Unless it faces your offside/nearside it won't do much for you.

True, I only imagined the scenario of pulling into a side road rather than pulling out. At this rate we are all going to need 360 degree CCTV cameras mounted on top of the roof.

Simply try to drive defensively & view every other road user as a psychopath intent on killing you & you should be ok :)

Simply try to drive defensively & view every other road user as a psychopath intent on killing you & you should be ok :)

...I must have more in common with every other road user than I thought...

Simply try to drive defensively & view every other road user as a psychopath intent on killing you & you should be ok :)

This is basically how my Dad taught me to drive.

Imagine there is a moron around every corner.

& more often than not - there is !

Expect the unexpected & it won't be a surprise :)

Unfortunately, that's the most you can do and it still doesn't help... Like I said pulling up at a junction near the centre line and having someone head right for me... Simply nothing I could do in time other than accelerate out of the junction into who knows what... Luckily she stopped!

The standard of driving in the U.K. has become so dire that, as I mentioned in a related thread eons ago, the sooner compulsory retesting every 5 years, for example, becomes law the better

Free if you pass & affordable compulsory remedial driving lessons if you don't, followed up with a retest :)

As Mark says, parents auntie uncles shouldn't be allowed to learn people to drive. Plus in the long run it can make it harder for the learner in the long run as they learn too many bad habits.

We all probably think we are good drivers, and we probably are. but we will all have bad habits no matter how good we are, So we are basically passing these on to the person we are trying to teach, even though we mean well.

The company I work for put all the drivers through a drive tec every 3 year. Its surprising the things that can be brought to your attention. A few of the drivers that are going through it actually try their hardest to impress and make it as if they are on their driving test.

I don't do this, I drive the way I normally do in every day life, This way the guy that is doing the drive tec with you can actually bring things to your attention. he isn't making you out to be a bad driver, I have always been low risk and never had any problems. only one really that was brought to my attention is when I might be on the motorway. that when overtaking slower traffic, I could have pulled out into the faster lane sooner..

But these guys are good at what they do. One of them actually said he would have been able to tell you were a heavy goods driver in the past if he hadn't seen my licence.

He was able to tell this because I was constantly on my mirrors and the way I would position myself on the road.

But you have to remember lots of us probably past our driving test way back when it was a doddle compared to nowadays, so that might be another good reason to leave it to the people who are qualified to actually instruct our sons daughters nieces and nephews to drive no matter how good or intensions are.

Well I better go, need to take the nephew out for a driving lesson, He is getting the hang of the handbrake turn now :D

My missus gets twitchy at anything over 20mph ;)

I haven't had an at-fault bump in 25 years and also an advanced response driver but she still doesn't like my driving.

I tell her that there are things called buses and she's more than welcome to use one.

That's because you're the husband, therefore she must know best :D

That's because you're the husband, therefore she must know best :D

I let her think she knows best, it saves earache.

Seeing as I'm a professional driver (of sorts ;) ) and she doesn't even have a provisional licence I think I can speak from a position of authority and she can become a bus winker (a'la Inbetweeners :p )

I'm soooooooooooooooo pished, meet Clive in the next couple hairs....

I wouldn't say I ever have proper road rage, but I do vent at people who wrong me on the road. Particularly people who don't say thank you when you stop to let them through.

Helps me move on from the situation, got to be better than bottling it up.

I have been in the car with a driver who got proper ragey though, quite scary. No way could they have full concentration on the road the state they were in.

That is why I never stop for anyone (unless a nice looking girl is at the wheel of other car) but seriously they don't thank you and then they drive like utter planks I mean most of the idiots I let out to so slow u could nearly just take your foot of accelerator and like the clutch bring you the rest of the way it annoys the hell out of me, I do however have patience for the likes of an elderly person driving infront of me.

Countless idiots on the road this morning - people driving at less than 30 in a 40 zone, people not noticing the lights went green (probably updating their facebook/instagram whatever), people slamming on the anchors for no reason in the middle of an empty road, the list goes on.

Grrr.

Drunk me apparently knows how to abuse foc access..... And can't spell hours

My head is ruined today 'never again' I say....

That irritates the s*** out of me too.

In 60 zones they crawl down a deserted stretch of straight road at 40MPH and continue to do that speed when going through a built up area with children running around!! Do these people just set their cruise control at 40MPH and can't be bothered to touch either pedal!?

I don't mind people doing 70-75MPH on good condition quiet back roads, but going even 1MPH over the limit in a built up area is a big no-no for me.

That irritates the s*** out of me too.

In 60 zones they crawl down a deserted stretch of straight road at 40MPH and continue to do that speed when going through a built up area with children running around!! Do these people just set their cruise control at 40MPH and can't be bothered to touch either pedal!?

I don't mind people doing 70-75MPH on good condition quiet back roads, but going even 1MPH over the limit in a built up area is a big no-no for me.

That is EXACTLY my opinion, if you're going to drive fast on a '60' Road and speed then chances are you're just gonna crash yourself off the road... More often than include anyone else.... But villages have kids that are about as sensible as pheasants.

I was doing 60 on a B road near me with quite a few nice hills and corners, I cam across someone doing 20. Yes, 20.

I flashed them, beeped and then as I drove past them they were sat chatting to their mate hardly being able to see over the steering wheel and had the wheel about an inch away.

Absolute moron, they could easily have caused an accident with what some of the corners and blind hills are like.

Anticipate the unexpected - especially when blind hills & corners are concerned - as you found out, there's no way of telling what is around that corner or on the other side of that hill