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[Entwood]

it's no wonder that more and more restrictions are placed on motorists ..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-30934581

unfortunately he/she will take someone else out rather than just doing the gene pool a good turn...

[Diamond Black Geezer]

impressive.

As was impressive last week, when I was nipping down a side street, about to emerge onto the main road, this was just gone 5pm, icy roads and dark. A parked car to my left (in a row of parked cars) simply started to move and pull out no headlamps or sign there was anyone in the car, and no indicators, of course. My ABS cut in. Just ridiculous. 

[Webby the Bear]

That's pretty unbelievable.

Was sat last night behind a VW Golf at the lights (on red) when all of a sudden he just went........ while they were still red 

He slammed on his breaks for a car going passed then screeched away. Very lucky and for what? 20 seconds of time saved! 

[Diamond Black Geezer]

A bit amazed as driving standards seem to have got worse since winter set in - I've never noticed it this bad?

We probably all squeeze an amber here and there, but seen about half a dozen drivers running red lights lately, often in extreme cold/potentially icy conditions.
-That guy pulling out no lights on.
-Saw someone couple of days ago in the Asda car park just start to pull out (again, no headlights on - it was pitch black at that time) for anther car to have to brake pretty sharpish. Blatant disregard for other drivers. Then...
-Yesterday I clouted my head pretty hard, but had to still drive home from work. Had a couple of mins rest (my girlfriend is a student nurse, so was able to check for concussion etc) but felt I'd had a couple of pints of fairly strong ale - sort of light-headed, merry feeling. Concentrated on the roads like a chess grand master, but as I went down the shopping street, was mostly blinded by a driver with main beam - to see something sort of 'shimmer' in the gloom - as the oncoming car's lights started to wane in their intensity, I was able to see a bit clearer - a pedestrian walking across the road, not glancing in either direction as he did so. 15 feet from a crossing. 
-Which brings me onto main bloody beam... WHY does anyone do it, in crystal clear, fogless conditions?? Dazzling everyone else, or am I being prudish - perhaps this is an example of society - "I can see a bit better in the dark, I'm ok. Stuff everyone else" Maybe I'm out of tune with the times, but then there's...
-foglights. I'm starting to form the opinion that they might as well be banned on new cars, as they seem to serve no purpose but for idiot drivers to switch on as soon as it gets to dusk or enter a tunnel, and on the 2 days a year it is foggy, about 50% of the vehicles I see with them fitted don't switch them on!
-Bloke pulled onto a roundabout last night, the road to the right you can see for about 100yards - and a rapid response ambulance, with blue lights on, was perfectly visibly coming at speed, he clearly didn't see it, and as he/she realised, panicking tried to pull over, and mounted the kerb and probably scuffed both nearside alloys while doing it. Stopped, half-blocking the exit the ambulance needed (Octavia Estate) - has it been a Renault Master or whatever, it couldn't have fitted, might have even ended in a minor collision. Basically, they never bothered to look to see if anything was coming to their right. How can you do that on a roundabout is beyond me. It's fairly important, really. 

This is all in the last week!!

[05omegav6]

They got there comeuppance... in the interest of balanced reporting, they neglected to mention the unmarked police car behind it lit up like a Christmas tree

Not defending their obvious stupidity, but looks like that snow had slid down from the front of the roof, probably after braking, in which case the driver is probably in a bit of a panic

Moral of the story, always clear ALL the snow from your vehichle before setting off

[aaronjb]

I saw a fella come off the M25 at J11 this morning.  Nothing unusual there, you say..

Well J11 has two lanes of traffic going up it, the right hand lane was a long queue with the left hand lane empty.  There was a gap about one car long in the right hand lane.

Numptyman comes from the inside lane of the M25 (with a lorry up his chuff by this point) at a 45º angle, at about 30mph, between the one car gap somehow missing the front offside of the rear car and rear nearside of the front car, skewers into the left hand lane of the junction in front of me and tootles off up the junction.. ffs.

The truck nearly hit him, he nearly took out two stationary cars and seemed entirely oblivious..

[Entwood]

They got there comeuppance... in the interest of balanced reporting, they neglected to mention the unmarked police car behind it lit up like a Christmas tree

Not defending their obvious stupidity, but looks like that snow had slid down from the front of the roof, probably after braking, in which case the driver is probably in a bit of a panic

Moral of the story, always clear ALL the snow from your vehichle before setting off

Agreed but the idiot makes no attempt to slow down, pull over or anything ... completely oblivious to the world around them ...   

[05omegav6]

It's a looped two second video clip, entirely without context... might have been like that for miles, might have just happened if the latter, put yourself in their shoes...
You're in the outside lane of a busy motorway and suddenly you can't see... wipers are frozen to the screen, what do you do? Stop? Panic? Or do you ease up, collect your wits from your smalls and try to get to the hard shoulder...

[Entwood]

It's a looped two second video clip, entirely without context... might have been like that for miles, might have just happened if the latter, put yourself in their shoes...
You're in the outside lane of a busy motorway and suddenly you can't see... wipers are frozen to the screen, what do you do? Stop? Panic? Or do you ease up, collect your wits from your smalls and try to get to the hard shoulder...

Disagree .. its a 15 second video run twice ... watch the gantry in the background. The speed of the vehicle does not change at all throughout the 15 seconds, despite there being gaps to his left and blue lights behind him. He/she actually overtakes the white van and stays there, when they had at least two options... to pull in behind it or to pull in after overtaking it.

I would not be in that situation as the car would be clear before driving away. If a problem occurred then ease up, hazards on and move across, NOT keep driving blindly.

[Sir Tigger KC]

People not indicating on roundabouts really gets my goat.   

You'd think it would be reasonable to assume that someone not indicating would be planning to go straight across the roundabout.  I think that most times I have made this assumption, I've got it wrong and the other driver is actually turning right.    Of course it's my fault for pulling out in front of them!     

Assumption is the mother of all roundabout accidents! 

[05omegav6]

Ok, two seconds was a slight exaggeration...

Barely past the white van at end of the clip, with no idea of what is in front of it... point is how you or I might react to that situation is irrelevant, people simply aren't taught how to deal with situations like this. Common sense is no defence as not everyone has any...

[05omegav6]

People not indicating on roundabouts really gets my goat.   

You'd think it would be reasonable to assume that someone not indicating would be planning to go straight across the roundabout.  I think that most times I have made this assumption, I've got it wrong and the other driver is actually turning right.    Of course it's my fault for pulling out in front of them!     

Assumption is the mother of all roundabout accidents! 

Ah yes, everybody loves a bit of roundabout chaos

[firemoth]

Why are people defending this nutter? Firstly they were recorded on dashcam for 3 miles, and continued for longer. All this "what if it just slid off the roof" business, I follow with "do terror m their wipers not work?". No defence for this at all. If you suddenly can't see, hazards on, gradually slow to a stop changing lane to the hard shoulder if possible

[Nick W]

Not indicating on roundabouts is inexcusable, but it is much better than the idiots who indicate the wrong way. That's something that I see a lot, and almost guarantees an Oh shit moment.

The real cause of most of these problems is that far too many drivers don't realise how dangerous 1.5tonnes of metal at 30mph actually is. That makes them complacent, and they think that driving the car is a background task that isn't important. Unfortunately, this is so common that I doubt there is a cure for it.

[VXL V6]

Regardless of any / all of the circumstances, it is the drivers responsibility to ensure their vehicle is fit to drive on the public highway, therefore in my book, the driver didn't do this before setting off however and whenever the snow covered their windscreen.