I’ve been finding the same driver driving at 10-20mph on 30-40mph roads on the way into work in the morning, and it is driving me (and a lot of other drivers) nuts. Sure, I can overtake him (and I do, just like lots of other people), but he just doesn’t seem to get the hint. Dangerous overtaking? No, there’s pretty much no-one on the road at 6am in the morning where I am.
Been a while since I last posted anything related to bad driving, but here’s one. A Mercedes grew impatient waiting in line (don’t they always?), cut out of line, jumped several cars, cut in, then turned left. Video below
Two days this week I’ve driven to work in the early hours (~6am) and both days I’ve encountered some really dangerous behaviour.
On Monday, outside Wembley Central station (http://goo.gl/maps/AFHp0), a cyclist cycled along the pavement, then dives into the road without looking back or signalling. I’ve said it before, and I’ve said it again. Road users on two wheels complain about not getting respect on the road. If you behave like this, how can you expect respect from other road users? I have more gripes with motorcyclists than pedal cyclists, but the majority of my complains about the two-wheeled road users are the same: lack of signalling, darting in and out of traffic, jumping red lights, riding too close to car users then complaining when they are hit by wing mirrors.
On Tuesday, I’m at the junction between the A504 Finchley Lane and the A1 Great North Way (http://goo.gl/maps/2HFBT). The A504 is a black spot for queue jumping, and I had a VWqueue jump me at the junction – violating road markings in the lane which indicate it is right-turn only. Then, if that wasn’t bad enough, further along, at the junction with the A504 Church Road/B552 Parson Street/A502 Brent Street (http://goo.gl/maps/MYemg), this same car then jumps the red lights.
Oh, and both were caught on my dashcam. Will be passing these onto the police. Whereas there’s little they can do about the cyclist, they can at least take the VW off the road, or at least put some points on his/her license (I hope)
I finally have had an opportunity to process my dashcam videos for this week and here’s one from Tuesday.
Mercedes drivers have a bad rep and this guy isn’t helping by first jumping 5 cars in the queue in front of him (including me), forcing cars going the other way to stop, and then jumping the red light at the roadworks.
The clock on this footage was one hour behind (it was actually 16:11, not 15:11)
It should be noted that I caught up with him about five minutes down the road where he got caught behind another queue of traffic. Moral of the story, don’t jump the queue. It’s not smart, it’s not cool, and just proves you are more of a dick than you already are…
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