Is Every day an accident dodging adventure for you?

[stewjohnst]

It seems to me that not a day goes by now where a spell in the car goes by without me having to take evasive action of some kind to avoid a crash. I'm pretty observant, leave sensible gaps and understand the concept of mirrors yet still find myself avoiding disaster once a day minimum.

On Friday I had to brake quite hard to avoid a pincer movement on a three lane roundabout from an MPV and an Astra who seemed to view the lane markings as 'advisory only' to avoid my car being squished. Today I've driven for all of fifteen minutes but it was long enough for a biker decided to overtake me and go straight on at the precise moment the road splits into two for the right lane to turn right...had I not checked the mirrors there'd probably be a biker shaped imprint in my door about now.

Is this the same sort of experience for everyone nowadays?

Am I the only one tempted to weld a rollcage in a tank sized old merc and spend a week not taking any evasives to see how often I get to chalk up a prang?

[Cooky]

Oops thought it was Dogging!

[*Al*]

Cooky said:

Oops thought it was Dogging!

Lol same as, it's late.

[grimfandango]

*Al* said:

Cooky said:

Oops thought it was Dogging!

Lol same as, it's late.

Me to!

[mrtwisty]

Cooky said:

Oops thought it was Dogging!

Yep, me too.

[stewjohnst]

Got me worrying about a typo then

[kieranjholland]

you might need to restart this thread - hijacked before it even got going!

[stewjohnst]

Lol, nvm it can die off - imagine ppl will spend Sunday popping in here expecting some sort of 'confessions of a window cleaner' thread for those old enough to remember those films...

[anonymous-user]

I dont really seem to experiance this, I have to dodge the odd idiot every so often but certainly not every day.

[CWH]

Yes it is.
I've began to live with it now however. I know that it is a pretty normal everyday event so I've learnt to accept it.
I've even started to be calm even when somebody has nearly side swiped my car. Great.

[Fleckers]

stewjohnst said:

Am I the only one tempted to weld a rollcage in a tank sized old merc and spend a week not taking any evasives to see how often I get to chalk up a prang?

or get a real old transit and bolt a railway sleeper to the front and just keep going

Its bad in the BMW no one cares / gives a monkies but when I am in the Jag every tard seems to think ooooh nice Jag he will stop / get out of the way wich I do

[stewjohnst]

Must admit I notice a difference whether I'm in the Prelude, low, small car versus the Shogun which is a massive beast and jacked up too, not to mention 20 years old and looking like I couldn't give a fk if you hit me or I have to drive over you...

[S. Gonzales Esq.]

The way I see it, every driver in the UK has two options. You can either wait for the 30 million other drivers out there to behave better, or you can get training for yourself and learn to avoid them.

Which of these options is most likely to work?

Which one do you think most people chose?

[BDR529]

The South Welsh road network is similar to a destruction derby free-for-all.
Only the drivers are orange overweight tarts on their phone.

[heebeegeetee]

BDR529 said:

Only the drivers are orange overweight tarts on their phone.

In answer to the question of the thread though: No.

[redstu]

Might be where you are in the country and where your fellow motorists learned to drive.
There's not too many immigrants in the NE so possibly driving standards are better.

[stewjohnst]

In my experience - lots of driving in Surrey and Yorkshire, its the homegrown talent thats the worst.

Down south they expected you to move as if it was their personal road, up here they're probably just scanning for Gregg's or an Aldi instead of using their mirrrors...

[turbolucie]

Sometimes you come across an idiot who seems to be trying to cause an accident but thankfully this is rare, I find. It worries me a bit that you have to avoid disaster almost daily...I'm nobody to offer driving advice as I've only been driving 3 years but maybe work on your observations?

[stewjohnst]

Tthere's not much wrong with my observations imo (although not claiming to be perfect) and that was part of my point. The tool in the bike hadn't even thought anyone might turn right at the right turn so it was my observation that kept him out of my lap and this kind of thing happens all the time.

Doesn't get me mad or anything I just drive around expecting people to swap lanes on me or straight line miniroundabouts nowadays - just a bit disappointing really.

[stargazer30]

I'm in the NE I don't find myself avoiding a crash every time I drive but I do see at least one really bad example of driving each day.

Yesterday it was a green P driver who to be fair wasn't safe without an instructor, dunno how they passed. The managed to indicate right, then left approaching a roundabout and then go straight ahead. The on the next r/bout do the same trick and cut up a car in the process by going left to right back to left lane again.

I would say never a copper around but that's a good thing actually as I would have been pulled instead for driving a focus ST as it must be stolen .....