Over the years I have been fortunate in not getting stuck in big snarl ups on motorways.
Yesterday early afternoon I got stuck on the M25 due to two outer lanes being blocked by an accident.
While waiting and slowly shuffling towards the next exit quite a few vehicles blasted down the hard shoulder thus overtaking the queue, I assume aiming for the next exit.
I would be astounded if they had some exemption, were Q cars or rushing to hospital etc. as they were a motley collection of vehicles.
My obvious thoughts were " I hope they get nicked!" but I did notice cameras on poles which I assume video the traffic flow. Are these chancers likely to get a brown envelope tomorrow morning?
Fortunately my son was able to use Google traffic info etc to plot a traffic free route to bypass the whole snarl up.
We obviously lost time but we had the best facilities to deal with it ( but should have checked earlier in the trip). The vast majority sat it out when there was an easy bypass route.
I was very impressed with the capabilities of the web in these circumstances.
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illegal use of the hard shoulder to bypas.. new
illegal use of the hard shoulder to bypa.. new
