[slowly slowly]

This incident happened to me quite a few years ago and I'm sure other people must have found themselves in a similar predicament, I was driving an artic at the time, maybe if you or I where in a car we would need to take a different course of action.
I was travelling south on the M6 in Cheshire at 6.30pm midweek, it was dark, wet and the motorway was busy, I was trying to keep a good distance from the truck in front but it was difficult (100 feet), there was a truck up close behind me, as we got about 150 yards from the services 2 cars came from lane 3 to lane 2 then into the gap in front of me, they where both on their brakes, it looked like they didn't want to inconvenience me but my immediate reaction was to brake but I didn't, I thought the guy behind would definitely run into the back of me, as it happened they just managed to get out my way.
My question is if the guy in the truck in front had also decided at the last minute to go in the services i would have had to brake and the poor sod behind would have rammed me, so he gets trapped in his cab and I get punted up the road and maybe through the central barrier, or I look upon the offending car driver as being the one to take the hit, If the car going in the services caused an accident but didn't get hit do you think he would stop and own up, no I don't either.




I took these photos of a coming together I had in similar circumtances, the guy in the Rover tried to go from lane 2 into the works exit between J7 +J6 on the M6, when he changed lanes he was about 15 feet in front of me,(my 16 tonner must have been in his blind spot) other people saw him do it so he was banged to rights, he said "did you not see me indicating" he was also heavy on the brakes when he changed lanes.

I think my options are very limited, when it gets to this stage it's a case of damage limitation.

Suggestions welcome.