Most dangerous road users

Poor people yes. hedgehogs can only be included if we include that auld enemy known as the pterodactyl. I had one land in my garden once.

Hogists!

Ok VanUden, we'll add swine. But to be honest, I've never run into one going around Hyde Park Corner.

I just want to make a final point before I leave this be, cause to be honest I can take on board what people have been saying, and maybe I'm just a bit sensitive on this issue.

I don't believe that anyone's ethnicity has anything to do with either their driving skills. Its like saying it has something to do with how good in bed they are.

I just don't think (in moroccanish's case) there was any good reason for mentioning where this cab driver happened to be from. It promotes a bad stereotype for all the good Ghanian cab drivers out there.

I also think that is also the case when referring to 'Asylum Seekers' as a whole group of people, and whether their driving skills are indeed below par. I don't think it's fair to rap on a whole group of people - and thanks to the right wing leaning of some of the press its almost become ok to do so.

Anyway, I think thats all I want to say on that subject. Back to the fun stuff. :P

weekend drivers in brompton and surrounding areas, 4wd chelsea wahines, stoned rude boyz at night.

I just don't think (in moroccanish's case) there was any good reason for mentioning where this cab driver happened to be from. It promotes a bad stereotype for all the good Ghanian cab drivers out there.

Apparently your posts were serious !? (which makes them all the more hilarious) :)

How is mentioning someone's country of origin a racist statement ? Are any of these statements racist:

I was talking to this guy from Scotland the other day ?

Hippy, who comes from Australia, last cleaned his bike in 1997 ?

I met these two girls from Spain, one was a real looker ?

This bloke from France nearly killed me when he turned into my path ?

Apparently your posts were serious !? (which makes them all the more hilarious) :)

How is mentioning someone's country of origin a racist statement ? Are any of these statements racist:

I was talking to this guy from Scotland the other day ?

Hippy, who comes from Australia, last cleaned his bike in 1997 ?

I met these two girls from Spain, one was a real looker ?

This bloke from France nearly killed me when he turned into my path ?

Tynan - sorry mate if you just completely missed my point...

...none of your above comments are derogatory to a race/ethnic/social group as a whole.

Tynan - sorry mate if you just completely missed my point...

I think I must have.

South Africans park their cars in a "Grudge"

That's very entertaining; to me at least.

I'm not really interested in the rest of the thread. I just like it when individuals share explicit acts of courtesy on the road.

pedestrians are the most dangerous road user, because they are under no lawful obligation to obey any rules.

as for drivers, I'll be a racist cunt and say this:

a: there are too many cars on the roads in this country at present and things can only get worse. cars don't drive by themselves, they are used by humans.
Too many humans in this country = too many cars.
b: because of the state of the traffic in this country, I don't believe people who are permanent residents here should be allowed to drive here without passing the UK driving test.

there are many other things that need to be brought into legislation regarding private car use these days. it's gridlock out there and no good to any cunt, yet they all still get in their fucking motors everyday.

id like to say i took my bike in to the pub
op brook green the woman behind the bar said you cant bring that in here i told her she was racist fascist and she cant stop me taking my bike in to the pub , its erosion of civil rights she let me take it in the beer garden in the end

did you ask if prams weren't allowed too?

less rubber in contact with the ground on a road bike, it's less likely to carry dirt and disease than a pram and takes up less space.

what's the fucking problem? it's a bicycle, not a psychopathic elephant with the shits.

here's my danger story:
i'm cycling down euston road and i'm going pretty fast as you pretty much have to, and take the first left after kings cross to go down yorke way(?), i see quite a few pedestrians on either side of the road but they all seem stationary so i think no problem and keep moving (lights green). Then these two "people" start walking out into the road. One of them hears the traffic coming, looks and runs foreward to the other side whilst the other notices their friend running across, looks into the road and steps back. A second later this person than starts running foreward into the road screaming hands above head!

Also does anyone else get a bit nervous about pidgeons?

worlds gone crazy a man cant even take his bike in to a pub viva la revolution! im going to take my bike back in there this weekend if she starts again im going to ...... im going to er ...... stab her in the eye with a toothpick !

Royal Post drivers, fucking hell they are bad!!! scary
And has anyone mentioned Foxtons?

I think it has alot to do with not owning your own vehicle, lack of responsibility and all that.

big car drivers who have no concept of distances and how big their car actually is!!!

I vote for minicabs and pedestrians.

Em, I take your point but it's nothing to do with skin colour, the fact that the majority of African nations are black is irrelevant, Parisians are fucking woeful drivers but I haven't listed them cos they are obviously not in London and don't effect us

Yes. Parisians are terrible. They parallel park by bumping in to the rear car, then bumping in to the front one. If you ever see a French car (with plates ending in 75 - departement Paris), it's usually a) got a lot of dents in the bodywork, and b) is being driven badly.

On the whole, however, the standard of driving in London is good. Compare it to other cities; you don't even have to go far. Paris, Rome, Istanbul. It's easy to moan but, in reality, i think we've got it pretty good. I

RPM - I agree with you about the UK license thing. Although most are fine, there does seem to be a significant minority of minicab FOB's who can't drive to save their fucking life. One nearly made me crash today!

I don't believe people who are permanent residents here should be allowed to drive here without passing the UK driving test.

Which is pretty much what the law says. If you don't have a license issues in the EU then you've got 12 months to take a test;

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/DriverLicensing/DrivingInGbOnAForeignLicence/DG_4022561

but the EU is quite big now, and we drive on the other side of the road.

I think the screw has to be turned at every level, to reduce the amount of cunting cars being put on the roads.

as for the mini cabs, it seems to me that people who drive for a living get complacent and lazy because they spend so much time behind the wheel. they are more likely not to bother indicating, drive over the speed limit and drive without due care and attention (messing with phones, food, drink, GPS, newspaper)

but the EU is quite big now

The EU ?

Are you being a racial ?

This thread is unbeleivable:

how can none of you correctly identified the most dangerous (ie kills most cyclists in London) vehicle?

Police cars?

Today - It's other cyclists who wobble across your path and sent you flying!
First fall on the fixed because some penis of a cyclist decided not to look to his right when setting off at lights and wobbles right into me, of course a flurry of expletives followed.... arrggghhhhh.

Not much damage to the bike, some bar scrapes, but he did succeed in skinning my leg, which is now stinging like a bitch! Some people need to learn the fucking basics... I am seething, which is why i nearly came a cropper in Clerkenwell!

Calm down, take a shower, carry on!

Also does anyone else get a bit nervous about pidgeons?

Apparently [pub knowledge] pigeons' brain-to-eye processing time is way faster than humans - ie if you showed them a movie it would look like a slide show - so as we approach them we don't appear to be moving that fast so they still have plenty of time to finish their kfc / mcdonalds etc before flying away. [/pub knowledge]