I rest my case! it\'s dodadoodadadad! NUTS

[FLAT4MATT]

I\'m shocked every day by the standards of driving on the roads. But it\'s the little things that wind me up cos I see them every few hundred yards on the way to and from work... Mostly little things like indicating right at a roundabout to go straight on, or slamming on and pulling over with no signal, straight lining dual carriageway roundabouts, pulling out in front of traffic, people right up my arse (although a blip and a flame generally sorts that out) having dogs running side to side on the parcel shelf, make-up in the mirror, texting, reading, rustling around for a good 10 seconds to find a CD in their glovebox! My boss picked me up the other morning with a mug of tea and a plate of cheese on toast!!!

As far as speed on motorways goes... The way I se it is that inappropriate speed works both ways. The amount of times I\'ve seen people going WAY TOO SLOW! Monday night, prime example, on the way back from the North West meet i was in the left lane of the motorway coming up to my turn off, the car in front was obviously going slower than me. At this poiint I was winding down for the turn off, probably doing about 65-70 noticed i was still going considerably faster than the car in front. I brake, brake some more and some more... The car was a 2-3yr old clio and was doing 40-45 on the M6! That is in my view A LOT more dangerous than 82mph!

If i had any say in such things I\'d introduce a minimum speed limit of 60 and a maximim of 80, this way the diference would only ever be 20mph so the motorway would be a far safer place. Police would then be able to charge people for driving excessively over or below the speed limits.

I dont think the limits should necessarily be raised as there are a lot of cars out there that even in this modern day are not REALLY safe at 90mph... And as for the drivers...

That\'s a whole seperate rant, I reckon you should have to re-take your test every 10 years or so. They should give you a grade A B C D E, higher grade means better driver so cheaper insurance! Lower grade means you probably cant handle a faster car, if you want to re-take and get a better grade so be it...

Also I think you should have compulsary night driving and motorway driving as part of the test. And before anyone says no way should we have learners on the motorway, think about it, I\'d rather they were supervised the first time they ventured onto the motorway than going on ten minutes after passing their test (with no previous experience and un supervised)...

Rant over

[FLAT4MATT]

Bloody hell I just realised - I\'m a grumpy old man...

For the record I\'m 24 with a clean license, don\'t smoke and don\'t use my mobile ever when driving And to be honest i wuoldn\'t eat a butty either but that\'s more down to not wanting to get my seats grubby :p

[Martiny]

In summary, we need a BALANCED approach by th police to whats Legal, and whats safe.

I think we agree on here that we dont have that.