Hope no-one’s seriously injured but given that amount of vehicles then it’s not likely.

I had a couple of trips from Brizzle to Oxford this week, thankfully being driven by a fairly cautious chap. There was quite thick fog for our 45mins or so on the M4. As ever, the way people drive in fog…tailgating, speeds, no-indicator manoeuvres, etc etc – just staggering.

Hopefully everybody makes it home alive from there today. 😐

Yup, seen all that stuff before. I’m glad I don’t have to partake in the daily motorway car commute lottery anymore.

in thick fog 🙄 will drivers never learn? (that’s a rhetorical question BTW just to save you all time).

Blimey. That’ll be a lot of insurance forms getting filled in.

In other news today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23967547

So if you stopped in time but someone went into the back of you then you’d get nicked, makes sense that…

Reading the thread title I thought, “Oh, those Germans again… with their lack of autobahn speed restrictions.”

Kent? Wow.

Hope no one is too injured because ambulance access will be hard work.

edit: Saying that, the opposite carriageway is clear at least.

I travel many motorway miles in my current role and see far too many examples of this. Not quite sure if it is really poor driving technique or just an extension of the selfish attitude displayed by many people.

Thoughts go out to the innocent drivers and passengers caught up in this. I hope that none of them are too badly injured.

reminds me of a bit in one of Mike Birbiglia’s stand up shows:

“Last time I was Washington there was a hundred and twelve car pile-up on the freeway. A Hundred and Twelve cars! I can kind of understand the first…. hundred, but the last twelve are a bunch of morons! There are ONE HUNDRED CARS crashed in front of you on the freeway!”

Eh? Could you explain your ‘reasoning’* behind that statement?

* the word is used figuratively in this instance, obviously

because using your mobile whilst driving is perfectly fine as long as you don’t cause a 100 car pile up 🙄

As others have mentioned, the standard of driving in fog/torrential rain/etc is often appalling, people make no adjustments to the conditions and often don’t even put their lights on. So glad I don’t have to do a daily drive like that. Hope the injured recover OK.

“Then you would hear the screeching of brakes and then a thud. It was all you could hear for about 10 minutes – crash after crash after crash.

Actually scratch my last post, it appears to be the work of over 100 utterly incompetant drivers.

Err where in his example did he say he would be using a mobile?

so do you think 99 people stopped in time and the last one rammmed everyone into each other? Or do you think it more likely 90% were going too fast to see/stop and a few safe drivers got caught up in it? Arrest everyone whose front end is stoved in, get details, any mobile use/drink/drugs/speeding automatically goes to court then figure out who was driving safely and let them off.

They weave in and out of traffic with no regard for their safety or others, cause vehicles to swerve,have absolutely no crash protection on faster roads, andf create massive bills for the nhs, when they frequently fall off.

Ah… ok. Phew. For a moment I thought you were going to spout a load of generalised, sanctimonious, prejudiced and ill-informed twoddle.

But clearly you’ve presented a well thought through and rational argument instead. Well done you.

Both.

I’m out most days on the road, and it seems that driving a vehicle is at least third on the list of priorities of people when driving their vehicles. Also, having vehicles with so many safety features does seem to make people think they are invincible.

The selfish behaviour many Britons have acquired over the last few decades does tend to display it self in the way they drive.

Cyclists aren’t travelling around in a two ton box of metal.

What a nasty little thread.