Danger Cars?

tangled_metal

Are there any make and model of cars that worry you when they are approaching? I mean those models which are more likely than not to be driven badly even dangerously?

I will start it off with the new shape VW Beetle. Every time I see one when out on a bike on a side junction I feel like I need danger money to ride past the junction. It is not gender related neither. I reckon as a "quirky car" they are more likely to be driven by the quirky or ditzy or colourful individual who possibly has less grasp of reality than most.

Anyone got any others?

elbowloh

No I honestly don't think there's a particular model or type of car that I think is more dangerous than others......unless it's a Ford Galaxy with "Adison Lee" written on the back.

menthel

Q7 or X5- all driven terribly by idiots in West London. Oh, and those big red things with lots of windows and number on the front and back.

pblakeney

The ones with people in the driver's seat.

tangled_metal

Ours aren't red but if they have the number 5 on them their driver thinks he's in a small car. Judging by the way he swerves back in after passing the spot I was at he last time he had sight of me before his overtaking manoeuvre.

We don't have many Q7 or X5s round here but have a lot of Nissan Jukes and the like here. They sell them as a sporty but smaller Qashqai or a micro on steroids I think and that is how the people throw them around. Not that bad but there are a few Porsche SUV cars round here driven by people who believe a fancy car means they have bought the roads.

tangled_metal

PBlakeney wrote:

The ones with people in the driver's seat.

Cut to the chase again. How right you are though.

surrey_commuter

elbowloh wrote:

No I honestly don't think there's a particular model or type of car that I think is more dangerous than others......unless it's a Ford Galaxy with "Adison Lee" written on the back.

+1

Kieran_Burns

Usually the 4-wheeled variety.

Oh and the 2-wheeled.

Sometimes the 3-wheeled as well, but this is quite rare.

drlodge

BMWs are the worst.

sketchley

left hand drive coaches parked on the embankment.....

roger_merriman

generally cars are fine, on the whole Taxi's mainly the Black ones rather than mini cabs tends to be the worse for either squeezing past or attempting to do a U turn as you approach etc.

drlodge

Sketchley wrote:

left hand drive coaches parked on the embankment.....

Not so much the coaches, but the numpty passengers dawdling around the front door in the middle of the road

*screams "get out of the bloody way!"*

meanredspider

Up in my part of the world it's crew cabs driven by farmers - if I assume I'm invisible, I'll probably survive the encounter :twisted:

warreng

Mini Coopers - driven by people who like idea of driving but not really understanding they have a physical and mental input into the process

Grey/Silver middle of the range BMS/Audi/VW cars - the new version of the sales rep's car.

Lime Green Renault Scenics - purely a personal one

Anything that's carrying garden waste - generally a poorer more dangerous version of WVM

Anything that has visible fluffy toys - essentially 6 year olds trapped in an adult's body

BobMcbob

WWMs
BMWs
Open vans
Pick up trucks
Commuter Coaches

menthel

Cars that people have stuck eyelashes on. The driver will have no discernable brain function.

vermin

menthel wrote:

Cars that people have stuck eyelashes on. The driver will have no discernable brain function.

Like this?



They're a nightmare round ours too.

cwhitford

Any bus operated by The Big Bus Company

jamesco

Statistically, it's got to be anything being driven by a young male - nothing else on the road has the same combination of aggression and dickheadedness. At least mums in their big SUVs don't seem to be trying to kill us...

fatsmoker

jamesco wrote:

Statistically, it's got to be anything being driven by a young male - nothing else on the road has the same combination of aggression and dickheadedness. At least mums in their big SUVs don't seem to be trying to kill us...

Half and half with those young males. One has some banter with me wen our commutes coincide. I race him a couple of miles through traffic much to his mate's amusement. Some, yes, just dicks.
From this evening, young Arabs in 4x4 BMWs. twunt didn't even look before pulling out forcing me to an abrupt halt. In fact if it hadn't been for an RLJer 5 seconds earlier slowing me down as I crossed a crossing the driver would have got me.

rubertoe

Anything driven by anyone in hampstead or temple fortune.

And addison lee drivers. And...

anthdci

Vans and taxi's mostly. I find female drivers tend to give the most room.

PBo

rubertoe wrote:

Anything driven by anyone in hampstead or temple fortune.

And addison lee drivers. And...

Temple fortune....oh Jesus! Do you cross n.circ there and go down to golders green! It's shocking!!!

tangled_metal

I used to cycle in Blackburn and Preston. I'm not racist but old BMW 3 series driven by Asian drivers used to scare me rigid. Even when I'm in my own steel coffin I've nearly been taken out quite a few times.

rallyman1978

12 year old Vauxhall Zafiras with "powered by fairy dust stickers" on the back
Guaranteed to be driven by some gopping, fat, chav twunt with 8 kids and a fanny the size of a sleeping bag

warreng

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The Rookie

Ugh.......

BMW's my way are OK (and not just because we have 2 in the family!), Bini's (not real Mini's) are a pain, the local bus drivers I find very good (perhaps we can arrange for them to go down and train the TFL drivers?), good observation, keep well away and make sure they are fully past before pulling back in, for me it's HGV's, they pass me like I'm stationary, that means they are pulling back in when I'm roughly level with the trailer wheels (not nice), I now stop pedaling as soon as an HGV starts to pass to give them a fighting chance at missing me.

rubertoe

PBo wrote:

rubertoe wrote:

Anything driven by anyone in hampstead or temple fortune.

And addison lee drivers. And...

Temple fortune....oh Jesus! Do you cross n.circ there and go down to golders green! It's shocking!!!

It depends on which way I go - I only ever head north, so golders green, Temple Fortune and East Finchely - that has to the worst place for drivers in the world. ever. Its ok once i cross the north circ.

tangled_metal

rallyman1978 wrote:

12 year old Vauxhall Zafiras with "powered by fairy dust stickers" on the back
Guaranteed to be driven by some gopping, fat, chav twunt with 8 kids and a fanny the size of a sleeping bag

There is a lass near us who always gets pink cars that are a little bit cheap sporty if you know what I mean. hyundai coupe or something like that. She has stickers like that. Also add on playboy bunnies and you have something worth avoiding in life completely!! Another words munter with a bag over the head who wants to be wanted and thinks that is how to get noticed. One type of lass who fills out night school automotive maintenance classes only to find it full of similar types as her!!

iPete

rallyman1978 wrote:

12 year old Vauxhall Zafiras with "powered by fairy dust stickers" on the back
Guaranteed to be driven by some gopping, fat, chav twunt with 8 kids and a fanny the size of a sleeping bag

Brilliant, I see a pink* Fiat 500 near daily, something about fairy dust or Disney in the rear window and stick on eye lashes. Must be a teacher, not see her all summer but actually drives OK.

*pink vehicles ridden by men are cool mmmk!

PerformingMonkey

Tangled Metal wrote:

I'm not racist but...

I deeply value the opinion of anyone who starts a sentence with this.