Driving gripes -

drivers who can SEE from a good distance that the traffic is funnelling from two to one lane and who get as close as they can to the meeting of the ways before trying to force their way in. (Some idiot always lets them in - I don't 'see' them, ever).

I once read somewhere that the Engineers work out the effect of the narrowing from two to one lane on that basis that you should continue in both lanes until close to the narrowing and then merge in turn. The trouble is they never put signs up to that effect so people get over early rather than staying in lane until necessary.

What is much worse is when you have two lanes at a junction, say a turn left and turn right and there is a queue in one, so the impatient use the empty lane to queue jump. As you said, there is always some soft idiot who lets them in. There are a couple of places near where I live where that happens fairly regularly.

Rubberneckers who HAVE to slow right down to see the result of a crash on the other side of the carriageway. I ended up in a half hour queue of traffic purely as a result of this on the A1. Absolutely no problem on my side of the road, apart from the ghouls who had to see what was happening in the far lane on the other side of the divide.

The nearest I have come to an accident was caused by just that on the A1 near Wetherby. The car in front practically did an emergency stop to slow down to look at an accident.