Lately I have noticed that every time I go near the uni the students just seem oblivious to the dangers of walking accross the road when traffic is flowing. They walk in front of cars that are travelling through green lights, and then have the gall to look surprised when you "tap them" with the van wing mirror instead of waiting for them to get off the damned road. :rant:

Its group mentality when there are big groups of pedestrians. I drove in central london recently, for the first time in ages, and nearly ran several people over coz I forgot to expect people to step out in front of me :(

Teenagers think they're imortal.:hihi:

The road is for cars- not pedestrians, I think instead of slowing down everyone should speed up and scare the **** out of them!

The road is for cars- not pedestrians, I think instead of slowing down everyone should speed up and scare the **** out of them!

Good thinking Matt, perhaps we can have a "do a student day" a bit like the glorious 12th for grouse shooting :P

Good thinking Matt, perhaps we can have a "do a student day" a bit like the glorious 12th for grouse shooting :P


Yeah! absolutely- we could go round armed with super soakers full of **** to get them with as well- that'll teach 'em!

only yday my partner came home really wound up because of exactly the same thing-he nearly hit a lass at the broomhill junction-he said he felt like jumping out of his van and slapping her!!!(obviously he didnt!)
i sometimes think pedestrians think that because the car driver can see them,its ok-they dont seem to appreciate how difficult it can be to avoid them-especially when youve got cars behind you?

only yday my partner came home really wound up because of exactly the same thing-he nearly hit a lass at the broomhill junction-he said he felt like jumping out of his van and slapping her!!!(obviously he didnt!)
i sometimes think pedestrians think that because the car driver can see them,its ok-they dont seem to appreciate how difficult it can be to avoid them-especially when youve got cars behind you?

Tell him that's what the wing mirror is for, they soon catch on after being clipped with a *tranny mirror a few times. :D (* Transit van, not someone who is a transvestite :rolleyes: )

Lately I have noticed that every time I go near the uni the students just seem oblivious to the dangers of walking accross the road when traffic is flowing. They walk in front of cars that are travelling through green lights, and then have the gall to look surprised when you "tap them" with the van wing mirror instead of waiting for them to get off the damned road. :rant:

You must be old, owdlad. It's so long since you took your driving test that you've forgotten that pedestrians always have priority when in the road, regardless of the colour of the lights :)

we could go round armed with super soakers

wet students :love: :heyhey:

Anyway, isn't it a debt wish they have?

Too true, or maybe just students that come from the far reaches of the countryside that are not used to the high levels of traffic.

I started a thread like this a while back and got totally ripped apart!

Students do indeed have a death wish, degrees must be really bad, if the patenosta lift in the arts tower doesn't get them they run under cars!

I totally agree, they look at you as thought to say 'you daren't hit me' and they're right, nobody would want to run them over.

There is however, one lad that used to go to King Edwards School when I did who will never again refuse to move when a car wants to get out of the gate, he really didn't expect my mum to carry on driving and run over his foot :hihi: he deserved it though - cocky tw@t

You know what really p***** me off as a pedestrian? When you're already halfway across a road because there's no traffic and some idiot comes around the corner and expects you to start running across the road. It normally happens as I'm walking towards Tesco Express on West Street (from West One) and they suddenly expect you to jump out of the way. These are usually the same people who don't indicate to let you know they're even intending to turn down there.

But yes, the bloody students do have a deathwish. The amount of times people run out in front of the car outside HSBC Bank, or Natwest Bank it quite scary. They must think they're invincible!

i think pedestrians problably have an equal right to be complaining about drivers, why the hell can no one in sheffield indicate!

I always give way to pedestrians when am turning off at a junction - they have priority.

However when the idiots decide to step on to a main road (Broad Lane / Brook Hill / West Street spring to mind) especially when they are only 20 yards from a pedestrian crossing:loopy:

walking out in front of cars aint the only thing lame students do thats thick. 3 am last saturday morning i was driving home up by the uni only to discover a group of what i only can describe as neanderthal like students smashed on two halfs of larger. they were removing the road cones and the diversion arrow from around a hole in the road and repostioning them across the road. blocking traffic, these thick f******s fail to think that this is the main root to the childrens hospital, why cant you thicketts wake up. i know all students are not plain dummys like you, but you make people think that they are. all i can say is its lucky me and a taxi driver moved them before an ambulance came across them rushing a injured child to hospital. not to mention some poor person crashing there car in to the hole were the cones were taken from.

when i was a student i was a bit rubbish with roads. i cant really explain it. i also noticed everyone else was in some sort of daze all the time. perhaps it was cos we were always walking and talking and forgetting the simple matter of not getting run over. since leaving a few years ago i havent had a problem at all. these days it is my turn to try and keep my wits about me and avoid them. do you think it has anything to do with pot / beer / others?

