I worked Sunday and as usual on a bone dry clear weather weekend there were several bumps on the motorway, pause for face palm, particularly the M1 Beds, typical early morning rollover mess going down waiting on recovery and when returning from my second delivery one particular shunt northbound between jcts 12 and 13 the outside lane was impassable due to several vehicles stranded following yet another bunch getting themselves in a pickle.

So, hard shoulder mergency only all the way, outside lane red X, and hundreds of cars completely ignored the outside lane X and drove through not one but two red X's in succession, only to have to move over to pass said stranded vehicles maybe 400 yards after X number 2.

I didn't notice if the two gantries we passed had cameras but did wonder if red X lanes might automatically trigger photos of transgressors, i do hope so.

Aside from that, it was extremely hot which might help explain the two child like drivers who managed to have a right tussle, due to some perceived slight at a slip road from what i could see, their undertaking and cutting up of each other carried on for about 3 miles on the A45 Northampton section (as i was in the lorry i saw most of this performance of half wits doing what half wits do), with presumably child like rantings at one another when they got side by side at the same speed for some times several times, thankfully more mature heads were in abundance in other vehicles who gave these two fools a wide berth so if they did make a mess of it hopefully only those two would be involved.

It's bad enough when one fool spits his dummy out, but when two infantile fools...my mind went back to my childhood when a doting parent could buy his child a plastic dashboard complete with steering wheel for tiny mitts so junior could pretend drive the car just like daddy.

Edited by gordonbennet on 10/07/2018 at 18:50