If everyone was as good a driver as they think they are none of these problems would occur. The only way I’ve gotten anyone to consider their own driving might be a problem is by saying that I review my own decisions and pointing out when I could’ve done better. The concept of being humble about your own driving instead of just blaming others even if they are partially at fault is lost on most including me a few years ago.
I think the reason other road users from behind fill the gap to the car in front is caused by fear. Fear they will get beeped/reprimanded by the car behind them for not filling the gap and also fear that if they don’t fill the gap some other vehicle will. So they protect their place in the queue by closing the space. Sad really.
@@ibs5080 If I get a penny every time I leave ample room for a truck doing a manoeuvre like turning on a main road from a tight corner or backing up, only to be angrily passed by someone behind me (or behind other cars behind me) that then totally block the road for the trucker, I’d never have to work again.
@@RustOnWheels Yes I've had that happen too. Another common occurrence for me is spotting an emergency vehicle approaching from behind with its blues and two's on (but no siren) and so I indicate left and pull over at the first safe opportunity. Only to either be angrily beeped at or passed by less observant drivers behind me. Of course moments later the reason for my seemingly inappropriate stop becomes readily apparent to them whilst they now panic to pull over themselves, especially if the emergency vehicle is now right behind them...and turns on its sirens as well!
Just give them the stopping hand signal and let them deduce if passing you is sensible. If they do you are now in the beepers position - tables turned.
@@ibs5080 further to this, the car behind that has also pulled over for some reason pulling out first after the emergency vehicle has passed and proceeds to try and overtake you without letting you out first. Closed minded fools
This is partly the local authority’s fault - need much better parking restrictions on these sorts of roads around schools. It’s not going to hurt little James, Jasmine or Josephine to walk a few minutes. Nor will it hurt mom or dad. Set up restricted parking for people who genuinely can’t walk. And I don’t believe time is the issue. Often they’ll arrive twenty to thirty minutes early to get the parking space.
I agree with this. Odds are if you're in a school's catchment area in an urban area you almost certainly can walk to and from the school with the child without any real issue. Sometimes a car is needed (the child is injured, parent is disabled etc.) but for the vast majority of cases that doesn't hold
Got to be enforced though; regular fines and penalties or else they won't care and will continue doing it. Saw it all the time back in the day with people parking in 'No Parking During School Hours' and 'School Bus Only'.
@@DarkAchron exactly. Tougher restrictions don't achieve anything when self entitled parents ignore them, park on zig zags, double yellows etc. Not only that but park atrociously i.e on the wonk with their arse sticking out into the road making it even narrower and more awkward.
Yeah the enforcement is the issue. The school my nephew goes to has a road with explicit prohibitions on motor vehicles at school start and end times in term time. People don't pay a blind bit of notice though, they just drive past the sign and park in the road there anyway. You'd think they'd put a traffic warden on patrol there considering how much money they might make from the parking violations
@@andrewlong6438 That's true however I've never personally witnessed a man in a situation like the woman in the Mercedes but the amount of times I've seen a woman driving a tiny car thinking its wider than a 50 ton tank is insane. Although from research papers I've read it does appear that this is a biological issue rather than a training problem which starts to show itself around the age of 6-7 it seems. I also just realised this was a year ago but I've typed it now dammit.
It's remarkable how eager people are to gain a car's length in distance travelled but sacrifice so much time on their overall journey time to do so. I wonder how different the average mentality might be if people thought in terms of time spent or average speed rather than distance travelled during their journey
They're like the monkeys in the Monkey Trap story - reaching into the hole in the tree for the fruit (placed there by human hunters), but can't withdraw their hand when it's full, but still won't let go - trapped! I've held back in situations like this video, only to have the impatient moron in the car behind me overtake and go down the narrow bit and bung everything up more!
@@type17 Good analogy. I've had people overtake on a particular road quite a few times. Coaches park on one side for a school, and people coming down have quite a difficult time getting past them. Often I just take a road off the main road, just to avoid the chaos.
5:18 _You should charge for that driving lesson_ _Yeah, you didn't do the best either, buddy!_ I hear the fella was rushed to the local burns unit afterwards!
What I don´t understand is that presumably a lot of these cars are parents and drive these roads at this time every day. Have they never learnt from experiences like this? Do they get stuck in grid lock like this every day without adapting.
Living near a Primary school I can answer your questions in order: No and Yes. - In the 10 years we've lived here it's always the same problem year in and year out.
I was forced to ride onto the pavement, which resulted in a very painful fall last Friday. A 'concerned mother', taking off from her parking place on the 'wrong' side of the road after delivering her children to school, ignored me while a rode my bicycle, apprehensively, because I knew full well what would likely happen. There was no way to prevent this happening by me doing something differently, bar dismounting and walking in the middle of the street, using my bicycle as a buffer. it never ceases to amaze me how these so-called 'concerned parents' have no qualms endangering others, to the point of life-threatening. I fell on the street, catching the handlebar in my chest. Luckily (for her), the culprit did not slow down nor stop, let alone come to my aid, because I don't know what I would have done to her.
@@joopjansen9102 when my brother was riding frequently, his opinion was that if someone turned into him without signaling, he would yank their door open and reach in and break their turn signal lever off, on the justification that they didn't have any use for it.
Hearing those words 'You think you're holding people up who are behind you by waiting - but you're not' is something that all drivers need to take notice of and absorb. You need not worry about who's behind, do what's right. Don't do something just to keep others happy. And you bursting the bubble of a driver of whom thought he was perfect was priceless. I'd never admit to being a perfect driver, in fact people criticise me for how down I am on myself when it comes to driving. I never assume that I am proficient in all situations, this could get me killed one day. So I instead tell myself I know nothing and view driving as a way to learn and grow. At least this will stop me from being inconsiderate
It could be worse - what gets to me is when I'm holding back from a blockage to let it clear and someone goes around me to drive in to the problem area and make it worse.
It makes me laugh even harder when they're almost half way through a gap and then decide that they're too wide and just sit there, hoping something magical will happen 😅 Logic doesn't apply to these people
they obviously don’t think their car is wider than the mirrors. they just can’t judge whether or not the space is as wide as their car including the mirrors. plus some people struggle manoeuvring into a narrow gap at an angle vs being straight on with it.
As a bus driver I see this daily and find myself directing traffic regularly to clear situations like this. And a popular thing for people to do is to overtake my bus when am holding back and pile in to the traffic making it worse 🤣
Yep, share your pain wirth the last bit. Doing home deliveries in a 12t isn't ideal at the best of times but when you get morons come past you, when you've stopped to let the oncoming traffic flow, well i'd be a very rich man if i charged a £1 for everytime that happened !
The worst is when you hold back, and the car behind gets impatient and overtakes you, and further contributes to gridlock because they're now approaching the narrowing from the wrong side of the road!
I once parked my van opposite a rural school (as this is where my customer lived) and at 3 o’clock ish I could hear a lot of horns going off, so I went outside and all the posh Range Rovers/X5’s etc had parked on the side of the school therefore completely blocking the road (leaving no gap opposite my van), luckily the bus driver that was blocked had seen my van when doing the route earlier, so we had a good laugh seeing how these entitled drivers had parked 😂😂
Similar happened to me where I had parked up to do a job, I had probably been there about an hour when there was a knock on the door, it was the bus driver asking if "I could move my van 'cos all the idiots had cleared off and left their cars" while they went to school. I could not believe what I saw, just looked like cars had been dropped from the sky all over the place and my van was the only vehicle correctly parked. Granted it was easier for me to move so the bus could pass than to find these other people! Not amused, but at least made a bus driver friend.
