Friday afternoon on the motorway.

[Frane Selak]

I really don't get it, I know the general standard of driving is pretty bad and apparently there are half a million crashes in the UK every year but its every Friday afternoon without fail that it all goes to pot.



This is near me and luckily I was going the opposite way to most of the carnage this time bit wherever I drive, and its in lots of different places its the same old story. how do people manage to crash so often and more importantly why, its why we have brakes, they stop you from hitting anything else but most people must think, oh its too much bother to stand on the pedal I'll just smash into something to stop in stead. do they not realise that when the inevitable happens its such an upheaval and that's if they walk away uninjured or not hurt anyone else. Even if its just a dented bumper its a world of hire cars, waiting for lifts, endless phone calls, missed time from work, getting wet waiting for a bus, form filling, maybe time at the police station, etc etc etc. Why would anyone want all that.

[_Neal_]

Frane Selak said:

I really don't get it, I know the general standard of driving is pretty bad and apparently there are half a million crashes in the UK every year but its every Friday afternoon without fail that it all goes to pot.



This is near me and luckily I was going the opposite way to most of the carnage this time bit wherever I drive, and its in lots of different places its the same old story. how do people manage to crash so often and more importantly why, its why we have brakes, they stop you from hitting anything else but most people must think, oh its too much bother to stand on the pedal I'll just smash into something to stop in stead. do they not realise that when the inevitable happens its such an upheaval and that's if they walk away uninjured or not hurt anyone else. Even if its just a dented bumper its a world of hire cars, waiting for lifts, endless phone calls, missed time from work, getting wet waiting for a bus, form filling, maybe time at the police station, etc etc etc. Why would anyone want all that.

Are you suggesting that people decide to have a crash instead of braking? Or that brakes can prevent any and all accidents? Because clearly neither of those things is true.

[Frane Selak]

_Neal_ said:

Are you suggesting that people decide to have a crash instead of braking? Or that brakes can prevent any and all accidents? Because clearly neither of those things is true.

well I don't know, I manage to stop without issues when something happens in front of me. If I decide to do something else instead of look out of the windows then that would be crashing on purpose wouldn't it, because its the first fundamental thing you need to do before you decide if you are going to brake. If you don't look then you wont bother to brake and just crash. Or if I decide to go from the outside lane straight to the slip road at the 100yd marker and swerve across all three lanes barging people out of the way, that too would be crashing on purpose from what I can see.

[georgeyboy12345]

Not really Advanced Driving, is it? More like absolute basic driving.

[Quattr04.]

Frane Selak said:

I really don't get it, I know the general standard of driving is pretty bad and apparently there are half a million crashes in the UK every year but its every Friday afternoon without fail that it all goes to pot.



This is near me and luckily I was going the opposite way to most of the carnage this time bit wherever I drive, and its in lots of different places its the same old story. how do people manage to crash so often and more importantly why, its why we have brakes, they stop you from hitting anything else but most people must think, oh its too much bother to stand on the pedal I'll just smash into something to stop in stead. do they not realise that when the inevitable happens its such an upheaval and that's if they walk away uninjured or not hurt anyone else. Even if its just a dented bumper its a world of hire cars, waiting for lifts, endless phone calls, missed time from work, getting wet waiting for a bus, form filling, maybe time at the police station, etc etc etc. Why would anyone want all that.

Simple, people drive too quickly, too close together and don t have time to react, and crash, because they are in a rush or whatever ,it is the same around Newport every Friday, at least one rear end shunt when the traffic slows quickly around the tunnels

Same thing happens at port talbot

When ever it’s rained heavily there’s a crash at Bridgend where people hit the standing water in lane 3 and aquaplane into the hard shoulder


Same in the m5 around Weston, the motorway is very straight there, and every week without fail someone flips their caravan

Every Monday and Friday in the winter there is a crash on the m4 interchange with the m5, the traffic queues in the left lane, people go to pull into a gap but because of the low sun fail to see cars in the gap and crash into the side of someone

Edited by Quattr04. on Friday 8th May 16:06

[Pica-Pica]

georgeyboy12345 said:

Not really Advanced Driving, is it? More like absolute basic driving.

Agreed.