Standards of driving rant

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Standards are terrible these days. People need compulsory retesting an d the driving licence system needs making harder and making like the motorbike system where you have to do a more difficult test to drive bigger/more powerful cars as half the problem is prople who learn to drive in a micra and then 10 years down the line end up driving a merc E class or an ML.

I saw one woman today in the outside lane of a dual carriageway jam on her brakes as the bus that was ahead of her in the nearside lane slowed and pulled up to a stop. the woman then swerved across the center of the road to pass the bus narrowly avoiding the oncoming traffic. The bus wasn't even encroaching onto her lane she just obviously had no idea how wide her car was, she then decided to drive in the outside lane at 29mph for the next mile not overtaking anything apart from the odd parked car.

And speaking of micras later a bird in a micra ahead of me indicated left pulled to the left and slowed down so I went to overtake her and she swung right across me obviously without checking her mirrors so I decided to follow her and have a word, she looked like she was struggling and 20 meters later she indicated right and pulled to the right and drove diagonally into the kerb. I pulled alongside to have a word and while speaking to me she just started rolling backwards down the hill and got a good 4ft before she found her brakes. She did the same again when she went to pull away. She had a driving licence and sees nothing wrong with her driving.

Lack of traffic police is also a problem as cameras do all the work these days out seems. no indicators on roundabouts bugs me aswell

This, if people thought they might get done they wouldn't drive like such lady gardens but then I suppose police don't like doing people for without due care as its an offence of opinions so it usually ends up in court whereas with no seat belt, speeding and being on the phone are all absolute offences, you either were or you werent.