zb that.
Jaysus 
That ■■■■ should be traced and done for dangerous driving.
Good drivers give vehicles in hard shoulder a wide berth.
If I see a tyre change or breakdown assistance, …and if safe, I pull into lane 2, as a lot more do.
robroy:
That [zb] should be traced and done for dangerous driving.
Good drivers give vehicles in hard shoulder a wide berth.
If I see a tyre change or breakdown assistance, …and if safe, I pull into lane 2, as a lot more do.
+1 on the lane change,maybe the powers that be should fund a advertising campaign to relay this to all drivers inc car drivers
xichrisxi:
robroy:
That [zb] should be traced and done for dangerous driving.
Good drivers give vehicles in hard shoulder a wide berth.
If I see a tyre change or breakdown assistance, …and if safe, I pull into lane 2, as a lot more do.+1 on the lane change,maybe the powers that be should fund a advertising campaign to relay this to all drivers inc car drivers
Another +1 here. Day or mostly night if I see something on the shoulder I’ll either move over to lane 2 or at least straddle 1 & 2 to give it some room. Never know when a door will swing open or if someone’s down there trying to change a tyre.
This video should be used in a campaign though reminding people how bloody dangerous the shoulder is. Too often I see people dithering around on it or sat in their cars with the hazards on.
Get out, get over the barrier and then call for help.
Company Driver? shall have better H&S Training
the maoster:
“Target fixation” they call that, ie you go where you look. Very lucky fella nonetheless.
I’ve been staring at women’s ■■■■ for years but rarely seem to manage to go there.
When I was working, and even now in a car I pull halfway out to straddle the lanes, cos sure as hell, if you change lanes, some knobhead will try and get between you and the poor sod that’s stopped.
I was once ■■■■■■■■ mesen when broken down on the narrow hard shoulder of the motorway heading from Rouen towards Paris direction with a three metre wide load where I was half out in the live lane and the traffic was hurtling past in both lanes, not 15 minutes or so went by till the traffic seemed to all filter out into the second lane and looking behind me about just over a quarter of a mile or so was one of them vehicles with the big flashing arrows on it, why not something like that here ?
First time I watched that I jumped so much me laptop jumped off my lap and slid on the floor !
Merlin’s beard
What I’d like to know is did the complete ■■■■ jockey who ni-on kills him get caught, as there is no way in ■■■■ you could possible be that distracted unless for a medical reason or by some freak act of fate or god.
Unless of course it were a flippaflopski…
Who were probably just going about his business, frying an otter burger on the dash, while simultaneously applying to drive the vagonetka for highways agency @ 3.50ph.
Which if this is the case, then that were nothing more than a bit of turbulence generation, and a lot of fuss about nowt.
Benjie83:
Merlin’s beardWhat I’d like to know is did the complete ■■■■ jockey who ni-on kills him get caught, as there is no way in [zb] you could possible be that distracted unless for a medical reason or by some freak act of fate or god.
Unless of course it were a flippaflopski…
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or someone playing with a phone / texting.
someone in a white DAF has arrived back at base with a nearside mirror missing…
I work in a highways related industry and this has just been issued as a Safety warning from Aone+
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This is why I’m in the habit of pulling over into lane two - when I see anyone on the hard shoulder… Just think the M25 is 12 lanes wide there near Runnymede Bridge including the hard shoulder - and STILL there’s an idiot who isn’t paying attention in lane 1… That they are “one of us” is shameful. 
Big Roy:
Kinel
My exact words on seeing this latest shocker. Does indeed look like the idiot’s mirror caught the end of the trailer - it’s not as if you shouldn’t notice any broken-down vehicle from some distance and take special care. Distraction is my explanation.
I nigh on ■■■■ meself on seeing that and started getting quite ■■■■■■■ restless when the 1st truck passed, let alone the ■■■■ in the 2nd…what a total ■■■■■■■ arse hole. An earlier comment said about more people seem to be moving over…not that I’ve noticed…many seem to drive in Dilligaf mode. I always move out…summat that I can see on hard shoulder, no matter how far, I’ll check the mirror, see where the gap is and pull out…if it looks like there’s a stream of traffic that will stop me getting out the nearer I get, I’ll straddle lanes 1 & 2 then, with many be 100 yards or so, indicator on and right out into lane 2. I’ll get honks and ‘waves’ etc but that is easy to ignore…having some poor ■■■■■■■ underneath for 100+ yards or so and coming out in bits will never be forgotten. Hopefully someone who was following that truck got his reg etc and phoned dibble. Looking at the pic, I’m guessing it was a foreigner as there seems to be no driver visible on r/h/s. Might be able to check out the mirror configuration for a clue maybe
Bloody hell, that was close
Lucky also he didn’t get whacked on his head by a mirror doing 56
Sorry for the spanner in the works, but why on earth was he down that side anyway ? I had a blow out on the inner off side middle trailer tyre on our M1 near Brisbane. Did I stop ? did I hell. I knew what had happened and slowed down, put hazards on and went off at the first exit I came to, where I then got out and had a look. If something happens that forces you to stop on the HS, get out, go over the barrier and call for help (the only thing mobiles are any bloody good for).
I just see this as two idiots being in the same place at the same time. Glad he got away with it though. Maybe a lesson learnt.
One of the reasons I would never be a tyre fitter.
Benjie83:
Merlin’s beardWhat I’d like to know is did the complete ■■■■ jockey who ni-on kills him get caught, as there is no way in [zb] you could possible be that distracted unless for a medical reason or by some freak act of fate or god.
Unless of course it were a flippaflopski…
Who were probably just going about his business, frying an otter burger on the dash, while simultaneously applying to drive the vagonetka for highways agency @ 3.50ph.
Which if this is the case, then that were nothing more than a bit of turbulence generation, and a lot of fuss about nowt.
Not sure about the predictable anti foreigner ■■■■■■■■ …yawn 
but in a way I agree. It was imo most probably a foreign driver on a UK rh. drive with little experience of such.
I was reminded by my Mrs when I showed her the clip, what I was like driving our car at weekends while I was on left ■■■■■■ trucks, ok I was not as bad as that, but she was a nervous wreck in the passenger seat 
(but at least it gave me a good excuse not to drive 
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The thing is your brain is telling you to keep tight to the nearside, and when you change to a rhd for the first hour or so you keep kerbing.
Not excusing the driver at all, he should have been more aware of the truck in the hard shoulder and it is still dangerous driving
end of, I was just looking for a feasible explanation other than (or as well as) the driver being a complete ■■■■.