Failing to Stop Following an Accident!

Anyone who thinks they are a perfect driver, clearly isn’t. The perfect driver does not exist. Every driver is a human being (although some I’ve seen I’m not too convinced are human). Human beings make mistakes. There are exceptionally good drivers, but no such thing as a perfect one.

Sorry – you’ve lost me…………who said anything about perfect drivers?:confused:

Ahem, I like to think I am the perfect driver!

I have my HGV license, car, mini bus, van, I drive 150-200 kilometres a day and never feel the need to shout at other drivers. I am a kind, courteous and considerate driver and all of the scrapes and my written of car can all be explained (after a few minutes thought) and proved not to have been my fault! :rolleyes:

Sorry – you’ve lost me…………who said anything about perfect drivers?:confused:

All of which makes bad LGV and HGV driving inexcusable and worthy of severe criticism.

I’m sorry, I never realised the perfect driver existed until I read from you. 😀

Have you ever seen a forign lorry driver at a roundabout though? Where a UK trucker can look out of his window and see traffic, in a forieign lorry the area behind the right hand side window is a blind spot. So they just keep creaping and creaping out and hope people will let them go. If you don’t have clear visibliity, you shouldn’t be driving the vehicle.

Load of foreign (non-English) speaking drivers stop their lorries in the middle of a busy roundabout to ask UK truckers for directions. Yeah, like that’s safe! There are also loads of foreign truckers now driving UK registered trucks (where I worl there are 6 or 7) and some of them drive like nutters.

In certain other countries, if you can drive a tractor and trailer in a straight line forwards and backwards, you get a licence then just come to the Uk and cause chaos.
Forign truckers (until VERY recently) just jump red lights, speed etc knowing that the DVLA is exclusive to the UK and therefore by the time a ticket is produced they are back in their own country. It’s like a licence to make spped cameras flash with no punishment.

If foreign truckers can speak NO English, how can they read road warnings etc? In Grantham there are low bridges regularly hit by foreign truckers. The solution? I seems that the council think writing LOW BRIDGE in 6ft high yellow letters will stop it happening. NO it doesn’t, it wouldn’t matter if there was a 100ft neon sign cos if you can’t speak the language then you canlt read the sign!

now you are only sore cos they is pinchin us work init !!

if i am in a car and a truck has foreign plates and stickers in front of me
i do the only reasonable thing ” do not pass it ” especialy on a roundabout

if any tool does they are 50% to blame for the accident

maybe some of them should ask their guide dog one bark left two barks right high pitched yelp for stop !!

or maybe vauxhall may be kind enough to start fitting crystal balls !!

Touché….

All of which makes bad LGV and HGV driving inexcusable and worthy of severe criticism.

Most numpties in cars pass a test and then never have any extra tuition, assessment etc of their driving. That is one of the main problems with car drivers generally. They pick up bad habits and these are never corrected. LGV drivers now have to pass a rigid and then an artic practical as well as a theory test too and the penalties for lorry drivers can be severe. VOSA pick on lorry drivers more than car drivers. A car driver using a mobile phone gets a small fine and a fgew points. A lorry driver, for example, doing the same in a lorry can have the Traffic Commisioner remove his LGV licence altogether. LGV drivers in general are highly trained, highly competant, plan further ahead, read the road better and have more skills than the averge driver, especially the mum on the school run.

Big Issue pitch on Sidney Street Cambridge….

Reminds me of the t-shirt I spotted in the “Wild Hogs” ye olde gifte shoppe in Madrid NM – “If You Can Read This, The Bitch Fell Off”

“North of Duxford” – must be the Cambridge Corn Exchange. Failing that Whittlesford Parish Hall.:D

…Bob is available for bookings through the summer season at a theatre near you, and open to offers of pantomime work :D:D

:D:D

A tandem rider is stopped by a police car.

“What’ve I done, officer?” asks the rider.

“Perhaps you didn’t notice sir, but your wife fell off your bike half a mile back . . .”

“Oh, thank God for that,” says the rider – “I thought I’d gone deaf!”

Well done, Daz, you’re bringing the thread slowly back on course. Now who’s done a routine about cyclists……..??;)

Cyclists! If I had a quid for every time I’ve nearly cleaved one in twain on a country road because the ****** hadn’t been wearing any hi-viz and I had only seen him/her because I happened upon them, I’d be a very rich man!!

And they’re even worse in Edinburgh…..! 😡

And people say us horse-riders are a pain in the ****?! 😡

:D:D:D:D:D:D

Thread wander I know, but the Tobacco one always creases me! If in the pub someone’s gone outside for a smoke and someone else asks where they’ve gone, I usually respond with ‘he/she has gone outside to stick some burning leaves in their mouth’ 😀

“…it wasn’t part of the exercise but I want to compliment you on it anyway…..you blocked both lanes that time!“

Bob Newhart – Genius! 😀

And just remember, it’s accelerator, brake, accelerator, brake…!

I only (re)discovered my Newhart tape (yes, tape) last weekend! 😀

I’m chuckling to myself as I remember the monologue – not exactly word for word, but close – I have listened to it so many times………….:D