Crushing sideswipes :(

[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.

[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.  

[andycwb]

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.

Or quite possibly all three.  

I've been in my share of emergency braking situations and I'm usually more worried about the guy behind me stopping than I am about the car in front.   I've hear some really scary stories from people who could see the guy behind them couldn't stop and have had to get out of the way any way they can.  

One of the guys in the office here was ranting about having a scary moment when he came around a corner on a country line to find someone on the wrong side of the road coming towards him.  Fortunately, the other guy got out of the way in time, but I asked "if he'd been stationary, could you have stopped in time?".  

"No"

"Then you were driving too fast, weren't you".

That ended the rant :-)

[Range Rover Blues]

Absolutely.

I find it quite alarming, there are cars out there now that if you brake hard, take over the braking and put the hazards on for you, some are still being bought by instructors too.  I just want my EAS to go into extended mode if I brake hard to a halt, just in case the muppet behind hasn't seen me, after all Range Rovers are invisible, aren't they?

In the 3 years we've had Blue (the spanish inquisition) it's had run-ins with about 5 other cars, I've lost count TBH and as for the near-misses :roll:

Lato kne was funny though, a guy on my RHS wanted the exit to my left, so decided to 'race' rouond the front and change lanes (crossing my lane).  He didn't make it :(


I only knew he hadn't because I saw his roof going sideways, the rest of his car being obscured by my bonnet.  He was adamant it was my fault too, t!t.

I also had a giuy back a samll people carrier into me in a carpark, best bit was his wife was guiding him back, straight into the car.  Didn't even appologise for leaving his paint on my bumper :roll:

[Terminus]

Wherever there's a road there will always be people who have no idea how to use it  :lol:

I once watched someone in a Ford Puma fumbling about in the passenger floorwell whilst hammering down a dual carriageway (turned out she was looking for her mobile phone- even better).  

It was no great surprise then that she lost control, executed what has to be the most accidentally perfect and most life savingly lucky 180 degree spin (missing a car behind her) to come to a halt facing the opposite way in the only gap in the central reservation for miles!! :shock:  :shock:

She was told how lucky she was and her day only got worse from there  :lol:

[rangerider]

If you really want to become invisible at junctions.........


Put L plates on!   2 tons of disco, lights on, and I still cant be seen. if only it had the same effect on extortion charge cameras.

[Jake]

You really need to get rid of the stealth mode form your car!
 :shock:
Its no good for day to day useage
 

[Range Rover Blues]

Check out my Avatar, I've even put reflective tape on the bumpers!

Last summer I'm on the A57, doing under 60, but moving.  4 adults, 3 big dogs, lots of car.

On the other side is a bright bllue C3, in a layby, stationary.

About60 metres at a guess it U turns into my side of the road, in front of me, had I not been able to go rouond I'd have flattened it, no wordof a lie.

Driver looks up as if to say 'where the f*** did you come from?'

Some people are beyond help, it's one reason I don't drive the Micra too much.

[dazzawhipple]

I have sen a few bumps but the best bit of luck I had was in Milton keynes

I had just passed my test, at a roundabout I ran in the back of a Porche, got out a passing traffic cop stops and was about to give me a summons for driving without due care and attention, and low and be hold somebody was gawping at us and runs in the back of someone on the oppsite side of the road the copper says no more its your lucky day and sorts out the other bump

Now look a the car in front until its gone then I look at the roundabout

Darren

[Bush Tucker Man]

Check out my Avatar, I've even put reflective tape on the bumpers!

Where??? :lol:

(can't see it for the mud)

[freeagent]

was sitting in my disco a couple of m onths back, parked at the side of the road, my other half was with me... eating the luhch we'd just grabbed from the bakers when a family walked up (dopey looking bloke) and got into the car parked in front of me (small mpv thing) the guy then reversed straight back into my disco... (no damage but quite a hard thump) when i got out and challenged him he insisted he couldn't possibly have hit me...... because he had a reversing alarm!!!!!

i was so stunned by this i didn't know what to say........

.....and they let people like that breed..........

[bullfrog]

Sadly my wife decided to reverse our merc into the 90 yesterday !!! :roll:
The 90 has a very H/D winch bumper,, The nerc has a dent. I am waiting to order the paint 2 moz . What a pain as if I have not got enough to sort  ! :roll:
Mind you I am glad she hit mine as at least thats her crash for the year so she should be ok( not that she crashes once a year )
I just meant hopefully thats "the one"

[C C]

I had a sobering reminder of how things could get seriously wrong a little while back.
I was returning from a pleasant afternoon's green laning. Cruising along a duel carriageway at around 70. I had just passed a truck. Up ahead I could see a small gaggle of cars behind a 4x4 towing a horsebox so I decided to stay in the outside lane. As I got closer I noticed a motorcycle was passing the horsebox just then a car pulled across me from the left-hand lane. Before I had a chance to ease off the throttle  the biker braked sharpish beside the horsebox so he could gesticulate at the driver of the 4x4 for some reason or other. Naturally the driver of the car in front reacted to this by slamming on her brakes I did likewise but was unable to slow as quickly as she was and I shunted the rear of her car.
We both pulled over and luckily apart from a very shaken driver the only damage done was a cracked numberplate on her car.
Meanwhile the stupid biker was long gone. Had the traffic been denser It could easily have turned into something nasty.
Later the lady wrote and invited me to pay for her new numberplate but I politely declined.