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Aghhhh!

Cut up this evening by Merc 4x4, a very dangerous manoeuvre by him he then was in front of me for the next 3 odd miles driving ever so carefully by comparison.

Looked up his number plate to find it is taxed but the MoT ran out mid October 2015, so if he had hit me likely his insurance would be void, though they police would 'hit' him.

I wish there was a reporting system.......to get him off the road and/or done for driving with no MoT.
 
Box Brownie said:
Aghhhh!

Cut up this evening by Merc 4x4, a very dangerous manoeuvre by him he then was in front of me for the next 3 odd miles driving ever so carefully by comparison.

Looked up his number plate to find it is taxed but the MoT ran out mid October 2015, so if he had hit me likely his insurance would be void, though they police would 'hit' him.

I wish there was a reporting system.......to get him off the road and/or done for driving with no MoT.
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There is. The none emergency police number.
 
If you want mischief then put the reg on Facebook and share it as you think they need help reminding when it's due ;)
 
you looked his reg up, how odd.
 
His MOT wouldn't have voided his insurance - maybe they would have refused any claim for him, but they would still cover 3rd parties. Drink drivers find that out - the companies pay for the damage to everyone/everything apart from the driver themselves as they put themselves in that position.
 
viv1969 said:
There is. The none emergency police number.
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Ah! you mean 101 ?

I have a neighbour whose car is SORN'ed but is kept on the Highway, not reported as I have no desire to have neighbour 'issues'.

LongLensPhotography said:
Maybe he was in a hurry to the MOT station? :)
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:lol:

srichards said:
If you want mischief then put the reg on Facebook and share it as you think they need help reminding when it's due ;)
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Hmmm! name and shame........not my style :)

Mr Bump said:
you looked his reg up, how odd.
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I could so I did...........especially as his behaviour was a little odd. Monstering me on joining a roundabout across white hatched zone almost forcing me into the roundabout itself (classic Road Hog forcing other drivers to yield to him :( ) and then driving like a Vicar ;)

johnny8977 said:
His MOT wouldn't have voided his insurance - maybe they would have refused any claim for him, but they would still cover 3rd parties. Drink drivers find that out - the companies pay for the damage to everyone/everything apart from the driver themselves as they put themselves in that position.
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Fair point.
 
Box Brownie said:
Ah! you mean 101 ?

I have a neighbour whose car is SORN'ed but is kept on the Highway, not reported as I have no desire to have neighbour 'issues'.

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Yes, but this driver's not your neighbour, is he?
 
viv1969 said:
Yes, but this driver's not your neighbour, is he?
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No, that particular driver is not any neighbour of mine as I already have enough who are not considerate :lol: He was just an especially bad driver who did a deliberate act of very bad driving possibly suffering from big car syndrome!
 
Box Brownie said:
Aghhhh!

Looked up his number plate to find it is taxed but the MoT ran out mid October 2015, so if he had hit me likely his insurance would be void, though they police would 'hit' him.
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Bit too much spare time?
 
If you had a dash cam, would the police even take it seriously and act on it? (I ask because I drive a lot for work and I see a lot of idiots, I was just wondering if it was worth buying one and if anything would ever come of it)
 
jonoooo125 said:
If you had a dash cam, would the police even take it seriously and act on it? (I ask because I drive a lot for work and I see a lot of idiots, I was just wondering if it was worth buying one and if anything would ever come of it)
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If you're only interested in using a dash cam to report people for relatively minor offences like this then it's probably not worth it.

If I was to report every dodgy driver or road incident I face on the way to work and back I would need a full time job to process them all. I don't even let it bother me now because it's just not worth the drama.
 
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connersz said:
If you're only interested in using a dash cam to report people for relatively minor offences like this then it's probably not worth it.

If I was to report every dodgy driver or road incident I face on the way to work and back I would need a full time job to process them all. I don't even let it bother me now because it's just not worth the drama.
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A dashcam would have recorded his stupidty, being cut up is not always a 'minor' offence.

In this instance ~ there are two lanes leading to a roundabout, to access any exit other than the 1st one safely you need to be in the outside lane.

I was waiting and observing to the right and had my gap which I took, as I turned into the circumference and the single marked lane for that small section of the roundabout at that point, the plonker came effectively on my blind side on the left where according to the highway code he should never have been (cutting me up by crossing two hatched zones to push alongside/in front of me) I only realised he was there once he was angled in on me and had I not braked I would have hit him at approx the A pillar location because he was turning in on me and I was central in the prescribed single lane on the roundabout so had nowhere to go to avoid him. So a Highway Code infractions, crossing a hatched zone......how serious is that and compounded by his careless (dangerous) behaviour???
 
