TiJay wrote:On a sort of related note, was waiting at a roundabout today when some numpty in a Polo came screeching onto it, attempted to Scandinavian flick his car around it then failed to catch the resulting slide and ended up parked sideways across the road.
The fact that he was quite happy to mess around when there was traffic about worries me...
TiJay wrote:Unfortunately not, his mate's car pulled up behind him straight after then they disappeared pretty sharpish. Hopefully one of the other drivers nearby got a better look and reported him though.
fungus wrote:I am not personaly in favour of the public reporting traffic offences, because, as said in another thread, we are back to third party perception, and are the general public experts in traffic law? No.
....Going back to the OP, it does seem on the face of it that the driver was possibly fooling around, but as Dave said, was it an error of judgement. Who are we to judge?
TripleS wrote:As an afterthought, I think i would be influenced by the demeanour of the 'offending' driver immediately following such as incident as described to us. If the driver looked suitably shocked by what had happened I'd be inclined to regard it as an unfortunate error, and leave it at that.
On the other hand, if he appeared to laugh it off with a couldn't-care-less attitude...
Is it the general feeling here that you would report somebody for that sort of driving?
TiJay wrote:Is it the general feeling here that you would report somebody for that sort of driving?
To be honest, if the road was empty and he'd caught the slide I wouldn't be that bothered as I'm sure many drivers of RWDs enjoy the odd oversteer moment on an empty roundabout perfectly safely. The fact he deliberately flicked the car with traffic around and then failed to recover means he's driving beyond his capabilities and is going to get it seriously wrong if he carries on like that.
ROG wrote:Many LGV drivers have noticed this as well and some have a regular post in their forums called Numpty Friday where they list what the numpty drivers do on a Friday !!
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