Worst thing youve seen on a Motorway?
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Numptie in lane 3 on the motorway that deliberately didn't move over when I wanted to pass him.
He was doing 85 and he had plenty of chances to move over so in the end decided f***k him, I am passing on the inside of him and did so without any problem.
The Merc behind me had the same problem, with numpty just sat deliberately stopping people going faster.
>> Edited by ledfoot on Tuesday 1st June 23:22
He was doing 85 and he had plenty of chances to move over so in the end decided f***k him, I am passing on the inside of him and did so without any problem.
The Merc behind me had the same problem, with numpty just sat deliberately stopping people going faster.
>> Edited by ledfoot on Tuesday 1st June 23:22
WildCat said:
M66 (NOT seen by me - but last night's Manchester carried story of poor labrador cross puppy which had been thrown from bridge in Bury area) Sincerely hope they catch those dregs of excuses of people! Only death - was the dog - but very much an understatement to say it could have been much, much more serious!
My god, that's awful!!
How hard would it have been just to dump the dog at the RSPCA, or hell, just let it out into a field and give it a chance of someone finding it. That's all presuming of course that they did what they did because they didn't want the dog... can only pray that this wasn't somebody's pet that they stole to torture. 
As well as the Nova roll over in front of me as reported on another thread... :
At the bottom of the M1 on my way out of London at dusk in the Cinquecento, I was in lane 1 following a truck when a mangled trolley jack appeared from under it. I had no time to react by the time I had seen it and realised what it was and smacked straight into it as did the Granada behind me. I had a triangle bent into the rim on my wheel and the tyre went flat, the bloke in the Granada's alloy wheel literally shattered leaving just the spokes attached to the hub.
No others I can remember on the Motorway but plenty of others on A and B roads such as... :
I was walking back from school in Blackpool and was at the Oxford square traffic lights. Smartly dressed chap in a very clean red Orion came through the lights and got t-boned by a woman in an old Marina. She hit the Orion on the NSR causing it to spin to the left. I saw the impact and ran like hell as the Orion ploughed through the railings and into the traffic light I was stood by waiting to cross the road crumpling the whole lot.
Fortunately I wasn't such a bloater back then and got out the way sharpish. Wouldn't fancy my chances these days.
Just the other week a work colleague and I were heading to pick his car up from a garage in Cheltenham. Two old dears in a Toyota driving through the crossroads get t-boned by a tipper lorry which went through a red light (presumably had no brakes as he overtook a row of cars waiting at the lights). Lorry slams into the drivers door of the Toyota and pushes at right angles 15 yards down the road. Toyota is now firmly attached to the front of the lorry pointing directly at side of an MG TF in the queue for the lights. Old woman gun the Toyota for all it's worth - front tyres lit up and squealing. Bloke in MG mush have shat himself as it was pointing directly at his door...! Fortunately toyota was attached to lorry quite securely and chap jumped out of the cab and got the old gimmer to switch the motor off.
I seem to be a magnet for accidents. People crash around me all the time - perhaps it's just me...? Hrm.
At the bottom of the M1 on my way out of London at dusk in the Cinquecento, I was in lane 1 following a truck when a mangled trolley jack appeared from under it. I had no time to react by the time I had seen it and realised what it was and smacked straight into it as did the Granada behind me. I had a triangle bent into the rim on my wheel and the tyre went flat, the bloke in the Granada's alloy wheel literally shattered leaving just the spokes attached to the hub.
No others I can remember on the Motorway but plenty of others on A and B roads such as... :
I was walking back from school in Blackpool and was at the Oxford square traffic lights. Smartly dressed chap in a very clean red Orion came through the lights and got t-boned by a woman in an old Marina. She hit the Orion on the NSR causing it to spin to the left. I saw the impact and ran like hell as the Orion ploughed through the railings and into the traffic light I was stood by waiting to cross the road crumpling the whole lot.
Fortunately I wasn't such a bloater back then and got out the way sharpish. Wouldn't fancy my chances these days.
Just the other week a work colleague and I were heading to pick his car up from a garage in Cheltenham. Two old dears in a Toyota driving through the crossroads get t-boned by a tipper lorry which went through a red light (presumably had no brakes as he overtook a row of cars waiting at the lights). Lorry slams into the drivers door of the Toyota and pushes at right angles 15 yards down the road. Toyota is now firmly attached to the front of the lorry pointing directly at side of an MG TF in the queue for the lights. Old woman gun the Toyota for all it's worth - front tyres lit up and squealing. Bloke in MG mush have shat himself as it was pointing directly at his door...! Fortunately toyota was attached to lorry quite securely and chap jumped out of the cab and got the old gimmer to switch the motor off.
I seem to be a magnet for accidents. People crash around me all the time - perhaps it's just me...? Hrm.
Haven't seen anything close to supreme madness here in the UK yet, and certainly nothing like this beauty:
We were leaving the Champagne region of Reims last summer, and were on our way westward, when all of a sudden the traffic started splitting like the Red Sea in front of us. Lo and behold in the middle of all the lanes was a very old man with Einstein-wild hair driving a beat up old Peugeot : the wrong way down the motorway
just like in the movies. We still shake our heads in wonder that there wasn't a movie-style vehicle pile up
We were leaving the Champagne region of Reims last summer, and were on our way westward, when all of a sudden the traffic started splitting like the Red Sea in front of us. Lo and behold in the middle of all the lanes was a very old man with Einstein-wild hair driving a beat up old Peugeot : the wrong way down the motorway
just like in the movies. We still shake our heads in wonder that there wasn't a movie-style vehicle pile up One of Dad's old colleagues was travelling down the M42 in his (then two week old) BM 540..