Local to me there's a level crossing on a sharp bend. It always tests drivers when long vehicles attempt to make the bend. Most squeeze through, some hold short to make the long vehicles life easier and once I witnessed a skoda yeti hold short at the start of the bend. Literally blocking the coach from getting around at all. I held back about 20m, watched the coach driver put a half arsed hand up after squeezing round and we both just shrugged our shoulders trying to figure out how the hell the skoda driver has made it this far in life 😳
Looks pretty scary for kids to walk across roads like this. I think a lot of parents drive their kids because it's dangerous to walk/ bike because of the traffic. Of course, this is also creates the problem in the first place.
Unfortunately I don't have that luxury, our 6 year old has to be dropped off but there is dedicated parking at a village hall over the road. It's several miles down an A road without pavement and no public transport. I wouldn't walk down there on my own in the summer never mind with a 6 year old with the dark winter nights.
The fundamental problem here is the number of people who feel the need to *drive* their children to and from school, rather than walking or cycling. Many of these cars are also significantly larger than necessary for a family runabout. With this much congestion, it certainly doesn't save any time for anyone who lives within, say, a mile of the school (as I'm sure most do). It's probably a decision based on perceived safety, but it's this volume of traffic that *makes* it dangerous to be on foot or on two wheels. I can guarantee you that a child's bicycle - or even an adult bicycle with a child-sized trailer attachment - costs much less than a second Mercedes for the wife. You say this is probably also a problem all around the world, but it really isn't. In much of Europe, walking or cycling to school is the norm. In rural areas there is a bus service timed to coincide with school hours, and it's then a relatively short walk or ride to the bus stop. My landlord's children ride down the driveway and leave their bikes in the ditch! Meanwhile in Japan, rural train stations have been known to be kept open for the benefit of a single student, the station being otherwise unused. In anime, showing up at school *in a car* is considered so far outside the norm that it's a visual shorthand for "this student is from a very rich family".
Even the US, the home of car culture, doesn't seem to have this problem. The classic yellow school bus is pretty much a symbol of the US school system.
Agreed. An ex-neighbour here would most days drive the 2.8 miles round trip to the nearby infant school, via a roundabout that is usually congested in the mornings, rather than walk the 0.6 miles there and back using an estate path as others did.
I think the main problem is the parents can’t be bothered to walk, or don’t want to walk in case it rains etc. Pretty pathetic. I live in a rural area, where it’s not practical to walk to school. School buses are provided, but a lot of parents will drive as they make the bus passes so expensive for those that don’t qualify for free travel. The problem also lies in the system of trying to profit too much from something that should be encouraged.
if you think that's bad, where I live, the school hires a company to run a fleet of buses just to get the kids to and from school, and parents STILL feel the need to drive their kids to school.
i’m a bus driver and get caught in this scenario everyday,other peoples attitudes are embarrassing,they don’t even try to solve the problem,just sit there looking around
The state of the driving situation in this country. Amazing how prevalent follow-the-leader mentality is. "He's going, that means I can go too." I see it all the time. The worst is how people drive themselves into these situations like lemmings then can't get themselves back out of it again. The silver merc driver was pathetic. No excuses. Not sure, do as us lorry drivers are taught: GOAL - Get Out And Look.
It's like the Kia driver just tail-gated as a way to ensure she had enough room on the sides, like she was copying Ashley's route so that she didn't have to do it by herself.
I love watching all these videos even though i passed my test a month and half ago, there are always more things to learn and to improve upon and these videos are great for helping me become an even better driver
Props to the Kia driver behind for not overtaking you. Yes, they made things worse by blindly following you but that shows how impatient they were and I was fully expecting them to pass you. Where I live the roads are very narrow and when our schools end the roads are blocked solid for almost an hour as they have a staggered finishing time of 15mins. I've been passed many times while waiting for the road ahead to clear. On a few occasions a car has had to stop directly next to me. Then horns start blaring. Then the shouting starts. All because people don't use their brains.
That reminds me of every single afternoon school run around my daughter's school. My.solution is to stay parked, let everyone else sort themselves out. Few minutes wait, everyone's cleared out, I'm home 5 minutes later than trying to fight my way through.
@@ashley_neal it's just easier. I've always been the same... Even after a movie at the cinema or show at a theatre.. just wait, let everyone crush and then clear. Then you can just stroll casually away.. or drive safely away..
@@ibs5080 I'm.the same.crossong the border from Lincolnshire to Yorkshire... 🤣 The Humber Bridge is a toll bridge. If is backed up, you can sit there for an hour. I'd rather go to a cafe in a nearby town for an hour, have a coffee, watch the traffic, cruise across when clear. It's either an hour - sat enjoy a relaxing coffee.. or bored in traffic.. obvious choice to me.
I had this situation happen on my local estate with short road works on a bend, no lights, and a parked car opposite. No one could get through. After 15 mins of no movement I asked contractors who car belonged to. They indicated an empty drive. I tried contact. Neighbour came out suggesting they were in back garden. I was third in queue, and made a decision, after further repeated attempts to contact failed. I drove up their drive, around parked car, onto neighbour drive and out. I parked up and went back to watch all following suit. It was lovely. The next day the car was parked on drive and, in turn, we could all pass! They finally got the message!
Great job Ash and I loved your authorative but casual stroll back to your car. I would have considered taking the keys out of my ignition and locking my car if it was me even for that brief exit out of the car, though I realise for you it's likely keyless entry & start. The other thing I might have done is turn into the car park on the left at around 3:41 and just sit it out for a while until there was a bit of a break in the oncoming traffic stream. Obviously I'd have to maintain visibility to judge that and again it might actually be a case of parking facing ready to go and standing outside the car to observe along the road...and yes with keys out of the ignition again.
As someone who delivers to school kitchens every day, in a larger vehicle than a car, I always plan my breaks between 8:30/9am to avoid situations like these.
We have 2 primary schools nearby. Each one is on an exit road from our estate. Absolute carnage at 3:15 weekdays. On the one day I have to pick up my youngest (to get his brother to swim training), I use a supermarket carpark nearby. I don't have the time to get caught up in the chaos.
I was a professional driver for nearly 30 years so I was able to spot certain types of motorist and school run mum is by far the most inept. You also find incredible ineptitude in car parks. Car parks are lethal. If you want to see how the job should be done head to the cargo side of Heathrow airport, Shoreham rd and Horton rd would be a good place to start, it's like poetry in motion, everybody anticipates everybody else's next move. Another good one is the NEC on set up day. I watched 60+ luton vans exit a holding car park and make their way to the exhibition hall in less than 10 minutes in a convoy of perfect coordination. Half hour later and they were unloading their cargo in the hall, all nicely reverse parked up in tight formation. If these vehicles had been piloted by average joe (most motorists) it would have been f*cking chaos. Great video by the way, probably my favourite.
Where I live the road is effectively single lane due to on-road parking both sides. There's been a couple of occasions where I've stopped before the parked cars to allow oncoming traffic to get clear, only to have the person behind me overtake, get halfway down the parked cars, then be stuck in a pissing contest with the oncoming driver. When I saw that white car overtaking (before turning right), I was wondering if he was about to try the same trick.
Needs local authority to put their foot down on this. All those drivers parked on the pavement had decided their offspring were more important than anyone else's. As you say, we've all seen it and probably many of us have either taken a sharp intake of breath or even seen accidents that are directly attributable to these selfish eejits who ignore the free flow of the road and pavements so that Tabitha and Terrance can take twenty steps less on their journey to learn how to be good citizens. They all know the laws, they just don't think they apply to them. I'm sure a dedicated traffic warden, rotating round the schools in a borough could pay for their own wages in the fines handed out.
I often hear men and women say "ive been driving for 25 years....These are the same people responsible for blocking roads outside schools....Ashley Neal videos are the best ...Quality driving from a top drawer driving instructor ❤️ x
My road is absolutely gridlocked in the morning - every day most drivers drive on the pavement just to squeeze past. What you said in this video is so relevant and you were especially witty in this video too!
