The other week I was going to Surrey along the M4 and I was in the inside lane doing 75mph. I look into my mirror to check the rear view to see a ing Seat Leon with a bad taste bodykit almost take out my offside rear wing while he's doing about 95mph.

Basically, he'd been a long way back, undertaking traffic in an aggressive manner (not because anyone was particularly middle-lane hogging) and he swerved out from behind me at the last minute. If I'd have even slightly lifted or braked, there'd have been one almighty collision.

I was tempted to catch up with the prick (who was trying to impress his girlfriend in the passenger seat) but then I realised he'd probably kill himself soon anyway, driving like that, so it wasn't worth my unleaded.

Just one of VERY many incidents I see all the time...

The A4174 around Bristol seems to be a road for acolytes of the Bereft of Lane Discipline religion. EVERY SINGLE TIME I am on that road, someone is in the wrong lane at a junction/swerves across the roundabout as they flatline it/simply gets stuck in no man's land trying to move into fast moving traffic from a stationary position cos they're in a filter lane they don't want to be in. Drives me bloody insane!!!

 

One gets a lot of that type.

They normally pass parked vehicles with 2" to spare.

They're so fat & sclerotic that it takes 'em all their energy & brainpower to get the car into fourth, so they leave it there forever. Even whilst pinking past cyclists on a blind bend.

Because of the stupid 'spill your seed' campaign, they can get all self-righteous about it.

 

I got out of the car on the way to work this morning to shout at a girl in a Nova.

She was reading for at least 5 minutes whilst at the wheel, and every time I braked she missed it and nearly hit me.

Waved my phone at her in a "I have the whole thing on film you stupid little tart" kind of way. She looked about 16

 

Using your phone while driving

 

Oh yes, this is one thing guaranteed to boil my blood - if you're joining a motorway get up to speed before you move onto it. They don't seem to understand how dangerous it is having a such a great speed differential.

I've even seen some mind-numbingly stupid individuals stop on the sliproad as if it was a give-way.

 

The junction at Lancaster on the M6 (J34), joining from Caton direction to go southbound is a classic example of this.

It's tight, up hill and single lane, yet the numbskulls will crawl up there slowly (I'm sure there's a theory that speeds above 40 mph are dangerous because your eyes start to bleed) and attempt to join the M6 at 35-40 mph, or follow very closely behind a slow moving artic, join lane 1, then immediately join lane 2 often without either (a) signalling or (b) looking.

 

Damn, I was going to mention that one

One I see a lot on the roundabouts on the A1/Bypass through Portobello and into Leith is the entertaining roundabout straightening. Especially when you're on the inside

 

You ain't seen any sanctimonious statements from me though.

 

apart from now obviously ...

 

Yesterday lunch time I am in the mondeo (I know, the mondeo you're imopressed aren't you) sitting second car back at a set of lights waiting to turn right. The car in front of me is also waiting to turn right.

Now the old chap in the car in front is not the fastest off the line when the lights go green, in fact they had been green for a couple of seconds before he even moved an inch.

Suddenly from our mutual right a little red Euro-cr@p mobile about the size of a ford Ka (you know the Peugot / Aygo / cross over thing) goes hurtling through the lights at 40, the posted speed limit, and she never looked to her right or even twitched for the red light she had bvlatantly just gone through.

If I had been at the front of the queue I reckon my car would easily have been smacked into.