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The M25 northbound up past Heathrow is completely toast for miles this afternoon due to UTTER ****S slowing down to gawp across the carrriageway at what I can only describe as a minor 1 car bump with some headlight damage.
People were even taking photographs of it earlier when I went past! FFS it was one car with a crumpled offside bonnet, one ambiwlans and a traffic car!
Idea: when there is an accident on the motorway the police employ someone to 'record the recorders' in the opposite carriageway and anyone caught is banned from driving for 15 years. If you are video'd turning your head to look you get a mere 5 year ban.
Luckily I passed it earlier before it got too bad.
People were even taking photographs of it earlier when I went past! FFS it was one car with a crumpled offside bonnet, one ambiwlans and a traffic car!
Idea: when there is an accident on the motorway the police employ someone to 'record the recorders' in the opposite carriageway and anyone caught is banned from driving for 15 years. If you are video'd turning your head to look you get a mere 5 year ban.
Luckily I passed it earlier before it got too bad.
DaveCWK said:
Pet Troll said:
How did you know there was a crumpled bonnet and headlight broken etc. if you didn't turn your head to look?
Checked my dashcam when I got home 
It's true; I'm a hypocrite.
Its human nature to look at this stuff, you simple cannot get past it. The only way to do that is to block off the other carriageway with a wall or something.
Coldfuse said:
So you complain about something you do yourself?
Its human nature to look at this stuff, you simple cannot get past it. The only way to do that is to block off the other carriageway with a wall or something.
His point though, and one which I have often wondered myself, is why in the bloody hell does the traffic on the opposite carriageway need to become gridlocked because of it? Its human nature to look at this stuff, you simple cannot get past it. The only way to do that is to block off the other carriageway with a wall or something.
You only need to turn your head for half a second to see what's going on
Howard- said:
Coldfuse said:
So you complain about something you do yourself?
Its human nature to look at this stuff, you simple cannot get past it. The only way to do that is to block off the other carriageway with a wall or something.
His point though, and one which I have often wondered myself, is why in the bloody hell does the traffic on the opposite carriageway need to become gridlocked because of it? Its human nature to look at this stuff, you simple cannot get past it. The only way to do that is to block off the other carriageway with a wall or something.
You only need to turn your head for half a second to see what's going on
2 reasons, some people do indeed brake to look/take pics and deserve to be shot. The other reason is on a full capacity road, if the first driver lets go of the throttle, on purpose or not, the driver behind decelerates more then the next driver may need to brake and so it carries on until everything stops.
Coldfuse said:
You have a point. Have you ever watched the video experiments they did in Japan to work out how traffic jams form? It was fairly interesting. But it basically boils down to: one person decelerates, the person behind brakes, the person behind that over brakes and so on. If the motor way is mega busy then it compounds itself.
Yup, the "domino" effect of heavy traffic on motorways is quite fascinating. I've seen it explained in a few documentaries; it's quite staggering how far back the effects of one person's braking can be seen. I guess this explains it!Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff