Stupid Motoring Incidents

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The point of this thread is to post fairly stupid situations which you've seen on the road while driving or being a passenger.

To kick the thread off, today at the railway gates, a yellow Honda Jazz infront of us simply stopped right on the path of the railway gate. We horned alot to the driver, she simply didn't notice at all, considering it's bloody loud and there are lights flashing everywhere. The gates ended up closing right on her, leaving quite a dent in the roof. I nearly died laughing. Your turn.
 
What happened after this occured?

Anyway, I can't seem to recall ever seeing a Stupid/Funny motoring incident. But Wrecked Exotics.com has a 'Funny Crashes' section. That's always a laugh.
 
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A friend of my brother fell asleep at the wheel at an intersection waiting for the light to change. The poor guy was exhausted from studying for exams and this driving test the night before, and by the time he woke up, he had delayed traffic to no end on a relatively small street. Needless to say, he failed.
 
socomplayer2
Best website ever! I can spend hours just sitting there browsing all the pictures.
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I went through every, single, one of those pictures a few months back. Great but kinda sad website.

The women simply backed up, nearly hitting the car behind.
 
'couple years ago, I was nearly run off the road by a mom doing 90 plus in a Ford Explorer, straddling both westbound lanes of a 4-lane double carriageway. and didn't get caught.

A few months ago, it was an 80 mph Ford fish truck. yes, a fish truck. doing 80. in a region where most people do no more than 65, not a Michigan highway where most people near 100 MPH daily.
 
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The most recent stupid incident I can remember was watching out the warehouse door at work as a guy pulled into the tight car park entrance, heavily kerbed his car on the way in, bumped over it, drove at a crawl to a parking space, ran straight into a bollard at an angle and just left it there. Went into our store, was rude to my colleagues (who said he stank of booze), then disappeared again at a crawl. I think they called the police :p

The other one that springs to mind was a stupid but dangerous one, for which I need a crummy MSpaint drawing:

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Right, I am represented by the blue rectangle, doing on the dot of 30mph, and the offending party is the red one, sitting in a parking lane. The road is one way, two lanes. The turning to the left is for a supermarket, the turning to the right is the one I use to go to work. The scene is set.

Anyway, I have to be in the right lane to turn off to work. I see the car parked at the side of the road with it's lights on. I also have mine on. As I'm about 100 yards away it starts indicating, and although I slow down I think "they'll wait until I pass". WRONG. It begins to pull sharply out (doesn't use the rest of the turning lane) right into my path as I get to the spot marked by the red X. I literally have no time to brake and instead swerve sharply to my left, missing their car by about two inches, luckily the roads are empty and there's nothing in the left hand lane. I blast my horn to see them swerve back to the right, presumably with brown trousers.

How to God they didn't see me when I'm the only vehicle on the road and I have my lights on I do not know. In fact I do: They didn't bloody look.
 
Here's a good one...

Legend...
Me
Retard

Details...
During the day as in Lighted roads...
No other cars around...
My car is BLACK
I was in the LEFT lane.

Did I mention it was during the DAY and I had a BLACK car?

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He not only turned onto the road right when I was in front of him, but he turned into MY LANE.



Another time same setup only the retard was in front of me in the left turn lane he was in a Del slow and backed into my BLACK CAR DURING THE DAY... I had about two car lengths between him and me when he did it because I knew his ass was that indecisive.

That's all I got for now...
 
just had a goofy one thismorning.

I spot a doe about to cross and wave her past (they take the wave for a tail flagging, I've found) she goes over, and as I start speeding up, a fawn goes across. I start slowing down again...just as a buck comes in. he slid under JUST as I came to a halt. neither of us took any damage. I think he mighta spent the morning limping.

my dad had a weird one twenty years ago. he was coming home (drunk, as usual), and hit an ice patch, slid sideways through non-existant guardrails, and took a buck out on the side of the road at the same time (which apparently got it's rack caught in dad's Gas Tank on top of everything else).
the corny part? they charged my old man for so many feet of the non-existant and never installed guardrails :P
 
I've had a couple close calls. A deer in one case, darted out from the opposing ditch directly infront of me and stopped. Some panic stopping and a tiny bit of tire smoke at the end brought me to within a couple feet of it. The stupid part: I had driven by in the opposite direction only five minutes earlier and took note of it nearby.

The second close one was very much my fault. Only a diagram would suffice.

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I'm the black car. Green car is coming in my direction. The approach for me is uphill, and blocked by greenery - It's the norm for this intersection to pull up far. So I do, and don't see anyone. After waiting for a couple seconds for any cars to clear my blind spot (in red), I pull out. My car's fully on the road (I'm crossing) before the green car passes out of my blind spot. Brakes are applied on my part, honking on theirs, and we continue on. Not as close as the deer incident, but it's made me more wary of that intersection. I've since witnessed a couple near misses of the same type there.
 