The school run is not a world-wide event. I have never experienced it in the Netherlands - kids walk to school. A big part of the problem is that British parents have become over-protective, and schools have too. A few years ago my brother asked me to collect my niece from primary school in rural Cambridgeshire. He had to notify the school, and give them a description of me, then parents and I had to wait outside the school for children to emerge. In the Netherlands I walked with my cousin to drop her daughter off at primary school, and was invited into the classroom to talk to the kids in English. There were no cars parked outside the Dutch school.
Well done Ashley, I had a similar situation like this on my street recently, I did like you did here and waited. The car in front of me then reversed back and the situation sorted it self out.
Very well done Ashley ! I hate those situations you showed how it should be done but too many other drivers panic and follow like you said closing the spaces down
I've been driving for about 3 years but these situatons still give me massive anxiety - I try to take the advice of plan ahead etc but like you've showed, sometimes people just move in without thinking.
0:51 "By holding back" Years ago I was going towards a small town centre and could see a coach struggling to get through, with cars parked both sides, and other cars that had gone through, making the coach's progress very difficult. So, naturally, as Ashley has done here, I held back, but was still reasonably wide from the kerb, with my brake lights on. What happens? A car overtakes me, and further blocks the coach. I creep forwards and bit and stop, then in succession, 2 more cars overtake me and block the coach almost completely!!! Now I don't believe in the death penalty, but sometimes, just sometimes, I think that maybe it could be justified with such people.
In another situation, I was coming down a road with parked cars on the left, then there was a space, and another car parked on the left fairly near a junction, on a double yellow line. I drove down to the parked car and waited while people went up the road, however, in my mirror I could see that a 4x4 had come out round the parked cars, but had no room to get back to their side of the road, due to the traffic behind me. I gestured for a car coming up the road to back up a bit and wait for me, but he gave me 2 fingers (which surprised me, as nowadays people usually only bother with one). There was a van in front of him, blocking his view of the situation, so I wound down my window and explained that if he didn't back up, no one was going anywhere. To be fair, he apologised and backed up, problem solved.
Honestly this gets on my nerves the most I think - Where you're trying to help the situation but then cars around you make you PART of the situation and result with you not being able to do anything. Or so I thought - some learning taken away from this video
This is a great example of I must be first, I must go as far as possible without thinking to save time and the reality is if drivers had more patience and forward thinking they would have saved themselves time! I guarantee many drivers would have been beeping the horn and flapping their arms at the start when you waiting patiently.
Loving your videos, I learn a great deal from them and have adapted my driving to try and be a safer, more aware and more considerate driver. Keep up the great work. I do feel that the recent rise of the large urban SUV (2 ton tw*t wagon/Chelsea Tractor etc. as I have heard them called...) has led to a problem where drivers are unaware of how large their vehicle actually is and lack the skills to drive/control it safely. I also fear that driving one of these can possibly lead to a feeling of invincibility by said owners.
A number of times I've held back because of seeing such a situation developing and had someone dart around me and plug up the hole, and they have had to reverse up to me and then look angrily at me for not reversing to give them the room they can now see the situation demands because, in the meantime, someone filled up the space behind me that they vacated.
Hey Ashley, Not sure if there's a video about this already but could you do a video on motorcyclists filtering? I feel like it's not talked about enough on the car tests / theory test and it is important to know the basics about and what is/isn't legal for motorcycles to do. Love the videos!
@@johnb8956 Yep, I am a motorcyclist myself but some bikes go way to quick and get into tricky situations instead of just hanging back a bit and assessing it properly and cautiously. As Ashley has some motorcycle experience aswell, he's probably the perfect person to make a video about it and educate everyone
Had to employ this method today…but only the once. Unrelated….yesterday waiting to get out the doctors car park (busy, it’s jab day)….somebody in a bay to my side starts reversing out…without looking. Beep of the horn….no effect…keeps on coming….does eventually stop…just. Rule of thumb, if your in a car park there’s going to be other cars + people moving around.
There's a big school in Swindon, in a road normally full of parked residents' cars both sides, leaving a single track down the middle. Needs to be a one-way system, as at school times, the parents will sometimes come to blows, really. Around 14 years ago, in a similar situation near a school, my learner lived along a cul-de-sac, almost opposite the school, so no choice of route. (Usually avoided that time, but that day, her other commitments conspired against us.) Stuck in the stationary traffic, I called her. She walked to the end of her road, got in the car, did a turn-in-the-road, and away we went. She showed 'em.
When I was little (30+ years ago) I remember (mostly) mums turning up to collect their children from the local primary school on bicycles or on foot, or occasionally a moped or scooter, with only a few who lived further away arriving by car. Many families only had one car and (usually) the dad would take that to work. These days it seems everyone drives to school even if it's only a short walk.
I got stuck in a similar situation recently. It was just after 5pm so roads were busy and there had just been a major accident up ahead so my route was closed and traffic was being directed down another street. Unfortunately this was a residential area and I (and presumably many other drivers) were not familiar with the streets away from the main road. There were cars parked both sides, and traffic coming in the opposite direction, with both lines of traffic bunching up to try and get through the narrowings. It took ages to get through due to people not knowing they could fit through a gap, and the car behind me kept blasting their horn every time I stopped to leave a space. 🤦🏻♂️
03.31. " she struggles judging how wide her vehicle is " .Irrespective of gender with most modern vehicles fitted with parking sensors we've lost the art of recognising whether the vehicle we are in will fit BEFORE proceeding in the majority of situations. Parallel parking is a great tool for getting the hang of distances / angles / widths etc but we rely on the tech too much.
That's probably it. In that space the sensors would be screaming and blindspot monitoring, etc all glowing brightly leading any driver who depends on them to be frozen like a rabbit in the headlights thinking they can't move without hitting something.
Gender plays a massive part, I see it every day on the single track back roads here in Cornwall. Women simply can't reverse. Thankfully I'm old school so I open the door for them.
So many problems compounding to create this situation. Poorly designed road layouts, poor driving standards, illegal parking for drop-off/pick-up from school, lack of enforcement of parking regulations at these times... I did learn something about holding back today though, I do hold back a lot to ease congestion but I have been guilty of feeling rushed by cars behind me so it's a good point to remember that you're not slowing anyone down, in fact you're speeding everyone up by holding back in these situations - if more drivers had driven like ashley in this situation, this video would never have been made as the traffic would have been flowing freely so nothing to make a video about.
That doesn’t stop entitled parents from parking illegally. At my local school, residents call the council on a regular basis and sometimes they dish out tickets but the same offenders and back at it the next day. I do the school run but park 250 metres away on a quiet road. No stress of getting caught up in traffic chaos and get a bit of exercise in.
In my home town we have an all day pinch point not too far from a level crossing; and the same happens there too, with many a fool entering the box junction on the crossing without a clear exit. The situation is made worse by the fact that it’s a multiple pinch point area including past a T Junction. I have been aggressively beeped more than once to push forward when I’m holding back to allow oncoming traffic to clear which in turn lets traffic going my way to move. People no longer drive, they motor. (My differentiation where driving is considering the Whole situation and motoring is just controlling your own vehicle without a care for anyone else or developing situations!)
The amount of times I see this happen is crazy. I LEAVE a gap on for a reason then someone thinks he can be faster by using that gap until they see the reason why I left it. This road is always going to be like this until a restriction is put in place.
It amazes me how un spacially aware so many drivers are. They're so focussed on their own journey they forget there are other road users too. There's a prime spot in Banwell, Somerset on a street called West Street. The number of times I see people drive into the narrow section and block drivers coming up hill is amazing. There's a give way just before the narrow section for a reason.
Going at a bit of a tangent, since I’ve started to strictly respect the “only two cars in a junction” rule, I’ve had a lot of irate followers testing their horns to destruction (turning right off Deysbrook Lane onto Princess Way).
