Things you have seen whilst driving.
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As per thread title 
A couple of years back, I was driving over the moors from Bacup to Todmorden and there was a brand new very expensive (£100,000 plus} customised Range Rover in front of me.
It was weaving all over the road for nearly two miles and those small nitrous oxide (Laughing gas) capsules were being thrown out of the drivers window onto the road at the rate of about one every thirty seconds, there must have been at least twenty thrown out.
When we got to the bottom "T" junction he turned left and I turned right for Littleborough.
I didn't have my mobile with me to alert the Police unfortunately.
What a t
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A couple of years back, I was driving over the moors from Bacup to Todmorden and there was a brand new very expensive (£100,000 plus} customised Range Rover in front of me.
It was weaving all over the road for nearly two miles and those small nitrous oxide (Laughing gas) capsules were being thrown out of the drivers window onto the road at the rate of about one every thirty seconds, there must have been at least twenty thrown out.
When we got to the bottom "T" junction he turned left and I turned right for Littleborough.
I didn't have my mobile with me to alert the Police unfortunately.
What a t
t.Krikkit said:
Driving a box transit up the inside lane of the M6 between Birmingham and Stoke, a Touareg came past a bonnie young lady in the passenger seat with her feet up on the dash, skirt hitched up and shall we say, "enjoying herself". Most distracting!
This thread is worthless without pictures!On the motorway, two cars, one from the inside lane and one from the outside lane, merged into the middle lane at the same time.
The front corner of one clipped the back corner of the other. That car did a complete 360 spin at 70mph, and carried on driving down the outside lane as if nothing had happened.
It was so weird, I thought I imagined it. My 2 passengers didn’t see a thing. Neither car pulled over nor horned. There wasn’t any obvious damage nor a bang nor obvious skidding noises as it was raining.
The front corner of one clipped the back corner of the other. That car did a complete 360 spin at 70mph, and carried on driving down the outside lane as if nothing had happened.
It was so weird, I thought I imagined it. My 2 passengers didn’t see a thing. Neither car pulled over nor horned. There wasn’t any obvious damage nor a bang nor obvious skidding noises as it was raining.
Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 23 April 19:40
On mainland Europe encountered the most drunk (English) driver ever.
So I was driving and in my mirrors see a car taking an overtaking position on the other side of the road quite a bit behind me on a 2-lane dwindling B-road. I was expecting some seriously fast metal as he was already in lane 2 so far behind me, but to my surprise he wasn't closing in on me. After 10 seconds, the car is still in the same position but now I encounter cars coming the other way and see them having to aim for the ditch to avoid a collision as I realize what's happening.
I take the next on-ramp, onto a 4-lane A-road and see the car behind me taking the off-ramp and ending up going the same direction but on the other side of the road against traffic.
I do what a responsible, but emphatic, driver does and try to pull him aside by slowing down, using the horn and the lights and eventually get the guy to stop on the hard shoulder on my side. He was obviously drunk and I explained to him to try to stay to the right side of the road and try to get home safely...
Off he goes and only 10 seconds later he's taking the next roundabout going against traffic again. Having exhausted all sensible options I call the cops as at this point he's caused multiple near-collisions and isn't coming to his senses. As I follow him around passing his location to the cops, he notices I'm still tailing him and pulls up to a bar and goes in with his girlfriend. Only minutes later the cops arrive and as we're discussing the matter at the side of the road. I was thinking tough luck as I didn't have any video evidence, but was happy at least he was off the road and possibly the law could at least have a word with him. Shortly after he exits the bar, gets into his car and drives off as if nothing happened while we're stood there next to a marked police van.
I didn't hang around after as the cops pulled him aside. I'm not some wanna-be cop that would call all drunk or dubious driving in, but when you've caused several incidents with people having to take evasive maneuvers to avoid a head-on collision and chances of causing a hit and run with possibly fatal consequences being rather high I just had to do my civic duty...
So I was driving and in my mirrors see a car taking an overtaking position on the other side of the road quite a bit behind me on a 2-lane dwindling B-road. I was expecting some seriously fast metal as he was already in lane 2 so far behind me, but to my surprise he wasn't closing in on me. After 10 seconds, the car is still in the same position but now I encounter cars coming the other way and see them having to aim for the ditch to avoid a collision as I realize what's happening.
I take the next on-ramp, onto a 4-lane A-road and see the car behind me taking the off-ramp and ending up going the same direction but on the other side of the road against traffic.
I do what a responsible, but emphatic, driver does and try to pull him aside by slowing down, using the horn and the lights and eventually get the guy to stop on the hard shoulder on my side. He was obviously drunk and I explained to him to try to stay to the right side of the road and try to get home safely...
