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Are some drivers really stupid?

Walking home from work today, I was crossing at some lights, when a car that had gone through them (onto a main road)inexplicably decided to reverse back onto the street I was crossing. I dodged out of the way of this car reversing through the pedestrian crossing (the green man was on), and when I reached the other side, turned to remonstrate with the driver. She merely stared out of the window at me. Is it normal practice for drivers to behave like this? Or is this a highly dangerous maneouvre that could have caused a bad accident?


    




Ylang-Ylang
You should have taken her number plate and reported her - that is reckless driving, especially over a crossing. I would have been fuming in your shoes!


Lucky Man.
I would have dragged her out of her car and phoned the man.


WHO am i?
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report her she makes decent drivers look bad


Cloudcity CC
I saw someone drive over the curb and go offroad for 20 or so metres in a mini-van before getting back on the road, not sure whether to blame the sun in their eyes or if they were drunk really early...

Edit: The worst problem with these drivers is that they usually don't even know they did something wrong, and will often actually get mad at you, rather than except the blame for it themselves...


spook542
Most drivers seem to feel that once they are in their car they can do whatever they like, safe in the knowledge that they are cocooned safely from the nasty outside world. They also seem to think it's their right to do whatever they like and scr*w everyone else. I've lost count of the idiotic things that normally sensible people will do once behind the wheel of a car. That's why I don't drive any more.

You can criticise most people for anything but try criticising their driving and see what response you get.


16 seconds in
SADDO'S..... when some people are driving, their minds are not always on the job in hand and should not be behind the wheel (FACT). My pet hate against other drivers is 'undertaking', this is when they attempt to beat you away from the lights on the near-side, or on motorways. Someone even passed me on the hard shoulder although the road was clear on the off-side... what are they thinking of?. They have a certain amount of arrogance in them to contravene any rules of the road... eventually, they will certainly get their come-uppance.


Rich S
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Somthing similar happend to me, a silly bint drove past me, I crossed road, she reversed into me, I was carrying a large metal tool box at the time and she hit that first, It made a nasty mess of her rear lights and paint.
hahahaha


Ryan
Im afraid so. People should`nt be allowed to drive cars its far too dangerous.

In 100 years when they are all computer controlled people will say `I cant believe they let humans drive cars.


puddy
no, you're not allowed to reverse on a main road


Nutty Girl
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well she was a total idiot and probably still doesn't know what u were on about ,i'm a woman driver and even i know women drivers never trust them reversing lol


and was bad maneoure if you have gone through one set of lights eg crossroads and the green man is on you have to stop you are not allowed


jamesy boy
yes it was a stupid manoeuvre,although she probably panic at the though of running a red light.


Roggles
look at the news 172 mph no its not unusual there are some complete Georges(madmen) on the road today,oh and mad women you met one today, stay safe.


focus
In answer to your question about some drivers being stupid----YES they are so watch out for them


noitall Yorkshire England (U.K.)
some drivers, pedestrians, cyclists etc. etc. are really stupid when I was learning to drive some ooooh years ago I was told to treat all road users as if they were an idiot and you will be right most of the time!! sound advice


Eric C
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Yes, some drivers are REALLY (we're talking darwin-awards type) stupid.

MOST people just don't pay enough to what they're doing while they're driving... and this causes them to make STUPID decisions and cause accidents. Sadly, they often don't even realize what they've done when they were being stupid.


Frank
You said she stared out the window at you. The important was is SHE. Just another reason women should be forced run run strobes on their vehicles, so that pedestrians and other drivers know to give that car a wide berth. Strobes wont stop women from crashing into everything, but it should save a few lives.





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