Does the Highway Code not apply in Sheffield?

[Andy83]

Anybody seen a red Vauxhall Zafira, with blacked out windows and what looked like alloy wheels. Y reg?

 

If you do just move right out of this guys way. He (i'm only guessing it's a guy) drives like a bloody idiot. No regards to other cars, the speed limit, the highway code, well any law from what i've seen. He cuts cars up, undertakes, speeds and swaps lanes every 5 secs to jump traffic and cut back in.

[dkhank]

Ive noticed more over the past few weeks that a lot of drivers seem to be ignoring the Highway Code in Sheffield. Has something changed that we dont know about?

 

Ive got some examples for you all.

 

Junction 34 North Sliproad: Cars come down the sliproad and go through red lights, even though there is enough time and distance to stop when the lights turn to amber. Only this morning, someone jumped a red light at this roundabout, so late in fact that the traffic on the roundabout had started moving as their lights had gone to green.

 

M1 in general: Why is it that some people insist on driving in the middle and outside lanes when theres nothing on the inside? MOVE OVER!!! Last night, i was going home and there was an empty inside lane and everything was moving slower in the middle and outside. Ive noticed that more often than not during rush hour the inside lane tends to move quicker anyway

 

Which leaves me to mention my invention for all cars - indicators. Im sure a lot of cars dont have these, well if they do, not many people seem to use them.

 

Ive tried to put this quite light heartedly, part serious and part jokingly

 

in one word - no:confused:

 

i hate driving. took me ages to pass!! but hate it with a passion. no they dont!! :rant: :rant:

[techie_]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread but the title was similar to what I was just about to post.

My understanding of general driving rules is that you should keep left unless overtaking a vehicle. All over Sheffield it seems like 80% of drivers are terrified to use 'bus-lanes', I don't consider a bus-lane a bus-lane unless it's active yet very few people seem to opt to use them. It's got to the point where I'm now doubting myself, the final straw was coming along the A61 from Chesterfield towards Sheffield city centre late one night/morning and following a local police car stuck out in the right hand lane all the way - buses aren't even running at that time you needn't even 'bother' to read the sign! I'm presuming police have some advanced driver training (I'll point out this wasn't a traffic police car), so I'm happy to hold my hands up if I'm missing something. But is the reason it seems everyone else is an idiot...is because I'm wrong?

[denlin]

I think you'll find that some of it is down to the changing way driving is now taught. Some instances of indicating such as when overtaking are not now required as it can cause confusion if there is a turning to the right but by no means all and it is very annoying I have to agree to have to try and second guess people. My brother in law seldom uses his indicators but my OH is meticulous in his use of them

[TheGuy]

I must have missed the part of the highway code where it states you can park anywhere you like as long as you put your hazard lights on.

[Draggletail]

Ive noticed more over the past few weeks that a lot of drivers seem to be ignoring the Highway Code in Sheffield. Has something changed that we dont know about?.....

 

 

Tell me about it

Pedestrians and the highway code? It's the norm now not to look right, left and right again when crossing the road, people just cross regardless, without looking even once. Personally I couldn't do it.

 

And don't get me started on bicycles and the highway code.

 

Seems to me that nobody takes much notice of it, whether a motorist, pedestrian or cyclist.

[TheGuy]

Tell me about it

Pedestrians and the highway code? It's the norm now not to look right, left and right again when crossing the road, people just cross regardless, without looking even once. Personally I couldn't do it.

 

 

Stick to 30mph and just run them over.

[HeadingNorth]

...the final straw was coming along the A61 from Chesterfield towards Sheffield city centre late one night/morning and following a local police car stuck out in the right hand lane all the way - buses aren't even running at that time you needn't even 'bother' to read the sign!

 

I don't know if it applies to the bus lane on the A61, but I feel obliged to point out that some of them are bus lanes "at all times" .... whether or not the buses are still running.

[Mecky]

Ive noticed more over the past few weeks that a lot of drivers seem to be ignoring the Highway Code in Sheffield. Has something changed that we dont know about?

 

Ive got some examples for you all.

 

Junction 34 North Sliproad: Cars come down the sliproad and go through red lights, even though there is enough time and distance to stop when the lights turn to amber. Only this morning, someone jumped a red light at this roundabout, so late in fact that the traffic on the roundabout had started moving as their lights had gone to green.

 

M1 in general: Why is it that some people insist on driving in the middle and outside lanes when theres nothing on the inside? MOVE OVER!!! Last night, i was going home and there was an empty inside lane and everything was moving slower in the middle and outside. Ive noticed that more often than not during rush hour the inside lane tends to move quicker anyway

 

Which leaves me to mention my invention for all cars - indicators. Im sure a lot of cars dont have these, well if they do, not many people seem to use them.

 

Ive tried to put this quite light heartedly, part serious and part jokingly

 

Thanks Percy Sugden. It's not just Sheffield though is it?

[Lockjaw]

Thanks Percy Sugden. It's not just Sheffield though is it?

 

6 years ago it might have been... I can't remember.