r/drivingUK

Drove over 200 miles today and the number of drivers that overtook me when I was on or near the speed limit: in the rain, on country roads was in double figures…

Following a little Aygo doing 30mph along nice NSL roads. Decide I need to overtake when appropriate. There were a few opportunities, but my vehicle isn't the nippiest, so I waited for a patch up ahead, on a nice long, open downhill.

Couldn't manage it, as there were lots of vehicles in the other lane. Man in front still doing 30mph on a road that would be safe for 100.

Round a few bends, onto another, even longer downhill straight. I change down a gear and put my hoof in, man in front does the same. We are neck and neck.

I realise whst he's doing and ease off the throttle, so does he. I pick up soeed again, so does he. Rinse and repeat. It probably wasn't long at all, but felt like an eternity.

The twat stopped being silly when a vehicle in the other lane appeared the other end of the road. I got out in front of him.

He then went back down to his original speed.

The other day I was driving through the Peak District and going into any of the villages on the A roads I drove on, they all had had 30 mph in 400,200 yard signs (I have been searching for an image of them but can’t find them). Throughout the week driving in other rural areas of the country, why are those signs not anywhere else?

When driving in national limit areas and it’s a slow turn of a corner get to the end of it and your met with a village that’s 30mph and have a speed camera. If any heads up was given beforehand would be huge, rather than braking suddenly to not get points.

Are these signs only in the Peak District? Debating relocating because of how impressive those signs are.

This seems like it is getting worse? I've had people be absolutely ridiculous and nearly drive into the side of me to try stop me merging in turn?

Tonight I was using the left hand lane (which was empty) driving past 5 stationary cars in the right lane & came to merge point (no idea it was there, not a road I'm that familiar with) and merged in turn with the car ahead of me. I could tell the person I merged in front of was annoyed and has sort of tried to block me from merging. They drove on my tail until the road slit into two again, I checked my mirror and indicated to move into the left lane to let them pass as I prefer not to have aggressive drivers up in my grill. At the same time as I moved into the left lane, while indicating, they pulled out into the left lane with no signal and tried to undertake meaning we nearly collided. They preceded to lean on their horn continuously as they followed me down the road far too close as if I had done something wrong. Thankfully I managed to lose them as their driving was danderous but my mind is always boggled that people who drive so badly get annoyed at other road users not being able to guess what it is they're going to do.

I’ve noticed this recently on some motorways. You’ll pass a gantry showing a temporary speed limit, like 50 or 60, but abruptly the gantries go completely blank.

There’s no national speed limit sign, no “end” sign, and no new speed limit shown just nothing.

It feels like deliberate & unnecessary ambiguousness especially if you’re driving on a road with many cameras.

I often have people driving up my arse in this situation so wondering have I missed something, does a blank sign indicate a fault or do they really think this is the best way to regulate traffic?

We are all very used to people cutting corners on junctions and almost wiping you out as you sit at the line. I just got almost done by one of these morons on the other side of the fence - was turning right myself from a main road into a side road, indicating and waiting until I was at a reasonable angle like anyone with a brain and a license would do before i fully turned in, and the twat in the four rings who was up my cars back end was trying to basically cut round my right side to turn all the way into the oncoming lane of the side road before he paid attention and realised I was turning first. Honked at me and drove up my arse for a few mins before we parted ways and he blessed me with a filthy look like it was my fault he almost drove into the side of my car and oncoming traffic because he can’t spare the extra few seconds to turn properly and pay attention. Not to mention I don’t even think he was indicating at all himself. Insane!!

A slightly irrelevant but positive post. Does anyone else think they've started to see more diverse car colours again? A few years ago it was a well known fact that most new cars were black, white, or silver. There was very much a trend towards bland, monochrome colours. But recently I've noticed a lot of new cars in a beautiful variety of colours. I've seen shimmery teals, light blues, pale lilac purples, plum purples, bright lizard greens, all on newer cars. It feels like there's been a shift away from the boring monochromes and I'm personally really enjoying it. It's more fun to be surrounded by rainbows when I'm stuck on the M25 in traffic. In terms of numbers most cars are still grey...but maybe that will change.

A bonus: I saw a HGV that was bright green all over except for the rear end. On the rear end was a giant painting of Vlad the impaler surrounded by the corpses of his enemies. And yes, it was a Romanian vehicle. Can't decide if it was the best or worst thing I've ever seen.

Hello.

My daughter aged 19 passed her test a month ago and bought her first car. She had to go with a black box and has added myself as a named driver ( I'm 49 32 years licence with no points ever and 12 years NCB )

Problem for me is they want me to add the goskippy app, literally take over my phone and monitor my driving.

Is this allowed as surely my own history would come into this.

On a side note can and will this app track my own driving via the whole precise location and GPS tracking etc and in turn affect my own insurance in the future??

TiA

Hi all, just had a difference of opinion with another driver at a crossroads and, while I’m sure I’m in the right, I couldn’t find a definitive answer in the Highway Code.

Both cars were entering a crossroads from the minor roads. I was going straight through and he was turning right.
However, because my road has a Stop sign and his is a Give Way, he asserted that he had priority.

From what I can see, the only difference in these is that I had to come to a complete stop before entering the junction (I did) and he only has to slow to ensure there is no oncoming traffic on the major road before he enters; but I could not see anything which says this affects priority for turning.

Can anyone with experience of this situation and/or legal knowledge please advise?

I have to drive my parents to 3 hours to Liverpool tomorrow. I cannot abandon them at the road side as they are gifting us considerable money towards our new house.

They are visiting from America and have never driven in this country. I have held my UK licence for almost two years and done around 15,000 miles in that time. I drive regularly for work to various locations across all types of roads. I am fairly confident in my driving ability, at least to the extent colleagues will readily and repeatedly accept lifts from me.

Today’s criticisms included:
- Accelerating to 70 on the motorway slip road (joining too fast)
- Driving 70 on a NSL dual carriageway and motorway (other cars are doing 50 and that seems fine)
- Driving 60 mph on clear, straight NSL country B roads (too fast)
- Continuing in my lane at 40 through a fresh green light past cars waiting to turn left (what if someone pulls out in front of me)

When I was young and just learning to drive, they would regularly point out and ask me to slow down for “hazards”. My mum even involuntarily shrieked at one point expecting an imminent crash. Such “hazards” were almost exclusively made up of trees, signs, postboxes, fences, and other inanimate objects not located on the road. I was hoping this behaviour would have stopped by now.

Is there anyone out there looking to adopt a 30 year old? No kink shaming. Otherwise, when you read tomorrow about a Ford Tourneo caught doing 20 on the M6, please know it was not my fault.