One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2
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Willy Nilly said:
Mike_Mac said:
Blown2CV said:
karma mechanic said:
I am actually incredulous that anyone could have survived those two major impacts, it says a lot about modern car designs and construction.
and a lot about luck considering the car was mashed.speedking31 said:
Willy Nilly said:
Mike_Mac said:
Blown2CV said:
karma mechanic said:
I am actually incredulous that anyone could have survived those two major impacts, it says a lot about modern car designs and construction.
and a lot about luck considering the car was mashed.csd19 said:
Cliftonite said:
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Maybe not everyone noticed the second, albeit much more trivial, shunt a bit further down the exit lane in the major crash video above?
Are you meaning the grey audi estate and the white small truck in front of the camera truck? Or is it further down?Maybe not everyone noticed the second, albeit much more trivial, shunt a bit further down the exit lane in the major crash video above?
Grey Audi has pulled in presumably as they've just witnessed that from the outside lane and been peppered with shrapnel? It doesn't appear to contact anything in the exit lane?
Edited by csd19 on Thursday 16th October 12:41
Van driver was rubber-necking main crash in mirrors and clipped Audi for want of due care and attention?
But, then, what do I know!
DavidJG said:
yellowjack said:
I get sick of the terminally retarded doing similar things on UK motorways, despite the fact that signage for upcoming junctions starts at a mile away, counts down in quarter mile reminders, and allows plenty of space to make early moves to get across to the correct lane before the three final countdown boards. If you are not in the correct lane before those countdown boards, you are doing it wrong. Simple as.
This. +1. I can't understand why people find it so difficult to position their vehicles for where they're actually intending to go, and not just on motorways. See it a lot in Birmingham, usually where the 'right turn only' lane is fairly clear - some cretin will use that lane and then do anything but turn right. It's certainly most dangerous on motorways though, where I've lost count of the number of people I've seen move over so late that they don't actually make the exit lane, and cut across solid white lines to get the exit. Makes me wonder if these people have ever actually passed a driving test.
ShaunTheSheep said:
DavidJG said:
yellowjack said:
I get sick of the terminally retarded doing similar things on UK motorways, despite the fact that signage for upcoming junctions starts at a mile away, counts down in quarter mile reminders, and allows plenty of space to make early moves to get across to the correct lane before the three final countdown boards. If you are not in the correct lane before those countdown boards, you are doing it wrong. Simple as.
This. +1. I can't understand why people find it so difficult to position their vehicles for where they're actually intending to go, and not just on motorways. See it a lot in Birmingham, usually where the 'right turn only' lane is fairly clear - some cretin will use that lane and then do anything but turn right. It's certainly most dangerous on motorways though, where I've lost count of the number of people I've seen move over so late that they don't actually make the exit lane, and cut across solid white lines to get the exit. Makes me wonder if these people have ever actually passed a driving test.
). Funny how this "nose to tail" queue of morons always clears sufficiently at the exit slip for the full on four lane sweep onto the off slip to happen though?yellowjack said:
Have a word! A whole mile, nose to tail? No safe gaps at all? I've never been 'forced' to continue on the main carriageway, stuck in lanes two or three for want of a space which I can fit into safely in lane one. But then I don't have a smartphone, or rely on a GPS to think for me, so I've developed a strategy called 'forward planning' to prepare for when I need to leave the M-way (it involves looking further up the road than the end of one's bonnet, though ). Funny how this "nose to tail" queue of morons always clears sufficiently at the exit slip for the full on four lane sweep onto the off slip to happen though?
Have a medal. ). Funny how this "nose to tail" queue of morons always clears sufficiently at the exit slip for the full on four lane sweep onto the off slip to happen though?Now for the new drivers, the people not familiar with the area, the people who have made a mistake.
Must. Not. Let. Anyone. 6ft. Ahead!
yellowjack said:
ShaunTheSheep said:
DavidJG said:
yellowjack said:
I get sick of the terminally retarded doing similar things on UK motorways, despite the fact that signage for upcoming junctions starts at a mile away, counts down in quarter mile reminders, and allows plenty of space to make early moves to get across to the correct lane before the three final countdown boards. If you are not in the correct lane before those countdown boards, you are doing it wrong. Simple as.
This. +1. I can't understand why people find it so difficult to position their vehicles for where they're actually intending to go, and not just on motorways. See it a lot in Birmingham, usually where the 'right turn only' lane is fairly clear - some cretin will use that lane and then do anything but turn right. It's certainly most dangerous on motorways though, where I've lost count of the number of people I've seen move over so late that they don't actually make the exit lane, and cut across solid white lines to get the exit. Makes me wonder if these people have ever actually passed a driving test.
