The old joke about BMW drivers not using their indicators seems to be true, and I seem to get tailgated by Audis and white van men a lot.
The taxi drivers in West Yorkshire are aggressively bad drivers, and drive right up your arse too, especially at night.
As for stereotyping, mid thirties asian women drive like they're playing a turn based strategy game, mid fifties white women have terrible road rage while failing to follow basic rules of the road (I've seen my mother shout at someone for swerving because she cut them off) and old men tend to drive like they're 20 but have lost the reaction time.
>white van men
Having driven a white van in an old job, let me tell you, when you're in someone else's vehicle, on their petrol, with a big fucking motor under the hood, it's bloody tempting to floor it, especially if you're on a tight deadline. I managed to resist it for the most part, but the pressure might've got to me if I'd been on a commission.
I'll throw in a vote for mums with young kids. It's alright dear, you stop right there at the exit of Tesco to lecture your progeny at length - we'll all just sit and wait.
I was a part time white van man a few years ago to earn some money on the side. I was working two nights a week for a groceries delivery service.
They gave me a 140-hp, 2.0 TDI common-rail Volkswagen Transporter van. Time is of the essence when you're a delivery man, so I got to put the car through its paces a lot. Even in a somewhat bulky T5, the TDI engine could pack quite a punch. You wouldn't think that a humble white van would perform better than many saloons. But it did.
In some ways, it's a miracle that I never got stopped by police. Being on a tight schedule, I quite routinely exceeded speed limits by about 20 mph.
If you run into coppers who have been having a bad day, they can issue you a caution that can cost you around 20 to 30 quid.
Fix it as soon as you've got the time, but other than that, I wouldn't worry too much about it. It's not very likely that you will get stopped just because of that.
>>3851 >they didn't know you were turning
I walk everywhere and experience this several times a week. It's astounding the number of drivers who don't bother to use their indicators, presumably because they think that it doesn't matter when no other cars are around. Who gives a shit about pedestrians, right?
I drive a 4x4 with the big fuck off light bars all over it, I've blasted them all on at people who don't dip their beams when they pass. I'm being far more dangerous and illegal but fuck them.