Schools are worse now for traffic then when my kids went, 25+ years ago. No I don't think there are more vehicles I am certain the issue is the vehicles are larger, especially as many have the SUV type things. Too many roads become 1 way now with parking both sides when they used to be 2 way, taken carefully. If anyone knows a car designer tell them to make the next models smaller than current, roads and parking isn't getting bigger!! We discovered something by accident when a couple of HGV's and school run cars blocked the road; we had to park over 1/4 mile away and walk. Got there and away so much quicker than the folk in the queue patiently fuming to get to the school gates.
I was in exactly this situation on Friday on the school run. I could see there were cars struggling to pass each other ahead of me so I held back to ensure cars could pass me when they approached me. But people behind me were so impatient they over took me and choose to make the situation worse. It dosent matter how well one person drives, there are so many people who drives so bady and can't read the road ahead.
I am in a trafic like this one few times a day. Delivery vans, lories, taxis. People parking on double continous lines( apparently believing that parking with one side on the paivment is ok). Exept, I drive a bus full of people. Day after day the same story.
I cannot believe the ignorance and shortsightedness that is going on there. Where I live it seems the ratio between drivers that understand what's going on and those that not is much better, thankfully.
It comes down to people just being selfish and not having awareness. As long as they can squeeze their way through they pay little regard to what chaos they cause.
I still believe schools need to have some regulating traffic like this. So many areas near schools with shoddy parking and parents illegally park or even then legally but stupidly park in places where convenient for them but disruptive for everyone else. Where i live in a small cul-de-sac local schools and parents use our small end of the road to park blocking access for residents to suit their purpose. It's just ridiculous.
There is a car park at my oldest's school. They still all park out in street illegally or in the aisle of car park 🤦🏼♀️ I drive once a week as my daughter cannot go alone (special needs) and other younger kids school finish too close in time. Rest of the time after school clubs/breakfast clubs mean we walk it. Only about 1.5 miles each way but the amount of parents driving their kids every day is ridiculous. Just laziness; some even from my road pass me each way to sit home all day, so not about being on the way to work or anything. It is a secondary school.
@@garyboyle695 It's far from the British way I was brought up with, but it now seems that too many people have the L'Oréal mentality: because I'm worth it.
Our schools are closed to all motor traffic now morning and afternoon, which might help out the schools, but makes it a pain the arse to get to and from the hospital next door. Lack of joined up thinking and no consultation.
After living in the Netherlands for a year, I find the number of meeting situations on our roads absolutely insane. The amount of conflict on our roads due to bad planning, parking and street design is crazy.
You should try this in a bus, you wait how you were and everyone overtakes even though i will have my right indicator on. Then you get the blame 😂 That cyclist was a complete plank!
As a fellow bus driver I concur, every time you stop those behind immediately assume you're at a bus stop even when nowhere near the pavement, and once one does a dumb overtake two or three follow so you end up in a queue with idiots along side you with nowhere to go.
I don't know how you bus drivers cope. I'm a lorry driver myself and though i considered it once, there's no way known i'd drive a bus. You lot need a pay rise.
@@a.nonymouse1291 you’re basically forever driving a lorry around the worst streets imaginable. All the while stopping all the time and dealing with people. You made the right choice
My toes were throwing gang signs and my shoulders were cramped up to my ears as I watched this, such was the anxiety watching this situation caused me.
The school I drop off and pick up my youngest granddaughter has its parking issues just as Ashley said like all schools. However the working man’s club next to the school allows parents to park in it’s car park at drop off and pick up times, but some parents would rather cause obstructions to other road users and local residents drives than use the car park and some who do us it can’t even park sensibly in it, taking up two and three spaces with one car.
I get this every morning near where I live. The really frustrating thing is when I pull in to a space because there's no way to clear ahead, but the driver behind thinks it's my fault he's left blocking the traffic. If they didn't blindly follow the car in front, but think about the bigger picture, they'd hold back as well. You're responsible for your car, not the drivers around you. I feel better now 🙂
They should only allow parking on one side of the road. Most schools have this problem, much of it created by the education authorities, giving parents the choice of where to send their kids. Unlike how it used to be, when they had to go to the school nearest to where they live.
I find myself directing traffic quite often and hear - "why don't you mind your own driving" - which makes me wonder, because for most people driving is - "aiming and filling the gap successfully"
Reminds me of an incident a few years back. There is a single lane bridge, light-controlled as it goes around a corner near where I lived. Not sure what was happening over the bridge but the traffic was backed up over the bridge so it wasn’t clearing over a cycle of lights. Could only imagine the queue to get over from the other side. Anyway, I just waited at the lights as there was no way I would clear the bridge. The horns and abuse I got was shocking.
I got out of my car to direct traffic, and I was guilty of following into a narrow, the on coming vehicle should have had priority but the car I followed prevented it's passage. My six years old daughter was seriously distraught about me leaving the car that I got back in for a couple of minutes while the situation continued to be stalled the I thought something had to be done so I got out and sorted it. A very stressful situation coul have been averted if me and the chap Inthe car in front had been a little more patient.
“You should charge for that driving lesson”
Ashley:”yeah, you didn’t do the best either, buddy”
Quick, get some cold water for that BURN! 🔥 🔥
Owned.
Fucking loved it hahaha.
Absolutely ruined his day that 😂
Completely savage
If everyone was as good a driver as they think they are none of these problems would occur. The only way I’ve gotten anyone to consider their own driving might be a problem is by saying that I review my own decisions and pointing out when I could’ve done better. The concept of being humble about your own driving instead of just blaming others even if they are partially at fault is lost on most including me a few years ago.
I think the reason other road users from behind fill the gap to the car in front is caused by fear. Fear they will get beeped/reprimanded by the car behind them for not filling the gap and also fear that if they don’t fill the gap some other vehicle will. So they protect their place in the queue by closing the space. Sad really.
Very very true and I sometimes have to fight myself to not make decisions based on those very same thoughts.
@@ibs5080 If I get a penny every time I leave ample room for a truck doing a manoeuvre like turning on a main road from a tight corner or backing up, only to be angrily passed by someone behind me (or behind other cars behind me) that then totally block the road for the trucker, I’d never have to work again.
@@RustOnWheels Yes I've had that happen too. Another common occurrence for me is spotting an emergency vehicle approaching from behind with its blues and two's on (but no siren) and so I indicate left and pull over at the first safe opportunity. Only to either be angrily beeped at or passed by less observant drivers behind me. Of course moments later the reason for my seemingly inappropriate stop becomes readily apparent to them whilst they now panic to pull over themselves, especially if the emergency vehicle is now right behind them...and turns on its sirens as well!
Just give them the stopping hand signal and let them deduce if passing you is sensible. If they do you are now in the beepers position - tables turned.
@@ibs5080 further to this, the car behind that has also pulled over for some reason pulling out first after the emergency vehicle has passed and proceeds to try and overtake you without letting you out first. Closed minded fools
"You didn't do the best either buddy"
Sick burn.
Brutal!
His face too after he said that 😂
The man didn't argue with that comment either - I think the realisation dawned
@@lordnick1575 probably because Mr Neal looks like he can take of himself.
This is partly the local authority’s fault - need much better parking restrictions on these sorts of roads around schools. It’s not going to hurt little James, Jasmine or Josephine to walk a few minutes. Nor will it hurt mom or dad. Set up restricted parking for people who genuinely can’t walk. And I don’t believe time is the issue. Often they’ll arrive twenty to thirty minutes early to get the parking space.
I agree with this. Odds are if you're in a school's catchment area in an urban area you almost certainly can walk to and from the school with the child without any real issue. Sometimes a car is needed (the child is injured, parent is disabled etc.) but for the vast majority of cases that doesn't hold
Got to be enforced though; regular fines and penalties or else they won't care and will continue doing it. Saw it all the time back in the day with people parking in 'No Parking During School Hours' and 'School Bus Only'.
@@DarkAchron exactly. Tougher restrictions don't achieve anything when self entitled parents ignore them, park on zig zags, double yellows etc. Not only that but park atrociously i.e on the wonk with their arse sticking out into the road making it even narrower and more awkward.
