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« on: July 24, 2006, 22:03:37 »
3 hours......some pics of us going nowhere :-)

http://members.mud-club.com/profiles/thrasher/gallery/M1_Hell

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Not often you can photograph your own car on a motorway - driverless - from a truck!
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« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2006, 22:07:05 »
know what you mean there it was like that on the way home on saturday :(
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« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2006, 22:07:41 »
What was the hold up?
Did you ever find out?

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« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2006, 22:10:51 »
Traffic jams don't you just hate them  :x

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« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2006, 22:12:12 »
Status display on Bagheera read :

M1 Junction 15 - Closed

Details :

Multiple accidents.
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« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2006, 22:14:42 »
What time was that Neil and which direction? We left around 4pm and had a small-ish queue while everyone gawped at 2 - 3 cars crashed and on the hard shoulder.

There was at least one car upside down in the trees :shock:  One had no rear bumper and was facing the wrong way!
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« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2006, 22:16:24 »
Just after 5pm Gords....
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« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2006, 22:28:06 »
Should have gone north. :D  Mainly a clear run. Bit off a hold up for road works, where a Merc CDI nearly got a well loaded 90 in his boot, (mine), when he cut in just as I was pulling away. Various theories as to what CDI stood for followed. Couple of problems with middle lane hoggers. One coming from behind wouldn't move over to let me pass a wagon, though nothing behind him. :evil:  Another who I moved over for to let him pass a wagon, wouldn't move back in, clear road ahead, and drove along side me, leaving me stuck in the outside lane. He then turned off a mile up the road. as did the first prat :roll:
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« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2006, 22:29:45 »
I only live up the road from Billing. We had to take the Mog back tho...can't believe people that left after us got home (to Southampton) before I got home from Billing!!
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« Reply #9 on: July 24, 2006, 22:35:35 »
3hrs! How many miles? Took us 5-1/2hrs to do 260.
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« Reply #10 on: July 24, 2006, 22:37:16 »
We hit the tail end of the queue northbound at J14 (on the way home from visiting my gran in hospital in Hemel Hempstead), but were lucky enough to get off there and travel via Newport Pagnell.
From the sounds of reports it was quite a bad one.
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« Reply #11 on: July 24, 2006, 22:41:38 »
3 hours to do 2 miles from memory.....
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« Reply #12 on: July 24, 2006, 22:45:56 »
:shock:  :shock:  :roll:
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« Reply #13 on: July 24, 2006, 22:46:50 »
wow thats mad
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« Reply #14 on: July 24, 2006, 23:08:10 »
Quote from: "Thrasher"
3 hours to do 2 miles from memory.....


Wouldn't of used the supercharger much then................................... :lol:
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« Reply #15 on: July 25, 2006, 10:47:50 »
Sounds like we were lucky then! Went south sraight through London and only one time it got a little more crowded in front of a construction zone. No jam at all :-))

Thanks again to all whom we could meet for giving us such a warm welcome! The Camper is now proudly wearing an MC sticker:



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« Reply #16 on: July 25, 2006, 10:53:37 »
Was nice to meet your guys. And the beer while I was holding the tent down was much apreciated :)
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« Reply #17 on: July 25, 2006, 16:35:01 »
God I bet that Supercharged RR used more fuel in that jam then my dads van did on the 200 Mile Journey home!
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« Reply #18 on: July 25, 2006, 17:47:39 »
I wouldn't bet on that ;-) Note it is *off* <grin>
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« Reply #19 on: July 25, 2006, 17:56:38 »
Quote from: "ariane44"
Sounds like we were lucky then! Went south sraight through London and only one time it got a little more crowded in front of a construction zone. No jam at all :-))

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« Reply #20 on: July 25, 2006, 18:18:30 »
That must have been a nice hot day for ya mate. Nice to meet ya on friday got the rangie sorted after a few hot hours in the sun under the bonnet.
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« Reply #21 on: July 25, 2006, 19:20:42 »
Didnt someone mention something about a 90 with an engine fire on the M1  :?:
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« Reply #22 on: July 27, 2006, 21:57:43 »
RTA     2 Dead   One survivor  Nasty one !
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« Reply #23 on: July 29, 2006, 16:55:32 »
I understand that Viven and Gary Blackmore of the Range Rover Register were involved in one of the accidents on the M1 that day.  I don't know any details beyond Viven's e-mailed apologies for some Register business being delayed.   I understand that their caravan was destroyed, but no injuries were mentioned.
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« Reply #24 on: July 29, 2006, 20:05:05 »
In traffic jams like that it is useful to have a caravan in tow or have a camper van! How jealous are people when you have cooked up a bacon butty and a cuppa tea and they are all sat in thier cars :lol:
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« Reply #25 on: July 29, 2006, 21:03:20 »
Hi all,
It was the journey from hell , getting back to Manchester. The M1 south bound was closed due to a fatal, which resulted in the North bound traffic unable to access the M1 easily at the roundabout. Hence the 3 hour queue for most people.  Then apart from a couple of incidents on the M6 slowing the traffic, there was a vehicle fire near Sanbach which resulted in another 2 hour slog ...... I got home at 2.30 am having left Billing just after 6.00......

Made a note to leave earlier next year  :wink:

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« Reply #26 on: July 29, 2006, 22:50:30 »
That's the reason we left by 3-30. Past experience of getting home in the early hours. Sorry to hear about the wrecked caravan. Youngest daughter and hubby due home tomorrow with our caravan. Some kind soul ran in the back of them and did a runner. :evil:  Just hope the damage is not to bad and I can get it fixed for our hol's end of August. We've only been out in it three times since we bought it last October. :cry:
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