worse than driving with a mobile

[timwilky]

Nearly wiped out this morning as I was trying to change lanes (I am in van so limited view I can only see what is in my mirrors)

I am trying to move from RH to LH lanes in order to take a turn off, traffic coming down slip road that becomes the LH lane I need.

So I can see all the traffic on the slip road, there is a gap to my left and I am indicating, but it is starting to slow ahead so I need to make the move.

But WTF, the car at the gap, the driver isn't looking at the road and the gap I intend to use. She is looking in the vanity mirror and applying eye make up.

I have to enter the gap or miss my turn, so with an eye on the mirrors enter and a second or two later a squeal of tyres a smoke behind me as she suddenly realises I am there. In the other mirror I see the car driver that was behind me just shaking his head at her. She followed me on my exit and as I took the next right she passed on my inside looking very sheapish.

So what is worse than a mobile

makeup?
Shaving?
Reading a report/map etc?
Having a brew?

I see all of these on a regular basis OR


As in a report I read on a news website last night being on the receiving end of oral pleasure and running the red light in the excitement?

[NTECUK]

"Turning Japanese, I really think so ".
ps your need to be a suitable age to understand....

[timwilky]

Thank god I have never witnessed that. but I am sure it must happen.

[Red Herring]

I think all the time we continue to try and identify and ban specific acts as being the cause of incidents we are doomed to fail. The issue is simply that a large percentage of drivers (and riders) feel far to "safe" doing what they are doing and don't feel that it requires all of their attention. Combine that with the social trend of a lack of personal responsibility....... don't get me started!

[timwilky]

Yes, you shouldn't need to ban anything, they all get covered by the due care and attention. But specific bans stop the I didn't know defence.

Stupidity knows no bounds.

[Red Herring]

Originally Posted by timwilky

...But specific bans stop the I didn't know defence.

Hence my second paragraph. Until we start treating the "Oh I didn't know that putting my makeup on whilst joining a dual carriageway was wrong, why isn't there a law against it" excuse with the contempt it deserves we are never going to make progress. Instead we continue to adopt the approach that it isn't societies place to accept responsibility for itself but "someone else's" fault for allowing them to be so irresponsible....

[NTECUK]

Originally Posted by Red Herring

The issue is simply that a large percentage of drivers (and riders) feel far to "safe" doing what they are doing and don't feel that it requires all of their attention. Combine that with the social trend of a lack of personal responsibility....... don't get me started!

Yep that's it right there.

In all fairness although she blatantly shouldn't have been wearing makeup there's nothing g that says she has to give way to your desire to change lanes.

The indicator isn't a god given right to cut people up even if you will miss a turning otherwise. (I don't understand the limited view part, even vans don't have a blind spot with correctly adjusted mirrors).

[dizzyblonde]

She could have always been reading a book...


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...195170&fref=nf

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

She could have always been reading a book...


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...195170&fref=nf

Easy solution to that one would be to give him a nudge off the road