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On the M60 at Junction 24 about an hour ago, traffic flowing freely at about 65 mph, a minibus towing a trailer comes to a dead stop in Lane 2 two vehicles in front of me

Someone who wasn't paying close attention could easily have ploughed into the back of him.

He then signals left and, once Lane 1 has come to a stop too, almost doubles back on himself to go up the slip road. The next junction is only about two miles further on.

Of course there's never a copper about when you need one - deserving of a dangerous driving charge IMV. I got the name of the firm, but not the number.

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That is pretty shocking. Why can't some people just accept they have cocked up and go onto the next junction? Even if it's miles away, it doesn't mean you should risk a nasty accident. What a muppet!

If I live to be 300 years old, I will still never comprehend what goes through some folks minds.

If I miss a junction on a fast moving road (and I have done more than once), my only thought at that point is "I wonder how far the next junction is"

People who display driving "skills" like that really need to be hit hard by the courts.

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What makes you think I'm drunk officer, have I got a fat bird with me?

Doesen't control rooms monitor the cameras anymore - there's usually at least one near a junction, but again would the Highways Agency bods know how dangerous this is?

Hopefully, (for their sakes) before they get hit hard by a 44-tonner.

Cheers
Peter

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F*ck them Pete, my only sympathy lies with the poor sap who encounters a moron like that.

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What makes you think I'm drunk officer, have I got a fat bird with me?

Ah, but he probably never breaks a speed limit, so will never get caught.

Once again I found myself in a long queue of traffic coming home from work, with some wanker doing 40 in an NSL. I the space of the 10 mile journey there must have been about 4 near misses, lots of fist waving light flashing etc as frustrated drivers tried to get out of the queue.
Of course the sandalista tossers would praise the arsehole at the front, while condeming the rest for trying to make good progress.

Dumbing down.

Ninety percent of the problem is the Government's blinkered view that speed is the cause of all evil. The real problem is the piss-the-bed Liberals who push the idea that no-one should ever fail at anything. Due to them, we have mouth-breathers taking fifty goes at the driving test until they get lucky enough to pass.
I think that we need a 'three strikes and you're special needs, five strikes and you're out' policy to get the self-appointed 'above average' drivers off the road (most drivers that believe they are 'above average' passed their test on the third or fourth go).
I have driven behind people on an exit feeder lane who have realised that they were on the wrong part of the carriageway and, at the last minute STOPPED, in order to rejoin the continuing lane. In the old days, when there were the good old 'Jam Butties',' Lemon Turd Carts' or 'Batmobiles', these twats would, with any luck, have been euthanased for such a lethal transgression.
These days, in the absence of Police patrols or the invention of the Dipshit Camera, they go beyond reprimand to commit acts of gross imbecility, happy in the knowledge that they are safe from prosecution as long as they don't speed.

Speed does not kill, Shit-for-Brains does...

Get off the fence... Say what you really mean!

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