Motorcyclist with road rage trying to open the back door of a guy in a bmw who had just cut him up....at 90 mph, oh and then speeding in front of him and slamming on brakes
speedo reading 195.....
TuuuuuuuuuuWAT!speedo reading 195.....
(first!)
Dutch motorway: Driver of a car with Belgian plate driving along at around 70mph in the torrential rain, window down, one arm out and using a closed umbrella as a windscreen wiper.
yeah, sorry olly...
3 kids on bikes riding along the hard shoulder....
I saw a ****ing cyclist on the M60 the other week!
Some bloke on a cheapo MTB carrying a plastic shopping bag on the bars. At least he was riding down the hard shoulder rather than trying to use the outside lane...
I called the police, the woman who took the call said they'd already had two other reports from other motorists and a car was on the way to the scene.
quite tame really, and on a dual carriageway rather than a motorway, coming back from swindon on the A417, torrential rain, standing water, car feeling a bit odd at 70 so i ease back to 50ish. Beemer comes past at normal speed, half mile further on said Beemer is on embankment on its roof.
A horse, on a scooter doing the times cross word.
I was a lorry driver for years and I could write a book on this. Top of the list has to be when I was passed by an Irish lorry going down shap on the M6. I was doing 90 in a sprinter at the time.!
I once saw a passenge in an escort climb out of the passenger window, up onto the roof, stand up and then climb back through the sunroof. This was at 70mph, I couldn't ****en believe it. Madness.
i saw a red arrow on the back of a lorry once. that was quite cool. Saw a challenger two as well. they are rather large.
Caravan twisting in the wind, shimmying, flipping and exploding in front of me. Close one.
Saw a missile on the back of a lorry.
Also saw a woman on the phone and having a fag. She finished her fag and threw her phone out of the window. Smash!
GB
Also saw a woman on the phone and having a fag. She finished her fag and threw her phone out of the window. Smash!
Amazing! 😆
Lorry drivers....just thought of something... was in a coach overtaking a tractor-trailer on the M6, driver was pouring a cup of tea i guess. cup in one hand flask in the other.
motorcyclist in france was annoyed with a car driver so was riding alongside trying to kick the car whilst doing approx 100 😯
Sounds tame but we got passed on the M5 by some boy racer stylee car , he was undertaking/overtaking generally driving like a tit. We pulled in at the next services for a wee stop and were back on the motorway 5 minutes later , got about 5 miles down the road and the traffic was all backed up .
You guessed it boy racer car had managed to bounce himself and a couple of other cars off the motorway.
Also got passed by an elderly driver whilst coming up a sliproad off the Leeds ring road , he was going the opposite way into oncoming traffic. later heard he'd been killed when running into oncoming traffic.
Two horses *ing on the hard shoulder. (I originally typed "shagging" but tbh horses don't shag, they definately *)
A car stopped in middle lane of M4 on a Sunday afternoon as the 4 or 5 guys that were in it began fighting with each other across all 3 lanes.
A couple shagging (in their car) on the hard shoulder, apparently passing the time waiting for the aa to come and fix the car 😯
Autobahn in Germany driving quite swiftly, got overtaken at an indecent speed by a guy who had a laptop on his dashbord and was happily watching a film.
a vauxhall calibra spinning through the view in my right wing mirror and across my my left wing mirror and then an eery lack of traffic around or behind me for quite some time.
a lorry on the hard shoulder that had seemingly braked sharply resulting in a huge iron plate on the flat bed slicing through cab at knee level and jutting several meters out the front
A silver people carrier with the livery of a very well known supplier of running and cycle race timing services, medals and trophies, and numbers for mountain bike races - with a driver more interested with something that was on his front passenger seat, or possibly even in the passenger footwell or glove box than the road of traffic around him. Mostly driving with two wheels on the hard shoulder but veering randomly from the hardshoulder the the middle lane, indicating occasionally in a direction counter the one he was drifting in. Followed him as he did this for 40 miles.
Saw somebody reversing back to the junction they had just missed, it was on the hard shoulder so that makes it okay, right?
On the funny objects I've seen, Thomas the Tank Engine on the back of a low loader, smiley face and everything.
For the last few weeks someone has nicked all the white lining for a 2 mile section, both carriageways, of the M27 in Hampshire. Every time it gets dark and rains someone falls off the edge and crashes into the central reservation as you cant see where the (concrete) carriageway ends and the gravel begins.
