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Hi guys. My vote for worst drivers would go to those old folks who only take their cars out on a Sunday. The old fellas are usually well over 80, wear hats and have bad all round judgement and supreme lack of awareness. The old girls just lack any kind of awareness - one of them stopped in the middle of the road in front of me the other day to have a chat withe her passenger (she probably couldn't cope with driving and talking at the same time), completely unaware there was any traffic behind her. These old folks should have to take a driving test every 3 weeks after the age of 70.

The worst bit of driving I've ever experienced was by courtesy of another biker - I was doing about 80mph in the fast lane of the M1 motorway, driving north in the English Midlands. I'd just overtaken a few cars and was about to move back into the central lane when out of nowhere a bike shot past me on the inside in the same lane as me - there must have been about three feet between us. He must have been doing over 100mph. If I'd have started to move into the inside lane we'd have collided and that would have been no joke at those sort of speeds. In my experience bikers make up some of the best and the worst drivers on the road - and the younger they are the worse they tend to be.

80 mph that to the old fellers is worst driving oh wait the guy going 100 mph was the worsterest driver. I don't want to comment on the old people taking test every 3 weeks cuz well you know why. We are all going in that direction it is not that far away. I hope to ride a 3 wheelie at that age. A lot of times all you have to do is look in the mirrow and see one of the bad drivers. I have pulled some pieces of stupid from time to time.

I've done stupid things too from time to time, but that guy and his high speed undertaking was pretty scary. As for the old folks, most are OK drivers but there are some who really shouldn't be driving because of slow reactions and lack of awareness - not their fault, just things that can come with age, but when you combine that with driving it can mean danger for all sorts of innocent people on the road.

I have twice been passed on the right by motorcyclists, as I was signaling right! Both times it was only my awareness of them that stopped me from moving over. Anyone paying less attention than I would have killed them. They lived through no fault of their own.

Yes I agree, its the old folks and the young girls, I think they should raise the driving age for a female to 25 and take away the drivers licence for a male or female over 68.

I've had my new bike for 19 hours. In that time I've been cut off 4 times, 2 of them pretty severely. The latest was a bus that decided to turn left across my path, making me almost stop dead and let her go in front of me. This was after she sat there for a good 10 seconds watching traffic; I had my eye on her a long ways off, so at least it catch me off guard.

The bus driver was am older woman, another large truck driver was another, a middle aged guy. One was a 30-something woman in a car, didn't catch the fourth. I'm just getting cut off by everybody it seems, no one demographic in particular.

On the way home for lunch just now, I merged into traffic at 80km/hr just in time to have a large white ceramic planter fall out of a truck a few spots ahead and one lane to the left... people swerving and driving over large bits of the thing, I had to whip into the right edge of my lane to avoid a piece. Lucking no one right beside me decided to use my lane to avoid it.

I'm hoping the rate of these damn things happening slows down a bit!

Dont worry you get used to it.

I used to get cut off constantly...now it rarely happens, not because it doesn't happen, but because I dont think about it anymore.