| Young drivers & not indicating 21:35 - Jul 14 with 9927 views | artsbossbeard |
is this "a thing"?
I've noted this before in Ipswich but today I was looking to pull out of a side street near the ground and a young lad in a beat up Focus pulled into the same road as I without indicating, I threw my arm up in an Italian/Soprano's manner to be greeted by a middle finger from the Focus driver.
Difficult to take from a conformist indictor-er and, weirdly enough, a BMW driver.
EDIT: I'm not sure if I've explained thing properly here. The young lad had no intention of indicating, it was a deliberate act not to do so and he was equally ready to give me the finger after I reacted. [Post edited 16 Jul 2018 9:35]
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| Young drivers & not indicating on 21:46 - Jul 14 with 4475 views | Mullet |
People in general, and actually usually middle-aged men to be honest if we're narrowing it down to demographics.
These are made up of subsets like 'indicating once my wheels touch the line Audi man', and can be added to by the likes of 'Hubby told me this Qashqai was a 4x4 so I drive it like a dodgem aspiringly posh lady'. |  |
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| Young drivers & not indicating on 21:46 - Jul 14 with 4471 views | Rob88 |
Nothing to do with age. Some people just don’t know how to indicate their intentions when driving. |  | | |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 21:48 - Jul 14 with 4463 views | Rob88 |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 21:46 - Jul 14 by Mullet |
People in general, and actually usually middle-aged men to be honest if we're narrowing it down to demographics.
These are made up of subsets like 'indicating once my wheels touch the line Audi man', and can be added to by the likes of 'Hubby told me this Qashqai was a 4x4 so I drive it like a dodgem aspiringly posh lady'. |
From observation you could be forgiven for thinking it’s signal manoeuvre mirror. | | | |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 21:50 - Jul 14 with 4452 views | textbackup |
you want proper road rage, or atleast watching it, just sit in the new wickes car park (up martlesham) and watch the Tesco shoppers ignore the mini roundabout..... ive spent most of my summer sat there watching this |  |
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| Young drivers & not indicating on 22:07 - Jul 14 with 4385 views | footers |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 21:50 - Jul 14 by textbackup |
you want proper road rage, or atleast watching it, just sit in the new wickes car park (up martlesham) and watch the Tesco shoppers ignore the mini roundabout..... ive spent most of my summer sat there watching this |
Blimey, texters, sounds like you need to get out a bit more! Just not at the Martlesham Tesco ;) |  |
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| Young drivers & not indicating on 22:43 - Jul 14 with 4315 views | textbackup |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 22:07 - Jul 14 by footers |
Blimey, texters, sounds like you need to get out a bit more! Just not at the Martlesham Tesco ;) |
I was only joking, when I say watching it all summer I meant "whilst I ate my fat boy breakfast roll from the burger van in the carpark"
who, incidentally, has a massive town fan running it. | |
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| Young drivers & not indicating on 23:31 - Jul 14 with 4245 views | monytowbray |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 21:50 - Jul 14 by textbackup |
you want proper road rage, or atleast watching it, just sit in the new wickes car park (up martlesham) and watch the Tesco shoppers ignore the mini roundabout..... ive spent most of my summer sat there watching this |
Someone literally did this as I left Tesco this week. I was like WHAT ARE YOU DOING? ARE YOU ACTUALLY ABOUT TO GO THE WRONG WAY AROUND A ROUNDABOUT? And then he did.
I made him wait for me to pass, slowed down in his path and did a spinny thing with my finger to indicate he was on a roundabout. He basically looked at me as if I were mental.
Tw@t.
It was around midday, wasn’t you off to get breakfast, was it?! ;) [Post edited 14 Jul 2018 23:33]
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| Young drivers & not indicating on 00:40 - Jul 15 with 4168 views | NewcyBlue |
I have noticed that drivers down South are less courteous, and possibly less aware of other road users than they are up North. |  |
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| Young drivers & not indicating on 07:00 - Jul 15 with 4034 views | gordon |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 23:31 - Jul 14 by monytowbray |
Someone literally did this as I left Tesco this week. I was like WHAT ARE YOU DOING? ARE YOU ACTUALLY ABOUT TO GO THE WRONG WAY AROUND A ROUNDABOUT? And then he did.
I made him wait for me to pass, slowed down in his path and did a spinny thing with my finger to indicate he was on a roundabout. He basically looked at me as if I were mental.
Tw@t.
It was around midday, wasn’t you off to get breakfast, was it?! ;) [Post edited 14 Jul 2018 23:33]
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Going the wrong way round a roundabout when no one else is around in the early morning is a great adrenaline rush tho. |  | | |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 07:03 - Jul 15 with 4024 views | Reuser_is_God |
Also people in big cars who think they’re immortal on the road. |  |
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| Young drivers & not indicating on 07:59 - Jul 15 with 3949 views | StokieBlue |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 07:03 - Jul 15 by Reuser_is_God |
Also people in big cars who think they’re immortal on the road. |
They kind of are aren't they? Mass is key with regards to force and momentum.
Many of them are still total tools though.