Genius!
(I thought it might be an extreme example of these initiatives to remove all lining/signs on residential streets to make people more responsible for their driving actions, but it doesnt seem to work)
A childs play slide.
Updside down.
In the fast lane on the road!
TVR Speed 12 on a trailer heading North on the M40 doing about 50 on the inside lane, MASSIVE queue of cars slowly passing it, drivers all drooling away.
Again northbound on the M40 just before the Warwick services just as you come over the crest of a hill a car stopped diagonally in the middle lane with a bloke with his head back either ill or fast asleep, middle of morning rush hour cars going in all directions to avoid it.
I got overtaken by a lorry tyre at the Almondsbury interchange (M5/M4). It was around 1am, I was in the left hand lane, it was in the fast lane, no other vehicles around, nowt. Bizarre.
Also had a Hercules cargo plane in the rear view mirror at no more than 300ft altitutde, pretty nimble in the air for something so huge.
A Swan in the outside lane of the M6 toll southbound as it meets the M6.
I rang 999 and they said 'What?"
I said "A swan, big white fluffy bird type thing!"
"Oh" they said!
A new mini covered in long astro turf half way up the embankment literally on J3 of the M5.
White van driving like a complete bulb-end, when I refused to let him cut in front of me the driver wound down his window and threw the stubbie of beer he was drinking at me.
Also knew a guy who once removed his keys from the ignition in order to unlock his glove box, this resulted in the steering locking and...... well you can probably guess the rest!
Got overtaken by two Ferraris once, in formation overtaking traffic. 20 miles further on, traffic jam. One Ferrari had rear-ended the other, that driver looking sheepish standing on the shoulder, the other on his mobile.
Actually thinking back - sometime around 1997/1998 someone somewhere had a brainfart and decided the best way to resurface miles of the M90 through Fife was with loose chippings. And as it was a big important road it was important not to scrimp so they put generous great dunes of loose gravel on there.
Given how crotchety people get when there a 50mph zones through road works - there was a 20mph limit for weeks while they waited and hoped for the gravel to bed in.
Not me but a good friend. Driving up the M6 in the middle lane and an old boy in a Micra passed him going the wrong way in the fast lane. Apparently suffering from Alzheimer's. Took my friend a while to understand what he'd seen.
M5 near Taunton some years ago everything came to sudden stop as the middle lane was occupied by a lane hog doing about 15mph. When I say hog I mean a bloody great pig about the size of a fiat 500. Didn't deviate from middle lane for about a mile. Didn't seem bothered by anything.
whilst in the deep south of North Carolina I saw a pickup truck with three kids in the back in a paddling pool.
Man running stark bollock naked along hard shoulder of M621,man reading newspaper (broadsheet) on M62 and also on the M62 a young guy driving the wrong way in the outside lane.
saw a guy driving £350k worth of Ferrari F40 on the M25 last week, rush hour, torrential rain....
Saw some comical sights driving in Morocco - cows on roofracks, camels in the back of pick-up trucks, transit vans with 8' of straw on their roofracks...
Kid riding a Halfrauds special Northbound on the hard shoulder of the M53 Southbound...
A lorry cab being towed by another lorry, but the one being towed was facing backwards so as you aproached it looked like a lorry travelling at 40mph in reverse
A car coming straight towards me when I was in the fast lane overtaking someone was a bit of an eye-opener 😯
On one of the narrow valley sections of the M74, despite my flooring it, i had to admit defeat and let the two Tornado GR4's overtake me !
Doubt they were more than 200ft up. Totally made my day.
Car with roof rack stacked with beer, the boot filled with beer, lid held down with bungie cords. All three pasengers crates of beer upto their chins. The suspension was a bit low..
M61 meeting the M60, I was in the outside lane just going past a car in the middle lane, ass hat in an old Micra bombed up behind me so I backed off and made a start to go into the middle lane, (he was that close I couldn't see any of his lights in the rear view mirror) he then under took me going mental whilst pulling in to the 3 car length gap between me and the car in the middle lane whilst turning his entire body round to give me a mouthful, he got it all wrong and spun in front of me and hit the celica in the slower lane pushing it under the armco and then in to a lamp post, amazingly they both walked away from it but it's safe to say the guy in the micra will certainly not have his licence for much longer. Driving through the shower of debris was an eye opener!!!!
