Driving Hell
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Marty Funkhouser

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5,443 posts

203 months

Thursday 10th May 2012
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Drove today on the M40, M25 & M1 in the afternoon during heavy/torrential rain.

Almost everyone has dropped their speed accordingly. There is standing water everywhere and spray means visibility is poor.

Even in these conditions there are morons who are weaving through the traffic, cutting people up, pulling in front of people giving them about 20 feet of stopping distance.

This wasnt just one or two idiots but a consistent 10% of the traffic on the road driving way too fast for the conditions.

I swear this is getting worse and worse as the years go by. It was the most stressful drive I've ever had.

Is this everyone's experience or was I just unlucky?

crazy about cars

4,454 posts

191 months

Thursday 10th May 2012
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Marty Funkhouser said:
Drove today on the M40, M25 & M1 in the afternoon during heavy/torrential rain.

Almost everyone has dropped their speed accordingly. There is standing water everywhere and spray means visibility is poor.

Even in these conditions there are morons who are weaving through the traffic, cutting people up, pulling in front of people giving them about 20 feet of stopping distance.

This wasnt just one or two idiots but a consistent 10% of the traffic on the road driving way too fast for the conditions.

I swear this is getting worse and worse as the years go by. It was the most stressful drive I've ever had.

Is this everyone's experience or was I just unlucky?
Amen Bro.... I guess I'm lucky I only have to commute there occasionally but yeah it's been bad. The rain just brings out the worse in people...

williredale

2,866 posts

174 months

Thursday 10th May 2012
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It was my experience on Monday coming along the M48 in torrential rain. I was following a few other cars and the heavens opened, we all slowed down and dropped back. All good but then a silver 4x4 hurtles up behind me, overtakes, cuts back in and brake checks me. What a cock!

NiceCupOfTea

25,524 posts

273 months

Thursday 10th May 2012
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What do you expect? No motorway driving test, 95% of people have no driving instruction from the day they pass until they stop 60 years later! Add that to everybody being in a hurry, too many cars on the road, and the feeling if insulation and safety you get from a modern car and you have a recipe for disaster! Most people take zero pride in their driving and couldn't care less. The fact that people go back and take their test 10 times before passing by blind luck, and then treat driving as a right angers me too...

heppers75

3,135 posts

239 months

Thursday 10th May 2012
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Having driven the best part of 1000 miles in one day this week roughly 50:50 in Northern Europe and the UK I can safely say our driving standards are appalling lacking on any number of levels!

anonymous-user

76 months

Thursday 10th May 2012
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You get that a lot in South Wales (as you can probably imagine), but there's ALWAYS several complete pricks driving silver cars with fking SIDELIGHTS on, making themselves totally invisible in your mirrors until they're practically on top of you irked