Yeah the enforcement is the issue. The school my nephew goes to has a road with explicit prohibitions on motor vehicles at school start and end times in term time. People don't pay a blind bit of notice though, they just drive past the sign and park in the road there anyway. You'd think they'd put a traffic warden on patrol there considering how much money they might make from the parking violations
@@speeddemon217a They would just abuse anyone trying to enforce any restrictions. As Ashley said, just too many brain dead drivers.
friday 3pm is THE WORST time to drive, when all the Karens in their giant SUVs drive little Timmy from school 200 yards
Plenty of dads drive their kids to school as well. Let’s not be sexist about this.
@@andrewlong6438 Karen's can be males or females. Karen is unisex
@@andrewlong6438 That's true however I've never personally witnessed a man in a situation like the woman in the Mercedes but the amount of times I've seen a woman driving a tiny car thinking its wider than a 50 ton tank is insane. Although from research papers I've read it does appear that this is a biological issue rather than a training problem which starts to show itself around the age of 6-7 it seems. I also just realised this was a year ago but I've typed it now dammit.
@@andrewlong6438
But generally it is mostly mums.
Don't worry about that cyclist. He's just been to a board meeting.
we wooden have to worry if he didn't have to carry that.
At least he didn't cause a block. Could have shaved some time for everyone there.
Plane to see he was knot worried.
He seemed like a total plank.
that one cracked me up good lol
It's remarkable how eager people are to gain a car's length in distance travelled but sacrifice so much time on their overall journey time to do so. I wonder how different the average mentality might be if people thought in terms of time spent or average speed rather than distance travelled during their journey
you mean "rather than how many cars they can jump in front of"
They're like the monkeys in the Monkey Trap story - reaching into the hole in the tree for the fruit (placed there by human hunters), but can't withdraw their hand when it's full, but still won't let go - trapped!
I've held back in situations like this video, only to have the impatient moron in the car behind me overtake and go down the narrow bit and bung everything up more!
@@type17 Good analogy.
I've had people overtake on a particular road quite a few times. Coaches park on one side for a school, and people coming down have quite a difficult time getting past them. Often I just take a road off the main road, just to avoid the chaos.
I know I shouldn't laugh at this but I did a bit at the look on your face and comment to the other bloke about not doing the best!
That last comment made my day, even Ashley starts to loose his cool around so much idiocy.
I felt the cringe for that guy with his awkward laugh, lolz.
that was hilarious
Burn of the week.
Absolute gold :D
5:18 _You should charge for that driving lesson_
_Yeah, you didn't do the best either, buddy!_
I hear the fella was rushed to the local burns unit afterwards!
Absolutely shut him down!
Omg brilliant 😂😂😂😂
I saw that smile drop so hard, he went to the dentist after the burns unit.
completely ruined him LMAO
@@Rupsyy right in front of his wife too. Ouch 😅
What I don´t understand is that presumably a lot of these cars are parents and drive these roads at this time every day. Have they never learnt from experiences like this? Do they get stuck in grid lock like this every day without adapting.
Living near a Primary school I can answer your questions in order: No and Yes. - In the 10 years we've lived here it's always the same problem year in and year out.
I think it actually has the opposite effect. The fact they do it everyday means they drive on ‘autopilot’. And don’t even consider what’s going on
yes, they do.
I was forced to ride onto the pavement, which resulted in a very painful fall last Friday. A 'concerned mother', taking off from her parking place on the 'wrong' side of the road after delivering her children to school, ignored me while a rode my bicycle, apprehensively, because I knew full well what would likely happen. There was no way to prevent this happening by me doing something differently, bar dismounting and walking in the middle of the street, using my bicycle as a buffer.
it never ceases to amaze me how these so-called 'concerned parents' have no qualms endangering others, to the point of life-threatening.
I fell on the street, catching the handlebar in my chest. Luckily (for her), the culprit did not slow down nor stop, let alone come to my aid, because I don't know what I would have done to her.
@@joopjansen9102 when my brother was riding frequently, his opinion was that if someone turned into him without signaling, he would yank their door open and reach in and break their turn signal lever off, on the justification that they didn't have any use for it.
Hearing those words 'You think you're holding people up who are behind you by waiting - but you're not' is something that all drivers need to take notice of and absorb.
You need not worry about who's behind, do what's right. Don't do something just to keep others happy.
And you bursting the bubble of a driver of whom thought he was perfect was priceless. I'd never admit to being a perfect driver, in fact people criticise me for how down I am on myself when it comes to driving. I never assume that I am proficient in all situations, this could get me killed one day. So I instead tell myself I know nothing and view driving as a way to learn and grow. At least this will stop me from being inconsiderate
Why tf are there not double yellow lines on at least one side
It could be worse - what gets to me is when I'm holding back from a blockage to let it clear and someone goes around me to drive in to the problem area and make it worse.
all the while giving you the stink eye because you're obviously the one keeping up traffic lmao
It always amazes me that people think their car is wider than the Mirrors.😄
That was Boss. 👏
It makes me laugh even harder when they're almost half way through a gap and then decide that they're too wide and just sit there, hoping something magical will happen 😅
Logic doesn't apply to these people
they obviously don’t think their car is wider than the mirrors. they just can’t judge whether or not the space is as wide as their car including the mirrors. plus some people struggle manoeuvring into a narrow gap at an angle vs being straight on with it.
As a bus driver I see this daily and find myself directing traffic regularly to clear situations like this. And a popular thing for people to do is to overtake my bus when am holding back and pile in to the traffic making it worse 🤣
Yep, share your pain wirth the last bit. Doing home deliveries in a 12t isn't ideal at the best of times but when you get morons come past you, when you've stopped to let the oncoming traffic flow, well i'd be a very rich man if i charged a £1 for everytime that happened !
The worst is when you hold back, and the car behind gets impatient and overtakes you, and further contributes to gridlock because they're now approaching the narrowing from the wrong side of the road!
I once parked my van opposite a rural school (as this is where my customer lived) and at 3 o’clock ish I could hear a lot of horns going off, so I went outside and all the posh Range Rovers/X5’s etc had parked on the side of the school therefore completely blocking the road (leaving no gap opposite my van), luckily the bus driver that was blocked had seen my van when doing the route earlier, so we had a good laugh seeing how these entitled drivers had parked 😂😂
Similar happened to me where I had parked up to do a job, I had probably been there about an hour when there was a knock on the door, it was the bus driver asking if "I could move my van 'cos all the idiots had cleared off and left their cars" while they went to school. I could not believe what I saw, just looked like cars had been dropped from the sky all over the place and my van was the only vehicle correctly parked. Granted it was easier for me to move so the bus could pass than to find these other people! Not amused, but at least made a bus driver friend.
Local to me there's a level crossing on a sharp bend. It always tests drivers when long vehicles attempt to make the bend. Most squeeze through, some hold short to make the long vehicles life easier and once I witnessed a skoda yeti hold short at the start of the bend. Literally blocking the coach from getting around at all. I held back about 20m, watched the coach driver put a half arsed hand up after squeezing round and we both just shrugged our shoulders trying to figure out how the hell the skoda driver has made it this far in life 😳
@James Stewart they can finance the Range Rover, you just know the bank also owns the nice paved driveway too...so no dirt there either!
Imagine if kids didn't all get driven to school? It'd be better for everyone
It would set them up for a more active life, which would be better for their health and society
Looks pretty scary for kids to walk across roads like this. I think a lot of parents drive their kids because it's dangerous to walk/ bike because of the traffic. Of course, this is also creates the problem in the first place.
@@PennDraken 5:35 I can't see them but the patrol sign tells me there's a lollipop person nearby. Plenty safe for children.
Unfortunately I don't have that luxury, our 6 year old has to be dropped off but there is dedicated parking at a village hall over the road. It's several miles down an A road without pavement and no public transport. I wouldn't walk down there on my own in the summer never mind with a 6 year old with the dark winter nights.