I overtook the landspeed record holding ThrustSSC on the M3 - it was on a lorry though
On one of the narrow valley sections of the M74, despite my flooring it, i had to admit defeat and let the two Tornado GR4's overtake me !Doubt they were more than 200ft up. Totally made my day.
On the M6 through the lakes theres a section with a valley to one side where tornados would sometimes pass alongside you
South Africa years ago, driving a motorbike on motorway at rush hour, hemmed in the middle lane with
cars pretty close everybody hamering it.
A taxi in front of me (crammed Toyota hi ace) the spare wheel carrier collapsed in front of me sparking madly on the road, the tyre was bouncing between the car and road still in its cage.
I quickly got out of the way, still dont know if there was an accident caused by it, the driver was oblivious to My horn and hand waving
Seen and done some pretty scary things on motorways in my time but the biscuit has to go to the guy I once saw in a sierra full of workmates using the on and off ramps to undertake moving traffic, the way he was doing it made it looked like it was from habit too
Seen plenty in my time as I do about 30K miles a year, but the worst has got to be in China, during a run to the airport on the motorway there was one guy reversing up the motorway to get back to a missed junction, and an old truck stacked with hay, broken down in the outside lane with a pair of legs sticking out from under it as the driver worked on it. Bizzare!
Rush hour traffic on the m8. Going slow into town just after Townhead.. Car 3 in front pulls onto merging lane on right. Puts hazards on and a back seat passenger gets out and jumps into the gap between barriers on the central reservation.. Think he was gonna attempt to cross to the other side to get to the sighthill flats!!
Got control to radio the cops, must have been a car nearby. About a minute later saw them stopping eastbound traffic and pulling in to get him. Saw a lot of finger waving going on in the rear view mirror..
Kenya's cycle team at the Manchester Commonwealth games 2002 on a training ride down the M61 😯
left a services area behind an estate with camping gear and a dog in the back, nothing unusual about that right?
Gathrered speed, doing 80 ish, suddenly the back of the estate opens up, dogs eyes get very wide !!
Quickly alerted the driver
A27 Shoreham Flyover a couple of weeks ago...dawn and raining, silver Polo overtakes me. As he gets level, driver picks up turquoise plate and balances it on the wheel, and starts to eat the first of two slices of buttered toast. This is an elevated section with slip roads, and a red light cross roads 500m further on that always results in panic braking.
Kenya's cycle team at the Manchester Commonwealth games 2002 on a training ride down the M61
Ive heard a similar story at work. Apparently they were looking for a nice road to practice on, they found a big loop which looked spot on and low and behold it was the M60!
Also when ive been out at work ive seen far too many people with hazards on in the hard shoulder reversing back along to get the correct junction. Its scary how many people actually do it!
Here in India crazy is taken to another level, well certainly frequency at any rate!
I would estimate that around 5% of traffic on any motorway would be going the wrong way, and not a journey of over an hour passes without seeing a lorry which has left the road leaving some devastation in its path 😯
5 on a motorbike is pretty much the norm too.
Cheers, Rich
This takes some beating
And another - WTF?
On one early morning motorway jaunt i came across an HGV where the driver had obviously nodded off at the wheel. Unluckily for him (but luckily for those on the other carriageway) when his rig swerved across the road he hit the only solid concrete bridge for miles and came to a rather abrupt stop. I always remember seeing the mess it left as i drove past, it looked like somebody had thrown a bucket of blood all over his windscreen. Certainly woke me up. Not nice.
A person driving the wrong way down a slip road on to a motorway.
On 2 separate occassions people reversing back down slip roads on to the motorway.
A lorry hanging over the edge of bridge on to the M1 below.
Through a section of road works with a temporary barrier between myself and on coming traffic a van some how ended up coming towards me through the barrier. It all happened very quickly, bits of the van hit my car (but no damage) dont know what carnage happened behind him.
Air Ambulance landing in front of me (ok M62 was shut)
People not wanting to que so they have used the hard shoulder.
A bird hitting a van in front of me, on impact feathers went every where then the bird did a few somersaults before hitting a car on the opposite carriage way. Was very dead by that point.
A lorry on fire down an embankment.
One of those big motorway trucks with the big arrow on the back and big crumple zones. Well saw one with all its side completely crushed in where a lorry had crashed in to it.
.... I drive on the M62/M1 every day!
