Too many people think dual carriageway sliproads have priority over traffic on the main road.
I agree, but she made no attempt at merging, It was obvious what she was going to do even though the traffic was light.
Edited by Old Navy on 31/08/2009 at 20:41
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i thought Mother Shipton had escaped from her well when i read the header
i was petrified
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ON,
I agree - motorway slip roads are slightly different, they tend to be much longer and there shouldn't be any need to stop, only to give way.
Some of the dual carriageway sliproads near me are quite short, yet drivers keep coming even when there are cars in both the main lanes, creating a 'three into two won't go' situation.
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The most petrified I've seen another driver was when I was traveling sideways down the road in a Caterham. Perfectly under control, just completely sideways.
I guess she just didn't believe it was possible.
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You are a very bad man spikey. Most irresponsible.. There was a sharp left hander but with open sight lines near my old house where you could do that in the Westfield too..............Could dry your mouth a bit when icy mind......
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Heh heh... one of my favourite Skoda bends is a left-hander coming out of an S bend between high banks on a country road. In summer though when they don't clip it the hedge grows a bit high and one's view of anything approaching is sporadic.
In my first Skoda, a swing-axle but surprisingly willing 120 LSE, one could bomb round it at about 50 with one's foot firmly planted on the floor in third. One day just as I was laying it on its offside doorhandles into the bend I spotted a car coming rapidly the other way and instinctively lifted off, which sent the tail wide. Planted my foot again and collected it all without hitting anything, but saw the other car flinch visibly into the hedge as this shabby orange Skoda came round the corner pretty sideways and, er, being energetically collected.
I know I've posted this before. There's no bore like an old car bore.
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"Short slip roads"
York bypass? I still remember that woman almost halting, then pulling on a few yards in front of me with a 60mph closing speed.
Edited by oilrag on 31/08/2009 at 22:17
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>Too many people think dual carriageway sliproads have priority over traffic on the main road.
A friend of mine got side swiped on his bike by a van that came straight from a sliproad into the outside lane of the A303. He dropped the bike but unluckily broke his ankle when he hit the barrier sliding on his back at about 60mph.
He was carted off to North Hants. hospital and released the following morning with his leg in plaster.
The poor girl who'd been driving behind him and seen the whole episode was hysterical and kept in for another 24hrs suffering from shock.
My friend was mortified that his new FZR1000 and a custom set of leathers and helmet were toast.
Kevin...
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How many of haven't been a petrified driver at some stage in our motoring carreers?
Like when you come to a T junction with blind view to one side, the possibility of fast aprroaching traffic and White Van Man waiting impatierntly behind you.
Edited by Sofa Spud on 01/09/2009 at 00:20
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One time I felt petrified was driving along an A road at night, in winter and it had just started to snow heavily onto a frosty road. I was being followed closely by an artic. I began to feel that my car was beginning to lose grip so I slowed to about 30 from 50, but the truck driver obviously thought I was an over-cautious mimser. He hadn't realised that, while his big heavy vehicle, with its warmer tyres, was biting through the snow and frost, my much lighter car wasn't doing so.
Edited by Sofa Spud on 01/09/2009 at 00:24
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I had a similar winter experience in a Ford Capri.
Turned off a clear road onto one which I knew was down hill, but didn't know was icy.
It was a lefthand 'y' junction so no need to reduce speed.
I can recall feeling sick at the thought of the impending collision as the car began to slip and slide and, seemingly, gather speed.
Happily, I froze, meaning I did nothing drastic and the car was still pointing in the right direction a few hundred yards later when it reached a gritted stretch of road.
What a relief to feel grip and braking force again.
I congratulated myself on my marvellous car control, but of course an idiot should have realised the minor road was likely to be icy.
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I had a similar winter experience in a Ford Capri.
Tail happy things weren't they especially the 3 Litre V6. Lovely Cologne lump though.
MD
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Tail happy things weren't they especially the 3 Litre V6. Lovely Cologne lump though.
The 3.0 being the Essex, and 2.8 the Cologne IIRC?
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I was driving down the A1 into Madrid once and I had to get onto the A4 south but I was in the wrong lane (far R/H) and I had to get onto the far left ASAP - crikey , I'll never forget that one + I was in a little Citroen AX diesel LHD with all these Mercedes trucks breathing down my neck (hehe!)
Edited by Webmaster on 03/09/2009 at 01:43
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Back in the late 70s I had a Vauxhall Firenza (sorry), which was reliable but the most sluggish, dull car I've ever owned.
Late one evening I was driving along a semi-rural unlit A road, not too busy and fairly straight, when my lights just went out. Plunged into total darkness at around 60/65mph. Fortunately there wasn't much other traffic around (who could've been as worried as I was, because to their eyes I had just disappeared) and I was able to keep going in a fairly straight line. The light switch on the dash was a rocker type, so I flicked it backwards and forwards a few time and the lights came back on. Panic over, but it did it a couple more times randomly over the next few months.
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...Tail happy things weren't they especially the 3 Litre V6. Lovely Cologne lump though...
Might well have been, but I'm afraid a 1.6L was more my mark. :)
Even that was easy to drift around roundabouts.
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I think anyone who has tried to pull out onto, or overtake on, a busy autobahn will have been a petrified driver at some point.
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I see too many (usually female) drivers sitting far too close to the steering wheel, staring ahead, rarely looking in their mirrors, keeping in the same lane despite traffic conditions requiring otherwise and generally being a danger such that other drivers put themselves in danger by carrying out silly overtaking to get away from the situation.
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i was today, me and my mate (both IC1 white males) driving a battered rusty merc sprinter through brixton in london. we got so many dirty looks, they must have thought we had nicked the van!
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Why don't drivers realise they have to match the speed of the traffic on the road/ motorway they are entering as they are coming along the slip road. Women drivers please note!
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Drivers please take note. Female drivers are not even the worst offenders in this regard, let alone the only ones. I've even had drivers flash angrily at me for failing to make way for them when there was ample space behind and in front of me and none to my right.
I find myself trying to read the body language of a vehicle on the sliproad; as it reaches the final stretch where lane 1 comes into view in the mirror, I take an adjustment in speed as a sign that the driver has selected a gap and is positioning the vehicle to take it. The ones that worry me are those that plough on at uniform speed expecting the traffic to part like the Red Sea. Age, sex and vehicle type are no guide to this.
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My pet hate. I have frequently followed drivers trying to merge into a heavy stream of 60mph traffic at 50mph. Illogical and totally unsafe. Don't they get it?
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>i was today, me and my mate (both IC1 white males)..
They probably thought you were cops.
I had a similar experience when I persuaded a mate to drive us through Hillbrow in Jo'burg one night. Two white middle-aged males dressed in leather jackets in a nondescript Toyota hatchback. Only cops or idiots would do that.
We were lucky idiots.
Kevin...
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How many of haven't been a petrified driver at some stage in our motoring carreers?
I do remember being terrified the first day I ever drove on a motorway. Drove from Liverpool to Warrington, no problem, but on the return journey it started raining just as I was pulling onto the motorway then a few mins later a torrential downpour and very poor visibility. I became a tempory member of the CLOG as I ended up slowing down and due to lack of experience couldn't get back into lane 1 as the trucks were going faster than me.
Nowadays I have no problem dealing with adverse weather and other drivers total lack of regard for weather conditions but back then it was all rather terrifing!
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