I have done 40k miles/yr for the last ~15 years.
I see $hit like this at LEAST once a day!
I reckon every one should retake a refreshers test every 5 years!
Too many people don't consider the dangers of driving the way they do!

 

During the week, my dad was on the A9 near Wick (fast single c-way rural A-road - high accident rate).

He saw an artic driver thundering along holding a mug of tea/coffee in one hand.

In the other hand the driver had a large jug of milk which he was pouring into his mug of tea/coffee.

Clever these autopilots............

 

I've done a fair few motorway miles this week, all full of the usual examples of awful driving...

Middle or fast lane hogging when no other traffic on the motorway. I'll usually undertake if safe to do so, more to make a point than anything else.

Lines of cars bumper to bumper at 80mph+.

And I now have another pet hate for something that seems to be more and more common. Yesterday I followed some one up the motorway slip road who joined the motorway at 40mph... and then accelerated. Why do people not understand that the slip road is for building your speed up to (or over!) 70mph before joining the motorway?

 

i had a bit of a heart stopping moment last year, traveling on the motorway in a L R Discovery towing an enclosed trailer witha car on the back. a staionaory Fiesta on the hard shoulder indicated then pulled out in front of me at no speed at all, i dabbed the brakes hard but felt the trailer lurch so all i could do is take to the hard shoulder to overtake at about 60 and hope to god that whoever was behind me was not too close so as not to see why i did such a monouvre

its one of those moments that leaves you cold with a funny taste in your mouth

 

I was going north on the A702 at the end of the huge long straight coming out of Dolphinton

I rounded the corner to see a mini bus and a fiesta attempting to overtake it

I slammed on the brakes to bleed off as much speed as possible and was getting redy to dump the car in the verge, the fecker Just made it before I had to take my car off the road.

Why did he overtake on that corner, he was coming up to about a mile of straight with great visibility (possible he didn't know the road but I have a feeling it was just impatientce)

Had another one coming south down the same road. Golf GTI decides to overtake 6 cars on the trot, pulls in, in a hurry to avoid oncoming traffic and nearly kills some guy who was changing a tyre on his BMW.

He obviously didn't see the hazards or the warning triangle the guy had put on, so when the traffic slowed down he saw his opportunity and went for it.

I would have happily been a witness for the prosecution on that one

I honestly should rig up my bullet cam and just do my commute for a week on the A702. The driving would blow your mind. Seriously

 

All these buggers that overtake buses with trucks coming in the other direction FFS!

 

It was a ford Ka with an artic coming in the other direction, and it was foggy, and I was being a fudd

Still I got a new car and no one died...

Says Iain "2 fields" Butler

 

 

The worst I saw last week (and the worst for a while)...

I was travelling along the A65 west bound from around settle to Ingleton, and caught a BMW 535d. We proceeded along at a reasonable pace (fast in a straight line those things) until we caught a Kahn tuned Range Rover Sport which had, evidently, just caught a DB9.

The DB9 had been driving relatively slowly but over the next couple of miles the four car train caught up with an artic.

I don't know what possessed the guy in the Aston, maybe he felt the need to demonstrate the performance of the DB9. He pulled out and accelerated, the poor guy in the Mitsubishi Shogun coming the other way was left with nowhere to go. I saw the front dip as it braked, DB9 still accelerating, truck braking, guy in the Shogun takes to the verge, narrowly avoiding the DB9 as it swept across the front of the truck...

I still can't explain why the DB9 driver once he had pulled out decided that he could pass the truck... I mean he would have needed to teleport himself...

 

It's difficult not to let it get to you when someone in lesser metal is up your funnels. I doubt he'd do the same again though.