What bizarre things have you seen on the Motorway?
What bizarre things have you seen on the Motorway?
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DickyC

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58,463 posts

227 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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A cyclist southbound on the M3 this evening.

v15ben

16,220 posts

270 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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A horse running down the middle lane on the M62 a couple of months back.
Also saw a motorcyclist get knocked off right in front of me at 70mph, fortunately he got straight back up!

DickyC

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58,463 posts

227 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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A colleague driving in fog on the M40 one night came across a coach on its side for no apparent reason. He suspected swervage but it was only a guess.

ILoveMondeo

9,616 posts

255 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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Massive life size fake buffalo on top of a car🐃

DickyC

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58,463 posts

227 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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Doing 70 on the M25 one evening I was overtaken by two guys in a Sierra with a door on the roof rack standing up at 45 degrees with just impossibly thin, straining, bungie cord holding it. The blythe looks on their faces as they passed horrified fellow motorists is what sticks in my mind. Didn't they wonder why everyone looked so concerned? Or why they could watch the needle of the fuel gauge going down?

Riley Blue

23,205 posts

255 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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Not the motorway but on the A42, a van on its side with rear doors open and 40 or 50 pigs heads scattered all around it.

The_Burg

4,853 posts

243 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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I once saw a Ford Ka driving at 60mph on the inside lane. Only joking.

anonymous-user

83 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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I guess everyone has been stuck in traffic at some point and noticed just one shoe sitting by the central reservation? I always wonder where on earth the other shoe got to smile

Qwert1e

545 posts

147 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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... a car coming down the sliproad towards me as I was exiting the motorway.

DickyC

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58,463 posts

227 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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Twice now I've seen blokes on their own walking between the barriers of the central reservation of motorways. HTF did they get there?

Thinking about it, does it explain why solid concrete barriers are now being installed? Is it a common phenomenon?

GOG440

9,298 posts

219 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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Many Many years ago before I had a car I was passengering in my mates metro heading down to Banbury.
We were fairly surprised to find a portakabin bouncing end over end in the middle lane of the M1.

And about 3 months ago I saw a megane cabrio with a fridge freezer standing up in the passenger seat sort of leaning on the windscreen with a bloke crammed in the back holding it still.

I didnt laught at all as it was pissing down at the time.

RichB

56,266 posts

313 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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Front half of a Reliant Robin with someone's leg in it. It had been ripped in half in a crash but what struck me as bizarre was that the leg was in a wellie boot.

Johnnytheboy

24,499 posts

215 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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A smartly dressed man ambling down the hard shoulder with his jacket slung over his shoulder, looking like he didn't have a care in the world.

TheEnd

15,370 posts

217 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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St John Smythe said:
I guess everyone has been stuck in traffic at some point and noticed just one shoe sitting by the central reservation? I always wonder where on earth the other shoe got to smile
and half filled bottles of apple juice.

Tunku

7,703 posts

257 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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anonymous-user

83 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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An aluminium ladder lying across the inside lane on the a3, wasn't much of a ladder after I went over it...

mike80

2,422 posts

245 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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A man wandering up the hard shoulder of the M1 at about 2am one Saturday morning. Middle of nowhere, no obvious sign of how he got there...

Johnnytheboy

24,499 posts

215 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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On one of my first long motorway journeys I learned a valuable lesson in not taking my eyes off the road.

I looked down at my stereo for a moment and when I looked back up there was an approx 1m diameter ring of short concrete pipeline in the lane in front of me. I had to swerve into the next lane without looking first. Never again.

alspeed

297 posts

235 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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A dodgem car complete with electric pole and flag doing about 60mph in the inside lane of the M62

aclivity

4,072 posts

217 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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A Swan flying along in lane 1