Best thing to do is to get the ergophobic scruffs to sit an exam on the Highway Code as soon as they arrive at Uni, Poly, anywhere-but-work, and give them a badge for getting the exam right (well, anything over 15%).

Then next time they cross Mushroom Lane they might not look quite so surprised when you turn into the road.

But we must bear in mind that as soon as they are deposited in our city, via their parents' 4 x 4 they are told to become 'anti-car', "tree huggers" in effect meaning they must despise everyone with the audacity of owning a car, never mind driving the thing (at least until papa and mama pick them up in October at the beginning of their Christmas Holidays).

Further, bear in mind also that most students aren't fully concious till 3pm at the earliest.

Perhaps it's just that the areas around the Uni are more busy than most areas? Heeley's not filled with pedestrians but you still get morons driving too fast and too recklessly who turn into roads while people are crossing and then get the 'ump.

Just toot your horn if people are being really reckless, but otherwise bear in mind you are moving a lot faster in a vehicle and you can also hurt someone. The pedestrian does have the right of way if they are already crossing, and remember, it wouldn't be nice if you did run somebody down - fines, prison etc. Not to mention that picking all that long student hair out of your radiator grille would be icky. :gag: :thumbsup:

I haven't noticed it where I am now (at university) but the road system around here is certainly more confusing than sheffields, i'm certain - I so far haven't been hit by a car, but theres only one road to cross between here and most of the places I go :P

As for traffic cones, we were given a massive lecture regarding this at the start of term, and told we would be prosecuted if caught on CCTV - apparently 3 students were last year and had to go to court.

Not just students, pedestrians as a whole. To the two lads carrying snooker cues who ran across in front of me at Hillsborough Corner yesterday at 5, next time I might not stop and it'll be an ambulance you're catching. Similar to the two kids by Longley Park, learn how to judge a vehicles speed before crossing a road - the highway code still says you shouldn't start to cross the road unless it is clear to do so. It wasn't, so why did you? And to the little gang at Lane Top playing in the road works in the middle of the road.. well!! How stupid can you get? And to the police stood watching them, your lack of action disgusts me. And all this was in a period of 10 minutes... And thats not mentioning the man and the girl who just blindly drifted across a main road in front of me, forcing me to come to a complete standstill. Yes, pedestrians have right of way, but quite frankly, this is well beyond that. This is jaywalking. Remember that anyone?

You must be old, owdlad. It's so long since you took your driving test that you've forgotten that pedestrians always have priority when in the road, regardless of the colour of the lights :)

Pedestrians have the right of way if already crossing a road. They don't have a right of way to walk out infront of you.

Best thing to do is to get the ergophobic scruffs to sit an exam on the Highway Code as soon as they arrive at Uni, Poly, anywhere-but-work, and give them a badge for getting the exam right (well, anything over 15%).

Then next time they cross Mushroom Lane they might not look quite so surprised when you turn into the road.

But we must bear in mind that as soon as they are deposited in our city, via their parents' 4 x 4 they are told to become 'anti-car', "tree huggers" in effect meaning they must despise everyone with the audacity of owning a car, never mind driving the thing (at least until papa and mama pick them up in October at the beginning of their Christmas Holidays).

Further, bear in mind also that most students aren't fully concious till 3pm at the earliest.



:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: well said mate

And also bear in mind that sometimes there are no road crossings and so pedestrians may have to take their chances and run across - as we have to do every morning! Luckily most drivers have the sense to hold off the gas a little! And we always thank 'em.

What does annoy me is if you are crossing where there is a traffic queue and the cars aren't going to go anywhere, and some idiot decides it's funny to edge up on you a bit just to scare you. I am often tempted to surreptitiously drag my keys along the bonnet on such occasions, but that would be stooping to their level.

"Then next time they cross Mushroom Lane they might not look quite so surprised when you turn into the road."

You are obviously a motorist who has not understood the highway code. Pedestrians have right of way at a junction like mushroom lane.

If you were to injure one you would be guilty of recless or dangerous driving, if you managed to kill them it would be manslaughter.

Have some consideration for others.

you have to feel sorry for the poor loves though, I mean 6 or so pedestrian crossings up the length of the road from brook hill roundabout to crookes junction are obviously not enough and are way to far apart to be useful for the poor mites...despite the fact that hoards of them jaywalk across the road a matter of yards from the crossings!! obviously all just come out of their lecture for immortality 101! (and I was a student once-for 7 years- but having mastered the art of crossing roads and using pedestrian crossings as a child I have little patience with these eejits).

i think pedestrians problably have an equal right to be complaining about drivers, why the hell can no one in sheffield indicate!

Exactly!!

Last week the roads seemed to be full of people who blatantly don't know how to drive. I witnessed 6 people running red lights (including one guy who looked really confused as to why I was stood in the road, dur, I'm crossing it, the green man is on, and a car full of boys who ran the light because they were staring at me).

And, why don't cars stop at zebra crossings anymore?? Even a busdriver didn't stop and nearly knocked me down, surely it's their job to know they have to stop?!

And why do cyclists think it's ok to cycle on the footpath and then moan at me when I'm in their way??

Last week was not a good week, drivers and cyclists annoyed me a lot.

As a student, I would like to say that I am actually very good at crossing roads, infact I think it's my only talent.

"Then next time they cross Mushroom Lane they might not look quite so surprised when you turn into the road."

You are obviously a motorist who has not understood the highway code. Pedestrians have right of way at a junction like mushroom lane.

If you were to injure one you would be guilty of recless or dangerous driving, if you managed to kill them it would be manslaughter.

Have some consideration for others.


What utter rubbish!

Yes, give way to pedestrians already in the roadway, but as for 'pedestrians have right of way at junctions like Mushroom Lane' (note the use of capital letters where suitable): Wrong. They too, should exercise caution and look and listen before stepping out into the road.

I wouldn't injure a pedestrian of course, not even a student (joke!).

If I did, then true, I'd be guilty of reckless or dangerous driving (which I might concur, is a lesser charge than recless (sic) spelling and grammar.

Incidentally, my legs have been known to take me places also thus making me a pedestrian from time to time (albeit, one who looks before crossing our streets).

And, why don't cars stop at zebra crossings anymore?? Even a busdriver didn't stop and nearly knocked me down, surely it's their job to know they have to stop?!



And how long are you actually giving them to stop? Just stepping onto the crossing with a car 10 ft from it isn't the cleverest thing in the world to do, yet seems to be a favoured method of crossing the road with many these days.

Maybe I'm wrong, but maybe you should try looking at the driver before you do anything and indeed, looking all around you to make sure there's nothign coming the other way? Then once you've seen they're slowing down for you, go? A bit of communication really helps.... (Green Cross Code Man, please come back!!)

Exactly!!

Last week the roads seemed to be full of people who blatantly don't know how to drive. I witnessed 6 people running red lights (including one guy who looked really confused as to why I was stood in the road, dur, I'm crossing it, the green man is on, and a car full of boys who ran the light because they were staring at me).

And, why don't cars stop at zebra crossings anymore?? Even a busdriver didn't stop and nearly knocked me down, surely it's their job to know they have to stop?!

And why do cyclists think it's ok to cycle on the footpath and then moan at me when I'm in their way??

Last week was not a good week, drivers and cyclists annoyed me a lot.

As a student, I would like to say that I am actually very good at crossing roads, infact I think it's my only talent.



Perhaps you should stop walking round with a target on your back, your not a mod are you :loopy:

It's not just students, school kids are terrible. They are more often than not engaged on a mobile phone conversation so are unable to hear the traffic properly. Asian kids are fearless when crossing roads, they must form a high accident statistic.

Perhaps you should stop walking round with a target on your back, your not a mod are you :loopy:

Damn it, I knew I should have taken the target off first!



And how long are you actually giving them to stop? Just stepping onto the crossing with a car 10 ft from it isn't the cleverest thing in the world to do, yet seems to be a favoured method of crossing the road with many these days.

Maybe I'm wrong, but maybe you should try looking at the driver before you do anything and indeed, looking all around you to make sure there's nothign coming the other way? Then once you've seen they're slowing down for you, go? A bit of communication really helps.... (Green Cross Code Man, please come back!!)

I have always been told you had to have one foot on the zebra crossing for the car to actually have to stop, is this not the case? The cars were in a 20 mile zone anyway, they shouldn't have been going that fast.

And if you were refering to my other crossing dilemma then they shouldn't be running red lights! I have the right to be on the road during the green man!

The WORST place for students walking across the road without looking when the traffic lights are green is the corner of Glossop Road where it meets Broomhill, adjacent to the Scream pub The York. They just wonder blindly across and have no regard at all for cars, lorries, buses, whatever. I have to HONK loudly all the time on that junction as they just do not give a toss about the traffic. They even stop and have a damned conversation in the middle of the road!!!!! Such inconsiderate little cretins.

Is anyone interested in stickers of students to slap on their car doors once they've taken one of the blighters out, a bit like they used too on the old spitfires during the war!!!!!!!

Might see if I can knock some up and race up and down Broomhill and Eccy Road.

Jim:thumbsup:

The WORST place for students walking across the road without looking when the traffic lights are green is the corner of Glossop Road where it meets Broomhill, adjacent to the Scream pub The York. They just wonder blindly across and have no regard at all for cars, lorries, buses, whatever. I have to HONK loudly all the time on that junction as they just do not give a toss about the traffic. They even stop and have a damned conversation in the middle of the road!!!!! Such inconsiderate little cretins.

I couldn't agree more. Only last Saturday I witnessed three 'students (?)' crossing diagonally amidst all the traffic to a cacophony of horns without a care or a worry....even though there are two pedestrian crossings close by.
Is there any wonder they have such a poor reputation.

It is noticeable that the air is always fresher in Broomhill during the students' summer vacation.

I have always been told you had to have one foot on the zebra crossing for the car to actually have to stop, is this not the case? The cars were in a 20 mile zone anyway, they shouldn't have been going that fast.

And if you were refering to my other crossing dilemma then they shouldn't be running red lights! I have the right to be on the road during the green man!


I've not heard of that CherryN. I think it's better to keep both feet on the pavement and when i do use the crossings i just wait for the cars to stop.

As you have stated not cars do although i do worry that many of them dont actually know it's a zebra crossing or have not seen me stood on the side :loopy:

You'll be safe as you stand out to the boys :wink: but then again the boy racers didn't stop at the red light for you which is the other side of the coin.

Damn it, I knew I should have taken the target off first!





I have always been told you had to have one foot on the zebra crossing for the car to actually have to stop, is this not the case? The cars were in a 20 mile zone anyway, they shouldn't have been going that fast.

And if you were refering to my other crossing dilemma then they shouldn't be running red lights! I have the right to be on the road during the green man!

You're playing a dangerous game there, I'm afraid. First off, yes, one foot on the crossing does officially give you the right of way, however, if you're doing that as the car is on top of the crossing - within 15 ft or so, regardless of speed - you're asking a lot for it to come to a halt before the crossing itself. Hence the filthy looks you may be getting. Secondly, don't ever assume that a car is travelling at 20 because the speed limit is 20! This is just incredibly foolish. Nobody really travels at the speed limit, they travel at what is a safe speed. Watch the cars, judge what speed they're doing, then determine whether its safe to cross... We really do need Dave Prowse still...

As to your 2nd paragraph, yep can't argue with a word you're saying. If you're in the uni part of town though, there's a lot of idiot drivers there at the best of times.

Is anyone interested in stickers of students to slap on their car doors once they've taken one of the blighters out, a bit like they used too on the old spitfires during the war!!!!!!!

Might see if I can knock some up and race up and down Broomhill and Eccy Road.

Jim:thumbsup:

Yep! A little skull or something...:)

It's all so much more fun with bull bars:hihi:

Its not just students you know....

everyone in sheffield has a death wish...

As a pedestrian i feel that most sheffield drivers are ignorant F***s who mustnt have actually taken a driving test..:suspect:

As a driver also - i feel that pedestrians are bloody idiots - if ur gonna cross the road without a crossing, wait for a CLEAR gap !! and yes if i have started to turn into a street before you step off the kerb, i will keep going, not suddenly slam my brakes on for you cos you cant be bothered to wait 3 more seconds !!

As a driver i also repeat my first statement - most sheffield drivers are idiots - cutting people up on roundabouts etc...
Oh that little lever on the left of your steering wheel - it operates these little blinking lights - THEYRE CALLED INDICATORS you F*** !!:rant:

BTW - I am also a student !