I've never been driven to school, I've only ever walked or took buses. Solved a lot of issues
“You should charge for that driving lesson”
That cracked me up! Great job Ashley!
The fundamental problem here is the number of people who feel the need to *drive* their children to and from school, rather than walking or cycling. Many of these cars are also significantly larger than necessary for a family runabout. With this much congestion, it certainly doesn't save any time for anyone who lives within, say, a mile of the school (as I'm sure most do). It's probably a decision based on perceived safety, but it's this volume of traffic that *makes* it dangerous to be on foot or on two wheels. I can guarantee you that a child's bicycle - or even an adult bicycle with a child-sized trailer attachment - costs much less than a second Mercedes for the wife.
You say this is probably also a problem all around the world, but it really isn't. In much of Europe, walking or cycling to school is the norm. In rural areas there is a bus service timed to coincide with school hours, and it's then a relatively short walk or ride to the bus stop. My landlord's children ride down the driveway and leave their bikes in the ditch! Meanwhile in Japan, rural train stations have been known to be kept open for the benefit of a single student, the station being otherwise unused. In anime, showing up at school *in a car* is considered so far outside the norm that it's a visual shorthand for "this student is from a very rich family".
Even the US, the home of car culture, doesn't seem to have this problem. The classic yellow school bus is pretty much a symbol of the US school system.
Agreed. An ex-neighbour here would most days drive the 2.8 miles round trip to the nearby infant school, via a roundabout that is usually congested in the mornings, rather than walk the 0.6 miles there and back using an estate path as others did.
I think the main problem is the parents can’t be bothered to walk, or don’t want to walk in case it rains etc. Pretty pathetic. I live in a rural area, where it’s not practical to walk to school. School buses are provided, but a lot of parents will drive as they make the bus passes so expensive for those that don’t qualify for free travel. The problem also lies in the system of trying to profit too much from something that should be encouraged.
if you think that's bad, where I live, the school hires a company to run a fleet of buses just to get the kids to and from school, and parents STILL feel the need to drive their kids to school.
@@MultiMidden you just haven't noticed it.
i’m a bus driver and get caught in this scenario everyday,other peoples attitudes are embarrassing,they don’t even try to solve the problem,just sit there looking around
Another classic error is where you are waiting for your exit to clear, and someone drives around you.
Yeah, it's annoying but so satisfying to see them reversing back past you because the oncoming vehicle is a bus.
I no longer own a car and I can't express how much stress I have saved by not having to deal with the fools on the road.
The state of the driving situation in this country. Amazing how prevalent follow-the-leader mentality is. "He's going, that means I can go too." I see it all the time. The worst is how people drive themselves into these situations like lemmings then can't get themselves back out of it again. The silver merc driver was pathetic. No excuses. Not sure, do as us lorry drivers are taught: GOAL - Get Out And Look.
It's like the Kia driver just tail-gated as a way to ensure she had enough room on the sides, like she was copying Ashley's route so that she didn't have to do it by herself.
I love watching all these videos even though i passed my test a month and half ago, there are always more things to learn and to improve upon and these videos are great for helping me become an even better driver
Props to the Kia driver behind for not overtaking you. Yes, they made things worse by blindly following you but that shows how impatient they were and I was fully expecting them to pass you. Where I live the roads are very narrow and when our schools end the roads are blocked solid for almost an hour as they have a staggered finishing time of 15mins. I've been passed many times while waiting for the road ahead to clear. On a few occasions a car has had to stop directly next to me. Then horns start blaring. Then the shouting starts. All because people don't use their brains.
That reminds me of every single afternoon school run around my daughter's school.
My.solution is to stay parked, let everyone else sort themselves out. Few minutes wait, everyone's cleared out, I'm home 5 minutes later than trying to fight my way through.
I do the same when getting off a plane!
@@ashley_neal it's just easier. I've always been the same... Even after a movie at the cinema or show at a theatre.. just wait, let everyone crush and then clear.
Then you can just stroll casually away.. or drive safely away..
@@ibs5080 I'm.the same.crossong the border from Lincolnshire to Yorkshire... 🤣 The Humber Bridge is a toll bridge. If is backed up, you can sit there for an hour. I'd rather go to a cafe in a nearby town for an hour, have a coffee, watch the traffic, cruise across when clear.
It's either an hour - sat enjoy a relaxing coffee.. or bored in traffic.. obvious choice to me.
@@ashley_neal especially with only hand luggage, wait patiently to disembark, then walk through baggage reclaim past all the people who rushed.
I had this situation happen on my local estate with short road works on a bend, no lights, and a parked car opposite. No one could get through. After 15 mins of no movement I asked contractors who car belonged to. They indicated an empty drive. I tried contact. Neighbour came out suggesting they were in back garden. I was third in queue, and made a decision, after further repeated attempts to contact failed. I drove up their drive, around parked car, onto neighbour drive and out. I parked up and went back to watch all following suit. It was lovely. The next day the car was parked on drive and, in turn, we could all pass! They finally got the message!
Why do children get driven to school?
I bet one of the top answers would be, 'it's to dangerous to walk because of all the traffic'.
Ashley you have such a good energy - even when surrounded by… these types of people 😂 great upload 🤍🙌🏻
Great job Ash and I loved your authorative but casual stroll back to your car. I would have considered taking the keys out of my ignition and locking my car if it was me even for that brief exit out of the car, though I realise for you it's likely keyless entry & start.
The other thing I might have done is turn into the car park on the left at around 3:41 and just sit it out for a while until there was a bit of a break in the oncoming traffic stream. Obviously I'd have to maintain visibility to judge that and again it might actually be a case of parking facing ready to go and standing outside the car to observe along the road...and yes with keys out of the ignition again.
Spot on about keys out. Mine live in my pocket 👍🏼
Well it's not as if anybody stealing it could have got more than 6 inches away I suppose 😁
As someone who delivers to school kitchens every day, in a larger vehicle than a car, I always plan my breaks between 8:30/9am to avoid situations like these.
It's nice that you helped that lady in the Merc without making her look like a bad mong. That's the kind of thing we should see more of in the world.
That last bit.. I got second hand embarrassment for that guy lol.
Fair play though Ashley, that was very confident and you helped things a lot
“You didn’t do best either buddy” absolutely right, I wonder how small he felt after you gave him the answer he deserved? 🤣
Excellent handling of the situation Ashley. Calm, collected, a touch of british humour, top quality
We have 2 primary schools nearby. Each one is on an exit road from our estate. Absolute carnage at 3:15 weekdays. On the one day I have to pick up my youngest (to get his brother to swim training), I use a supermarket carpark nearby. I don't have the time to get caught up in the chaos.
Not all heroes wear capes. Cheers, Ashley. 👌
I was a professional driver for nearly 30 years so I was able to spot certain types of motorist and school run mum is by far the most inept. You also find incredible ineptitude in car parks. Car parks are lethal. If you want to see how the job should be done head to the cargo side of Heathrow airport, Shoreham rd and Horton rd would be a good place to start, it's like poetry in motion, everybody anticipates everybody else's next move. Another good one is the NEC on set up day. I watched 60+ luton vans exit a holding car park and make their way to the exhibition hall in less than 10 minutes in a convoy of perfect coordination. Half hour later and they were unloading their cargo in the hall, all nicely reverse parked up in tight formation. If these vehicles had been piloted by average joe (most motorists) it would have been f*cking chaos. Great video by the way, probably my favourite.
Where I live the road is effectively single lane due to on-road parking both sides. There's been a couple of occasions where I've stopped before the parked cars to allow oncoming traffic to get clear, only to have the person behind me overtake, get halfway down the parked cars, then be stuck in a pissing contest with the oncoming driver. When I saw that white car overtaking (before turning right), I was wondering if he was about to try the same trick.
