Wondering if anybody else has wittnessed things falling off cars whilst on the move?
Last week on my way to work on the A412 heading towards Slough, Rover 25 in the outside line, me and an Audi A5 on the inside lane. All of a sudden something flys off the Rover, the Audi driver has to do a mini-evasive manoeuvre with me just trying to focus on what I thought the idiot in the Rover had thrown out of his passenger side window. As me and the Audi slowly undertook the Rover, yes I know but the Rover was in the groove literally and refused to move from the outside lane, I noticed that what had flown off the car was his petrol filler cover, the flap thing that goes over the actual filler.
Another story, on my way back from my sons cricket practise last year, nearly home and join the main high street off a roundabout, blue knackered ford transit a few cars in front, as we speed up the side sliding door on the transit flies off and heads towards a bus stop. Luckily there was nobody around so no injuries but the van driver casually picks the door up, shoves it in the van through the now gaping hole in the side and drives off, almost as if it had happened before.
And lastly, this doesn't really count but years ago I used to work in Southend on Sea, driving back on the M25, just before the M11 junction. Around half a dozen car in front is a Range Rover in the outside lane pulling a horse box. All of a sudden the Range Rover changes lanes, probably wanted to get off onto the M11 and forgot that he was towing a horse box but the result is that the horse box topples over, disintegrates and out jumps a horse. Traffic at a stand still, various people now chasing the horse, traffic on other side of the motorway now also stops. A few cars in front of mine is a silver S class Mercedes, a women in her mid twenties and a child get out of the passenger door, she then simply calls the horse, it comes straight to her, she leads it over to the hard shoulder where the Range Rover driver is still in shock, hands the horse to the owner. She and the child then get back into their car and drive off.
Last week on my way to work on the A412 heading towards Slough, Rover 25 in the outside line, me and an Audi A5 on the inside lane. All of a sudden something flys off the Rover, the Audi driver has to do a mini-evasive manoeuvre with me just trying to focus on what I thought the idiot in the Rover had thrown out of his passenger side window. As me and the Audi slowly undertook the Rover, yes I know but the Rover was in the groove literally and refused to move from the outside lane, I noticed that what had flown off the car was his petrol filler cover, the flap thing that goes over the actual filler.
Another story, on my way back from my sons cricket practise last year, nearly home and join the main high street off a roundabout, blue knackered ford transit a few cars in front, as we speed up the side sliding door on the transit flies off and heads towards a bus stop. Luckily there was nobody around so no injuries but the van driver casually picks the door up, shoves it in the van through the now gaping hole in the side and drives off, almost as if it had happened before.
And lastly, this doesn't really count but years ago I used to work in Southend on Sea, driving back on the M25, just before the M11 junction. Around half a dozen car in front is a Range Rover in the outside lane pulling a horse box. All of a sudden the Range Rover changes lanes, probably wanted to get off onto the M11 and forgot that he was towing a horse box but the result is that the horse box topples over, disintegrates and out jumps a horse. Traffic at a stand still, various people now chasing the horse, traffic on other side of the motorway now also stops. A few cars in front of mine is a silver S class Mercedes, a women in her mid twenties and a child get out of the passenger door, she then simply calls the horse, it comes straight to her, she leads it over to the hard shoulder where the Range Rover driver is still in shock, hands the horse to the owner. She and the child then get back into their car and drive off.
