to move up to the lights, I apologised and said not really sure why I did that, he didn't seem to care, but rather sternly said "when I say go you go and get the hell out of here" 

Edited September 14, 2023 by thistledo

[alta-pete]

2 minutes ago, thistledo said:

Did they have helmets with wee lights on them to let them know you were being stopped. If no I'd have simply driven away from them I think.

It was kinda obvious they were coming for me and - split second decision - I reckoned I'd prefer to take my chances on a stiff talking to at the side of the road after volunteering to stop and holding my hands up rather than booting it up W Nile Street only to then get caught at the Bath Street lights.

[bennett]

3 hours ago, welshbairn said:

 

Needs a how is my driving sticker.

 

 

[Loonytoons]

3 hours ago, Michael W said:

This is exactly the sort of attitude that causes accidents. And in some cases, not taking evasive action might turn "it's their fault" into both parties being adjudged at fault. For example, not slowing down if someone pulls out of a junction when they shouldn't. The other party has made a mistake, but if you don't react to it and take action to avoid the collision then you are making a mistake as well. 

Even if is was the other party's fault, is not doing anything worth the resulting annoyance of sorting out insurance claims, or the risk of potentially serious injury? Absolutely not. 

Actually been talking about something similar at work today.

A few weeks back, I was 4th in a line of cars going from a 30 to a 60.  

The two cars in front were itching to get past the front one.

Lorry coming the other way.  I reckoned the 2nd car would be lucky to get passed safely, 3rd car went for it anyway.  This was a clapped out wreck with no acceleration at all.

What then developed was cuntish behaviour of the highest order.

Car 1 and 2 both accelerated and the lorry didn't brake.

Car 3 narrowly missed clipping car 1 and also having a head on collision.

Meanwhile I had practically stopped as I wanted bugger all to do with it.

I bet the phrase "it would have been his fault" was used in all 4 vehicles.

[MEADOWXI]

4 hours ago, coprolite said:

Yeah, he's seen Vine, recognised him and tried to do society a favour on purpose. 

Pity it wasn't the Vine brothers on a tandem

[Cosmic Joe]

2 hours ago, thistledo said:

Did they have helmets with wee lights on them to let them know you were being stopped. If no I'd have simply driven away from them I think. 

 

Kinda reminds me of a time I accidentally (honest, no big team found) joined an orange walk in my car years ago, I was parked near St Enoch probably illegally as I was dropping someone off, looked ahead of me in some kind of tunnel vision saw a commotion up ahead, f**k driving that way and thought nothing of how quiet the opposite side of the road was, one illegal u-turn later I was sat behind about 4 police bikes, behind me was a few more and then behind them was the walk. The lead motorbike signalled for me to move up to the lights, I apologised and said not really sure why I did that, he didn't seem to care, but rather sternly said "when I say go you go and get the hell out of here" 

Does crossing the path of a bigot walk in a car cause as much seethe as a pedestrian? 

[HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows]

On 04/09/2023 at 19:59, alta-pete said:

 

My Range Rover (other lesser products are available) weighs north of 2tn when loaded up. 

 

[sophia]

8 hours ago, Molotov said:

hopefully it was Jeremy Vine and they throw the key away. 

You don't need a key to start a bike

[Loonytoons]

5 hours ago, MEADOWXI said:

Pity it wasn't the Vine brothers on a tandem

Comvine harvester required for that

[Eednud]

3 hours ago, Loonytoons said:

Comvine harvester required for that

 

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

12 hours ago, saint dave said:

My Mrs and her brother saw the cops pull a cyclist at George Square for going through a red light. Never seen that happen before. 

Patrick up to his nonsense again?

[thistledo]

17 hours ago, Loonytoons said:

Actually been talking about something similar at work today.

A few weeks back, I was 4th in a line of cars going from a 30 to a 60.  

The two cars in front were itching to get past the front one.

Lorry coming the other way.  I reckoned the 2nd car would be lucky to get passed safely, 3rd car went for it anyway.  This was a clapped out wreck with no acceleration at all.

What then developed was cuntish behaviour of the highest order.

Car 1 and 2 both accelerated and the lorry didn't brake.

Car 3 narrowly missed clipping car 1 and also having a head on collision.

Meanwhile I had practically stopped as I wanted bugger all to do with it.

I bet the phrase "it would have been his fault" was used in all 4 vehicles.

I've said many times people accelerating to block an overtake are up there with the worst c***s, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the head on's on the A82 are down to this, fortunately I'm almost always in a powerful enough car to negate it now, but there's always at least one every time I'm on that road. That and closing a gap that was there to return to and then blasting the horn at me as if they didn't just create their own problem. 

16 hours ago, Cosmic Joe said:

Does crossing the path of a bigot walk in a car cause as much seethe as a pedestrian? 

I didn't get to see their reaction, but ye know I really hope so. 

