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Thrasher:
What a day today!

On the way in both a white van and a black megane tried to share the same lane - mine - at the point where I WAS. Must be in stealth mode again , will have to ask dealer. Kinda scary getting attacked from both sides :(

A few minutes later, proceeding along the A43 I looked in my rear view to pull in a lane and witnessed a truck run/bash a car off the road. Sadly there was nothing I could do to stop it - as it was about 1/4 mile back :( I slowed right down to see if all was ok, and witnessed the escort still moving but with hazards on, and the offending truck pulling in to stop.

One of those days today I guess - there was even a problem in the M25 tunnel!?!?!

tiltboy:
Just be thankfull that you and Bagheera were unscathed.

Sometimes life gets a bit "police camera action" doesn't it?

Anyone remember the Alexi Sayle show Stuff?

In one episode of that he did a great version of The above mentioned cop show entitled "Police camera t**t"!

He had a police motorcycle display team in pyramid formation and kept saying "just look at these idiots" in an Alistair Stewart voice.

Still makes me chuckle.

I'm fine now, carry on and ignore me.

thermidorthelobster:
Once saw a lorry barrel down a sliproad, pull straight into the middle lane and sideswipe a Volvo through the cones and into the roadworks.

He didn't stop, so I followed him and called the police.  After a couple of miles he pulled over;  wonder if he'd have bothered if I hadn't been tailgating him?

I don't know the follow-up, but the lorry driver should have been done for dangerous driving at the very least.  There was no excuse for it.

Stormin:
I've been weighing up the damage to the caravan. Got side swiped when youngest daughter and hubby borrowed it last week. Looks like a wagon has hit it on the rear near side. You can see red paint in an arc from the corner, and the awning rail has been bent forward and down pulling the bottom panel with it. Wagon front wheel? Damage up by the door also. Wagon mirror? They can't remember much of what happened, scared the wits out of them. They had just passed a van and wagon on the crest of an up hill dual carriageway stretch of the A66. My guess is the wagon picked up speed on the down hill side and passed on the inside, clipped them and sent them all over the road. The so and so didn't stop either. :evil:

thermidorthelobster:
In other accident-related news, driving down the A34 earlier I came up behind stationary traffic.  I stopped OK but was a bit worried about the panel van behind me.  I shuffled up as far as I could and he stopped OK.  Then the guy behind him went into him (not hard, no damage).  Then the two people behind him squealed their way down the central reservation in a cloud of smoke.

Come on people, if you're having to emergency brake on the central reservation to avoid stationary vehicles then you're either driving faster than your capabilities allow, or you're leaving far too small a gap, or you're just a bloody idiot.

On the way back down, at the same spot was a front-ended Yaris.  Not sure if he was one of the crowd behind me or whether it happened later.  But the police had closed off one lane, causing miles and miles of tailbacks heading north.  If you're one of the people who was stuck there for hours, blame the idiot in the Yaris who was in too much of a hurry to be bothered with safe driving.  :evil:

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