I drove a 40 mile round trip late on Saturday to pick my GF up from a party and witnessed a couple of bad near misses by what I assumed to be drink drivers.
First incident: Audi A5 comes speeding up a slip road an inch off the back of another driver before immediately swerving over to the fast lane almost taking someone else out(standard Audi?). I was behind the car for a few miles and they couldn't hold a straight line, swerving, breaking, slowing down, speeding up. Eventually the car appeared to miss its junction and swerved late from the fast lane over to the slip almost taking 3 cars out. Scary stuff to witness. The Audi appeared to have a single occupant who wasn't wiggling around in the drivers seat as if distracted but it was dark so I could be wrong.
Second incident: Volvo XC performing the same antics albeit less erratically. Couldn't hold a straight line on the road, ocassionally speeding up, slowing down and breaking. The Volvo overtook a couple of vans in the slow lane, one of which proceeded to pull out behind the Volvo(not having been witness to their antics) to perform an overtake of the van infront. The Volvo immediately slammed on the breaks causing an unbelievable near miss. I managed to pull up alongside them at this point to see what the driver was on, my shock when we realised it was a respectable looking single male occupant, hands in the 10 and 2 position, no phone in sight, just a zoned out stare and an inability to hold the car straight.
There's no certainty that they were both drunk or high but if I was a betting man...
It got me thinking, would you report such incidents? My conscious would have gotten the better of me if both drivers caused serious collisions.
First incident: Audi A5 comes speeding up a slip road an inch off the back of another driver before immediately swerving over to the fast lane almost taking someone else out(standard Audi?). I was behind the car for a few miles and they couldn't hold a straight line, swerving, breaking, slowing down, speeding up. Eventually the car appeared to miss its junction and swerved late from the fast lane over to the slip almost taking 3 cars out. Scary stuff to witness. The Audi appeared to have a single occupant who wasn't wiggling around in the drivers seat as if distracted but it was dark so I could be wrong.
Second incident: Volvo XC performing the same antics albeit less erratically. Couldn't hold a straight line on the road, ocassionally speeding up, slowing down and breaking. The Volvo overtook a couple of vans in the slow lane, one of which proceeded to pull out behind the Volvo(not having been witness to their antics) to perform an overtake of the van infront. The Volvo immediately slammed on the breaks causing an unbelievable near miss. I managed to pull up alongside them at this point to see what the driver was on, my shock when we realised it was a respectable looking single male occupant, hands in the 10 and 2 position, no phone in sight, just a zoned out stare and an inability to hold the car straight.
There's no certainty that they were both drunk or high but if I was a betting man...
It got me thinking, would you report such incidents? My conscious would have gotten the better of me if both drivers caused serious collisions.
