Bad Driving thread

Shi said:
when driving in a CBD, you have to be extra careful.
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It's no better out on the rural roads. People seem to overtake wherever they feel like, ignoring solid white lines, blind rises and corners. In fact some seem to specialise in riding up your tailpipe for the flat section where it's safe to overtake, leaving the actual overtaking until 100m past the start of the solid white line. And they don't drop a gear and accelerate past either, they kinda pootle along in top, gradually picking up a little speed as the oncoming timber truck comes around the corner.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Best advice ever.
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I do the same. In this instance I hooted and flashed my lights at him long before the lights turned red as I could see his intention. Didn't phase him a bit though.

The truck is a Debonairs truck and I have lodged a complaint on their website with a link to the video.

Small fender bender this morning in Pinelands in the oncoming lane. It's fairly quick and happens in the last few second of the video. Grey VW convertable (not sure exactly what model), rear ends a white opel who in tur slams into a silver merc. The opel comes off the worst and only minor bumber damage on the VW and Merc.

http://youtu.be/KsJIb3ZK30w?list=UU20lhjV0msn6WpwAjw67RWw
 
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Really felt like ramming a car today...

I & others are merging onto a highway. There is heavy merging traffic there so everyone sane tends to clear out of the left-most lane in that spot (heavy trucks included). Check mirror...lane being merged is 100% empty (as I said...even trucks gtfo). Start to merge like the rest of the merging traffic...and suddenly I've got a car on my right where I should be merging. Turns out some fkin idiot decided to overtake left side right during the heavy traffic merge...

Oh and if you're reading this...Sharks supporter in a Corsa Lite...please ask for a refund on that license.
 
Rant

As a runner, you notice a few things. The one thing is the people driving expensive cars, but driving with their cellphones stuck to their ears. If you driving a R500k car, you could afford the bluetooth interface. And you can see in the way the driver drives. Distracted. And you will be amazed how many drivers do this

Rant done.
 
creeper said:
Rant

As a runner, you notice a few things. The one thing is the people driving expensive cars, but driving with their cellphones stuck to their ears. If you driving a R500k car, you could afford the bluetooth interface. And you can see in the way the driver drives. Distracted. And you will be amazed how many drivers do this

Rant done.
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I hate this ****, and I see it every day. One of the first things I bought after getting my licence was a hands free kit. It's not that expensive people. I bought the cradle, cable and charger separately, and I don't think that it cost more than R200 all together.
 
What's wrong with the morons on the road nowadays?

Do they all have driving licences courtesy of the Grace Mugabe Instant Degree Academy?

They putter along at between 80 & 100 km/h on the GFIP payways, where the signposted speed-limit is 120 km/h, usually in the second-most lane from the right - or the extreme right-most lane - and totally oblivious to the 1-2 km tailback of cars trapped behind them.

It is useless to try & overtake them in the left - as the left lanes are usually filled three-abreast with petrol tankers, coal & and container trucks - all jockeying to overtake each other in a seemingly endless struggle, as their speeds differ by about 0.5 to 1 km/h, and it takes them about 3-5 kms, sometimes more, to try & complete this snail-paced overtaking maneouvre.

The frustration levels of all the people caught up in the tailbacks eventually leads to someone 'losing the plot' due to road rage, swerving to change lanes to try and get around Miss Daisy's chauffeur, and invariably colliding with the afore-mentioned Heavy Goods Vehicle Grand Prix, causing carnage & destruction in their wake.

This leads to the inevitable traffic reports on the local radio stations: "Look out for a heavy delay in the Giilloolys area, Van Buren, Modderfontein, Buccleuch, R24 / N12 split going to Barbara Road & OR Tambo, Allendale Road or New Road areas, due to a truck accident" - which is a DAILY occurrence nowadays!

Why does SCAMRAL & JMPD / Ekhurhuleni Metro not place mobile traffic patrols on the roads during peak periods, and fine these morons for 'impeding the safe traffic flow' on the Payways?

Nah, it's far easier to sit in a patio chair, under a beach umbrella, with your handy Jumbo bucket of KFC, and man a mobile speed-trap in a residential area near a school, where there are much easier 'soft targets' to prosecute!

While we're at it, why do the authorities not place large 'recovery vehicles' near these traffic hot-spots - (a good place would be the slip-lane by each e-toll gantry tower), so when there is a multi-vehicle collision, which usually has a minibus taxi or truck involved as well, these large 'tow-trucks' can then be mobilised to simply drag the wreckage to the side of the road - so the traffic can flow freely again, and they can then clean up the debris later in the evening / morning when the traffic flow is much less and would not cause delays?

