WTF?! I've never seen such a massive number of complete total morons on the roads, never had so many near misses in one journey. Two accidents on the M6 (other carriageway thankfully) in close succession, cars covered in snow, most drivers seeming to believe that they were somehow allergic to the inside lane, random lane changing, and a long stretch of motorway which went from 40 to 70 to 30 to 60 to 40 to 70 due to PILLOCKS tailgating then slamming the brakes on when one of the flat-pack igloos on top of a car slid off at speed into the car behind.
Oh and how many cars broken down?! Do people not thing to check their car before a long heavily laden journey?! I passed a Berlingo packed to the rafters with it's right rear tyre squelching round at about 10psi. It passed me again then I saw it on the hard shoulder a bit later with no tyre. 🙄
Thank God I'm home and there's alcohol in the house! And breathe...
Merry Christmas crazylegs!
Yeah, it never ceases to amaze me how many numbskulls there are on the roads now. The scary thing is that these people are often actually intelligent, they just switch their brains off as soon as they get behind the wheel.
Not on the road is where i like to be!
Here is the news, you are one of the numpties. Sometimes I am too. Get over yourself.
Makes today's ride seem positively safe 😆
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I find this thread to be offensive to numpties so have reported it. 😉
Was that left foot braking?
It annoys me that people drive really (I mean ridiculously) slow even though all our roads are definitely clear, having been properly gritted and temp not properly dropped below 0 for about a week. Better safe than sorry I suppose, but I've been driving at almost proper speeds and haven't come unstuck.
[i]It annoys me that people drive really (I mean ridiculously) slow even though all our roads are definitely clear, having been properly gritted and temp not properly dropped below 0 for about a week.[/i]
One of the "jams" was caused by a Porsche 911 in the middle lane (all three lanes clear) doing 50 mph and he was obviously making a delivery of snow for Christmas. Spoiler, rear window and roof were loaded with it, he couldn't see out the back otherwise he might have noticed the line of cars stuck behind him.
I was bad - I undertook him at 70. 😳
Has to be said, this rant is pretty poor - if I said what I wanted to say the swear filter would fall over... 😉
The scary thing is that these people are often actually intelligent,
I have yet to see much evidence of this.
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It annoys me that people drive really (I mean ridiculously) slow even though all our roads are definitely clear, having been properly gritted and temp not properly dropped below 0 for about a week. Better safe than sorry I suppose, but I've been driving at almost proper speeds and haven't come unstuck.
See what I mean.
I drive very carefully on roads that I don't know and also obviously if it seems icy. Our roads are definitely fine, we seem to be the only place where the snow has been very thin and the ice has all gone.
You should be driving very carefully every time you are driving a car.
You know what I mean 😛
Where is that McMoonter? It looks like Loch Leven.
TheBrick +1
Where is that McMoonter?
Loch Leven in Fife
Thought so. I live in Milnathort. Skied out to the Island last winter instead of night-biking. Wife is 6 months pregnant at the mo', so no icy lochs for us.
The really scary thing is that these people have been shown to be a good enough driver to pass their driving test!! It really is about time we introduced a retest every 5 years or start to look at the test itself and decide whether the curent one is still fit for purpose.
You should be driving very carefully every time you are driving a car.
True.
They say 90% of accidents happen within half a mile of home. I'm going to move.
Driving back from Birmingham on the M40 this week I had to flash a guy in a 320 BMW who was driving on the remanants of his rear tyre. I could hear it before I saw it. I mean how could you not notice?
As for the OP. When you get a lot of holiday traffic driving inconsistently, it's time for 50-60mph in the slow lane and granny driving mode. In this way you usually find you are going as fast as the flow of traffic without the stress or stop/start braking. Very relaxing.
In normal circumstances, to avoid the numpties I tend to take the A road that runs nearest the motorway I want (A38 from Exeter to Bristol for example). Not so good in these snowy/icy conditions, clearly, but usually far more fun and not much slower.
I was pleasany surprised, was dreading it so left work early. Went up the M6 (Manchester - Glasgow) yesterday afternoon. Very quiet, fairly empty outside lane, 100mph the whole way. Fuel economy took a bit of a pasting, what with the car so heavy with the missus, baby and presents all on board. Visibility was awful as well as the washers had frozen by Preston.
100mph the whole way. Fuel economy took a bit of a pasting, what with the car so heavy with the missus, baby and presents all on board. Visibility was awful as well as the washers had frozen by Preston.
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You're right, sorry. I've got heated washers, they were fine.
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Brycey - got Audi? 😀
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