Basic Rules For Driving

[Jimster]

Originally posted by Seraph
Thanks Heep

Jimmy - read my signature. I've spent a big chunk of the past 2 weeks sorting that out. Now theres so much goddamned work to catch up on I feel like its never gonna be over
:help:

I see, where was the Audi struck?????

[Seraph]

Originally posted by Jimmy_11_cars


I see, where was the Audi struck?????

I was standing at a red light on the Fortunes rd - Pakuranga Highway intersection in Auckland, waiting to turn right onto the highway citybound. I was in the left lane, beside me was a Mazda Titan light truck.
Around that time there was a inorganic rubbish collection in the Half Moon Bay area, therefore a large amount of people came in vans from Otara/Glen Innes scavenging the junk. A Toyota Hiace van with a Samoan family and a van full of crap had the misfortune to ram me in the back at speed, and pushing me out onto the highway where another driver in the middle/left lane(he was in the process of lane-changing)struck me in the right corner. Luckily the other driver was going slowly since he was about to turn left into the Shell petrol station (directly on the corner of the 2 roads, to the left of where I was standing initally. The result - an Audi V8 with a non - existant tail end and the rear part of the roof gone slightly "wavy", a destroyed front right wing and damaged bonnet lid and dislocated bumper. The geometry of the car body was also altered, I have a full report but I wont go into all the details since that would take long to write up and honestly I dont feel like going all over it again.
A Toyota Caldina station wagon with a bent bonnet lid, bumper, smashed up optics and left wing curving inwards.
A Toyota Hiace with a bent bull bar and moderately damaged front end.

Moral:
1) Insurance is good. Neither I nor the driver of the Caldina neither the driver of the Hiace had insurance. We have the full police report and its obvious that he is at fault, but they are on Income Support and have no money. Their phone is unanswered (I suspect its disconnected) and when me and the driver of the Caldina went to visit them they didnt let us in. The house is a council flat in a block of flats in Glen Innes, with a crack in the window beside the front door and a filthy barking mut tied on a leash to the post holing up the carport roof. Its pretty clear that we dont have much chance of seeing any money.

2) Warrant of Fitness is good.
The Police that drove the Hiace off the road said the brakes were extremely worn and deemed it unsafe to drive by itself and called a second tow truck to pick up the Hiace. Its warrant of Fitness showed 5, 2001. The little plastic holder where the registration ticket is supposed to be was empty.


3) Slowing down at the lights is good. Self explanatory.

[Judge]

bugger seraph
i always thought that Audi was nice, going from the pic in your signature.
crap that you cant get any money.
ah well, these things happen (you just have to hope it doesnt happen to you! which it has, so thats not much help.

[PART]

Hey Hey Hey now NYC is actually really fun to drive in with the right equipment IE a big ol company truck that even taxi's are afraid of, ive been to Toronto too but i didn think it was as bad as NYC.......i guess its always worst where u come from, some kind of silly pride in surviving it i guess sorry about ur ride dude

[primera man]

Originally posted by kbslacker
1. Turn signals will give away your next move. A real driver never uses them.

That is one of the BIGGEST things to piss me off along with people that dont know there *give way* rules....one day i'm going to leap out of my car and smack some prick that doesnt use them.
God it pisses me off

[Hobbes]

Originally posted by kbslacker
1. Turn signals will give away your next move. A real driver never uses them.

What really pisses me off is those who leave the turn signal on all day. That will really throw some people off.

[DVSNCYNIKL]

Rules to live by.

[Heep]

Originally posted by Hobbes


What really pisses me off is those who leave the turn signal on all day. That will really throw some people off.

I just hate it when I'm waiting to pull out onto a road, and there's only one oncoming car stopping me from pulling out, with a whole batch of traffic not far behind, but enough that I could safely pull out if he wasn't there. Then they turn into where I'm coming out of with no signal, and I lose the chance to go that I would have used if he'd been signaling and letting me know he was turning. BAH!

[Spec2 Girl]

Originally posted by Heep


I just hate it when I'm waiting to pull out onto a road, and there's only one oncoming car stopping me from pulling out, with a whole batch of traffic not far behind, but enough that I could safely pull out if he wasn't there. Then they turn into where I'm coming out of with no signal, and I lose the chance to go that I would have used if he'd been signaling and letting me know he was turning. BAH!

That totally pisses me off too! Or when they pull out in front of you and then drive 2 miles an hour when there’s no cars behind you and they could have waited until you’d gone past!!

[Heep]

Originally posted by FTO Girl
That totally pisses me off too! Or when they pull out in front of you and then drive 2 miles an hour when there’s no cars behind you and they could have waited until you’d gone past!!

My 2 pet peeves:
Anyone that pulls out and makes me hit the brakes (ie not accelerating fast enough, so that when I reach them they are only doing like 20 kph), I get so pissed. I time my braking so that I end up about 2 inches from their rear bumper, usually scares the crap out of them and they don't do it again.

The other is people (usually in automatics, since it requires effort in a standard) that "creep" ahead at a red light. They'll be stopped for 20 seconds, then let off the brake and move ahead 2 feet, then stop for another 20 seconds, then do it again. You can't go anywhere, so sit your ass still! If they are at the front of the line they usually end up creeping the whole red, then taking another 5-10 seconds to start moving once it does turn green

[Spec2 Girl]

Originally posted by Heep

My 2 pet peeves:
Anyone that pulls out and makes me hit the brakes (ie not accelerating fast enough, so that when I reach them they are only doing like 20 kph), I get so pissed. I time my braking so that I end up about 2 inches from their rear bumper, usually scares the crap out of them and they don't do it again.

The other is people (usually in automatics, since it requires effort in a standard) that "creep" ahead at a red light. They'll be stopped for 20 seconds, then let off the brake and move ahead 2 feet, then stop for another 20 seconds, then do it again. You can't go anywhere, so sit your ass still! If they are at the front of the line they usually end up creeping the whole red, then taking another 5-10 seconds to start moving once it does turn green

Hehe, good to see that you get the same drivers that we’ve got in Auckland!

[Hobbes]

Originally posted by Heep




Anyone that pulls out and makes me hit the brakes (ie not accelerating fast enough, so that when I reach them they are only doing like 20 kph), I get so pissed. I time my braking so that I end up about 2 inches from their rear bumper, usually scares the crap out of them and they don't do it again.

Had that happen to me too. I was going back to my job after a delivery and I was doing a good 45 mph when a garbage truck enters the highway suddenly and then stops in the middle of the highway. Because I'm driving a 10 ft. delivery truck, the stopping distance is longer than a normal car. When I realized that I was going to hit the truck, I risked myself by passing it on the two-lane highway with absolutely no idea if traffic is coming the other way. Probably the worst driving experience for me.