And maybe the magic fairies sprinkled him in pixie dust and took over his mind!
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..perhaps he was American? It's standard practice to turn right (so left here) on red in the US (unless specifically signed not to) and it works perfectly well.
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And maybe the magic fairies sprinkled him in pixie dust and took over his mind!
Don't be so ridiculous.
Why would fairies be hanging around motorways and main road junctions when we all know they live at the bottom of the garden?
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Why would fairies be hanging around motorways and main road junctions when we all know they live at the bottom of the garden?>>
They get everywhere these days..........
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>>>> Why would fairies be hanging around......main road junctions
I guess you've not been to San Francisco or Sao Paulo then.
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Maybe his clutch disengagement had failed and couldn't stop! was stuck in oh, say, second gear and literally couldn't drive any faster on the motorway?
I broke my left wrist once when I was 20 miles from home and obviously lost my ability to change gear. I briefly toyed with the idea of doing exactly that - sticking it in 2nd with my right arm before setting off and driving all the way home without changing gear. In the end I decided it was probably a bad idea.
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I once drove from Chester to Wilmslow and back with only 3rd and 4th gear in my old company Rover 214. The linkage broke so I couldn't get anything other that 3rd or 4th.
Worked OK on the motorway, although pulling away from traffic lights was a bit of a problem. I had to push it out of its parking space in Wilmslow before heading home to find a garage.
I had to make the trip as I was repairing a laser printer and had promised that it would be done at 9am! There was no time to arrange an alternative fix.
Sorry to digress.
Every morning I sit waiting for the lights to change at the bottom of our road. Every morning I see at least 3 cars go through red lights! One day there will be a major accident. I just hope it doesn't involve me!
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>>One day there will be a major accident. I just hope it doesn't involve me!
Most morning I sit at the M40 J9 roundabout where I am comin from Bicester. Artics regularily come up the slip road from the M40 Southbound and go through these lights long after they've gone red. If you had anticipated the change, if you had alreayd been rolling as you arrived at the lights as they changed, or for some other reason came off the line a bit rapidly, then you will get got.
It is just a question of time. Oh, and I've been watching, its usually UK lorries.
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I once drove back from exeter to west london with no clutch cable. Stopping and starting was obviously the weak link in my travel plan, so I left late at night. There was the odd traffic light or 30 in the way so approaching them was done thus
change down throught the box using brakes and revs and approach traffic light in second or first slowly. If the lights changed - all well and good, if they didnt then creep across at tickover in first keeping a good weather eye out.
Worked a treat and before the days of Traffic light cameras,.
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I once drove back from exeter to west london with no clutch cable.
Once did that in a Dolomite Sprint, not quite as far, at lights etc I turned it off then put it in second and turned the key, it lurched forward initialy on the starter before the engine caught, I got into third easily by matching the revs and overdrive third was only a flick of a switch and gave about 80 mph at 4000 rpm.
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many years ago i had to drive a car from sheffield with only three wheels on it,the hardest part was going round tight bends as it felt like it was going to roll over,i did find it very frightening and anything bigger that overtook me made the whole car shake.
never driven a reliant robin since....
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The old ones are the best ones eh old timer?
They certainly dont come any older, and believe me that joke has not matured well with age,.
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Had once to drive a van from Haslemere to Farnham, it had no 1st gear or hand brake and had to take it to the garage to be repaired- not the easiest drive I've ever had.
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Haslemere to Farnham? NOOOOOOOOOOO problem - its all down hill.............;)
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NOFM2R, I agree about the lorries. If we DARE to criticise them, no doubt loads of lorry drivers will tell us how courteous they are etc. etc., but IMHO their standards are dropping. It's like this stupid thing about not stopping at junctions. How can it be OK to compromise other people's safety and trying to justify it with "but if we stop it's hard to get going again bleat"? If you don't like the limitations of the vehicle you're driving then there's a simple solution. Don't have a job where you spend your time driving that vehicle. Idiots.
I've mentioned it before and I'll mention it again, the A41 Shropshire to Wales is an accident waiting to happen. Lorries overtaking each other as dual carriegeways run out, lack of mirror use, indication etc. etc.
I am not saying car drivers are perfect, but these people are supposed to be professionals. It's another example of the all-pervasive macho culture endemic to such old-fashioned, childish industries. "What we do is important, if I am late delivering this then my ass is on the line" etc.
I can't consume the products you're distributing if I am dead, can I?
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stevied, you are my hero.
Totally agree.
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Why thank you! I don't often rant (OK, I do!!) but it really gets my goat. And I did the A41 run last night so it's fresh in my head!
What I will say is: I drove through a place called Albrighton in Shropshire last night, the one near Wolverhampton not the one near Shrewsbury.
The world's politest drivers live there. Signalling, letting you out, thanking you, a lady even spoke pleasantly to me in a shop after I'd stopped to let her park.
Very refreshing! Some nice cars there too, saw a DB7, a Continental GT and two Porsches on the High Street.
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On the M60 yesterday, a lorry started tailgating a car when we reached a speed camera enforced 40mph zone (SPECS cameras). There can only have been about 2 feet at most in it. Then he moved behind me and did the same. When I moved in he proceeded to speed through several SPECS cameras. I can only hope he gets too many points from totting up if that is how he drives.
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The tales of people driving cars got me reminiscing about the clutch failure in my old mini - 1275GT clubman.I was just 19. It had a loud stereo (I fitted it), bucket seats, 1310 engine, freeflow exhaust and K&N with a stub stack. After dyno tuning it went like hell and boy did I enjoy it. But I got a job with a van that meant I was away from home more and more, so when driving it one weekend and the clutch wouldn't disengage, my then girlfriend ended up pushing it to start it then jumping in whilst moving (in a very short skirt and heels!) I decided it had to go. The chump I sold it to wrote it off in 2 weeks... Even more extraordinary was that this was at a roundabout junction on the A61 in Chesterfield at the start of the bypass.
Maybe it's the image of the ex not car that's got me thinking....
Steve.
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Buy a Citroen and get to know the local GSF staff better...
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