There can be little doubt that whilst no-one sets out to be an annoying driver, there are certain habits which can be very frustrating.
The Mirror recently took a closer look at at a survey conducted by the Accident Advice Helpline which identified the top 50 driving irritations.
How many of these have you been impacted by?
Top 50 driving irritations
- Tailgating
- Drivers who don’t signal
- People texting and driving
- Drivers who leave their full beam on
- Parking over two spaces
- Lane hoggers
- Slow drivers
- Drivers who don’t say thank you
- Drivers who use the empty lane to get to the front of a queue of traffic and cut in last minute
- People who go through red lights
- Cyclists who go through red lights
- Fast drivers
- Parking on an angle so you can’t possible park next to them
- Traffic jams
- Drivers who don’t stop at zebra crossings
- Road works
- People who fly past you when one lane is shut and try and squeeze in half a mile ahead of you when you’ve been patiently waiting in the queue
- When lorries overtake other lorries and cause a massive tailback
- Cyclists who ride on the road when there are purpose built cycle lanes right nearby
- Drivers who undertake
- People who sit in the far right lane when they aren’t overtaking
- Breaking suddenly
- Lane-changers
- Sunday drivers
- Rubber neckers/slowing down traffic to look at an accident
- Drivers who don’t wear seatbelts
- Hidden speed cameras
- Getting trapped behind a bus/tractor
- Drivers of white vans who think they’re Lewis Hamilton and do 100mph in the fast lane
- Drivers who never let anyone out
- People who change their speed really erratically
- When you catch all the red lights
- Drivers who refuse to overtake something slow like a cyclist or horse
- Hesitant drivers who won’t pull out of a turning even though you have flashed your lights eight times and waved them out three times
- Speed traps
- Drivers with loud music and the windows down
- People who have their fog lights on – in the summer
- Drivers who leave their indicators on
- Average speed cameras
- 50mph signs on the motorway
- Dithering at junctions
- Drivers who beep
- Drivers who stop to let cars through despite there being plenty of room
- People who pull away really slowly
- Drivers who ‘rev’ at traffic lights
- Drivers who keep stopping to let people out
- People who drive at 60mph in the middle lane and get the hump when you undertake them at 70mph in the slow lane
- People who turn into roads really slowly
- Drivers who take too long to park
- When you change lane in traffic because the other lane is going quicker – and the lane you change into stops dead
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