Some people are NUTS!!!

[XmisterIS]

Closely related to the "high speed cars on country lanes" thread posted earlier,

I was driving down some very narrow, windy roads in the torrential rain yesterday, visibility was so bad that cars were driving with full headlights and fog lights, the road was more like a shallow stream than a road.

Some nutcase comes flying up my arse and sits about one foot away from my rear bumper, flashing his lights at me.

When we get onto a straight, I'm doing between 30 and 40mph, he floors it past me and accelerates up to 70 or 80mph!

What if he had needed to slow down for a pedestrian or cyclist? Result - emergency braking, then aquaplaning, then dead pedestrian/cyclist.

I fully expected to catch up with him and find him overturned in a ditch!

 

[TheDoctor]

Had exactly that on the A1(M) near me yesterday.
Clio with an exhaust pipe the size of the Blackwall Tunnel and a full complement of baseball caps goes past at about 85 mph - about 30 mph too fast for the conditions IMHO.
10 minutes later we passed it, facing the wrong way in the central reservation. All out and looked OK, but still...

 

[jimboalee]

Same thing happened to me in Warwickshire yesterday...

How can Jeremy Clarkson be in two places at the same time.???

 

[Crankarm]

Had exactly that on the A1(M) near me yesterday.
Clio with an exhaust pipe the size of the Blackwall Tunnel and a full complement of baseball caps goes past at about 85 mph - about 30 mph too fast for the conditions IMHO.
10 minutes later we passed it, facing the wrong way in the central reservation. All out and looked OK, but still...

Haha!


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSV-VtJfwRw&feature=related

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Cars sucketh

 

[mr Mag00]

yes

 

[GrasB]

Nout wrong with cars, just some people are complete idiots behind the wheel. Seen the aftermath of people pelting down country roads in the poring rain or with snow about & losing it.

 

[Mr Pig]

Some nutcase comes flying up my arse and sits about one foot away from my rear bumper, flashing his lights at me.

When people do that to me I slow down.

 

[Wigsie]

I agree, it gets me when the rain is lashing down and visibility is poor, I am doing 55/60ish on the motor way and cant talk to passengers as i am trying to concentrate. I drive a big heavy 4x4 car that by all accounts is well equipped and safe (ish) in those conditions yet you still get the odd one or two pelting past you like your standing still. Its usually in cheap/old cars that are built for half the speed with half the breaking ability or road handling they must be slipping all over the place on the skinny tyres.

Do they just have no fear of their (or anyone else's) mortality?

 

[GrasB]

Actually on skinny tyres they're less likely to have problems than with wide tyres. I know, 900kg car with wide semi-slick tyres is very interesting in the wet, I've been known to just pull up & wait for things to calm down in the Exige.

Some people just don't have a clue about how dangerous it is.

 

[Wigsie]

Actually on skinny tyres they're less likely to have problems than with wide tyres. I know, 900kg car with wide semi-slick tyres is very interesting in the wet, I've been known to just pull up & wait for things to calm down in the Exige.

Some people just don't have a clue about how dangerous it is.

Ha ha well thats because you have an Exige on those wonderful semi slicks!

My brother in law has one and 'twitchy' is sometimes in the description when its wet.

Not sure about your tyre theory, would much rather be on 265/35/18's in an A6 Quattro than on some elastic band remoulds on a nissan micra in the wet (or an exige on semi's for that matter ).

 

[Mr Pig]

Some people just don't have a clue about how dangerous it is.

Are just thick is how I'd put it, when being polite ;0)

 

[vernon]

Ha ha well thats because you have an Exige on those wonderful semi slicks!

My brother in law has one and 'twitchy' is sometimes in the description when its wet.

Not sure about your tyre theory, would much rather be on 265/35/18's in an A6 Quattro than on some elastic band remoulds on a nissan micra in the wet (or an exige on semi's for that matter .

Less can be more......

I'd much rather be in a 2CV in torrential rain than on the expanse of rubber that the Quattro is shod with. If ABS is taken out of the equation I bet that the Quattro is more prone to aqua planing.

In the snow, the 2CV takes some beating - it got up Hardknott pass when other less foolhardy drivers gave up and I got to the Tan Hill Inn and drove past abandoned vehicles includind 4WD.

Wish I still had one......

 

[GrasB]

Wigsie, it's known that wider tyres are more prone to aquaplaning than narrow tyres. With a larger surface area they can be lifted up by the water ramp more easily. Weight also has an effect, often when very bad lorries are perfectly safe from aquaplaning 55mph where as cars will be all over the place at the same speed.

 

[XmisterIS]

I have a Ford Mondeo TDCI - it is incredibly heavy and it feels much better planted on the road than my previous car.