Sign up with GoogleProblem i am having with driving in the yellow lane , there is alot of debris on the side of the road (stones , nails , pieces of disintegrated truck tires)
, image having a tirr blow out in yellow lane and veering onto the verge .
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Bad Driving thread
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, image having a tirr blow out in yellow lane and veering onto the verge .
supersunbird
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Ag Roux, relax a bit and go think what you are going to do with your Galaxy Tab that you won
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As an aside, I never pull into the yellow lane if I am doing the speed limit and someone comes up behind me and flashes their lights at me. Why should I risk getting a puncture just because you are in a hurry or impatient?
If I were going under the speed limit then I will pull over, yes.
The law is that they flash to show intent to overtake, you move to the left as much as possible (if there is no other lane, and no, emergency lane doesn't count), but since you don't want to drive on the "dirty" hard shoulder (as the UK calls it), that means you drive on the yellow line with your left wheels. The overtaker must then do their thing and overtake.
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Oh, how convenient to now say the area in the yellow line is dirty, yet you expect cyclist with much thinner wheels that puncture much easier to ride there.
Just try to be nicer to other people on the road, it's not going to cost you anything.
Just try to be nicer to other people on the road, it's not going to cost you anything.
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Lol try and explain that to your insurance when something goes wrong. The right lane is the fast lane, you can sit behind me on the left lane.
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Nothing will go wrong. I'm a professional. Relax.
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Not at the expense of me getting a puncture or hitting a pedestrian and sitting with a lawsuit against me (if you were driving at night, for example).
They can wait for a gap in the traffic like normal human beings.
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Because people looking to overtake you are expecting you to do move onto the shoulder when it is not safe, like a pedestrian being there or visibility is limited? Interesting...
Or at night when it is illegal?
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Have you seen how the average EC driver behaves on the road?
Complete disregard for the rules of the road and they will try and force you to move into the yellow line even if there are stones, people, animals and cars in it.
I still don't do it for worry of the abovementioned issues and punctures, of which I get plenty enough of per year without having to put my wheels on the other side of the yellow line where most of the debris on the road ends up
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No I don't go into the badlands
But if that is the case just stay there as you are legally allowed to do. What grates my bones though is when people not only won't move into the shoulder (when it is safe) but purposefully move their vehicle as far to the right as they can so you can no longer see when a gap does appear And of course they'll accelerate as you pass them
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No I don't go into the badlandsBut if that is the case just stay there as you are legally allowed to do. What grates my bones though is when people not only won't move into the shoulder (when it is safe) but purposefully move their vehicle as far to the right as they can so you can no longer see when a gap does appear
But if that is the case just stay there as you are legally allowed to do. What grates my bones though is when people not only won't move into the shoulder (when it is safe) but purposefully move their vehicle as far to the right as they can so you can no longer see when a gap does appear Oh yes, that gets me as well. Trucks do this often; mostly with half a tyre or more over the line on a straight road.
I can sort of understand a tyre or two going across the middle line when taking a turn but sometimes you can see that they have plenty of space to fit the vehicle inside the lines with ease, yet they don't.
I once went to Umtata and I thought I was going to die. I still had my old underpowered Honda Ballade (all 55kw of it) and it was a nightmare. The Wild West of the EC if ever there was one
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White golf GTI in Helderberg area with the number plate CEY 818, use your indicators your chop. Your car isn't that fast not to use them.
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Situation:
The queue I am in goes across the N2 over a bridge and turns right a few hundred metres ahead to join up with the highway. The queue is quite long and the section of road is fragmented by traffic lights.
People like this bakkie will without fail drive down the left hand lane and try and push in near the front of the queue like this chop right here. This is an issue because A) he now holds up the traffic that wants to genuinely go straight into the next suburb and B) makes the queue I am in go a lot slower. Due to the traffic signals it's not uncommon to sit in the same spot for a good 5 mins at a time as you need to let people coming in from the traffic lights a gap and as soon as there is a legitimate gap to take, some fecker comes and swoops in from the left hand lane and you are back to square one.
The queue I am in goes across the N2 over a bridge and turns right a few hundred metres ahead to join up with the highway. The queue is quite long and the section of road is fragmented by traffic lights.
People like this bakkie will without fail drive down the left hand lane and try and push in near the front of the queue like this chop right here. This is an issue because A) he now holds up the traffic that wants to genuinely go straight into the next suburb and B) makes the queue I am in go a lot slower. Due to the traffic signals it's not uncommon to sit in the same spot for a good 5 mins at a time as you need to let people coming in from the traffic lights a gap and as soon as there is a legitimate gap to take, some fecker comes and swoops in from the left hand lane and you are back to square one.
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Saw this on campus yesterday.
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Saw this on campus yesterday.
Not driving... and not that bad. Probably waiting for insurance to arrange repair.
To the nice taxi-driver who unnecessarily drove straight through a left-only turning lane, to try and cut in-front of me and failing to do so: thanks for side-swiping my 10-yr old car, causing damage to the CV-shaft which I now need to replace. I hope some day you realise how terrible your driving habits are, before someone gets hurt.
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Did he stop? What happened after that?
Note this was at 05h30 in the morning. He stopped, checked his bumper, then climbed back into the taxi and sped off. I took his license plate and gave a statement at the nearest police station
Saw this on campus yesterday.
Just your typical student car...
Here in the Durban this type of driving is as common as seeing a VW Golf 1 on the road, Complete utter disregard for the next person on the road or the rules on the road. If the could help it the yellow line is like the white lines on the road, During peak hour traffic in umhlanga and im talking grid locked, Literally bumper to bumper these guys will make sure they cause more delays by cutting into the yellow lane even if there is an embankment on the edge just to cut one car in front and get caught like everyone else.
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El Josa bus blasts past me then checks me in the side mirror before stopping at a pedestrian crossing with a green light and flashes his lights to indicate they can walk across. Probably thought I would ride past him and crash into the pedestrians. Well I stopped too, the pedestrians did not cross. What a chop.