Needs local authority to put their foot down on this. All those drivers parked on the pavement had decided their offspring were more important than anyone else's. As you say, we've all seen it and probably many of us have either taken a sharp intake of breath or even seen accidents that are directly attributable to these selfish eejits who ignore the free flow of the road and pavements so that Tabitha and Terrance can take twenty steps less on their journey to learn how to be good citizens. They all know the laws, they just don't think they apply to them. I'm sure a dedicated traffic warden, rotating round the schools in a borough could pay for their own wages in the fines handed out.
it can be cured by cycling to school
I often hear men and women say "ive been driving for 25 years....These are the same people responsible for blocking roads outside schools....Ashley Neal videos are the best ...Quality driving from a top drawer driving instructor ❤️ x
My road is absolutely gridlocked in the morning - every day most drivers drive on the pavement just to squeeze past. What you said in this video is so relevant and you were especially witty in this video too!
The school run is not a world-wide event. I have never experienced it in the Netherlands - kids walk to school.
A big part of the problem is that British parents have become over-protective, and schools have too. A few years ago my brother asked me to collect my niece from primary school in rural Cambridgeshire. He had to notify the school, and give them a description of me, then parents and I had to wait outside the school for children to emerge. In the Netherlands I walked with my cousin to drop her daughter off at primary school, and was invited into the classroom to talk to the kids in English. There were no cars parked outside the Dutch school.
Agreed. It didn't used to be like this. Now idiotic parents will yell at other parents who dare to let their kids walk to school. Vile
0:38 there is no such thing as a school run in Germany. The kids just walk on their own or use public transport.
As it should be.
Well done Ashley,
I had a similar situation like this on my street recently, I did like you did here and waited.
The car in front of me then reversed back and the situation sorted it self out.
Very well done Ashley ! I hate those situations you showed how it should be done but too many other drivers panic and follow like you said closing the spaces down
I've been driving for about 3 years but these situatons still give me massive anxiety - I try to take the advice of plan ahead etc but like you've showed, sometimes people just move in without thinking.
0:51 "By holding back"
Years ago I was going towards a small town centre and could see a coach struggling to get through, with cars parked both sides, and other cars that had gone through, making the coach's progress very difficult.
So, naturally, as Ashley has done here, I held back, but was still reasonably wide from the kerb, with my brake lights on. What happens? A car overtakes me, and further blocks the coach.
I creep forwards and bit and stop, then in succession, 2 more cars overtake me and block the coach almost completely!!!
Now I don't believe in the death penalty, but sometimes, just sometimes, I think that maybe it could be justified with such people.
In another situation, I was coming down a road with parked cars on the left, then there was a space, and another car parked on the left fairly near a junction, on a double yellow line.
I drove down to the parked car and waited while people went up the road, however, in my mirror I could see that a 4x4 had come out round the parked cars, but had no room to get back to their side of the road, due to the traffic behind me.
I gestured for a car coming up the road to back up a bit and wait for me, but he gave me 2 fingers (which surprised me, as nowadays people usually only bother with one). There was a van in front of him, blocking his view of the situation, so I wound down my window and explained that if he didn't back up, no one was going anywhere. To be fair, he apologised and backed up, problem solved.
Honestly this gets on my nerves the most I think - Where you're trying to help the situation but then cars around you make you PART of the situation and result with you not being able to do anything. Or so I thought - some learning taken away from this video
This is a great example of I must be first, I must go as far as possible without thinking to save time and the reality is if drivers had more patience and forward thinking they would have saved themselves time! I guarantee many drivers would have been beeping the horn and flapping their arms at the start when you waiting patiently.
Loving your videos, I learn a great deal from them and have adapted my driving to try and be a safer, more aware and more considerate driver. Keep up the great work. I do feel that the recent rise of the large urban SUV (2 ton tw*t wagon/Chelsea Tractor etc. as I have heard them called...) has led to a problem where drivers are unaware of how large their vehicle actually is and lack the skills to drive/control it safely. I also fear that driving one of these can possibly lead to a feeling of invincibility by said owners.
A number of times I've held back because of seeing such a situation developing and had someone dart around me and plug up the hole, and they have had to reverse up to me and then look angrily at me for not reversing to give them the room they can now see the situation demands because, in the meantime, someone filled up the space behind me that they vacated.
Hey Ashley,
Not sure if there's a video about this already but could you do a video on motorcyclists filtering? I feel like it's not talked about enough on the car tests / theory test and it is important to know the basics about and what is/isn't legal for motorcycles to do.
Love the videos!
Yes please! One of my pet peeves is bikes, as well as cars getting it dreadfully wrong
@@johnb8956 Yep, I am a motorcyclist myself but some bikes go way to quick and get into tricky situations instead of just hanging back a bit and assessing it properly and cautiously. As Ashley has some motorcycle experience aswell, he's probably the perfect person to make a video about it and educate everyone
Had to employ this method today…but only the once.
Unrelated….yesterday waiting to get out the doctors car park (busy, it’s jab day)….somebody in a bay to my side starts reversing out…without looking. Beep of the horn….no effect…keeps on coming….does eventually stop…just.
Rule of thumb, if your in a car park there’s going to be other cars + people moving around.
There's a big school in Swindon, in a road normally full of parked residents' cars both sides, leaving a single track down the middle. Needs to be a one-way system, as at school times, the parents will sometimes come to blows, really.
Around 14 years ago, in a similar situation near a school, my learner lived along a cul-de-sac, almost opposite the school, so no choice of route. (Usually avoided that time, but that day, her other commitments conspired against us.) Stuck in the stationary traffic, I called her. She walked to the end of her road, got in the car, did a turn-in-the-road, and away we went. She showed 'em.
When I was little (30+ years ago) I remember (mostly) mums turning up to collect their children from the local primary school on bicycles or on foot, or occasionally a moped or scooter, with only a few who lived further away arriving by car. Many families only had one car and (usually) the dad would take that to work. These days it seems everyone drives to school even if it's only a short walk.
I got stuck in a similar situation recently. It was just after 5pm so roads were busy and there had just been a major accident up ahead so my route was closed and traffic was being directed down another street. Unfortunately this was a residential area and I (and presumably many other drivers) were not familiar with the streets away from the main road. There were cars parked both sides, and traffic coming in the opposite direction, with both lines of traffic bunching up to try and get through the narrowings. It took ages to get through due to people not knowing they could fit through a gap, and the car behind me kept blasting their horn every time I stopped to leave a space. 🤦🏻♂️
03.31. " she struggles judging how wide her vehicle is " .Irrespective of gender with most modern vehicles fitted with parking sensors we've lost the art of recognising whether the vehicle we are in will fit BEFORE proceeding in the majority of situations. Parallel parking is a great tool for getting the hang of distances / angles / widths etc but we rely on the tech too much.
That's probably it. In that space the sensors would be screaming and blindspot monitoring, etc all glowing brightly leading any driver who depends on them to be frozen like a rabbit in the headlights thinking they can't move without hitting something.
Gender plays a massive part, I see it every day on the single track back roads here in Cornwall. Women simply can't reverse. Thankfully I'm old school so I open the door for them.
So many problems compounding to create this situation. Poorly designed road layouts, poor driving standards, illegal parking for drop-off/pick-up from school, lack of enforcement of parking regulations at these times... I did learn something about holding back today though, I do hold back a lot to ease congestion but I have been guilty of feeling rushed by cars behind me so it's a good point to remember that you're not slowing anyone down, in fact you're speeding everyone up by holding back in these situations - if more drivers had driven like ashley in this situation, this video would never have been made as the traffic would have been flowing freely so nothing to make a video about.
"You didn't do the best either, buddy".
I hope he went straight to fazakerley hospital to get that burn treated. Nice one.
It needs double yellow lines and a ban from dropping off kids there
That doesn’t stop entitled parents from parking illegally. At my local school, residents call the council on a regular basis and sometimes they dish out tickets but the same offenders and back at it the next day. I do the school run but park 250 metres away on a quiet road. No stress of getting caught up in traffic chaos and get a bit of exercise in.