We had a range rover in the middle lane of the m4, rush hour, weaving as we passed it (or tried to). driver was typing away on his phone on his lap. My colleague filmed it for quite some time before he noticed, (all traffic doing same speed) then got irate as my colleague suggested he put his phone down. Last seen leaving lane 2 to exit 15 of m4, cutting up a driver in lane 1.
 
Byker28i said:
We had a range rover in the middle lane of the m4, rush hour, weaving as we passed it (or tried to). driver was typing away on his phone on his lap. My colleague filmed it for quite some time before he noticed, (all traffic doing same speed) then got irate as my colleague suggested he put his phone down. Last seen leaving lane 2 to exit 15 of m4, cutting up a driver in lane 1.
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Put it up on youtube along with the reg number?

I had a muppet going round a 90 degree bend really fast. That wasn't WAMT. But he was over the white lines and I was on the other side. If I hadn't braked and tucked in, there would have been a collision. Don't mind people going fast but learn to handle the car. FWIW mine would have made it round the corner faster and stayed within the lane. It's not hard.
 
^^^^

And the bigger the vehicle the more pushy they can be......the Chelsea tractor brigade :lol:
 
omens said:
Put it up on youtube along with the reg number?

I had a muppet going round a 90 degree bend really fast. That wasn't WAMT. But he was over the white lines and I was on the other side. If I hadn't braked and tucked in, there would have been a collision. Don't mind people going fast but learn to handle the car. FWIW mine would have made it round the corner faster and stayed within the lane. It's not hard.
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Ah! Don't get me started about the appaling lack of lane discipline.

I always remember something my instructor said oh so many years ago in regard to single carriageway roads "drive as if you were about to meet yourself coming the other way..."
 
Box Brownie said:
Ah! Don't get me started about the appaling lack of lane discipline.

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There is a 2 lane wide roundabout, with 5 entries/exits, just outside where I work. Every day as I approach my exit, whilst I'm in the left hand lane, some numpty cuts into my lane, usually without looking and sometimes nearly side swiping my car, only to continue around the roundabout to the next exit. Sometimes the knob heads even indicate left move into the left hand lane, continuing to indicate left, slow right down before my exit, then they carry on round to the next one.
 
Get an old Landy. People will still fail to see you but they WILL come off second best in a side to side altercation!
 
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Nod said:
Get an old Landy. People will still fail to see you but they WILL come off second best in a side to side altercation!
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Puts me in mind of a story from the 60's of a wealthy Londoner who was sick and tired of his car getting dinged and scratched so he bought an ex army Alvis armoured car and had it converted to look more like a large road car, by all accounts the cost for oxy acetylene cutting was enormous. But he never had to worry about even lorries bumping into him.
 
jonoooo125 said:
(I ask because I drive a lot for work and I see a lot of idiots, I was just wondering if it was worth buying one )[/QUOTE)

yes . i wouldnt be without mine .
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Dashcam makes you drive better too because it records your stupidity as well as others.
 
I was taught to to treat roundabouts like a clockface and stay in the left hand lane for any turning up to and including 12 0'clock

We have a roundabout here with for normal roads, just one lane each way, leading to it from all directions, on set being the bypass, still single
carraigeway.
Heading into town, I regularly get some muppet trying to come up in the RH lane and go straight across, almost tking the front of the vehicle off before they realise
and have to brake.
A few weeks back I was coming the other way I witnessed a very near miss when some woman cut straight across the front of another car, causing
it to come to a halt, blocking the way across from the bypass and almost get hit side on
 
Gremlin said:
I was taught to to treat roundabouts like a clockface and stay in the left hand lane for any turning up to and including 12 0'clock
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Me too, but the method today seems to be get in the right hand lane, and take the "racing line" straight across, must save them about 2 seconds I guess, while cutting up anything in their way.
And expecting everyone else to "drive" for them to avoid accidents :(
 
A whole bunch of numpties this morning. Bloody bootsale near work. All the idiots take up both lanes on the slip road leaving the dual carriageway, leading up to the roundabout where they need to turn left into a single lane road, so don't know why they feel the need to fill both lanes, plus the cars on the roundabout also wanting to go to the bootsale, blocking cars getting onto the roundabout. With no idea how long the queue would take to go down for me to get through to get to work, I had to continue on past the slip road and come back from the opposite direction, a 6 mile round trip. One of the blokes at work, who came through 10 minutes later, also intended to take the extra detour got held up because the idiots were not only queuing in both lanes of the slip road, but now queuing in both lanes of the dual carriageway.
 
