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[Terbs]

Now....I am normally a placid type....but some things do wind me up.....coming back from Dorset last night, very quiet road, approaching Ringwood on the A31 dual carriage, I catch up to a 'girl' poodling along at about 45.... in the right hand lane. I have two cars behind me, I signal and pull into the right hand lane, as do the two behind. No reaction from said girl. Number three in line gets the dog, and screams past on the inside. So I now flash the lights.....no response...I flash again......she signals left and pull into the left lane. We both overtake, and I pull into the left lane. Matey behind me then passes me. Out of my mirror, I see the girl signal right and pull into the right hand lane again   Whhaaaat !!!!
For those who know the road, as you approach Ringwood, the A31 is then joined by the A338 (from Bournemouth)from the left now making four lanes. They then split away again shortly after, to their various routes.
Although the A31 was quiet, the A338 was quite busy. Our girl, then signals left, and proceeds from the right hand lane A31, across the left hand lane, and promptly positions herself on the right hand lane of the A338
Bloody hell.....how she survived that I'll never know, I could see cars obviously slamming the anchors on, lights flashing, and my last view of her was serenely carrying on in the right hand lane in the direction of Fordingbridge, with some irate driver flashing his lights like crazy.
Who are these people

[plym ian]

Why is there a wrong lane?

[Terbs]

Pressed the wrong key, Ian
I was editing what you saw 

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Sadly she wasn't speeding, so was perfectly 'safe' 

I know, driving like this is exactly the reason for such a large proportion of accidents, and not someone doing 78 in the dead of night on a well-lit motorway. However you try telling that to a Speed Awareness course person, or a judge, for that matter, it's not going to hold much water.

Incidentally, on the way to my speed awareness course I was both stuck behind someone doing 45 in a 60, casing a tailback and a number of irritated drivers, and later the same journey someone in a Golf who barrelled past me in said 60, doing maybe 80, straight past a parked police car. Mr GTi then overtook someone, thus veering onto the right side of the road, just before a blind bend. The Police car did....



nothing. 

[the alarming man]

the junction you are referring too is a very fast junction and what you describe is suicidal to say the least....these people are every where and it would seem here in Kent they are prosecuting  (or at least have) fully paid up members of the wrong lane brigade

[05omegav6]

Probably foreign

[ted_one]

On your driving test...you are marked down for lane position and failure to make progress,also non- awareness of other road users will make an examiner very twitchy with his pen.Why is it that these people scrape  through a driving test and then go out in busy road conditions without even the basic traffic survival skills that will help keep them out of trouble by interacting appropiately with other road users

[mka306]

Try living in Bristol, said idiots are a daily occurrence here and it drives me mental.

[Rods2]

Probably foreign

Very true, a friend of my wife's that came from Lithuania, drove on her EU licence and had not got a clue what UK road signs, road markings, had no situation awareness and was basically an accident looking for a place to happen.

[LFF64]

What gets me is how do they not notice something flashing headlights behind them , and yes I know you are not meant to do this but surely they must realise you are behind them
I have done it and even when they eventually pull over and you can get past they just look straight ahead and don't even seem to notice you are there
Some people just seem to be in their own little worlds and switch off to other traffic and being foreign is no excuse in my eyes it is actually dangerous to everyone

[Terbs]

Yes, I suppose she could have been foreign.....
But surely, seeing three cars go past, then all remain in the left lane, plus any other traffic that must have passed her....surely then the penny should drop

[ted_one]

Wonder wether that person would have noticed....alternating flashing headlights accompanied by blue strobes up their jacksie

[plym ian]

Pressed the wrong key, Ian
I was editing what you saw 

Awww sorry I'll take it back then 

[Varche]

My first thought was foreign driver.

Funnily enough the same thing happened to us recently just outside Leicester. Most odd.

My other thought was drugs. I have for years been convinced that maybe 20% of the UK drivers are under the influence.  Much bigger problem than people think. It was interesting to see the police now stopping people for cannabis and Heroin (I think) and the large number of positive readings. When you start taking into account legal highs (made in giant labs in China) and prescription drugs for depression etc I am probably not far off the mark.

[Andy B]

Going to work the other morning, the car in front of me on the roundabout immediately went into the right hand lane on the motorway slip road  I undertook him in the left .... they then look at you in bewilderment  He was doing 50-ish, I was obviously going faster, as were the cars on the motorway at the end of the slip.

And as above, I've gained on cars that were in the middle lane of an otherwise empty motorway, I'm stayed in lane 1, flashed my lights a good distance back, sometimes they move left & I overtake as normal, and they've then moved back to lane 2  . Other times they stay put, so I undertake, I don't ever intand to move 3 lanes cos of a numpty that can't keep left.