In my home town we have an all day pinch point not too far from a level crossing; and the same happens there too, with many a fool entering the box junction on the crossing without a clear exit.
The situation is made worse by the fact that it’s a multiple pinch point area including past a T Junction. I have been aggressively beeped more than once to push forward when I’m holding back to allow oncoming traffic to clear which in turn lets traffic going my way to move.
People no longer drive, they motor. (My differentiation where driving is considering the Whole situation and motoring is just controlling your own vehicle without a care for anyone else or developing situations!)
The amount of times I see this happen is crazy. I LEAVE a gap on for a reason then someone thinks he can be faster by using that gap until they see the reason why I left it. This road is always going to be like this until a restriction is put in place.
It amazes me how un spacially aware so many drivers are. They're so focussed on their own journey they forget there are other road users too. There's a prime spot in Banwell, Somerset on a street called West Street. The number of times I see people drive into the narrow section and block drivers coming up hill is amazing. There's a give way just before the narrow section for a reason.
5:14 I literally watched that man’s soul leave his body as soon as he was told off by Ashley 😂
Going at a bit of a tangent, since I’ve started to strictly respect the “only two cars in a junction” rule, I’ve had a lot of irate followers testing their horns to destruction (turning right off Deysbrook Lane onto Princess Way).
Schools are worse now for traffic then when my kids went, 25+ years ago. No I don't think there are more vehicles I am certain the issue is the vehicles are larger, especially as many have the SUV type things. Too many roads become 1 way now with parking both sides when they used to be 2 way, taken carefully. If anyone knows a car designer tell them to make the next models smaller than current, roads and parking isn't getting bigger!! We discovered something by accident when a couple of HGV's and school run cars blocked the road; we had to park over 1/4 mile away and walk. Got there and away so much quicker than the folk in the queue patiently fuming to get to the school gates.
I was in exactly this situation on Friday on the school run. I could see there were cars struggling to pass each other ahead of me so I held back to ensure cars could pass me when they approached me. But people behind me were so impatient they over took me and choose to make the situation worse. It dosent matter how well one person drives, there are so many people who drives so bady and can't read the road ahead.
I am in a trafic like this one few times a day. Delivery vans, lories, taxis. People parking on double continous lines( apparently believing that parking with one side on the paivment is ok).
Exept, I drive a bus full of people. Day after day the same story.
I cannot believe the ignorance and shortsightedness that is going on there.
Where I live it seems the ratio between drivers that understand what's going on and those that not is much better, thankfully.
It comes down to people just being selfish and not having awareness. As long as they can squeeze their way through they pay little regard to what chaos they cause.
5:20 😂😂😂😂 Ashley the savage. You tell “em.
Well done Ashley. Well handled mate. Great instructional video as always. Stay safe pal.
We generally don't have that problem in Canada as the roads are much wider and parking/standing is usually prohibited near the schools.
I still believe schools need to have some regulating traffic like this. So many areas near schools with shoddy parking and parents illegally park or even then legally but stupidly park in places where convenient for them but disruptive for everyone else. Where i live in a small cul-de-sac local schools and parents use our small end of the road to park blocking access for residents to suit their purpose. It's just ridiculous.
Then you would all complain about paying to much council tax to pay for it all. It's the British way, me first.
There is a car park at my oldest's school. They still all park out in street illegally or in the aisle of car park 🤦🏼♀️ I drive once a week as my daughter cannot go alone (special needs) and other younger kids school finish too close in time. Rest of the time after school clubs/breakfast clubs mean we walk it. Only about 1.5 miles each way but the amount of parents driving their kids every day is ridiculous. Just laziness; some even from my road pass me each way to sit home all day, so not about being on the way to work or anything. It is a secondary school.
@@garyboyle695 It's far from the British way I was brought up with, but it now seems that too many people have the L'Oréal mentality: because I'm worth it.
1:50 what a lad
I now feel more stressed. Thanks Ashley.
Our schools are closed to all motor traffic now morning and afternoon, which might help out the schools, but makes it a pain the arse to get to and from the hospital next door. Lack of joined up thinking and no consultation.
Patience of a Saint, some can't see past their own car bonnet.
After living in the Netherlands for a year, I find the number of meeting situations on our roads absolutely insane. The amount of conflict on our roads due to bad planning, parking and street design is crazy.
I guarantee the majority of parents with vehicles live well within a reasonable walking distance of their children’s schools,it’s just pure laziness!.
You should try this in a bus, you wait how you were and everyone overtakes even though i will have my right indicator on. Then you get the blame 😂
That cyclist was a complete plank!
Terrible joke lol
As a fellow bus driver I concur, every time you stop those behind immediately assume you're at a bus stop even when nowhere near the pavement, and once one does a dumb overtake two or three follow so you end up in a queue with idiots along side you with nowhere to go.
I don't know how you bus drivers cope. I'm a lorry driver myself and though i considered it once, there's no way known i'd drive a bus. You lot need a pay rise.
@@will4may175 people always used to understand what a right indicator meant at least though. These days on the other hand…
@@a.nonymouse1291 you’re basically forever driving a lorry around the worst streets imaginable. All the while stopping all the time and dealing with people. You made the right choice
My toes were throwing gang signs and my shoulders were cramped up to my ears as I watched this, such was the anxiety watching this situation caused me.
The school I drop off and pick up my youngest granddaughter has its parking issues just as Ashley said like all schools. However the working man’s club next to the school allows parents to park in it’s car park at drop off and pick up times, but some parents would rather cause obstructions to other road users and local residents drives than use the car park and some who do us it can’t even park sensibly in it, taking up two and three spaces with one car.
As a bus driver, this happens all the time, except I just sit and wait for the other car/van driver to engage reverse and move.
I get this every morning near where I live. The really frustrating thing is when I pull in to a space because there's no way to clear ahead, but the driver behind thinks it's my fault he's left blocking the traffic. If they didn't blindly follow the car in front, but think about the bigger picture, they'd hold back as well. You're responsible for your car, not the drivers around you. I feel better now 🙂
They should only allow parking on one side of the road. Most schools have this problem,
much of it created by the education authorities, giving parents the choice of where to send
their kids. Unlike how it used to be, when they had to go to the school nearest to where they live.
I sent ALL my children to the nearest school. They could easily walk there and back.
‘You didn’t do well either, Buddy’ loved that.
Double yellow lines, on one side of the road & a lurking traffic warden, would cure the issue.
A video like this makes me thankful I live in Canada.. wide roads, wide parking spots.. we are lucky..
I find myself directing traffic quite often and hear - "why don't you mind your own driving" - which makes me wonder, because for most people driving is - "aiming and filling the gap successfully"
Ah, the joys of the 3.00 - 4.30 pm school rush...
Reminds me of an incident a few years back. There is a single lane bridge, light-controlled as it goes around a corner near where I lived. Not sure what was happening over the bridge but the traffic was backed up over the bridge so it wasn’t clearing over a cycle of lights. Could only imagine the queue to get over from the other side. Anyway, I just waited at the lights as there was no way I would clear the bridge. The horns and abuse I got was shocking.
I got out of my car to direct traffic, and I was guilty of following into a narrow, the on coming vehicle should have had priority but the car I followed prevented it's passage. My six years old daughter was seriously distraught about me leaving the car that I got back in for a couple of minutes while the situation continued to be stalled the I thought something had to be done so I got out and sorted it. A very stressful situation coul have been averted if me and the chap Inthe car in front had been a little more patient.
"Yeah, you didn't do the best either, buddy" love it! 😂
‘Should charge for that lesson’
‘Yeah you didn’t do the best either buddy’
😂😂😂💀💀💀💀💀
We get this down the Devon lanes a lot, always amazes me how many people don't know the width of their car.
Looks like you need to do some overtime to schedule some refreshers in. Wow