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I've been working away for many years and have recently moved back to the UK to find absolute anarchy on our roads! In the first week back I almost had several accidents attempting to manouever round roundabouts.

Are people tought 'Manouever, Mirror, Signal' nowadays? The other day I was approaching a roundabout (with a police traffic car behind me), a Discovery was approaching from the opposite direction indicating straight-ahead until half way round when he flicked his right indicator on causing myself and the traffic cop behind to perform emergency stops! Oddly, the cop pulled 'me' over a little further down the road and gave me a lecture on 'giving-way to cars already on the roundabout'!

Why do people drive around with their foglights on at night when it's not foggy?

Why can't anyone park their car in a civilised manner any more? Even in my village people have started parking on the footpaths! They can't all be doing it unwhittingly, can they?

Is it okay to stop on a zebra crossing nowadays? It doesn't say you can in the highway code or has the English language been amended without my knowledge.

But the worst problem I have discovered is; no one can reverse park anymore!?! I have had my A8 from new since 1998, when I put it in to storage it had 3 stone chips and that was all the visible body damage there was. It has been back on the road for a few months and in that time both nearside doors have been 'totalled' by douchebags trying to manhandle enormous SUV's forwards in to parking spaces! The rear bumper has been dented by another douchebag trying to park a medium sized SUV behind me! Thats £1500 in excess payments I have had to make when my policy for the year is less than £200 all because these degenerates don't have the common decency to leave their insurance details!

I wonder how cost effective it would be for the economy to stop and sterilise these animals on sght?

On a lighter note, great forum, solved my hot start issue xx

BOSH!