Shocking footage from the M1

Even though they're all doing something fairly mental, if I was on that bus and he was saving me time by doing that, I'd approve. He would have risked his job and people's safety just to get me to my destination faster = excellent bus driver.
 
[TW]Fox;28325837 said:
Guy in a signwritten big name courier van went storming past me today in a 50mph roadworks SPECS zone. Presumably he'll plead that he needs his license for his job once he hits 12 points :rolleyes:
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I had an idiot in an SGN van pull out from the break in the central reservation straight into lane one in front of me today, with traffic adjacent to me in lane two, in torrential rain with loads of surface water and with no lights on. Genuinely thought I was going to go straight into the back of him. Totally sick to death of all the crap driving up here lately so I reported him to his employer, his manager didn't sound impressed.
 
They were doing this on the A2 on the first of July. Even had the cheek to have a go at me for flashing/tooting them for coming at me.

When I informed the policeman who was about 200 yards away he replied "What do you expect me to do about it?"

Suffice to say I've put in a complaint against him.
 
[TW]Fox;28326032 said:
It generally is if the holdup is sufficiently serious. The fact it hadn't been done officially suggests the Motorway was not completely closed for a long period.
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Trouble is what the "Authorities" seem to regard as "serious" in these sorts of cases is completely stationary for a number of hours.

ISTR reading some years ago that in the US (Surprisingly since this is the "Land-o-lawyers"), the priority (after recovering casualties) is to reopen the highway.

The nonsense we get over here where the roads are closed for half a day while and exhaustive and detailed investigation is performed as to the precise circumstances under which somebody fell off their bicycle rarely occurs.

(I remember many years ago being held up for hours on the Oxford ring road. Once we got to the "Accident" all that was there was a motorbike lying in the middle of the road. No Ambulances, No fire engines, No other vehicles apparently involved, Just a load of police cars with people standing around not really doing anything very much. Now it is entirely possible that the emergency services fairies had magicked all the other parties away moments before. But as I was there there was no sign of anybody making any particular effort to remove the last remaining obstruction! :( )

Just the usual case of "We're the emergency services don't you know, we have an important job to do (Far more important than your own pathetic lives,) so you just have to sit around and suffer while we take our time doing it!
 
mccarf said:
Even though they're all doing something fairly mental, if I was on that bus and he was saving me time by doing that, I'd approve. He would have risked his job and people's safety just to get me to my destination faster = excellent bus driver.
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Are you off your head? Would you approve of he went over his driver's hours to "get you to your destination faster" too?

Every single driver going down that slip road needs their licence revoking.
 
Some of them put their hazard lights on though, which basically means you can do whatever you want with no regard for any of the highway code.
 
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Yea, we obviously di accident investigation wrong, what with our safest road network on the planet and all that.
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I actually (really) believe that the main reason for our generally good highway safety record is our use of roundabouts.

(Roundabouts are used in other countries, but they are far rarer)

This isn't so much because roundabouts are a "good thing" It is because they make people think about what they are doing and, in the main, drivers who are used to thinking about what they are doing will (for the most part at least) make better judgements about how they drive.

The go/no-go mentality that is encouraged by using traffic lights tends to turn people into zombies (as does meaningless speed limit complience)

(Speed limiters on HGV's don't help either, AIUI a good number of HGV accidents involve drivers who plow into stationary traffic without apparently making any attempt to brake!)

I don't really believe that exhaustive accident investigation is that much of a factor.

Especially when doing so triggers further accidents (which it frequently does)
 
I remember having to drive up the m1 in the wrong direction once. Immediately behind an accident. It was manic

This just looks like 1 person thought it was a good idea and a bunch of sheep
Why would you do this particularly of it was your job
The coach driver had to do a 3 point turn!

Love to know if anything is going to be done
 
Saw something similar not too long ago, was coming back from Luton on a Friday. Got to junction 6 on the M6 and there was a big accident ahead and they closed the motorway. I was about 4 cars through and could see the cones behind me. I must have seen 60 people either reverse or turn around to get off
 
Lopéz said:
Are you off your head? Would you approve of he went over his driver's hours to "get you to your destination faster" too?

Every single driver going down that slip road needs their licence revoking.
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Yep. I've almost missed a flight thanks to National Express lack of planning of their drivers hours before. If he could have turned up earlier (like he was scheduled to) it would have been less of a panic.
 
mccarf said:
Yep. I've almost missed a flight thanks to National Express lack of planning of their drivers hours before. If he could have turned up earlier (like he was scheduled to) it would have been less of a panic.
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Hard to take someone seriousky who doesn't knkw the difference between "have" and "of".

I agree with the sentiment that each and every one kf those deivers needs a stern talking to.
 
Diddums said:
Hard to take someone seriousky who doesn't knkw the difference between "have" and "of".

I agree with the sentiment that each and every one kf those deivers needs a stern talking to.
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Your taking the mick write? ;)
 
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