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Ivan Leon said:
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While we're at it, why do the authorities not place large 'recovery vehicles' near these traffic hot-spots - (a good place would be the slip-lane by each e-toll gantry tower), so when there is a multi-vehicle collision, which usually has a minibus taxi or truck involved as well, these large 'tow-trucks' can then be mobilised to simply drag the wreckage to the side of the road - so the traffic can flow freely again, and they can then clean up the debris later in the evening / morning when the traffic flow is much less and would not cause delays?
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I've noticed this in the UK: "Free Recovery" signs posted around various areas where a bottleneck would stop/seriously impede normal traffic. Usually construction zones, but sometimes just natural bottlenecks where a broken down / crashed car would cause havoc...
 
They putter along at between 80 & 100 km/h on the GFIP payways, where the signposted speed-limit is 120 km/h, usually in the second-most lane from the right - or the extreme right-most lane - and totally oblivious to the 1-2 km tailback of cars trapped behind them.
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And thats why so many overtake on the left. People are just completely oblivious to everything - rules, surrounding, safety etc.

Actually saw a taxi the other day hogging the right lane at like 80 - empty highway. Black BMW approaches fast, brakes and cruises behind it for like a km...then switches on the loudest siren & lights I've heard in a while. That is apparently what it takes to wake up a retard.
 
Just the other night I saw this bloke driving and I just had to snap a pic.

Brown Clio, Learner driver possibly driving down Cape Road with absolutely no lights on at all at just past 20:00. I don't know if it qualifies as bad driving but it surely is irresponsible driving:erm:



Astounding.
 
wabbit16 said:
Just the other night I saw this bloke driving and I just had to snap a pic.

Brown Clio, Learner driver possibly driving down Cape Road with absolutely no lights on at all at just past 20:00. I don't know if it qualifies as bad driving but it surely is irresponsible driving:erm:

Astounding.
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The new Clio models usually have DRL's fitted in front - so the moron behind the wheel assumes the headlights are also on as they can see 'some form of illumination emanating from the front of their vehicle' - not realising that the park lights, headlights and tail-lights need to be switched on MANUALLY - unless their vehicle has auto lights, and they have de-activated them for some obscure reason.

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Ivan Leon said:
The new Clio models usually have DRL's fitted in front - so the moron behind the wheel assumes the headlights are also on as they can see 'some form of illumination emanating from the front of their vehicle' - not realising that the park lights, headlights and tail-lights need to be switched on MANUALLY - unless their vehicle has auto lights, and they have de-activated them for some obscure reason.

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I never checked actually.

I wonder if the dash and speedo cluster illuminates when the DRL's are on and the main lights off? I can't believe that after the amount of people hooting at them (me included) they didn't skrik wakker and think that lights are required by law at nighttime:wtf:
 
That seems to be the basic 1.2 model, so it has DRL but not light/rain sensor, so it would be manual standard lights, possibly semi-manual DRL as well.
 
Ivan Leon said:
What's wrong with the morons on the road nowadays?

Do they all have driving licences courtesy of the Grace Mugabe Instant Degree Academy?
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No need to go that far.
Our own Speaker of Parliament has the local T-shirt.
 
I've been working in the Pretoria CBD for a few months now and there is stupidity happening around you all the time. Today was one of those WTF moments. I know there's lots of stupid things that drivers do, but pedestrians are more moronic than anything else.

Pretoria CBD, driving north on Van der Walt coming up to the intersection with Skinner street. I had green lights all the way which was quite pleasant for a Monday. So green lights for me, and a group of people decide to cross the road at the intersection where everyone knows its not green for them. What's worse is there was a woman with a baby on her back walking across the street.

So there I am, driving along when cars are stopping at the intersection, while it's green, to let pedestrians cross the street. Pedestrian knowledge about the rules of the road is seriously lacking.
 
Ivan Leon said:
They putter along at between 80 & 100 km/h on the GFIP payways, where the signposted speed-limit is 120 km/h, usually in the second-most lane from the right - or the extreme right-most lane - and totally oblivious to the 1-2 km tailback of cars trapped behind them.

It is useless to try & overtake them in the left - as the left lanes are usually filled three-abreast with petrol tankers, coal & and container trucks - all jockeying to overtake each other in a seemingly endless struggle, as their speeds differ by about 0.5 to 1 km/h, and it takes them about 3-5 kms, sometimes more, to try & complete this snail-paced overtaking maneouvre.


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Not justifying or excusing their behaviour but if the left lanes are full as you mentioned, what exactly are those people in front of you supposed to do? They're legitimately overtaking, perhaps not at a speed you'd like them to but not doing anything wrong that I can see?
Look if they stay there then yeah, bad behaviour, but from what you descrived I think it's a tad harsh on them?
 
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