Do not fall asleep on the M6

if there were no speed limits at night, that may be a solution to the problem, driving fast made me concentrate more
 
jamoor said:
if there were no speed limits at night, that may be a solution to the problem, driving fast made me concentrate more
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...or it might make the resulting crashes worse.
 
jamoor said:
if there were no speed limits at night, that may be a solution to the problem, driving fast made me concentrate more
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Whatever. You cant use your full beams at night. I can probably only see about 60m ahead on dipped headlights. Not enough time to stop if there is something ahead.
 
sounds like you were very lucky. Ive never even felt like i was falling asleep on the motorway, but i guess the closest i came was being awake for 12 hours, then driving from le mans back to the midlands in one hit, another 12 hours later i was back. Felt a bit tired but i managed it without a stop other than for fuel.

My mate on the other hand was driving us back from blackpool one night, and he was getting closer and closer to the back of this van, untill i shouted "**** look out!" and he swerved to avoid the back of this white van.

Scary stuff, but a lesson learnt :)
 
JRS said:
Eh?
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I think he is talkin about the motorway as there is usually one or two cars whenever at least, so you would have to have your headlights dipped for most of the journey and the "no speed limit" idea put forward would be ludicrous because people would crash into each other on their dipped headlights.. nonetheless.. the Germans manage..
 
James_N said:
sounds like you were very lucky. Ive never even felt like i was falling asleep on the motorway
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Same here, I find concentrating on what I'm doing keeps me awake and it usually takes me a good couple of hours to relax enough to go to sleep.
 
I find driving quicker helps, certainly keeps you a little more alert till you can find a services and get a decent coffee down you
 
For some rason, no matter how tired i am, when i jump into the drivers seat i NEVER get tired, always wide awake for some reason :)
 
Sinizterguy said:
Lucky .... And dont sleep on the road again.
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There you go Shrek - simple as that, good job sinizterguy is here to point out where you went wrong.

Remember if your tired and need to stay awake, don't go to sleep. Absolute genius.
 
n3vrmind said:
I find driving quicker helps, certainly keeps you a little more alert till you can find a services and get a decent coffee down you
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Constant fast driving gets boring too though, I usually vary my speed and accelerate then cruise at high to lower speeds then speed up again. On an empty motorway its harmless but should help to maintain your concentration better.

I once travelled for a day and a half and only slept on the ferry, I was ok till about 100 miles from home and I had to sleep, no choice about it. Even an hour or so should keep you good
 
NickXX said:
Singing to a CD keeps me wide awake on crazy-long journeys. Nothing else even comes close.


Which is annoying because I hate singing.
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:D What do you sing along to? I found that merely turning it up so my ears started bleeding did it for me. Audio bully's and Kanye West blaring out through the hills and the valleys...

I drove along the M6 recently when it was absolutely ******* it down, couldn't really see a thing due to spray but decided to overtake some lorries at around 70 odd mph on a bend coming down on a slope when i hit what felt like a wall of water at the bottom, temporarily losing control. Apparently my car has traction control so I guess that kicked in and saved me. I'm not exactly the most experienced driver so it convinced me to stick to the left hand lane and do about 50 mph for the remainder.

That's about the worst driving experience I've had so far, I have no doubt it pales in comparison to most forum members' though...
 
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gord said:
nonetheless.. the Germans manage..
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you've never driven there have you?
the germans have a higher accident rate on their autobahns than we do on our motorways, but the severity of the german accidents is in a different league to ours.
 
haven't had anything quite that bad but was driving down some residential roads doing about 20 as I was approaching my right turn and saw a car coming on my side of the road. I let right off the throttle and the car slowed to about 10mph and all the time i was thinking to myself "uuuhh are you gonna pull over to your side of the road?".
needless to say, he did, and quite sharply too when he realised where he, and I, was and just how close we were getting to each other.
wasn't till about 500 meters later when I'd pulled up on my drive I finally thought to myself "I wonder if I should've stopped".

all that as a result of a 9 hour night shift and a 10 min drive home.

lesson learned : tiredness + cars = bad
and you dont have to be on a motorway either. i found out that day that tiredness can bite you in the backside anywhere, anytime.
 
DragonHunter said:
haven't had anything quite that bad but was driving down some residential roads doing about 20 as I was approaching my right turn and saw a car coming on my side of the road. I let right off the throttle and the car slowed to about 10mph and all the time i was thinking to myself "uuuhh are you gonna pull over to your side of the road?".
needless to say, he did, and quite sharply too when he realised where he, and I, was and just how close we were getting to each other.
wasn't till about 500 meters later when I'd pulled up on my drive I finally thought to myself "I wonder if I should've stopped".

all that as a result of a 9 hour night shift and a 10 min drive home.

lesson learned : tiredness + cars = bad
and you dont have to be on a motorway either. i found out that day that tiredness can bite you in the backside anywhere, anytime.
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So....you where on the wrong side of the road? :confused:
 
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