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My thoughts exactly ON. He could have caused a pile up if others had not been quick enough to respond. Plenty of people driving way too close for the conditions as per.
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I think I may qualify.
I came across a road closed sign today on the opposite side of the road to a 'this road will be closed for three days from 07/01/09 for repairs' sign.
Thinking the silly so and so's had dropped off I carried on. It was untreated and very slippy, as were many in the area. At the other end similar signage was displayed, with barriers.
I asked locally what was going on, and they told me the road had been closed because a car had left the road at the bottom of the hill, and it was considered dangerous!
AH!
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Not a pleasant experience Humph, and its only when you are in that 3 lane same speed cruise that you realise just how vicious a full bore braking can be, and can easily cause carnage dozens of vehicles behind the incident.
Some of them would be better off sitting in the passenger seat with one of those pretend steering wheels and dashboard that were quite popular when we were kids...i didn't get one, maybe i could put a claim in for deprived something or other..no no i didn't say depraved...;)
The good thing Humph, is that you got by 'em and clean away and thats always the best place to be with the plonkers out there a lot of them grown men too, well by appearances anyway.
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M40 was mercifully (relatively) quiet both ways today. (Where is everyone? They can't all have lost their jobs already, can they?) But there were still sections where the three-lane rolling jam formed, and the same two motorcyclists who evidently still think it's clever to slalom through it at 70ish, regardless of light and surface conditions. One of them has a yellow helmet; I hope it's as thick as he is.
Other incident that stuck out for me, on the way home this time, was a newish, gold Audi estate that went from 3 to 1 and back in the space of a couple of hundred metres, at a good 20mph above the speed of the traffic it was passing, just to get around a slow-moving knot in 2 and 3. (I watched all this from lane 1 - I seldom leave it until I've passed J6, and this wasn't the night to be in a hurry.)
Working at home tomorrow. Happy about that.
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"the Citroen driver flipped"
This is what I don't understand. What is the point? Did he make his point? What did he prove? Was it worth the extra stress? Was it worth the possibility of causing an accident?
I know there are some right twassocks on the road but is it worth getting stressed out and trying to prove a point to them? No - just shrug your shoulders, stay safe and get on with your drive.
Will - "M40 was mercifully (relatively) quiet both ways today." - agree but it was a heck of a lot busier than last week and week before - motorways have been great last couple of weeks - almost like "the old days" but from yesterday back to normal congestion.......only way to avoid the congestion is to set off in early hours (4, 5, 6 am) but even then there are queues at certain places (J21 M1, J9 & 8 M40, all M42, most of M6 North of Birmingham until past Preston, all M25 etc etc)
Regards
Phil
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Seen this a couple of times, WDB, both on the M56 nr. Manchester Airport. Cars stuck behind others doing about 70 in lane 3 have undertaken them by going right across to lane one, passing the lane two traffic and then back into lane 3 ahead of the earlier 'blockers. Nothing special about that ? On both occasions they were new, black Bentley Coupes on private plates....maybe the same one. Oh yes, I forgot, that's the route some footballers take to get home to Alderley Edge and Hale Barns....it must be OK then !
Ted
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>>that's the route some footballers take to get home to Alderley Edge and Hale Barns....
>>it must be OK then !
Perhaps we should have a footballers' edition of the highway code, with the manoeuvre described as "off side", so they can understand what they're doing wrong.
Maybe not. If the ref isn't looking...
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I seem to recall a couple of footballers were undwer investigation last year for the old 'points swop' fiddle... getting others to take your points for various offences.
And recall Pericard got nicked for claiming his dad was driving... while his dad maintained he'd not been to England for years!
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Yup,
Collected daughter from school at lunch time. Earlier compacted snow turning to slush. Mirror check before signalling left into my road revealed a large blue thing far too close. As soon as I signalled it pulled out and shot past - an LWB VW Caravelle with blacked out side glass. Hope the letters BUS in the reg revealed a private owner with soh rather than a "professional" user.
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Not in bad weather, I remember a dodgy moment on the M25, in busy traffic. I was just pulling into lane 3 to pass a slower moving vehicle when the vehicle that had just passed me in land 3 braked suddenly, while at the same time the car that had been following me in lane 2 was moving forward and was beside my nearside rear. So I was caught between 2 cars in lane 2 and 3 at about 60 mph. Not nice.
Edited by Sofa Spud on 07/01/2009 at 16:44
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Maybe beardy librarian-type's blood pressure maxed out and his head exploded.
I live in Croatia, the game here is to overtake the car in front at all costs (seriously, no wonder the road fatalities are so high), I often pull off the road and wait a while for the maniacs to disappear into the distance.
A couple of months back I was on the main motorway from the coast to Zagreb, I entered a contraflow where the motorway was down to 1 lane each way. The speed limit was 60kph, I was perhaps doing a little more. After a while an X3 came hammering up behind me, got to within a couple of yards and started flashing his lights. What do I do, I have to greatly exceed the speed limit just for him? Stuff that. After about 10 minutes of him getting closer and doing a disco impression we got to the end of the contraflow, I pulled out of his way but he came along side, shouting something that I couldn't make out. Then he tried to ram me off the road, coming within 6 inches of my car- I was too surprised to react. Then his passenger threw what looked like a plastic bottle at my car (oh, the pain) and he roared off into the distance.
I was going to report it to the cops but my other half, who's Croatian, said I shouldn't make waves as I'm a forigner and you knever know who he is or who his friends are so I let it slide. It could have been worse too, some of these people are armed...
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It could have been worse too some of these people are armed...
Not...GLASS bottles? :-O :-P
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:oD Glass bottles would imply alcohol and there's no way they'd throw something like that out of a car...
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Might have been a Molotov ...
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