Off he goes and only 10 seconds later he's taking the next roundabout going against traffic again. Having exhausted all sensible options I call the cops as at this point he's caused multiple near-collisions and isn't coming to his senses. As I follow him around passing his location to the cops, he notices I'm still tailing him and pulls up to a bar and goes in with his girlfriend. Only minutes later the cops arrive and as we're discussing the matter at the side of the road. I was thinking tough luck as I didn't have any video evidence, but was happy at least he was off the road and possibly the law could at least have a word with him. Shortly after he exits the bar, gets into his car and drives off as if nothing happened while we're stood there next to a marked police van.
I didn't hang around after as the cops pulled him aside. I'm not some wanna-be cop that would call all drunk or dubious driving in, but when you've caused several incidents with people having to take evasive maneuvers to avoid a head-on collision and chances of causing a hit and run with possibly fatal consequences being rather high I just had to do my civic duty...
Heading north on the A1 many years ago.
Passed the entrance to a petrol station and there was a small hatchback sitting on its roof rocking backwards and forwards gently, no other damage was visible.
Again on the A1, heading north at the Norman Cross roundabout (when it was still a roundabout). I was in the right lane and there was an MX5 in the left lane. We were both slowing down for the roundabout neither going particularly fast. All of a sudden, the MX5 did a complete 360 spin for no apparent reason. The only thing we could put it down to was the fact that it had been raining and the car was crossing one of the horizontal white lines on the approach to the roundabout.
Driving in Cambridge one evening heading home after work. Driving on Hills Road and stopped at the traffic lights to turn down Brooklands Avenue. In front of me was a Reliant Robin. Lights turn green and the Robin turns too early and gets the kerb of the traffic island stuck under the side of the car. This lifts the front wheel off the ground and the car is completely stuck.
My all time favourite was up near Sheffield. We were driving in a queue of slow moving traffic and a chav in a Capri decided that waiting was beneath him so he just drove past everyone on the wrong side of the road despite the left hand curve in the road meaning you couldn't see ahead. Several minutes later we get to the front of the queue to see that it was caused by a lorry turning right down a side road and there on the verge was the Capri with the passenger side stove in front to back and the driver with his head down talking to the lorry driver and the Capri passenger slunk so low in his seat you could barely see him to point and laugh at, not that we did of course, well not too much anyway.
Passed the entrance to a petrol station and there was a small hatchback sitting on its roof rocking backwards and forwards gently, no other damage was visible.
Again on the A1, heading north at the Norman Cross roundabout (when it was still a roundabout). I was in the right lane and there was an MX5 in the left lane. We were both slowing down for the roundabout neither going particularly fast. All of a sudden, the MX5 did a complete 360 spin for no apparent reason. The only thing we could put it down to was the fact that it had been raining and the car was crossing one of the horizontal white lines on the approach to the roundabout.
Driving in Cambridge one evening heading home after work. Driving on Hills Road and stopped at the traffic lights to turn down Brooklands Avenue. In front of me was a Reliant Robin. Lights turn green and the Robin turns too early and gets the kerb of the traffic island stuck under the side of the car. This lifts the front wheel off the ground and the car is completely stuck.
My all time favourite was up near Sheffield. We were driving in a queue of slow moving traffic and a chav in a Capri decided that waiting was beneath him so he just drove past everyone on the wrong side of the road despite the left hand curve in the road meaning you couldn't see ahead. Several minutes later we get to the front of the queue to see that it was caused by a lorry turning right down a side road and there on the verge was the Capri with the passenger side stove in front to back and the driver with his head down talking to the lorry driver and the Capri passenger slunk so low in his seat you could barely see him to point and laugh at, not that we did of course, well not too much anyway.
I was coming off the A1 at Hatfield and onto the A414 North Orbital when a pigeon flew full pelt in through the open drivers side window of a Transit just in front of me.
The passenger side window however was shut so it ended up in the cab with the driver but somehow he managed to pull over without hitting anything.
The passenger side window however was shut so it ended up in the cab with the driver but somehow he managed to pull over without hitting anything.
Not whilst I was driving, but whilst being driven, so maybe not entirely within the spirit of the thread.
I was around 10 years old and my mum agreed to help a family friend out with a mother and toddler trip to some sort of petting farm. So we were on a coach with a load of young children going up the M6 north of Lancaster when a Renault Master minibus drew up alongside. The windows had pictures of topless women stuck in them and a load of guys on the minibus had their pants down and their bare backsides pressed up against the glass mooning all the small children on our coach.
I was around 10 years old and my mum agreed to help a family friend out with a mother and toddler trip to some sort of petting farm. So we were on a coach with a load of young children going up the M6 north of Lancaster when a Renault Master minibus drew up alongside. The windows had pictures of topless women stuck in them and a load of guys on the minibus had their pants down and their bare backsides pressed up against the glass mooning all the small children on our coach.
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