If your ever passed by someone on the phone or undertaking/bad driving and you see them crashed further down- call the Police and offer to be a witness. Everytime I've seen someone using their phone rather than remonstrate with them I've thought 'if you crash or cause a crash I'll pull over and offer myself as a witness'.
On the M60 I drove passed two cars parked on the hardshoulder with two blokes punches each other out and oblivious to the fact they were on the line with lane 3. When I saw that I vowed NEVER to get angry or lose it on the motorway. EVER.
a few weeks ago i was driving up the m40, pulled out and passing a freelander. as i got alongside a pretty girl in the back seat nearest me got my attention, then she and the other two pretty girls in the back all flashed their fairly sizable boobs at me. it was quite distracting.
"When I saw that I vowed NEVER to get angry or lose it on the motorway. EVER."
What about if some one looses it with you for having your fog lights on when you dont need them 😈
theflatboy, I was driving over Saddleworth/M62 and as I drove towards the rear of a clio I could see the lad had his left arm around the passenger seat. Wierd I thought- pulled level and noticed a girls head bobbing away - I swerved abit and thought don't bother being a perv and carry on...the bloke turned and gave me a grin. The bloody bastid!
haha, as if driving over the highest bit of motorway in the country wasn't exciting enough in itself!
haha, as if driving over the highest bit of motorway in the country wasn't exciting enough in itself!
Oh dear, I think you need to get out more! haha! 😆
crispo ❓ we have day trips there 8)
Couple of years back driving over Shap (so M6?) heading to London with two sculling (rowing) boats on the roof. High wind rips the roof rack off taking some roof with it. I get to watch in the rear view mirror as my precious boat somersaults still attached to the roof rack while a Porsche passes underneath it. The whole thing landed on the central reservation intact with only about a foot sticking out onto the hard shoulder. All in perfect condition until somebody clips it driving past and takes the stern off my boat. Scary for me to watch but the guy in the Porsce must have crapped himself. Took it all as a sign me and the wife weren't supposed to race Tideway in singles.
Maddest and scariest was watching a 44 tonne lorry jack knife in my rear view mirror on the M1 when the traffic suddenly slowed right down in pouring rain.
Fortunately the traffic didn't stop completely as I genuinely thought it was going to flatten us all.
Traffic cones actually being used for roadworks.
Galvanised bucket bouncing down the carriage way just in front of us and then a very worried lady in an mx5 which flattened the bucket.
A wheelbarrow upside on the A50, luckily late at night and people we just going round it.
Yes I've seen ALOT of motorist (read 99%) sail passed me in torrential rain down Shap southwards.
Absolutely bonkers.
Lucky the Porsche driver didnt report you to the Police as you were actually breaking the law. Driving with an incorrectly secured load is an offence.
saw some traffic doing more than 30mph on the M25 once...or I may have imagined it.
to be fair it sounds like the load was secure, just not the roofLucky the Porsche driver didnt report you to the Police as you were actually breaking the law. Driving with an incorrectly secured load is an offence.
😉
A dead stag with full size antlers.
Suddenly appeared under the car in front of me. Decided straddling it (in a Fiesta) was the only option at 70mph. Bumped in the air, but the only damage was a torn heat-shield off my exhaust.
A christmas tree in the fast lane,presumably jettisoned from the pedestrian footbridge overhead.
When I rang it in to the police, the operator lady was as suprised as I was, it being June at the time.
ir_bandito - was that a trouser-filling moment? :0
Yup.
happily cruising down the A1 at 70, everyone keeping distance etc. suddenly the cars in front of me all have their brake lights on, next thing I see is a frikkin' huge stag emerging from under the car in front, antlers and all. It must have been hit by a lorry i guess.
Luckily, since everyone was keeping their distance, I had time to line myself up to straddle it - if I'd tried to drive over it I'd have crashed/flipped/got hurt.
there was a long line of cars on the hard shoulder, everyone phoning the police and trying to sort their sphincters out...
Other scary thing I've seen is a double mattress in the middle lane on the M1. The first time I'd driven on a motorway. Again, luckily there was space to swereve past it without hitting anything. that time I think I did actually shat myself...
in China, during a run to the airport on the motorway there was one guy reversing up the motorway to get back to a missed junction
That's fairly tame for China - still seems alarmingly common to find people driving (forwards) the wrong way up highways/motorways. That's not to mention the small motorbikes and load carrying trikes that appear out of nowhere at night driving into oncoming traffic with no lights...