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| Young drivers & not indicating on 08:05 - Jul 15 with 3936 views | Deano69 |
Someone was telling me the other day that you are now not meant to indicate when passing a parked vehicle. Apparently, after decades of doing this, indicating could be confusing to other drivers?? |  |
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| Young drivers & not indicating on 08:09 - Jul 15 with 3932 views | No9 |
Ride a motorbike & you soon discover BMW's, along with Range Rovers & Jag's aren't fitted with indicators, rear view mirrors or dip switches - or is it the drivers haven't been taught to use them?
Young women have internal rear view mirrors for appplying / adjusting make up.-, children & dogs are directing the driver, 'Back off baby on board' actually means be aware I am not concentrating on what I should be.
Everyone else should be treated with caution, HGV drivers are NOT 'kings of the road' & PSV drivers have too many blind spots to mention.
AND - Sundays mean - stay in the back yard | | | |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 08:14 - Jul 15 with 3921 views | chicoazul |
It's the new trend of "letting people go at roundabouts even though it's my right of way" thing I can't abide. What are we, French? |  |
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| Young drivers & not indicating on 08:17 - Jul 15 with 3919 views | No9 |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 08:14 - Jul 15 by chicoazul |
It's the new trend of "letting people go at roundabouts even though it's my right of way" thing I can't abide. What are we, French? |
"letting people go at roundabouts even though it's my right of way"
If you mean teh new mini roundabouts, there were a Dutch invention
Or is it something else? | | | |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 08:17 - Jul 15 with 3919 views | WeWereZombies |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 07:59 - Jul 15 by StokieBlue |
They kind of are aren't they? Mass is key with regards to force and momentum.
Many of them are still total tools though.
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You are mainly correct but there was a tragic case near Dolgoch in mid-Wales where an off roading 4x4 overturned into a river. Locals struggled to help the driver and might have succeeded in righting a lighter vehicle but in this instance the driver drowned. |  |
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| Young drivers & not indicating on 08:31 - Jul 15 with 3885 views | StokieBlue |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 08:17 - Jul 15 by WeWereZombies |
You are mainly correct but there was a tragic case near Dolgoch in mid-Wales where an off roading 4x4 overturned into a river. Locals struggled to help the driver and might have succeeded in righting a lighter vehicle but in this instance the driver drowned. |
Horrible but that's an edge case.
With regards to collisions, mass is king (given nobody is going to be travelling at properly high speeds).
Shouldn't be so many 4x4s on the roads though. Not everyone lives up a mountain.
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| Young drivers & not indicating on 08:38 - Jul 15 with 3857 views | No9 |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 08:31 - Jul 15 by StokieBlue |
Horrible but that's an edge case.
With regards to collisions, mass is king (given nobody is going to be travelling at properly high speeds).
Shouldn't be so many 4x4s on the roads though. Not everyone lives up a mountain.
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"Shouldn't be so many 4x4s on the roads"
East Anglian roads and the lack of maintenance make Chelsea tractos the vehicle of choice, outside urban areas almost obligatory between Oct 01 & March 31 | | | |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 08:40 - Jul 15 with 3853 views | Reuser_is_God |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 07:59 - Jul 15 by StokieBlue |
They kind of are aren't they? Mass is key with regards to force and momentum.
Many of them are still total tools though.
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Yes but that doesn’t give them a right to drive in such a way. | |
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| Young drivers & not indicating on 08:45 - Jul 15 with 3836 views | StokieBlue |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 08:38 - Jul 15 by No9 |
"Shouldn't be so many 4x4s on the roads"
East Anglian roads and the lack of maintenance make Chelsea tractos the vehicle of choice, outside urban areas almost obligatory between Oct 01 & March 31 |
That's not really true is it.
Also not all 4x4 have to be giant buses.
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| Young drivers & not indicating on 08:50 - Jul 15 with 3820 views | No9 |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 08:45 - Jul 15 by StokieBlue |
That's not really true is it.
Also not all 4x4 have to be giant buses.
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I agree not all 4 X 4's have to be huge, you can have a Prorsche + others
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| Young drivers & not indicating on 08:57 - Jul 15 with 3796 views | No9 |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 00:37 - Jul 15 by StokieBlue |
Sounds like it's lucky they didn't have to put one of these in there:
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A new road to the immediate north of Norwich NDR has some terribly badly engineered & constructed roundabouts, and the road surface is very bumpy. It has only been opne a few weeks and already the number of acsidents is very concerning, the Norfolk County Council says it's bad driving but, the new roundabout on the A146 shows without doubt it is substandard road building | | | |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 08:59 - Jul 15 with 3800 views | FrowsyArmLarry |
Driving in London is a lot worse than it used to be. I’m sure people used to let you in which never happens now.... it’s essential to be extremely aggressive and force your way in. Also I was flashed and undertaken buy people using the bus lane twice last night. My crime?... doing 30 in a 30 |  | | |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 10:30 - Jul 15 with 3653 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| Young drivers & not indicating on 21:50 - Jul 14 by textbackup |
you want proper road rage, or atleast watching it, just sit in the new wickes car park (up martlesham) and watch the Tesco shoppers ignore the mini roundabout..... ive spent most of my summer sat there watching this |
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St Augustine’s roundabout is currently a bit chaotic when coming from Sainsbury’s way. Historically you take the right lane to go straight over, however they’ve removed the road markings which strictly speaking means you should now use the left lane. 95% of traffic is still using the right lane but you get the odd driver using the left, from which I must have seen at least 10 near accidents in the past month alone
I’ve just taken to hovering in the middle |  |
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