Ignorance and the road

Ronald Binge Redux

I live on a main road, and need to drive from the carriageway directly into my house. This means that I indicate left in good time, slow down, and turn into my house. There is usually plenty of space for the car behind me to overtake. At least twice a week I get tailgated and then beeped for doing this. WTF?

EchoIndia

Courtesy to other drivers is not that common nowadays (if indeed it ever was).

GPoint

This is called idiots on the roads!

As a side note, check your indicators work in the rear. I had an issue once where the whole plate holding bulbs fell of the lamp and so was no light coming through it, and obviously no warning lights because all bulbs were lit just lighting the wrong way :) Was getting beeped at many times and could not understand why, only realised it when failed NCT because of this!

horse7

While you are doing everything perfectly right would you consider if someone is close behind you try slowing down and putting your harzard lights on before you turn into the driveway.

Whocare

I bet your talking turn very slow 🐌 too slow that problem

mikeecho

Road position. May be an issue.

Plenty of people just stop in the middle of the lane, instead of placing their wheel on the white line.

TheShow

Hazard lights? What for? Where's the hazard?

OP is just turning left and indicates thusly. Do you use your hazard lights for a turning manoeuvre?

Miscreant

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058330686/ignorance-and-the-road

Check your indicators are working front and rear and then carry on doing what you are doing. It is not worth getting wound up over this as there are many impatient and incompetent drivers on the road these days.

Slightly Kwackers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121605332#Comment_121605332

It obviously needs to be added to the rules of the road.

Unless the person following is providing visual evidence of competence to drive, use hazards, a flashing beacon hand signals and a passenger with a loud hailer.

I'm sick of people overtaking in dangerous conditions just because they think the only time to change speed and direction is when the road bends or they arrive.

When I'm going to town today at least five will overtake me as the road drops from eighty to sixty and fifty. I invariably do the speed limits incidentally as I honestly believe that it removes a good popular excuse for anyone who hits me and also shows a respect for the law and gives a moral boost to the poor chap sticking the speed limit signs up. Who wants to spend their life doing a worthless job?

Why break the law and provide insurance companies with a get out when it comes to the no claims?

For a rural farming economy we sure have some real fast go getter types on the roads and fair play to them, they don't seem to mind taking the odd risk to support their hectic lifestyles. I just wish that it didn't involve me studying my mirror and trying to second guess the idiots so much.

The mirror that they never use incidentally as emergency vehicles know only too well in these parts.

dulpit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121605332#Comment_121605332

Can't stand people using their hazard lights for turning. If you indicate left, I know you are turning left. If you indicate right, I know you are turning right. If you turn on your hazards, I haven't a clue what you are at - don't do this.

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121604758#Comment_121604758

they are turning left. Why would their wheel be on the center line?

endacl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121605956#Comment_121605956

Scandi flick

Slightly Kwackers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121605937#Comment_121605937

Not every driver on the road has the knowledge, experience and observational abilities to interpret the message a little orange light on the corner of the car means.

Look on sticking all of them on as a means of shouting, attention seeking for those that are not aware that there might be a competent driver behind them.

Of course it might simply be a parent on the school run that forgot to use their hazards when blocking half the county from travelling and decided better late than never, even if the school is five miles behind them :-)

mikeecho

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121605956#Comment_121605956

i thought the OP was turning right.

If the OP is turning left into their property from a main road, are they coming to a stop in the middle of the carriageway, or are they pullling over to the side of the road.

If they are coming to a stop slap bang in the middle.. i'd probably beep as well.. just to let them know that other traffic is present , and they are being a hazard

dulpit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121610592#Comment_121610592

So you think they should be beeped every time they turn into their property?

mikeecho

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121611013#Comment_121611013

If they are unaware of other road users, and are being a hazard by taking an incorrect road position, then yes, the other drivers are well within their rights to use their audible warning device to alert the driver of the presence of other road users.

wildwillow

I make the same turning off a busy road and will apply breaks for a second when I indicate. My entrance is wide and deep so I get off the road quickly. But I regularly get the horn blared at me. Inattentive drivers!

Taking the right hand turn when coming from the other direction is always interesting to say the least.

Finty Lemon

The slow-to-dead-stop left turn off a main road is the most ignorant manoeuvre on the road.

Just make the turn FFS.

mikeecho

I don't know exactly what the OP is doing, but if you are regularly getting beeped at, by different drivers. Well you have to look at the whats the constant in all the situations.

reubenreuben

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058330686/ignorance-and-the-road

Happens to me. Its usually by drivers who are tiny in the underpant department

Glencarraig

Speaking of ignorance, I saw a beauty yesterday morning on Leopardstown Avenue, a road that is used to rat run from Leopardstown Road to Brewery Road but is a residential road with quite a number of cars parked on the road. Learner driver under instruction in a driving school car being followed by a "Foxrock tractor", big yoke and an impatient pr*ck driving it. Decides to overtake the learner and there is a parked car on the left about 30 yards ahead, the pr*ck drives alongside the learner and stays there until the learner had to brake to avoid hitting the parked car, a total lack of patience and understanding from the pr*ck and how far did it get him......yep, one car length before he arrived at the backed up traffic at the lights, what an absolute gobsh(te.

Field east

Whenever I come across a slow driver , eg doing 60 Km in an 80 km speed limit or drivers not behaving to my liking I remain calm because it could be my elderly father or mother or anyone else’s father or mother for that matter and BECAUSE OF THEIR AGE THEY ARE BEING VERY CAUTIOUS /CAREFUL. Us impatient drivers will be one of those people some day hopefully and I think that we would like a dit of consideration and respect

dulpit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121615254#Comment_121615254

60 in an 80 is fine. But 80 on a motorway is something I encountered the other day. That was just dangerous.

reubenreuben

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121615338#Comment_121615338

What about 50 in a 100? Happens all the time on the M50 with tractors

Ronald Binge Redux

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121614605#Comment_121614605

I'm not regularly getting beeped so the phrase inattentive and entitled w@nkers comes to mind.

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121615554#Comment_121615554

Once they stay in the left lane they don't cause a problem

mikeecho

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121615600#Comment_121615600

The twice a week you state in the original post would seem pretty regular to me.

Ronald Binge Redux

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121616129#Comment_121616129

Yes there are a significant number of inattentive and aggressive drivers on the roads. Well done for spotting that.

mikeecho

An elderly relative of mine (since deceased) always complained about fools on the road, and people beeping her for no reason.

If you sat in the car with her, you would quickly realise why they were beeping.

But, she was blissfully ignorant of what she was doing.. it was always the other drivers that were wrong.

JCN12

Well said 👍

Living Off The Splash

I have a similar issue. When turning in to my driveway I find that I have to indicate AND give a hand signal to show that I am turning, otherwise I am in danger of being rear ended.....

JohnC.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121616275#Comment_121616275

It could be something like this, but there is also an increase in the number of drivers who take offence at having to slightly slow down a bit for any reason.

Peregrinus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121614210#Comment_121614210

The tighter the turn, the more you have to slow to make it safely and in a controlled fashion. A left turn into a driveway is commonly a very tight turn.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121614846#Comment_121614846

I seriously do not want to know how you know this!