INDICATING

I'm afraid that gets me fuming too. Indicating which way you are going isn't exactly difficult is it. I don't know if anywhere else has that work of the devil known as double mini roundabouts, but we have them in Bristol and today I approached one set and as there were 4 cars coming from my right I stopped, each one turned left without indicating .

Nonu I could not agree more. Yesterday I wound down my window and asked a young man if he would consider buying a car with indicators next time. I then made a quick getaway! I find that bus drivers (outer London) are good re indicating but a high percentage of the general public do not bother.

You would think mirror signal manoeuvre had been eradicated from the Highway Code - people round here don't actually have rear view mirrors.

Yup, annoys me too.....also the ones who only just indicate as they make the manoeuvre....its supposed to be an indication of what you are going to do....not what you are doing.

When we lived in Aberdeen we always reckoned that it was the worst place in the country for not indicating. Yes, it's infuriating, both when you're driving and also when you're a pedestrian, as you need to know if a car is coming round the corner before you cross (pedestrians have right of way? Aye, right.) I sometimes point in a meaningful way at an indicator which has not been used, as if there is something wrong with it (well, there is) and that sometimes earns a worried look from the careless driver. It's not as if it costs you anything to use indicators or lights when it's getting dark, come to that!

You must have got quite a fright, Nonu. Have a !

Drives me bonkers too when I wait for a driver to come over the roundabout only to find they are turning left and I could have gone! An offence all too frequent in this town.

Even worse when they start indicating on the slip road but actually intend to take the second left hand turning off the roundabout...

They must think we're all mind-readers!

Especially as you don't have to wind the window down and wave your arm about anymore.

Just the job on a freezing cold night wasn't it, you wound the window down and the car either froze up or the windows steamed up.

It happens a lot in our village. Drives me mad as well. Sometimes I think I am driving an invisible car!

I'm always amazed at the number of large expensive cars that are apparently sold without indicators! Obviously an optional extra

And what really bugs me is that some cyclists think that glancing over their shoulder is the same as indicating that they intend to turn!

I do wish that drivers would also realise that pedestrians too need to know where the drivers are going! Supermarket car parks have become a real danger zone!

phoenix I could not agree more. Also one way does not apparently mean that in my local Waitrose so I have to be extra careful because some idiot wants to save 10 seconds driving by going the wrong way down a one way street.

All of the above plus the ignorant drivers who zoom up the lane that half a mile back was signposted as being closed off and then push in at the front of the lane that's queuing

YES!!!

And is it mainly men d'you think?

The people who really bug me are the ones who think parking rules apply to everyone but them! There is a zebra crossing at the top of our road which quite often has a lorry delivering bread to the Co-op parked right across it.

All of the above plus at roundabouts so many people don't seem to know that the car approaching on the right has right of way. I have sat tentatively at roundabouts wondering if the car, stopped, obviously not knowing his Highway Code, is in fact going to make a sudden move onto the roundabout or should I just go for it!

It makes me cross that some people think that they can park on double yellow lines as long as they leave their hazard lights flashing! In my village there is a fish and chip shop on a busy crossroads, where people do this right outside the door, even in the rush hour, causing major problems.

Yes Aka, in my experience it usually is men. I sit in my car shouting, "what are you waiting for, an invitation"?

I was coming out of a supermarket car park. The lady in her car in front of me was in the middle of the road indicating right so I pulled to the left side to turn left. YES she turned LEFT right across me.

When giving way to drivers in narrow roads I find that men drivers nearly always acknowledge the courtesy with a raised hand or a flash of their lights: women hardly ever.

According to DH Mercedes drivers don't have to indicate at all and have a God given right to dominate the outside lane (we have a Nissan).

In times gone by, it used to be Jaguar drivers who had the right to do what they liked, but I suppose these things go with fashion. My father, who later in life became a minister, used to say that he needed to be extra careful while driving on a Sunday, because people who had been to church felt that they had got divine dispensation to ignore traffic laws.