The driving you are describing is on the increase, much of the reason for this is because some who should really be driving a Nissan Micra or similar small car are driving cars far too long and wide and too fast for them to cope with, a few minutes watching the antics of the average driver parking their car will confirm this.

The best thing to do when you see an idiot who obviously can't cope with their vehicle is to make sure they get past you and in front of you and make sure you stay back from them, that way you won't end up in the scrapes and confrontations these people get involved in, and you can wave regally to them as you drive gently past when they have to stop to sort out the collision they were just involved in when they met their equivalent.

The above is slightly tongue in cheek, but i am seeing the results day in day out, there is one particular make of car the drivers of which seem completely incapable of keeping in their own lane on roundabouts and junctions, watching them attempt to park their oversized for them cars is hilarious...and no it isn't BMW's which i find these days to be driven rather well in the main despite whatever reputation they might have once had.

Edited by gordonbennet on 07/07/2017 at 14:19

While doing a genuine 70mph, the same car started to overtake me three times on the A421 south of Bedford yesterday at what must have been about 70.5. On each occasion I ended up accelerating ahead to pass a 56mph lorry after he had spent a mile or more creeping up alongside of me. What is in these people's heads?

Not a lot, and that's the problem. Too lazy to turn the cruise control off and get past too.

While doing a genuine 70mph, the same car started to overtake me three times on the A421 south of Bedford yesterday at what must have been about 70.5. On each occasion I ended up accelerating ahead to pass a 56mph lorry after he had spent a mile or more creeping up alongside of me. What is in these people's heads?

Even stevens - you both may have selected 70 mph cruise but cars react marginally differently on gradients - you could have varied your speed up or down just as easily as the other driver.

What is in these people's heads?

SWMBO thinks much of this is people, and middle or older aged usually thoroughly miserable looking men are by far the biggest culprits here, exercising that little bit of power thay think they have by baulking or policing the road, a fair chance they are jobsworths in their working lives.

She also wonders if they might well be nagged at home where they have to do as they are told, so attempt to make up for frustrating lives by being an annoying little twerp to others whenever possible whilst safely locked inside their steel and glass safety cage.

You see some of these actions when they leave a single carriagway road where they've struggled to get up to a heady 50 mph no matter how good the road, yet soon as an overtaking opportunity arises for the line of bored witless souls stuck behind, they suddenly find the throttle and go belting off only to slow right down again when the overtake possibility has passed.

You seldom see this type of driving from women, if they're steady on the single carriageway (and i have no problem with that, not everyone wants to run at the speed limit or higher all the time), they don't usually try to thwart overtakers.

Edited by gordonbennet on 09/07/2017 at 20:30