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Yesterday, as I was having my morning coffee fix, I saw a woman trying to reverse park a Megane into a large parking space. Behind the space was parked another Renault. She used it as a bumper a couple of times, never managed to get closer than some 3 feet to the curb, then drove off. Later in the day she popped into my shop to get a kiddie bike. We got talking about Skerries, she complained about other people's parking their cars so close to each other nobody else can use the spaces.
Before they finishedthe m40 you used to drop onto sections of it then off again onto local roads. well i was travelling in the fast lane behind a couple of other cars when the all started pulling left rather fast into the middle lane. when the car in front did the same I was left facing why. An old couple in an escort was driving the wrong way down the motorway waving at everyone and thanking them for moving out of there way smiling.
Hairychested, my parrallel-parking attempt was soo bad a few years ago that a middle-aged BMW driver actually offered to park the car for me. My GF couldnt stop laughing (no I didnt take him up on it). 😆
About 2 weeks after passing my test I came face to face at night with a car travelling down the A3 the wrong way, without its lights on, I missed it and was on the phone to the police in seconds.
Needless to say I was rather shaken up!
So you used your mobile while you were driving?
I do loads of miles and see stupid stuff all the time (business men in top end motors having road rage with each other is pretty commonplace), but TBH the scary incidents are those involving lorries. Two particularly stand out for me. I was doing 50 in a 50 limit - one of those areas that used to be dual carraigeway and has since been reduced to one carriage way with the aid of hatching and red tarmac. Next thing I know a foreign artic is flying past me - there's no way he was limited, he must have been doing 70 mile an hour - straight across the hatching. An articulated lorry doing those kind of speeds coming into a residential area and accident blackspot doesn't bare thinking about .
Plus, of course, the lorry drivers that don't notice the queue of traffic in front. I've seen numerous near misses (including evasive hard shoulder action) which I probably wouldn't consider as being the worst examples of driving...if I hadn't seen the results of a crash on the A14 where one didn't miss. The cab of the 7.5 tonner between the two artics was about 30 cm wide and I'm certain the emergency services looking underneath weren't talking to the (former) occupant. 🙁
So you used your mobile while you were driving?
Yep, the only time I have ever done so!