Earlier this week i watched in horror the antics of just about the most dangerous driving i've witnessed in some time.
A47 tween Peterboro and Duddington, single carriageway road with numerous bends, artic in front, 18 ton LHD Italian regd truck behind it, ford galaxy mpv behind that and then me in a loaded truck.
The front vehicle is doing around 42/3 mph and the bloke in the LHD truck is desperate to overtake.
He gets right over to the nearside verge to look up the inside of the truck, then when he can see a clear spot swings out onto the blind oncoming road to have a better look, causing several car drivers coming the other way to swerve over, if there had been a truck (or bus!) coming the road is not wide enough to accomodate this.
Trouble is he was jammed up about a cars length from the artic he's trying to get by so has no field of vision, and even if he's leaning over to the right he has to get at least 5 or so feet of vehicle out before he can see properly.
He did this manoeuver probably half a dozen times over the 10 mins or so i was behind, the galaxy carrying three blokes that had tried to overtake realised the danger and dropped back a good distance and gave up trying to overtake.
I backed off to about quarter mile in case the twerp in the truck managed to have a head on smash with a chemical tanker or similar, but stayed in sight.
It was one of those cases where you so desperately want to see a patrol car parked up in a layby who can do something about it, maybe stop some innocent soul from being obliterated but alas nothing.
I desperately wanted him not to be going my way, left onto the A43 and luckily he didn't, they all went straight over towards Uppingham.
I really thought we were going to be witnessing something nasty.
Trouble is, what do you do about it, i suppose i could have taken his number though that was murky and barely readable and i'd have had to get too close for my own survival to read it, if i'd got his number then what?
Whats the form for something like this, not as i want to see anything like this ever again, i bet the police here would have had a field day with him....he was alone by the way he didn't have a second man with him looking for him, i know because he had overtaken me on the dual carriageway previously.
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| Seriously bad driving, whats the form new |
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12 Jan 12 20:42 |
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 Seriously bad driving, whats the form new |
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Dave_ |
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12 Jan 12 20:55 |
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  Seriously bad driving, whats the form new |
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12 Jan 12 21:16 |
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 Seriously bad driving, whats the form new |
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Dave_ |
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12 Jan 12 21:21 |
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| Seriously bad driving, whats the form new |
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FocalPoint |
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12 Jan 12 21:19 |
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| Seriously bad driving, whats the form new |
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12 Jan 12 21:35 |
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| Seriously bad driving, whats the form new |
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Harleyman |
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12 Jan 12 22:22 |
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| Seriously bad driving, whats the form new |
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12 Jan 12 22:28 |
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| Seriously bad driving, whats the for.. new |
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Harleyman |
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12 Jan 12 22:40 |
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| Seriously bad driving, whats the fo.. new |
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12 Jan 12 22:48 |
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| Seriously bad driving, whats the for.. new |
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BobbyG |
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12 Jan 12 22:47 |
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| Seriously bad driving, whats the fo.. new |
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12 Jan 12 22:51 |
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| Seriously bad driving, whats the fo.. new |
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Dave_ |
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12 Jan 12 23:02 |
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| Seriously bad driving, whats the f.. new |
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BobbyG |
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13 Jan 12 09:12 |
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| Seriously bad driving, whats the fo.. new |
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Harleyman |
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12 Jan 12 23:07 |
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| Seriously bad driving, whats the fo.. new |
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Dave_ |
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12 Jan 12 23:12 |
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| Seriously bad driving, whats the f.. new |
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Pat |
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13 Jan 12 05:06 |
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| Seriously bad driving, whats the .. new |
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Zero |
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13 Jan 12 09:02 |
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