Gremlin said:
I was taught to to treat roundabouts like a clockface and stay in the left hand lane for any turning up to and including 12 0'clock
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As was I. However many roundabouts these days have a left hand entry lane which is marked in the road as usable to turn right. There are two of these buggers near me.
 
RichardtheSane said:
As was I. However many roundabouts these days have a left hand entry lane which is marked in the road as usable to turn right. There are two of these buggers near me.
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That is how the roundabout is marked near work. It's easier to enter from the left hand lane anyway, because from the give way line, you are almost having to look back over your right shoulder to see if anything is coming on the roundabout and even then, your view is partially blocked by a crash barrier.
 
RichardtheSane said:
As was I. However many roundabouts these days have a left hand entry lane which is marked in the road as usable to turn right. There are two of these buggers near me.
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And one near me, A428 / A1 interchange, its marked so you can turn left from the right hand lane, but its duel carriageway to duel carriage way so not too bad.
The one I love ( and there are one or two others) is the one at Hemel Hempstead, its one large roundabout with a roundabout at each intersection, so you can actually go around the main roundabout the wrong way.
Its great until someone panics, its been there a lot of years, and still people can't negotiate it.
 
^^^^ that roundabout of roundabouts sounds like the one in Swindon. When it was first introduced and indeed the first time I set eyes on it, it was clearly not for the faint hearted :D

The one thing I said in a previous post also applies to all driving not just roundabouts and that is good lane discipline and another something that even now I suspect is not taught and that is "roadcraft". Yonks ago when taking my advanced level motorcycling it was drummed into me that roadcraft and its proper usage was literally a lifesaver.
 
Mr Bump said:
you looked his reg up, how odd.
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Not odd at all. We had a tatty van parked outside our house for a week, the neighbours did not know who it belonged to, so I did a check on the Gov website and it was not taxed or MOT'd, so I reported it to the police.
It was moved a day later, so obviously the message got through.
I would certainly not like to be involved in an accident with an unlicenced/uninsured driver.
 
Box Brownie said:
^^^^ that roundabout of roundabouts sounds like the one in Swindon. When it was first introduced and indeed the first time I set eyes on it, it was clearly not for the faint hearted :D

The one thing I said in a previous post also applies to all driving not just roundabouts and that is good lane discipline and another something that even now I suspect is not taught and that is "roadcraft". Yonks ago when taking my advanced level motorcycling it was drummed into me that roadcraft and its proper usage was literally a lifesaver.
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That one's legendary :D
 
Cobra said:
Me too, but the method today seems to be get in the right hand lane, and take the "racing line" straight across, must save them about 2 seconds I guess, while cutting up anything in their way.
And expecting everyone else to "drive" for them to avoid accidents :(
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My pet hate is drivers who take a straight line through a roundabout cutting over other lanes and forcing others to avoid them. :(

Some roundabouts seem designed to confuse mind you, two lane entry onto 4 lane r'bout, exit to single lane with arrows allowing traffic from both entry lanes to take the same exit.
 
Box Brownie said:
that roundabout of roundabouts sounds like the one in Swindon.
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I've never been across the one in Swindon, but I've also heard others say its very similar
Box Brownie said:
and that is good lane discipline
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If it is, taught, its very quickly forgotten :(

I travel around quite early some mornings, and one particular 15 mile stretch of duel carriage way can be very quite, and is fairly straight, you see headlights some distance from behind,
the car / van eventually goes passed and although the road in front is clear as far as the eye can see, the car / van continues in the the outside lane :rolleyes:

One morning I had a brain storm and decided to see what the fascination was, no white lights in my mirror(s) no red lights in front, so I hogged the outside lane,
it was less than a mile before it started to feel alien, a couple of miles on, and I started feeling uncomfortable about the whole thing and yearned for the near side again..

So no, I have no idea what the fascination for hogging the outside lane is whatsoever!
 
johnny8977 said:
His MOT wouldn't have voided his insurance - maybe they would have refused any claim for him, but they would still cover 3rd parties. Drink drivers find that out - the companies pay for the damage to everyone/everything apart from the driver themselves as they put themselves in that position.
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Yep says it here.Last paragraph third party claims.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17489887
 
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Steep said:
no idea what the guy was thinking of.
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