MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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Please put your phones down and concentrate on your driving. The M1, M6, M25, and A1 are all closed today due to incompetence, dangerous driving, tailgating, phone use, YouTube, inattention and rubber-necking.
Yours sincerely,
Everyone else.
If you cannot drive on a motorway, with huge lanes, long sight lines, and minimal external hazards. You should not be driving at all. Ever.
Dear roundabout users...
dear drivers
dear drivers
This.
due to incompetence, dangerous driving, tailgating, phone use, YouTube, inattention and rubber-necking
Dare I ask how you know the cause of each of the accidents, do you have some sort of superpower?
due to incompetence, dangerous driving, tailgating, phone use, YouTube, inattention and rubber-necking
Dare I ask how you know the cause of each of the accidents, do you have some sort of superpower?
How many other causes of accidents do we think we should add to that list? Illness at the wheel, occasionally.
I would suspect tailgating (MINIMUM 2 second gap, ideally 3-4+) and Inattention are #1 and would directly affect the other
The A1 is not a motorway.
The A1 is not a motorway.
Yes it is. The motorway bits of the A1 are clearly motorway.
He's got a point, the A1 isn't but the A1(M) is.
Yes it is. The motorway bits of the A1 are clearly motorway.
Does that make them M1?
edit: my mistake A1(M)
I love when using cruise control and you keep ending up too close to the car infront, when you go to overtake they speed up and off, you pull back in, but then catch them back up and you then repeat this till one of you leaves the motorway!
Does that make them M1?
No, that’s a different road. It makes them the A1(M)
I love when using cruise control and you keep ending up too close to the car infront, when you go to overtake they speed up and off, you pull back in, but then catch them back up and you then repeat this till one of you leaves the motorway!
Throbbers like this usually exclusively inhabit the middle lane as well, regardless of whether they are overtaking anything.
you pull back in
As if.
I love when using cruise control and you keep ending up too close to the car infront, when you go to overtake they speed up and off, you pull back in, but then catch them back up and you then repeat this till one of you leaves the motorway!
I have the reverse. CC set, catch a car up so pull out and overtake. Pull back in and suddenly they have a "target" infront of them to overtake. Which they do, and then slow down again. Even worse if they are an empty road middle lane hogger and you overtake them correctly, you end up circling each other.
dear drivers
Dear Road Users.
Is dissappoint. Was expecting mister-p to go off to theAA.com and prove that the closure on the A1 is on the non motorway section...
I'm sooooo bored
Sorry, even I am not that bored.
Dear Road Users.
This.
Oh, and pedestrians, with headphones the size of Black Sabbath amplifiers on their heads oblivious to everything going on around them, or any awareness of where they are walking.
All those roads/motorways are closed? For their entire lengths? Because somebody was on the phone?
Seems unlikely?
Was anyone on the M1 on boxing day by the way? Never seen so many crashed/broken down people at the side of the road. The weather was atrocious but still... good job we've got hard shoulders. Oh, hang on.
Edit: not boxing day, the day after. Or the day after that.
He’s got a point, the A1 isn’t but the A1(M) is.
He does have a point but it wouldn't stop him getting a chinese burn for being a pedant.
chinese burn
I've waited nearly 20 mins for someone to accuse you of being a racist, but so far - nothing. STW standards really are slipping... 😉
How would you know he had a Chinese bum?
Can we still say "Chinese Burn"?
Oh, and pedestrians, with headphones the size of Black Sabbath amplifiers on their heads oblivious to everything going on around them, or any awareness of where they are walking.
I'd want headphones that size too if I was walking down the motorway
Fella in a red Micra almost collided with me on the bike this morning when he abruptly changed lanes to avoid hitting the stationary car in his lane (stopped at lights). I kid you not, he was watching porn on his phone which was stuck to the dash. In my incredulity, I initially failed to get my phone out to video him, watching porn, while driving and report him and by the time I did, the lights had changed, he'd selected his new clip and had driven off. W4nker (possibly literally)!
Can we still say “Chinese Burn”?
I’ll bet Chinese kids play British Bulldogs at school so I’m confident
Oh and could people on those new electric scooters in Bristol please keep at least one additional sense other than their sense of smell to be able to tell what's around them?
The number of people I see, with earphones on (hearing gone), hood up (peripheral vision gone), looking at their phone (all vision gone) with one only one hand on the bars is astounding.
Was anyone on the M1 on boxing day by the way? Never seen so many crashed/broken down people at the side of the road
Christmas is one of those rare times when the people that only ever drive the couple of miles to work/school/shops go on long-distance drives to visit the relatives.
Not driven on a motorway in months, car hasn't been checked since it's last MOT, they're not even used to driving in the dark...
On the MY, someone has painted a whole load of slogans on loads of bridges, must have taken them ages. Stuff about middle lane morons, keep left, stop road hogging. Some of it is quite funny.
How many other causes of accidents do we think we should add to that list? Illness at the wheel, occasionally.
Don't forget momentary lapses of otherwise impeccable concentration (your honour)
I rarely use motorways these days, but had to drive to and from Wetherby a few weeks back and the idiocy of some 'motorists' is beyond belief - watching too much F1 I think.
Have a look on youtube at the dashcam stuff, makes me laugh more with the amount of idiots who send in their videos when they are the ones who are driving as defensive as Verstappen on a bad day!
At least one motorway closure today, possibly the M5, was down to a car fire.
The drivers mentioned above who feel challenged when overtaken are a phenomenon that I’ve unfortunately met on any number of occasions, along with the ones who dawdle along in the middle lane, and then, having been overtaken, come blasting past and disappear into the distance, and those on regular roads who speed up and slow down repeatedly, the worst though are those who, on being overtaken, feel that their masculinity is being threatened and immediately accelerate as you pull alongside. With an oncoming vehicle in front. Utterly bloody stupid.
Worst i find these days is those who speed up and try and hit the other vehicle on roundabouts and the likes, as if they've stolen time out of their life, defensive driving is by far the worst for me these days.
With an oncoming vehicle in front. Utterly bloody stupid.
overtaking into oncoming traffic? I agree. Utterly bloody stupid…
overtaking into oncoming traffic? I agree. Utterly bloody stupid…
As is overtaking on a round about at an exit and being surprised about being driven into.
But it happens
Traffic is horrible. It gets in the way of me when I am driving. Thank goodness I am not traffic.