Idiots

[thecraw]

Why do idiots get given driving licences? A bit of snow and the roads become grid locked due to the idiots that panic and don't know how to drive. Some idiot even abandoned their Mini at the bottom of the hill on the back road into my village right in the middle of the road. Caused mayhem! Unbelievable.

After spending 30 minutes in stationery traffic I used my 4X4 and local knowledge to my advantage and I went off road through a farmers field, onto a farm track and out onto the "top" road into my village. Quite good fun and my bus didn't even struggle once.

 

[deanobillquay]

Not everyone has the benefit of a 4x4...

 

[Fader]

Idiots on the road are everywhere not just in the snow, though i'd agree more seem to come out of the woodwork then to.

I'm still waiting a payout after some chav rear ended my car 2 days before the kent Princes meet up. Wrote my car off as they shunted me into the one in front, only to find the prat had been on his phone when driving and was a tad over the limit. Yet I still have to drive round in a hire car that isn't even in the same class as mine.

As for snow, people abandoning cars everywhere near where I live as you'd think their cars aren't capable of moving over gritted roads.

 

[Dodger]

Smallest of small dusting this afternoon and I get stuck behind a car on an A road doing 10mph....yes 10mph.

Mind you we have had about 3 inches in the last 2 hours.

No golf again.

 

[thecraw]

Muppets and idiots. That's what people who can't drive on gritted roads are Dodger. Muppets and idiots. Gridlock in Renfrewshire due to 3 maybe 4 inches of white stuff. Unbelievable!

 

[brendy]

When you see the state of some peoples tyres out there you can see why they have no control of their cars hence the pitiful speeds.
The sooner they make winter tyres a legal requirement from october through to march the better.

 

[bigslice]

When you see the state of some peoples tyres out there you can see why they have no control of their cars hence the pitiful speeds.
The sooner they make winter tyres a legal requirement from october through to march the better.

ive just spent £340 on four van tyres and what a difference, them traffic cops canny catch me nooo

 

[Val]

ive just spent £340 on four van tyres and what a difference, them traffic cops canny catch me nooo

Beats driving on bare rims Davy

 

[Khamelion]

I should add this to the what do dislike thread, but the muppets who see snow and forget how to drive, there's a fairly steep hill close to where I live, the last twice it's snowed and the the road has had a covering, I've had to avoid people stopping and reversing so they didn't have to go down the hill. I stick the car in first gear and let the car roll down engine braking no drama.

 

[SocketRocket]

Why do idiots get given driving licences? A bit of snow and the roads become grid locked due to the idiots that panic and don't know how to drive. Some idiot even abandoned their Mini at the bottom of the hill on the back road into my village right in the middle of the road. Caused mayhem! Unbelievable.

After spending 30 minutes in stationery traffic I used my 4X4 and local knowledge to my advantage and I went off road through a farmers field, onto a farm track and out onto the "top" road into my village. Quite good fun and my bus didn't even struggle once.

Get off my land!!

 

[JustOne]

Smallest of small dusting this afternoon and I get stuck behind a car on an A road doing 10mph....yes 10mph.

Hopefully when you are doing 30mph you will crash.... and learn a lesson.

I expect you were also 10ft from their back bumper

 

[Foxholer]

Smallest of small dusting this afternoon and I get stuck behind a car on an A road doing 10mph....yes 10mph.

Hopefully when you are doing 30mph you will crash.... and learn a lesson.

I expect you were also 10ft from their back bumper

I'm not quite in agreement with JO's method (a bit like saying someone deserved getting hit at by the group behind). But did wonder why you didn't overtake! Surely, if conditions were as you stated, it would be 'safe' to do so?

 

[Khamelion]

Smallest of small dusting this afternoon and I get stuck behind a car on an A road doing 10mph....yes 10mph.

Hopefully when you are doing 30mph you will crash.... and learn a lesson.

I expect you were also 10ft from their back bumper

Not sure why anyone would wish someone to have a crash?

@JustOne, I take it from your comment you're the type of driver that poodles around the place at the slightest hint of snow.

@Dodger, I know where you're coming from, the first fall of snow we had before Christmas and the main roads were chaos, so took the back roads home, no farmers fields though as I approached a t-junction there was a car already stopped, myself and car behind me slowed and stopped as well, we waited for the car infront of us to pull out, the driver didn't, we waited, I looked left and there were some cars only visible by their headlights at least a good half mile away, I looked right no headlights to be seen, we waited expecting the driver to pull out but the stupid driver waited until the cars to the left had got to the junction and turned in, then the driver pulls out and proceeds to do JustOne type speeds (10mph) Yes the roads were covered in snow, yes it was a little slippy, but it was a straight road, So me and car behind pulled out over took the car and left the driver poodling along.

 

[stevie_r]

A fair few motorists of the gentler persuasion need to learn that a dusting of snow lying in a field or on a verge doesn't mean you are going to crash if you go over 20 mph - on a road that is perfectly clear

 

[Dodger]

Hopefully when you are doing 30mph you will crash.... and learn a lesson.

I expect you were also 10ft from their back bumper

Who mentioned 30mph??

When I say a dusting it was literally like the stuff that you put on ya cappuccino.......25 to 30 would have been perfectly reasonable instead of driving like a fandan.

 

[Dodger]

I'm not quite in agreement with JO's method (a bit like saying someone deserved getting hit at by the group behind). But did wonder why you didn't overtake! Surely, if conditions were as you stated, it would be 'safe' to do so?

Errr,oncoming traffic maybe??!!

A clear run and I would indeed have been off and gave a polite peep on my way past.

10mph?? Ridiculous stuff. A golf buggy goes faster.

 

[JustOne]

@JustOne, I take it from your comment you're the type of driver that poodles around the place at the slightest hint of snow.

No, I'm an irresponsible idiot, I'm the guy who actually goes out for a drive at midnight just so I can slide the car around on purpose but when others are around I'm blessed with patience and understand that not everyone is like me. People crash at 30mph when it's NOT snowy or icy. If they knew that it was -3 outside and it was likely that there might be ice under the dusting of snow then I'd say they were the clever ones.

 

[SocketRocket]

Many years ago before ABS and Traction Control, I was driving down a hill when I hit black ice, it was not snowy or even any visible frost about. I completely lost control of the car, it started to spin then slid sideways at around 30 MPH. I managed to stop it up at the side of the road without hitting anything, got out with my heart in my mouth when I saw another car spinning down the hill towards me, it smashed into my car and ended up on top of it. Fortunately the guy inside only had minor injuries and I walked away unhurt. Car was a write off though.

Forty years later it still haunts me when the road is icy.

 

[bozza]

F

After spending 30 minutes in stationery traffic I used my 4X4 and local knowledge to my advantage and I went off road through a farmers field, onto a farm track and out onto the "top" road into my village. Quite good fun and my bus didn't even struggle once.

I'm sure the farmer will love the fact you trespassed over his land, just imagine if you had got stuck in the middle of his field in you're 4x4 and had to get him to tow you out.

Then who would be the idiot?

 

[Foxholer]

Errr,oncoming traffic maybe??!!

Even greater reason to be 'defensive' rather than impatient!