Britain's scariest roads revealed

Fossil · 27 Nov 2009 at 17:49

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8382506.stm

Some of the junctions I've driven through:

Spaghetti: only confusing if you don't know where you're going. If you take the wrong exit, then its going to be while before you can get back to the junction again. It is ugly though.

Marble: bad lane layout with poor lane discipline, which means people cut you up near the exits

Hanger Lane: slow when there is traffic at rush hour, esp going southbound from the North Circular

Piccadilly: only scary thing are the pedestrians who take forever to cross the road

Magic, Hemel: quick to get to the exits past 180 degrees

Biohazard · 27 Nov 2009 at 17:50

The M8 scary? Its just like a motorway in any other city..

WTF LOLZ

Firestar_3x · 27 Nov 2009 at 17:50

M8 aint scary just slow as ****.

PhillyDee · 27 Nov 2009 at 17:51

Some will even drive hundreds of miles out of their way every year to avoid difficult junctions. We urge motorists to familiarise themselves with tricky road junctions so that they are better prepared when they have to use one."

You heard the man. Everyone must drive on the trickiest junctions as many times as possible to familiarise yourselves with said junction just in case you have to drive on it.

That just doesnt make logical sense.

utajoker · 27 Nov 2009 at 17:53

PhillyDee said:
You heard the man. Everyone must drive on the trickiest junctions as many times as possible to familiarise yourselves with said junction just in case you have to drive on it.

That just doesnt make logical sense.

were does it say drive them many times?

i think it means look at google maps or something to see the lanes and were you need to be for were your going.

Biohazard · 27 Nov 2009 at 17:54

Who would drive hundreds of miles to avoid a junction? Most journeys are about that?

RoysonBobson · 27 Nov 2009 at 17:56

Hundreds of miles per year. When compared with the average miles in a year, it's not even that much.

PhillyDee · 27 Nov 2009 at 17:59

utajoker said:
were does it say drive them many times?

i think it means look at google maps or something to see the lanes and were you need to be for were your going.

Google maps never occured to me . . . .

How else to familiarise yourself than to do something multiple times though?

They could have worded the end statement better.

PermaBanned · 27 Nov 2009 at 17:59

Meh, the scariest road i've ever been on was one right on the bank of a huge Loch, that was so thin the Scenic barely fit, not to mention the complete lack of passing places, complete lack of barriers and the fact that people chose this road to park their caravans on when they were going fishing.

That and another one by a lake that had broken it's banks - to avoid getting pulled into the lake i believe we took a slight detour into SCOTLAND and then back down.

BigglesPiP · 27 Nov 2009 at 18:00

If ordinary driving (any driving where you aren't trying to avoid an imminent crash) is scary, you shouldn't have a driving license.

keyser87 · 27 Nov 2009 at 18:02

fiveways roundabout is a right bitch, not because its scary but just a pain

Janesy B · 27 Nov 2009 at 18:02

Hanger Lane isn't scary at all? It doesn't even move half the time!

The Magic roundabout in Hemel is a joy to use IMHO.

Clarkey · 27 Nov 2009 at 18:11

M5/M6 intersection is scary? What the hell. I drive that regularly and it's ALWAYS gridlock, what's scary about driving along at 3mph?

Spaghetti junction isn't ugly either, it's a masterpiece.

deko · 27 Nov 2009 at 18:14

Firestar_3x said:
M8 aint scary just slow as ****.

Its the slowest thing in the world, i hate nothing more than having to use it every single day. Thankfully i dont go as far as the kingston bridge though, although its not scary, just a shockiing piece of road. I can see why old diddery people could get scared on the M8 though, nobody gives anybody any space to do anything.

Biohazard · 27 Nov 2009 at 18:18

deko said:
Its the slowest thing in the world, i hate nothing more than having to use it every single day. Thankfully i dont go as far as the kingston bridge though, although its not scary, just a shockiing piece of road. I can see why old diddery people could get scared on the M8 though, nobody gives anybody any space to do anything.

The surfacing on some corners is a bit twitchy, especially when it changes half way through, few peaks and troughs in the road that make you go a bit sideways on corners if you drive fast..

but nothing you should not be prepared for anywhere..

odd bloody article. I can remember going through the spagetti once, as a child. I had to direct my mum through it. :rolleyes:

PermaBanned · 27 Nov 2009 at 18:38

BigglesPiP said:
If ordinary driving (any driving where you aren't trying to avoid an imminent crash) is scary, you shouldn't have a driving license.

If that was directed at me - i don't have a driving license. Even so, both of the situations i mentioned were with a constant danger of crashing or drowning, so it's ample reason to be at least a bit worried.

If not, then i completely agree.

BigglesPiP · 27 Nov 2009 at 18:45

Superewza said:
If not, then i completely agree.

This case, hadn't read your post.

NickXX · 27 Nov 2009 at 18:47

Fossil said:
Magic, Hemel: quick to get to the exits past 180 degrees

I learnt to drive using the magic roundabout at hemel

It's all about confidence there. No-one knows how to approach the various roundabouts, so you just need to be the first to make the move

Dogbreath · 27 Nov 2009 at 19:12

I think it must be a very slow news day and a BBC journo happened to find inspiration from an old copy of the Telegraph.

Sone · 27 Nov 2009 at 19:13

Clarkey said:
M5/M6 intersection is scary? What the hell. I drive that regularly and it's ALWAYS gridlock, what's scary about driving along at 3mph?

Spaghetti junction isn't ugly either, it's a masterpiece.

so you don't drive in the m6 lane then cut in 50yards before the exit