[Loonytoons]

13 hours ago, thistledo said:

I've said many times people accelerating to block an overtake are up there with the worst c***s, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the head on's on the A82 are down to this, fortunately I'm almost always in a powerful enough car to negate it now, but there's always at least one every time I'm on that road. That and closing a gap that was there to return to and then blasting the horn at me as if they didn't just create their own problem. 

I didn't get to see their reaction, but ye know I really hope so. 

Many moons ago I asked my wife why she was driving so close to the car in front.

She stated it was so the car behind couldn't overtake.

When I pointed out that people are allowed to overtake she genuinely looked confused.

Fortunately she is a far better driver now.

[Swarley]

8 hours ago, Loonytoons said:

Many moons ago I asked my wife why she was driving so close to the car in front.

She stated it was so the car behind couldn't overtake.

When I pointed out that people are allowed to overtake she genuinely looked confused.

Fortunately she is a far better driver now.

Crazy the amount of people who think they're in some sort of race. 

[hk blues]

9 hours ago, Loonytoons said:

Many moons ago I asked my wife why she was driving so close to the car in front.

She stated it was so the car behind couldn't overtake.

When I pointed out that people are allowed to overtake she genuinely looked confused.

Fortunately she is a far better driver now.

Your wife isn't a Filipina by any chance - her driving style is exactly how they drive here and for the same reason - if you leave enough space in front of you someone will fill it is the thinking.  Here, in their equivalent of the highway cade they actually state 1 car length distance as being safe.  The d**k who wrote the book didn't copy and past correctly as it's 1 car length per 10km speed AFAIK.

[HeartsOfficialMoaner]

On 14/09/2023 at 11:26, morrison said:

Stunned that the drivers on here are managing to shift any of the blame on to the cyclist here. 

The van reverses onto the cyclist as soon as he's started going round him. The van hasn't even looked before slamming into reverse. It's entirely their fault.

Here is an example of the blame being shared.

'The percentage of blame, known as contributory negligence'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-66821313

[morrison]

35 minutes ago, HeartsOfficialMoaner said:

Here is an example of the blame being shared.

'The percentage of blame, known as contributory negligence'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-66821313

I wasn't making a sweeping statement; it was a comment on a specific incident.

There's little info about the incident you've linked to in the article itself, and I'm not going digging for more context. Without video evidence - and I don't fancy watching someone's final moments this morning - we're only hearing one side of the story given the unfortunate outcome, so it's not particularly helpful in apportioning blame.

[hk blues]

1 hour ago, morrison said:

I wasn't making a sweeping statement; it was a comment on a specific incident.

There's little info about the incident you've linked to in the article itself, and I'm not going digging for more context. Without video evidence - and I don't fancy watching someone's final moments this morning - we're only hearing one side of the story given the unfortunate outcome, so it's not particularly helpful in apportioning blame.

Reading the story, I don't think there is anyone disputing the apportionment of blame - the widow seems only to have wanted recognition that her husband was not entirely to blame.  

[Central Belt Caley]

22 hours ago, Loonytoons said:

Many moons ago I asked my wife why she was driving so close to the car in front.

She stated it was so the car behind couldn't overtake.

When I pointed out that people are allowed to overtake she genuinely looked confused.

Fortunately she is a far better driver now.

This is one of the problems with many of the roads in Scotland. Folk sit nose to tail doing 40mph behind campervans/lorries etc and have no intention of overtaking (no problem with this) but then it makes it far more difficult for folk who do want to make progress. Means having to overtake 2/3 cars and a lorry/campervan in one manoeuvre rather than 1 car at a time

 

I’ve never had a problem with folk speeding up to close the gap though. 

[thistledo]

On 15/09/2023 at 23:34, Loonytoons said:

Many moons ago I asked my wife why she was driving so close to the car in front.

She stated it was so the car behind couldn't overtake.

When I pointed out that people are allowed to overtake she genuinely looked confused.

Fortunately she is a far better driver now.

I don't think she would have been alone in this thinking. 

On 16/09/2023 at 22:03, Central Belt Caley said:

This is one of the problems with many of the roads in Scotland. Folk sit nose to tail doing 40mph behind campervans/lorries etc and have no intention of overtaking (no problem with this) but then it makes it far more difficult for folk who do want to make progress. Means having to overtake 2/3 cars and a lorry/campervan in one manoeuvre rather than 1 car at a time

 

I’ve never had a problem with folk speeding up to close the gap though. 

This is what it's like the majority of the time I drive A roads now, that 40mph precession, recently I was stuck behind a huge queue of traffic sitting behind this one campervan and despite many parking places available they did not pull in and the cars to the front of the queue weren't overtaking, made my way through to eventually pass the campervan, gave him a quick beep and pointed at parking place sign and I seen in the rear view he flapped his arms as if 'ah well what can I do' fucking idiot.