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A few years ago, on my way home, I was leaving the motorway.
At this junction the motorway is going uphill to become a flyover whilst the slip road is going downhill to a traffic island under the motorway.
The slip road is straight, two lanes with tall concrete walls either side.
Blocking the slip road, half way down, was a LWB Sprinter van, on its roof, perpendicular to the road.
How the driver managed to achieve this I will never know, probably on the f
king phone!
At this junction the motorway is going uphill to become a flyover whilst the slip road is going downhill to a traffic island under the motorway.
The slip road is straight, two lanes with tall concrete walls either side.
Blocking the slip road, half way down, was a LWB Sprinter van, on its roof, perpendicular to the road.
How the driver managed to achieve this I will never know, probably on the f
king phone! Challo said:
Similar last week on the way into the office. Driver tried to join the M4, failed to judge their speed or look for gaps in the traffic to join and decided just to stop at the end of the slip road.
Nearly caused a 3 car pile up as cars had to slam on their brakes to stop. Granted it was busy and there was a long line of trucks in L1, but still made no attempt to at least speed up to find a gap.
If you read the thread re merging in advanced driving those pesky lorryists were all at fault because they didn't move over into the next lane to let royalty access the inside lane at whatever speed or time they fancied.Nearly caused a 3 car pile up as cars had to slam on their brakes to stop. Granted it was busy and there was a long line of trucks in L1, but still made no attempt to at least speed up to find a gap.
Many's the time i've hung well back from a dawdler going up a slip road without the foggiest idea what they were doing or what the situation was beside them in the inside lane (sadly increasing in number), probably the ones who've never had an accident but seen hundreds.
Driving along an estate road, dark winters evening & was slowing down for a pinch point, a large low slung light suddenly appeared... it was a stand up scooter of some description.
( Rider had no Hi Vis either... & not my first near miss with one)
( Rider had no Hi Vis either... & not my first near miss with one)
Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 28th April 14:54
At Easter we had been on holiday to France and were.coming home up the M1.
There was a silver golf in the middle lane doing about 50 being passed on both sides by cars and lorries.
As we go passed him in the outside lane we see the guy is actually reading a book!
Duly reported to operation snap.
There was a silver golf in the middle lane doing about 50 being passed on both sides by cars and lorries.
As we go passed him in the outside lane we see the guy is actually reading a book!
Duly reported to operation snap.
Rough101 said:
This is a generational thing, and definitely a someone recently arrived from a less developed part of the world thing. I just don’t remember it happening so frequently.
U turns, 3 point turns and reversing up sliproads rather than taking the next junction/roundabout/street, I wonder if it’s sat nav fixation?
I remember as a kid, my dad having to brake hard on a motorway junction roundabout, stopping nose to nose with a French car some time around 1990. I'm sure most if not all of us who have significant continental touring experience have accidentally wrong sided for a few seconds in our RHD cars, I know I have, so I can understand that one as a momentary lapse.U turns, 3 point turns and reversing up sliproads rather than taking the next junction/roundabout/street, I wonder if it’s sat nav fixation?
However, there does seem to be an attitude, in some cases imported, that rules are optional.
I almost did something similar a few years back.
After arriving late at a brand new hotel, on a brand new bypass, I left in the morning and almost turned right out of the carpark. It was really only the oncoming traffic that advised the nature of the road - the exit was conventional (ie. not slip and merge), unsigned and the oncoming lanes were concealed behind a bund...
I wouldn't be surprised if this sort of thing happens fairly often!
After arriving late at a brand new hotel, on a brand new bypass, I left in the morning and almost turned right out of the carpark. It was really only the oncoming traffic that advised the nature of the road - the exit was conventional (ie. not slip and merge), unsigned and the oncoming lanes were concealed behind a bund...
I wouldn't be surprised if this sort of thing happens fairly often!
Back in the eighties. I was heading south on the M6 past Birmingham.
My WTF moment was seeing Capri 3.0i parked in lane one with the driver having a chat with his passenger through the offside window.
I watched in the rear view mirror in awe and horror as an artic smashed into the back of it at 60mph with an explosion of glass and metal. The Capri driver had heard the truck braking and was legging it across the hard shoulder.
The artic went sideways across the carriageway and I could see the trailer rocking as cars hit it.
My WTF moment was seeing Capri 3.0i parked in lane one with the driver having a chat with his passenger through the offside window.
I watched in the rear view mirror in awe and horror as an artic smashed into the back of it at 60mph with an explosion of glass and metal. The Capri driver had heard the truck braking and was legging it across the hard shoulder.
The artic went sideways across the carriageway and I could see the trailer rocking as cars hit it.
Challo said:
Similar last week on the way into the office. Driver tried to join the M4, failed to judge their speed or look for gaps in the traffic to join and decided just to stop at the end of the slip road.
Nearly caused a 3 car pile up as cars had to slam on their brakes to stop. Granted it was busy and there was a long line of trucks in L1, but still made no attempt to at least speed up to find a gap.
This happens with the numb nuts joining the M60 all the time, usually at J17. Drive down the slip road and never reach 40MPH and then stop at the end. I have got to the point where I go around them, onto the shoulder and merge rather than attempting to join from the slip road from standstill. Nearly caused a 3 car pile up as cars had to slam on their brakes to stop. Granted it was busy and there was a long line of trucks in L1, but still made no attempt to at least speed up to find a gap.
Looking out of my office window, I watched a woman guiding her colleague in her brand new X5, presumably festooned with cameras and parking sensors out of a parking space; she kept beckoning her to keep going, and straight into the back of my car which was parked in a space opposite.
Lying hounds tried to deny it as well.
Lying hounds tried to deny it as well.
A few years ago I was driving back from a business meeting with my boss, we were on the southern section of the M25 clockwise, as I'm approaching a car in the middle lane I see the female passenger climb over onto the driver and as we overtook we looked left and she was full on kissing the driver, god knows how he could see where he was going at 65mph.
Years ago I was driving onto a motorway entry slip road at night when a car came towards me (I was definitely going the right way). The guy had missed his exit and chosen to drive down the entry slip thinking night time = no traffic.
He started gesticulating wanting me to reverse back 300+m and when I pointed out he only needed to move back 20 metres he started swearing and questioning my parentage. It was a narrow slip road and maybe I could have squeezed over and life could have gone on, but in true PH form decided to be an arse and "dominated the slip road" and forced him to reverse back and close enough that he had to continue to the next junction.
He started gesticulating wanting me to reverse back 300+m and when I pointed out he only needed to move back 20 metres he started swearing and questioning my parentage. It was a narrow slip road and maybe I could have squeezed over and life could have gone on, but in true PH form decided to be an arse and "dominated the slip road" and forced him to reverse back and close enough that he had to continue to the next junction.
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