Worst Group of Drivers?

BigLights

If you were to generalise, which is the worst/most dangerous driver profile in London?
I'm voting:

Addison Lee (very consistently awful)
Volvo XC90 yummy mummies on the mobile with kids
Black Cabs (very aggressive but in their interest to not actually hit us)
Those white deliver van types.

in that order.

Ben6899

BigLights wrote:

If you were to generalise, which is the worst/most dangerous driver profile in London?
I'm voting:

Addison Lee (very consistently awful)
Volvo XC90 yummy mummies on the mobile with kids
Black Cabs (very aggressive but in their interest to not actually hit us)
Those white deliver van types.

in that order.

Worst: tourists on Boris bikes
Most dangerous: private hire cabs

DonDaddyD

Bus drivers
Addison Lee
Black taxi
Cab drivers
HGV
Whit Van

Koncordski

Addison Lee
Black Cab
Construction Tipper/Skip Lorries
Bus
BMW X5/Mercedes ML

In that order.

bails87

Just in London. Oh....no, you guys carry on....

TheStone

Black cabs by far the worst.

MonkeyMonster

depending on the weather and traffic
EDIT:
SCOOTERS and MOTORBIKES
fast car wankers of all car types
addison lee
dick cyclists
white vans
bus

given the volume of them and the care/consideration i see most being driven - I'd count cabbies as being overall not too bad

roger_merriman

central london Black Cabs seem to be the most alarming in that they'll try to squeeze though gaps that really aren't there i.e. no wiggle room for, potholes or what not.

most irritating drafting fairies, similar means I've got no wiggle room.

out of central buses can be annoying but minicabs are the worrying, same goes if i'm on bike or car to be honest.

jzed

Scooters

notsoblue

The only consistently bad group of drivers are those in minicabs.

a) Not their car
b) Probably didn't get their license in this country

soundninjauk

I used to hate mainly Addison Lee drivers, but over the past few weeks I've noticed scooters performing irritatingly close overtaking maneuvers. So...

Addison Lee
Scooters
BMW/Merc/Audi drivers

Lazarus

Seriously the worst group of drivers are parents on the school run, especially in the rain at the end of the school day.

Shit these people will blindly run over any feckers to make sure their precious doesn't get wet.

essex-commuter

DonDaddyD wrote:

Bus drivers
Addison Lee
Black taxi
Cab drivers
HGV
Whit Van

Ditto!

arthur_scrimshaw

Skip lorries, the lowest in the food chain of hgv drivers.

rebs

VW Golf (GTi) Drivers that overtake within milimeters of you

cornerblock

The ones who overtake on a pinch point. Impatient, dangerous, selfish, inconsiderate, sh*t for brains, moronic ar*eholes. How much longer would it add to their journey if they waited a few seconds and then overtook? Seconds, that's all!!

byke68

Those who drive into the green box at traffic lights. They have a white bike painted on them for a reason, they are for cyclists, not motorists.
Most white van drivers &taxi drivers.
Those who can't wait a few seconds for you to pass and pull out in front or along side( from the right). It's soo difficult, like, to go into first gear and stop the car completly and then accelerate from first to second. All that wear & tear on the gear box, clutch and brakes!
These idiots are all over the country, not just London!


check your sheds/check your sheds, I think I've lost my mind

jonny_trousers

rebs wrote:

VW Golf (GTi) Drivers that overtake within milimeters of you

Down my way it's young men in small cars (often with blacked out windows) who put the wind up me most regularly and yes, they are often driving Golfs. There's a certain aggressive, couldn't-give-a-f*ck attitude that many of them have cultivated that means they will make really dangerous manoeuvres just to get one car further ahead.

I too am not a massive fan of many black cab drivers. Particularly those who use the bus lane as their own private overtaking lane, and get dangerously close to me, when the traffic is flowing perfectly smoothly to their right.

petemadoc

WTF is Addison Lee

Sorry I live in the country

petemadoc

Minicabs?

jonny_trousers

PeteMadoc wrote:

WTF is Addison Lee

Sorry I live in the country

Addison Lee is primarily a mini cab firm who use very smart, very clean, very comfortable MPVs and employ total and utter retards to drive them. Thankfully they plaster their name right across the back of their cars so that you know exactly who is responsible for you needing new underpants after they've passed you at 50 with only half a centimeter to spare. Stay in the country!

CiB

Worst?

The woman who trundles along the NSL A421 at 35-45 mph regardless of conditions, traffic volumes and length of queue behind her.

The bloke in the Merc (DES 123 iirc) who tried to pass me in the narrowed bit going through Buckingham last summer. Prat.

My dear old mother bless but at least she keeps out of the way and doesn't go on main roads.

The Police when they used to pass me on a dual c/way out of MK when moving prisoners from Woodhill High security gaol to somewhere else. They loved it, creating the mobile roadblock and blasting their sirens at random moments for a larf. Hold me up I could hardly contain myself.

The taxi driver last night who momentarily (probably) had forgotten that he can use the h/brake at traffic lights, instead of sitting with his foot on the brakes blasting my retinas with high intensity red LEDs.

C***ts in vans who drive to quiet back lanes to dispose of television sets, beds, furniture and used car tyres.

Will that do, or like Bails says is this just for that there London? Is the correct answer meant to be BMW drivers?

clarkey cat

peroxide yummy mummys in massive 4x4s left-hooking on NKR

First.Aspect

In order of decreasing hazard:-

Young men
Men
Scottish men
Old men
Young women
Other women
Blind people

Jay dubbleU

Corsa drivers - usually late teens with four of their mates stuffed into the car
Skip lorry drivers
SUV drivers who never seem to know the width of the vehicle
Minicab drivers - do they have driving licences ?

sketchley

Is it not simply the case that there are muppets on all forms of transport in equal percentages. You just see more addison lee taxis driving badly as there are lots of Addison lee taxis.

EKE_38BPM

Anyone who isn't me. Tossers, one and all.

focus123

Don't know about London but any where else, it has to be Audi drivers ! all of 'em total knobheads.

Flyingbogey

Anyone and everyone behind the wheel in Tooting. I have all of my incidents between Colliers Wood and Balham. I find buses and taxis a mixed bag but Addison Lee are all tossers

Applespider

And since all their cars are branded with that big logo, it's easy to spot the buggers. There's usually some form of minicab sticker in cars that come too close. I'm not that keen on the regular cabbies either. They can cut it quite close too and are liable to suddenly overtake and then swerve in for a fare before actually putting on their hazards. Grrrr!

Buses I find OK aside from some of the single deckers on smaller roads which on occasion have made me literally leap off the bike between two parked cars when they decide they don't consider me oncoming traffic when the road is reduced to a single usable lane.

Oh... and anything where the bass music shakes you off the bike as it approaches isn't likely to be an paragon of driving either.

prj45

Nissan phuking Micra drivers.

I have a theory that really badly un-confident drivers stick to driving the car they learned in, and lo, we have the Nissan Micra driver.

If you see a car on the road doing the wrong thing, heading the wrong way, or simply in the wrong place (like the one I saw beached on a concrete divider once), it'll be a Nissan Micra.

Luckily they are so bad it's easy to spot and avoid them.