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Current pet hate - people going too fast round blind corners - Orb>>.

There is a corner close by on traffic lights with a 12" concrete filled metal post strategically placed to protect pedestrians waiting to cross. Seemed to be knocked askew frequently and so Essex highways leave it askew now. But people are coming around way too fast and as a result are swinging further out often with poor results such as violently correcting, hitting the post and ending up on the footpath .

Doh!

Current pet hate - people going too fast round blind corners - Engineer Andy

At least they didn't end up in someone's front room! Round my way, some numpty took the 90deg bend in a nearby village too fast and ended up demolishing one part of the local pub!

Also seen a similar incident at a local mini roundabout, where a car turned left but took it way too fast, as the road is quite narrow, bashing into the car coming up to the roundabout.

Pedestrians often need to be very careful in such areas to avoid being involved in an accident themselves, including drivers cutting the inside corner or pedestrians stepping out to cross, only to find a vehicle turning towards them that didn't signal, just as often as the pedestrian themselves didn't look before crossing.

Current pet hate - people going too fast round blind corners - FoxyJukebox
Yes-zooming round blind corners on the right hand side of the road to avoid pot holes??
Current pet hate - people going too fast round blind corners - Andrew-T

Some may learn if we get any black ice this winter ....

Current pet hate - people going too fast round blind corners - Engineer Andy

Some may learn if we get any black ice this winter ....

A cold snap supposedly approaching next week in at least some parts of the UK. First below zero (night time) temperatures of the season...

Current pet hate - people going too fast round blind corners - Gibbo_Wirral

People just going around corners is my pet hate. They can't seem to do it without crossing the white line or cutting the junction.

Current pet hate - people going too fast round blind corners - davecooper

My son did an advanced driving course for his job many years ago. There were a few of them on the course and the instructor commented that some of them were going round corners like they were driving round a 50 pence piece, correcting the steering angle in a few big chunks rather than changing steering angle smoothly. He told them that If they didn't get this basic bit of driving sorted then they would fail the course.

Current pet hate - people going too fast round blind corners - madf

My morning walk is often a 1 mile walk uphill to the moors. A twisty road just wide enough for two cars, 2 meter hedges and no straight longer than 100 meters.

Treacherous in snow and ice: Accidents since we lived here: Citroen C1 on its roof at 6am, Car through farmer's steel gate.. Range Rover Discovery with nose two meters up a tree..(yes really) and a BMW hit a Range Rover - as both refuse to give way.

I wear a thick jerkin so I can fling myself into the hawthorn when a car comes fast round one of the many blind corners,, BMW and Mercedes drivers appear worst.

Fortunately too twisty and narrow for arctics,

Some very considerate drivers and some utter m****s..

Current pet hate - people going too fast round blind corners - bathtub tom

Fortunately too twisty and narrow for arctics,

Just as well you've a thick coat to keep you warm!

Current pet hate - people going too fast round blind corners - Sofa Spud

Near us there is a sharp bend on an A road. Not long ago some new chevron signs with day-glo yellow borders were installed. Soon afterwards, a speeding car left the road, ending up in a field, having taken out one of the chevron signs. Although this bend isn't a blind bend in the conventional sense, the driver involved obviously didn't see the bend or the chevron signs!