Drivers Attitude - unoffical poll

D ... no question.

So if you do this and the guy road rages you, are you to blame because you started the issue?

And you would look real funny waiting for the tow truck after he hits you, when simply moving over and letting him by, removes him from your life, in a very quick amount of time.

Well I`d rather that anyday than him cleaning up that girl pushing a pram and or a 7 year old kid on a bmx crossing the road up ahead.

Thats very noble of you, to save the world from itself like that.......

Ohhhh Im awake, is that roses I can smell?...

Have you ever seen a kid get hit by a car doing 80km/h in a 50k zone???...seeing a kid bouncing off a car and onto the bitumen.. well have you????. have you seen the distress the parents go thru????and all that time the young moron behind the wheel of the car can say is "I`m really sorry"...Well Christmas day 4 years mate that`s exactly what I had the misfortune of witnessing sitting out front of my girlfriends place.I`d rather get a dose of road rage from a hoon anyday than see that again.

Your never going to save everybody, regardless, and holding them up just makes them speed more in the next sector of the trip theya re racing through, but for the record,

Ive seen 3 fatalities, Ive seen one happen, Ive seen 4 people be run over, one by a car doing 80kph +, with the person cartwheeling in the air, and one who got run over by a semi's trailer wheels squeezing his insides out of his head like a tube of toothpaste, which is all the more reason I get out of the persons way......

This doesnt count my time in the CFA on the Hume, where we would turn out to 25+ accidents on a long weekend.

Well lets see I`ve attended 23 fatalities in my time, seen 4 of them happen and I`ve seen a guy get squished by a truck too.Also seen an old guy working under his car on the side of major highway with his legs sticking out into traffic and a low loader with a 16 ton grader on the back go straight over the top of his legs.

I`ve seen it from all angles. I`ve been the kid crossing the road. I`ve been the invincible young hoon who nearly did clean someone up. How it didn`t happen before then is plain lucky. 5 years later watched what could have happened right before me and last but not least I`ve been the person who`s had to scrape people off the road.

Alright Go offroad I`m doing the 50 km/h limit ,minding my own business, I get out of his way then what.. On a 2 lane surburban street there`s going to be more traffic further up.There`s traffic banked up behind the little old lady on her Sunday drive doing 35 km/h and traffic coming the other way with no chance of him getting around .Are all those people plus the old lady gonna get out of his way ...is he gonna have road rage with all of those people..He`d be pretty peeved too cos he would have had road rage from having to get around cars before he got up to me assuming they didn`t get out of his way...Meanwhile having got out of his way I`ve now caught up to him and all he can see in his mirrors now is my big shiny bull bar and the hunter has now become the hunted.Oh yes and a cop doing license checks further up spots some defects on his car and gives him a yellow sticker. I think he`s wishing he took the bus now

My terry, you have read alot into the statement to suit what you think, 2 lanes, old ladies, cops, and you even become a hunter LOL... all of a sudden you have lowered to the speedsters level, because he passed you?

Its pretty simple really, if you dont want a person on another agenda up your bum, who is obviously in a hurry, let him by, and let his agenda clash with someone else would be the smart thing to do, anywhere, anytime the opportunity arrises......

I`m going on the basis that it`s only 2 lanes because if there was additional lanes available he wouldn`t be sitting in the left hand lane pedalling it with me and everyone else in front of him.Me being there wouldn`t be an issue. He would be in that right lane going past everything.Also taking into account if it was a busy time like peak rush hour a multi lane carrigeway with a posted speed limit of 50km/h and going by Melbourne, Sydney even Perth traffic there`s no way he could do 80km/h in the 50km/h zone regardless which lane he`s in because the traffic conditions simply wouldn`t allow it.

I`m going on the basis he`s a young guy on P plates and has just got his first hot car and he wants to see how fast it will go and doesn`t know any better.....He`s not flashing his headlights and blasting his horn to indicate that that he is in any kind of an emergency and which if he was everyone would get out of his way without question.The old lady doing 35km/h and the vehicles behind her he is forced to slow down.I`m going along doing 50km/h see the slow moving traffic and slow down accordingly so ofcourse I`m going to be right behind him and behind me is the truck he sideswiped getting onto the road in the first place.The old lady turns off at the lawn bowls and the traffic picks up pace.He takes off and then further down the road there`s the cop.

But ofcourse I don`t know anything I only build roads for a living.Even managed to do some traffic management studies to as to what kinds of traffic reacts to various situations but no I still know nothing.

You should always be in the left lane anyway lol

Lanes what are they? I think I saw one last time I was in perth but that was ages ago

I read the other day that Campers behind diesel Toyotas are only going to be allowed on the road, between the hours of 1 and 5 AM.

Pollies are amazing

We wouldnt be bagging Toyotas would we ??

I have information and I aint scared to use it lol

Did I say Toyota, I meant LandRover................

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Cause I'm old, wear a hat, and drive a Volvo

Leave nothing but footprints & take nothing but photos

Ditto

We are doing a bit of research for the ADG (Australian Drivers Group).

There's a general idea that Drivers Attitude , probably plays a big a role in accidents , road rage etc etc, as anything else.

there's nothing sinister in the poll. Its just purely to get some views , from a different driving group.

When you spend alot of time driving, you soon learn what the issues are, and drivers who think they can keep you at the speed they wish to travel at, is one attitude problem of many I see.

Same deal in Thailand and other countries in SE Asia. You can be driving in the 6th lane on a 3 lane highway, chuck the indicator on and start moving and people just get out of your way.
Another one is when your going around someone you give them a good blast on the horn, it's normal practice. Try that over here and you'll be in all sorts.
And just for the survey I would maintain my speed, if they sat on my @ss I would slow down. Its amazing what going from 4th to 2nd will do in a diesel!
Tim

G'day Bob....
I reckon you've got it in one mate.....

Quote:

"A. is stupid - you never ignore anything on the road, B. is stupid too"...

Let the silly sods head off and kill themselves, not you and your family.

Might be a bit different if I was driving a Centurion Tank or similar.

Yeah, the toughest man in the world routine will solve all the traffic problems..........

lol i would expect this type of follow up from someone like YOU.
HAHAHA.
very funny