Lunacy on the M40

[anonymous-user]

However modern day litigation would suggest that blame be laid at the point of most convenience, a dead driver who's only witness is dead.
If the local authorities admitted anything regarding the junction as a direct factor they would would be open to action, so better to say "lessons have been learned" ( you'd be thick a mince to read that no entry as reference to a private driveway ) if the medical diagnosis was any different then surely both the drivers medical management and the DVLA might be open too.
I get what you're saying Sabby, but in my opinion, all those little steps that can have a legitimate blame for the innocent drivers family have been shouted down by this outcome. Literally got away with murder...........

[100SRV]

Blue62 said:

There's a comment in there about policing and I have to agree, 20 years ago you would regularly encounter traffic cops, these days it Traffic Officers and camera's and I honestly believe it has contributed to a fall in standards. I'm not saying that it would eliminate cretins like the one on the M40, but surely it's time to realise that our roads cannot be effectively policed by camera's and toothless traffic officers alone.

This.
A few years ago I used to regularly drive the length of the M6 and never see a marked Police car.

[saaby93]

Driverless cars?
Would they make the mistake of going the wrong way down a slip road?

[CoolHands]

We’re not getting driverless cars so that’s irrelevant IMO

[Dogwatch]

People read signs from top to bottom and there's a heck of a lot of data on that sign. Even sitting here with the picture on an iPad I didn't get down to the No Entry signs at the bottom until the second or gird look. How anyone unfamiliar with the area (and maybe a hooligan up his chuff) is expected to process all that is a mystery.

[anonymous-user]

saaby93 said:

update
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-...

Doesnt the M40 head roughly east west in parallel to the A40 rather than north south?

The salient point is the driver had brain cancer. So a tragic accident.
I have some experience of this, as my dad died of it 20+ years ago.
He suddenly started to behave strangely & unknown to me - drove to the doctors.. I went to see him after & his car was parked like it had been abandoned by a drunk driver! He didn’t know what time of day it was, so obviously shouldn’t have driven. But normal brain function had gone. Sounds similar & tragic for all.

[Starfighter]

Will the driver’s insurance company be trying to back pedal away from a claim? Medical issue that could not have been predicted therefore not neglegence and so no payout.