Slicks
I'm the black car. Green car is coming in my direction. The approach for me is uphill, and blocked by greenery - It's the norm for this intersection to pull up far. So I do, and don't see anyone. After waiting for a couple seconds for any cars to clear my blind spot (in red), I pull out. My car's fully on the road (I'm crossing) before the green car passes out of my blind spot. Brakes are applied on my part, honking on theirs, and we continue on. Not as close as the deer incident, but it's made me more wary of that intersection. I've since witnessed a couple near misses of the same type there.
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I understand the point of doing this, but as you help me prove, it really doesn't do anything. It actually endangered you in your case, and you would have been better off going after you initially stopped.
 


I saw this incident not too long ago, I was waiting to pull out of a side street (blue) to cross a main road and I saw two cars coming. The front car (green) indicated he was going to turn left into the street I was waiting to pull out from and started to slow down. Then the car behind (red), driven by someone probably using a license from another country or not one at all decided he didn't want to slow down and tried to undertake the car turning left. The driver turning turned and the guy behind slammed on his brakes and then beeped his horn. I couldn't beleive it, first of all he completely ignored the guy infront indicating, secondly he tried to undertake and undertake when he was indicating he was turning left and then he proceeded to bash his horn as though the other driver was in the wrong.

I would have loved for a policeman to have seen that, people who drive like that should not be driving on our roads.
 
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heres a few iv experienced, just as a learner i had:
i was driving along a road towards a junction on my left that would join it, i was about 100yards away but wasnt turning in. woman pulls up to the junction, turns out she was planning to go to her right, looks right at me, looks the other way and promptly pulls out in front of me. good emergency stop practice i guess!

next, i join a queue to go right around a roundabout so id be taking the right lane of it, pretty darn slow moving. i am stopped and the car in from eeks forward a tad and stomps on the brake, he moves over to the left and i go down my exit past him as hes just about pulled into an entrance with his hazards on and a weird look on his face, looks about 40. i carry on down my road bout 3 miles and i notice this man coming up sharpish behind me, following me another 3 or 4 miles until i get to another roundabout queue and have to stop, he gets out wearing a saints tshirt and makes me open my window, demanding i pull over otherwise he will squeal to the cops for hit and run(!)
my mum tells me to do it just to stop him whining and he takes the insurance details and points to a dinky weathered scratch on the rear of his focus estate far too low for my car to hit, containing the laughter i stand there while he talks at me and eventually im set freeee! he calls up later and says he wants it settled by insurance, marvelous. as absolutely nothing happened to my car i just tell my insurance whats going on. few weeks later an investigator from his insurance checks out my car and take witness reports, even he was suspicious lol i never heard anything again, it wasnt settled and last thing i knew the dohbrain was appealing well over a year after
so the moral of the story is: if your a whiney chav who wants someone else to pay for your personalised number plate of your favourite football team pick on a learner! as long as your entrapment method is worthy
so i had a dirty mark on my insurance before id even passed!
 
My brother was driving a '99 Volkswagen Jetta on a rainy day. He was going too fast and spun out on a turn into a tree. The trunk lid was crushed and the bumper was slightly damaged. Lucky for him my dad has access to tools to form the trunk for the new lid. I also found some change where the extra tire is stored. Paint does not match even though the car is red and the lid is a different red.

My dad fell into a ice pit in his '01 Jetta before. A lady came but that was not much help at all. Later two guys in a dump truck came with shovels to make a way for the car to come out and helped in pushing the car out of the pit.
 
stumpydino
heres a few iv experienced, just as a learner i had:
i was driving along a road towards a junction on my left that would join it, i was about 100yards away but wasnt turning in. woman pulls up to the junction, turns out she was planning to go to her right, looks right at me, looks the other way and promptly pulls out in front of me. good emergency stop practice i guess!

next, i join a queue to go right around a roundabout so id be taking the right lane of it, pretty darn slow moving. i am stopped and the car in from eeks forward a tad and stomps on the brake, he moves over to the left and i go down my exit past him as hes just about pulled into an entrance with his hazards on and a weird look on his face, looks about 40. i carry on down my road bout 3 miles and i notice this man coming up sharpish behind me, following me another 3 or 4 miles until i get to another roundabout queue and have to stop, he gets out wearing a saints tshirt and makes me open my window, demanding i pull over otherwise he will squeal to the cops for hit and run(!)
my mum tells me to do it just to stop him whining and he takes the insurance details and points to a dinky weathered scratch on the rear of his focus estate far too low for my car to hit, containing the laughter i stand there while he talks at me and eventually im set freeee! he calls up later and says he wants it settled by insurance, marvelous. as absolutely nothing happened to my car i just tell my insurance whats going on. few weeks later an investigator from his insurance checks out my car and take witness reports, even he was suspicious lol i never heard anything again, it wasnt settled and last thing i knew the dohbrain was appealing well over a year after
so the moral of the story is: if your a whiney chav who wants someone else to pay for your personalised number plate of your favourite football team pick on a learner! as long as your entrapment method is worthy
so i had a dirty mark on my insurance before id even passed!
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Report the insurance fraud. This guy is looking for a quick buck.
 
They have been putting roundabouts in my city for the last 3 years or so. We have never had them here so everyone here is so confused on when to go and such, which is pretty funny to me because its not that hard to figure out....just yield! I have seen a few people almost side swipe others and then they get mad at the person that was doing nothing wrong and start honking and all at them...idiots.
 
