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Scary driving!
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Had a near miss today and I haven't even passed yet! Wasn't my fault though. Was on my way back home and coming along a road upto a junction (bearing in mind you can see from the junction ok so it's not like traffic comes out of nowhere) where a tractor with a huge spikey digger pulls out right infront of me. It's a tight junction so the digger part swings out to my side right infront of me, luckily there was another junction opposite with no one in so I managed to swerve in. There was someone behind me too and even if I'd stopped I probaby would still have been hit. Didn't scare me at the time but I'm quite shaken now! I haven't even passed! What near misses have you had?
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I remember when my instructor told me a story of one of her pupils being hit in the rear on their way to their driving test! Nice!
ive had a couple of near misses too - both with other vehicles and 'stupid' pedestrians who feel the need to walk out in front of me
the worst one was probably when i was driving at a moderate speed of about 45 up a hill back home on the iom - and some woman was coming out of a turning to my left, turning right onto the main road. i swear she looked right at me, so when i saw her look and not move i assumed she'd seen me and wait until id gone before going out - NOOO
she went right on out, and it was all i could do not to go full pelt into the side of her car and kill her! i slammed the breaks on and swerved - practically went into the hedge and the car behind me veery narrowly escaped hitting me.
idiot woman :rolleyes:
another time a little boy on a bike rode out in front of me and i veery veery narrowly missed hitting him. in fact, i breaked and tried to move away from him, and in the process knocked off the mirror of a parked car next to me he understood tho so twas all ok
oh yeah, and last night in fact i nearly hit another car. he was pinning me in when we were going round a 2 lane junction.. thing, and so in order to avoid hitting him i went a bit too close to the bollard in the middle of the road, and the back wheel hit. got a really bad puncture and had to call the AA. :impissed: not impressed
i really need to learn how to change tyres...
got toons more but i think id bore everyone if i listed each and every single one
It scared the hell out of me. When I arrived at work that day, I had to sit down for the first ten minutes, I was shaking that much. I'm far more cautious a driver as a result, though - I probably was going too fast on that stretch.
its the latter that worries me! I mean I dont like to dwell, but I was a poor innocent and look what happened to me!
And people wonder why I am now scared of driving, errrr possibly coz there are people out there who have no concern for their own or the safety of others!
It was waiting and we saw it and because it was quite busy we assumed he would wait like you're supposed to. He had pleanty of time to see me coming but pulled out right at the last minute.
How peculiar. Some people do that though. It's a learning experience. There will be lots more of them, as you carry on driving. You will never cease to be amazed by what people will do, in fact. All you can do is try to anticipate it, but there are still things you can't account for.
It's just taken me 2.5 hours to drive 16 miles. Well, specifically it took me an hour and 50 mins to drive ONE MILE, and then 40 mins to go the other 15 :grump:
That sucks. Which mile was it?
The one immediately preceding j40 of the M1 :impissed:
Ahh yes.
Everyone makes mistakes though.
I swear to god that's the most upset I've seen my Mam, another millisecond and that would've been Goodnight Vienna.
As a pedestrian I got hit by a big fuck off lorry last year, got off with a bruised arm. That was my own stupidity though, but again it was very nearly game over.
Anywho... my driving instructor was awful too. She loved to slam on the breaks while I was driving. And since after x amount of times (has it been that long I can't remember?) we had to drive for 2 hours at a time for a few lessons, she used to have me drive her to buy shit for her dog at the hunting store an hour away. Weeeiiiird lady.
They're stupid though.
I don't go a week without killing some little critter, pheasant, rabbit, squirrel.
I fucked my car up a couple of times now hitting dear. Never hit any commoners animals thank fuck. I saw the results of a 40mph car and a pig the other week. What a mess.
Because I live the new forest, all unfenced roads are 40mph or less, which is often a right pain in the arse. I don't tend to stick to it all the time.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=39qdhbkTko4&feature=related
I've given up driving, last time I drove a car I crashed into a Van!! Luckily I didn't leave a dent. I only crashed because my Dad kept bellowing instructions at me and it put me off.
Once I got in a lads car and I was with two other girls I didn't know very well and one of them said, 'I never wear seatbelts' trying to look cool. A few months after one of her best mates died in car crash. It really annoys me when people think stuff like is cool!
OId people wearing flat caps are the worst.
Try not racing for the lights then. zoom-stop driving probably isn't doing your scooter any good either.
You've reminded me too...
If the crazies are going to drive, don't let them take it for an oil change
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZfF_1y5l60