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Is what I was doing this morning after a little incident driving to work.
Driving along on the A15, nice wide A road, sat at 60 when as the road straightened out slightly I saw an artic pull in after overtaking a tractor, fine I primed myself to react 'just in case', then the car behind followed suit, I still had plenty of space but this time I eased off the accelerator a bit whilst calling him a knob
Then f
k knuckle behind decides to pass the tractor as well resulting in me having to swerve over to my left and over my N/S white line, as he pulled back in the time gap was easily less than a second.
Thankfully I had plenty of space to move over but Jesus, you really should not be making an on-coming motorist swerve out of the way unless it is a genuine emergency move.
That's as close as I've come to being wiped out in a very long time, not a nice feeling and all the worse for it being a completely stupid move by the other driver, I'm just glad I eased off beforehand which may just have given me enough road space to avoid a BMW in my grill!
Driving along on the A15, nice wide A road, sat at 60 when as the road straightened out slightly I saw an artic pull in after overtaking a tractor, fine I primed myself to react 'just in case', then the car behind followed suit, I still had plenty of space but this time I eased off the accelerator a bit whilst calling him a knob
Then f
k knuckle behind decides to pass the tractor as well resulting in me having to swerve over to my left and over my N/S white line, as he pulled back in the time gap was easily less than a second. Thankfully I had plenty of space to move over but Jesus, you really should not be making an on-coming motorist swerve out of the way unless it is a genuine emergency move.
That's as close as I've come to being wiped out in a very long time, not a nice feeling and all the worse for it being a completely stupid move by the other driver, I'm just glad I eased off beforehand which may just have given me enough road space to avoid a BMW in my grill!
Phew glad you're OK!
Sometimes you just feel a "little tap on the shoulder" and you know something's up. It's happened to me so many times I've lost count!
When I read "The Daemon" by Anthony Peeke it put across a great idea about what's going on in that kind of situation.
Put simply, last time you might not have made it.
Glad you did this time though.
Sometimes you just feel a "little tap on the shoulder" and you know something's up. It's happened to me so many times I've lost count!
When I read "The Daemon" by Anthony Peeke it put across a great idea about what's going on in that kind of situation.
Put simply, last time you might not have made it.
Glad you did this time though.
Edited by danger mouse on Thursday 29th July 10:20
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