). Funny how this "nose to tail" queue of morons always clears sufficiently at the exit slip for the full on four lane sweep onto the off slip to happen though?Changing the subject to criminal damage...
...the picture is a couple of months old, I was 'cleaning up' the memory card and found it. Spotted at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta this year.
Just what went through the mind of the person who stood in front of that Defender and held a flame to the sidelight lens long enough to do that? Grade 'A' Knobbery!!!
...the picture is a couple of months old, I was 'cleaning up' the memory card and found it. Spotted at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta this year.
Just what went through the mind of the person who stood in front of that Defender and held a flame to the sidelight lens long enough to do that? Grade 'A' Knobbery!!!
yellowjack said:
Changing the subject to criminal damage...
...the picture is a couple of months old, I was 'cleaning up' the memory card and found it. Spotted at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta this year.
Just what went through the mind of the person who stood in front of that Defender and held a flame to the sidelight lens long enough to do that? Grade 'A' Knobbery!!!
Could it not have been a problem with the bulb that caused that?...the picture is a couple of months old, I was 'cleaning up' the memory card and found it. Spotted at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta this year.
Just what went through the mind of the person who stood in front of that Defender and held a flame to the sidelight lens long enough to do that? Grade 'A' Knobbery!!!
Blown2CV said:
yellowjack said:
Changing the subject to criminal damage...
...the picture is a couple of months old, I was 'cleaning up' the memory card and found it. Spotted at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta this year.
Just what went through the mind of the person who stood in front of that Defender and held a flame to the sidelight lens long enough to do that? Grade 'A' Knobbery!!!
Could it not have been a problem with the bulb that caused that?...the picture is a couple of months old, I was 'cleaning up' the memory card and found it. Spotted at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta this year.
Just what went through the mind of the person who stood in front of that Defender and held a flame to the sidelight lens long enough to do that? Grade 'A' Knobbery!!!
I cannot imagine why someone would do that to indicators. Unless its some form of warning for not using them?
But, then damaging them would defeat the object.
So, it must just be some t
t with a grudge, over something between them and the owner.Cliftonite said:
grayze said:
Try j14 of the m40 at leamington, about 2 miles of nose to tail traffic from j15 every morning on the hard shoulder. I drive past it on my trip to London glad I'm not stuck in it.
.On the hard shoulder?
Now, we have stories about MLM's who decide that they want to swerve left in the last possible seconds, but they cannot find a gap large enough to decellarate into because the lane is magically busy!
It makes me wonder how many people were actually taught anything about dual carriageways as part of their driving lessons?
from Bradford Telegraph & Argus paper
"A BRADFORD driver caught doing 107mph in a 50mph zone was stopped by police driving again only six minutes after he had been banned from the roads by magistrates.
Aftab Khan had just been found guilty of travelling at more than twice the speed limit on Bingley bypass last February, when he was snared again by the same roads policing officers who had given evidence against him in court.
The 33-year-old's reaction in court to being told his driving ban started immediately aroused the officers' suspicions, said a police spokesman.
They sensed that he had driven to court, and so waited for him to return to his vehicle and then stopped him as he tried to drive off.
It had been only six minutes since he left the court."
"A BRADFORD driver caught doing 107mph in a 50mph zone was stopped by police driving again only six minutes after he had been banned from the roads by magistrates.
Aftab Khan had just been found guilty of travelling at more than twice the speed limit on Bingley bypass last February, when he was snared again by the same roads policing officers who had given evidence against him in court.
The 33-year-old's reaction in court to being told his driving ban started immediately aroused the officers' suspicions, said a police spokesman.
They sensed that he had driven to court, and so waited for him to return to his vehicle and then stopped him as he tried to drive off.
It had been only six minutes since he left the court."
Hol said:
For years we have complained of MLM's who never pull into the overly-empty lane one. Loads of eye witness examples, proof, and ineffective legislation to try and combat it.
Now, we have stories about MLM's who decide that they want to swerve left in the last possible seconds, but they cannot find a gap large enough to decellarate into because the lane is magically busy!
It makes me wonder how many people were actually taught anything about dual carriageways as part of their driving lessons?
If you ever have the displeasure of going East down the m4 and try and get onto the m25, the amount of knobbers that drive right up to the hash markings then cut in because they're too important to wait in the traffic. Now, we have stories about MLM's who decide that they want to swerve left in the last possible seconds, but they cannot find a gap large enough to decellarate into because the lane is magically busy!
It makes me wonder how many people were actually taught anything about dual carriageways as part of their driving lessons?
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