Lorry in front shed the insert that goes into the road for a manhole cover to sit in..
Straight between the front wheels, ripping sump off and doing about 12k's worth of damage to the car..
Fortunately, he managed to stop quickly and safely..
(btw, Roop.. do you work for Star?)
Lorry in front shed the insert that goes into the road for a manhole cover to sit in..
Straight between the front wheels, ripping sump off and doing about 12k's worth of damage to the car..
Fortunately, he managed to stop quickly and safely..
(btw, Roop.. do you work for Star?)
edc said:
2 bikes falling off the back of a car on the M40, I missed them and didn't see what might have happened
I've seen this before. To this day I don't know how my Dad saw them. We were driving along following this car with 2 bikes on the back. Suddenly my dad just moved across the motorway and about 10secs later the bikes came flying off the car. To this day my Dad maintains they just didn't look right.
M56 people carrier crash last year - sure you all remember it.
Most spectacular crash I have seen happen with my own eyes on the roads was a 911 on the M66 near Bury - speed was fairly high and lost the back end - I was going the other direction and he "flew" over the roof of my can and ended back on the right side of the motorway.....
Motorways range rover that came to back me up then hit the debris and lost his right front tyre at 70mph
Driver was fine BTW.
Most spectacular crash I have seen happen with my own eyes on the roads was a 911 on the M66 near Bury - speed was fairly high and lost the back end - I was going the other direction and he "flew" over the roof of my can and ended back on the right side of the motorway.....
Motorways range rover that came to back me up then hit the debris and lost his right front tyre at 70mph
Driver was fine BTW.
not that long ago I happened upon a young lady and her friend changing their tyre in the fast lane of the M25 near Junc20. That was very nearly incredibally messy....
personal worst moment. Driving an old Ford Escort (X reg) on the A1M...was following an AA van off at Junction 6 when a bolt flew off the back and hit the windscreen - which then exploded in a mass of exciting bits of glass. That was fun at 65mph!
personal worst moment. Driving an old Ford Escort (X reg) on the A1M...was following an AA van off at Junction 6 when a bolt flew off the back and hit the windscreen - which then exploded in a mass of exciting bits of glass. That was fun at 65mph!
Well it will have to be Dualler (as we don't have many Motorways up ere in Scotland)
How about seeing two cars race by me (i was doing about 80-90) then when they were about 300 yards away the car that was ahead veered right into the barrier smacked it then when't back arcoss the dualler clipped the golf (i think it was) rolled onto the verge and burst into flames. the folk in the golf were seriously injured too.
I've also seen a SEAT Ibiza fly off the road, hit a lampost and flip onto it's roof, driver died. (Got a pic of the car.. quite scary! can you put pics up here??)
Seen a Stationary (& Empty) Traffic car get shunted by White Van Man... that was kinda funny. The Van & Driver did a bolt (don't know if they caught him lol) Probably mounted a top secret operation to find the guy haha
Off The Dualler & I never saw it but, a friend of my girlfriend got hit by a car that had lost it on notorious bend. he broke his leg but the driver was killed as it also hit a tree. The Pug 206 actually broke in half. (Again there are pictures)
How about seeing two cars race by me (i was doing about 80-90) then when they were about 300 yards away the car that was ahead veered right into the barrier smacked it then when't back arcoss the dualler clipped the golf (i think it was) rolled onto the verge and burst into flames. the folk in the golf were seriously injured too.
I've also seen a SEAT Ibiza fly off the road, hit a lampost and flip onto it's roof, driver died. (Got a pic of the car.. quite scary! can you put pics up here??)
Seen a Stationary (& Empty) Traffic car get shunted by White Van Man... that was kinda funny. The Van & Driver did a bolt (don't know if they caught him lol) Probably mounted a top secret operation to find the guy haha
Off The Dualler & I never saw it but, a friend of my girlfriend got hit by a car that had lost it on notorious bend. he broke his leg but the driver was killed as it also hit a tree. The Pug 206 actually broke in half. (Again there are pictures)
I came round a bend at about 80 on the M25 one weekday about 3pm a few years back, to find a 12 foot diameter hay bale blocking 2/3 of lane 2 and 1/2 of lane 3. Higly amusing, (not really) as I was only about the second or third driver to come accross it, so no trafpol or warnings on the displays; the driver of the flat bed it came off was just pulling off on to the hard shoulder a couple of hundred yards ahead, with another bale just about to fall off.....
Bet they had a good time winching that sucker out of the way.
Fortunately traffic was light, so no-one was hit by the damn thing.
Bet they had a good time winching that sucker out of the way.
Fortunately traffic was light, so no-one was hit by the damn thing.
Not a motorway but an A road. The A406 for anyone local, heading towards Becton about 7 years ago when someone decided that it would be great fun to drop a brick off of the bridge, too long ago to of known the speed but I'd say 50 - 60 and all i remember is the glass just caving in on my dads old Maestro and me going mental and just crying and crying while the car swerved all over the place. Very scary.
A couple of weeks ago I saw a Continental GT on the M25 ACW at the M1. He suddenly decided to pull onto the M1 exit road. He was so far past it that he had to go onto the grass, and then he forced his way into a non-existent gap between 2 cars in the outside lane of the exit slip. Could have taken out quite a number of cars. I guess 4WD helped 
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. M621 just outside Leeds, having just come off the M62. Some ignorant feckwit in a fully loaded artic purposely tries running me off the road because I was overtaking him (damp, normalish conditions, no excuse). He ends up pushing me off the road onto a grass verge at 70+, nearly killing me. There are times and places where a decent .45 calibre should not just be legalised, but encouraged. 
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