Before I spent any time really learning about vehicle dynamics of FWD cars I was driving my Pontiac 6000 sedan.
I hit the off ramp going too fast and I lifted off the accelerator.
Got the weight shift suprise and the next thing I know the rear of the car takes the lead, and I go spinning off the inside of the ramp.
Luckily, I was the only one on the ramp, and the only fool I scared the piss out of was me!:lol:
 
Jim Prower
Report the insurance fraud. This guy is looking for a quick buck.
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as far as i know he didnt get anything, but just for telling my insurance about it my premium went up and its a marked 'incident'!

breakpoint
They have been putting roundabouts in my city for the last 3 years or so. We have never had them here so everyone here is so confused on when to go and such, which is pretty funny to me because its not that hard to figure out....just yield! I have seen a few people almost side swipe others and then they get mad at the person that was doing nothing wrong and start honking and all at them...idiots.
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here we have to give way to the right
which way do you go round? anti clockwise? :odd:
 
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stumpydino
as far as i know he didnt get anything, but just for telling my insurance about it my premium went up and its a marked 'incident'!



here we have to give way to the right
which way do you go round? anti clockwise? :odd:
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Of course. How-to do a 180º on a two-lane, two-way round-about:
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I've never seen roundabout confusion (or should it be "traffic circle"...) than I have in the States when I went there last year. One in Santa Barbara, dunno how long it's been there but people were all over the place! :p
 
Stupid Motoring incidents? I've witnessed 100s, nay, 1000s. I remember one time when I was working at the old Supermarket, the road on both sides of the carpark are one-way, 2 lane streets with a turning lane on the supermarket's side of the street. One person was coming down the turning lane to come into our carpark, the other person was just on their outside in one of the 2 lanes. The dip-🤬 on the outside still tried to turn into our carpark, with no regard for the other car what so ever. Needless to say, the cops didn't take long to get to the accident.

Had trillions of people pull out in front of me, including truck drivers the slow pieces of trash. The funniest things are on the way to work in the morning. I'll be cruising along at the speed limit, then some daft idiot (usually in a Camry, honest), will come speeding up and sit on my tail. When I get back into the other lane, (probably without even changing gears, so they'd be in top gear), they slam their foot down just to start speeding again. I LOL because they must waste a litre or 2 of fuel just doing that alone, and they're so desperate to speed. What idiots.

Edit: Oh, and in the supermaket we had 2 gates on each street, an entry gate (the first one you come across) and an exit gate (the second one you get to). Some people just drive straight past the entry gate and go in the exit gate for what ever daft reason. It's funny though when someone tries to come in the exit gate, and someone is exiting, so they beep their horn and yelling ensues, and then the guy/woman trying to come in the exit gate has to reverse out and do the block (takes like 60sec), and what do they do? They come in the exit gate on the other side.:ouch:
 
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I saw an old-ass red Toyota Camry station wagon swerve right into oncoming traffic, then force a gray Taurus off the road coming back into the right lane.
 
buttsneeze
I saw an old-ass red Toyota Camry station wagon swerve right into oncoming traffic, then force a gray Taurus off the road coming back into the right lane.
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Sounds like a Camry. I'm not saying all Camry drivers are 🤬 but why are so many such idiots on the road?
 
new one today, 3 lanes plenty of traffic in all, doing the limit however. im in the outside lane and theres some kid in a passat inches behind me, moves into a gap in the middle lane to undertake me, at which point he moves in on a van in front of him and im just about overtaking it. so he darts back behind me again past the van and swerves round it and moves into the slow lane to undertake the lot, before stamping on the brakes for the speed camera, everyones carrying on in their same lane and hes no further ahead lol
iv seen it plenty times, kids trying to undertake without looking whats in lane and getting blocked in :lol: very satisfying to watch
 
Seen one today, some idiot kept stopping at every business's driveway in the street I was driving on, and then kept moving afterwards. He never even went to any businesses in the street. It was me.:lol: I was doing a delivery and found I was in the wrong street.:lol:
 
great one today, a double whammy, im in outside lane overtaking a kid in a polo who is insisting i will not pass, junction coming up a mile off and i really need to be in that lane hes in so i let him 'win' (or whatever he thought he was gaining from being a nuisance) and move in behind him, as i do so woman in a honda a fair way back from polo kid tries to speed up and close the gap but too late. hilarious face and arm waving ensues when i look in my rear view mirror, she then proceeds to follow me inches behind until i turn off the road before she makes something happen.
i hate driving in rush hour...its worse than sundays
 
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Sounds like a Camry. I'm not saying all Camry drivers are 🤬 but why are so many such idiots on the road?
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Good thing, I normally drive a Camry.

My most witnessed stupid ass move is the idiot that flies up on you from behind, gets almost to your bumper before pulling out and around you (usually cutting off the guy beside you) then swerving in front of you only to have to slow down because of the car in front of you.

My second son calls that the "Good for you! Now, what was part B of this plan?" move.
 
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Just before school ended the term I witnessed a motorbike crash at a intersection.

Car cliped the motobike and guy flew...

It was like 8am and I was like huh...? :dunce:
 

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