Ant-toe-knee
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Also with digital tachometers now all speed over 56mph records a infringement on the drivers digi card. This card is uploaded once a month to DVSA.
Is this lorry driver a bully or intoxicated?
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Do you drive lorries for a living?
WolfieS
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I agree with most others here ... the middle lane is an overtaking lane, not a driving lane. Lorry driver's actions were unforgivable however.
ash59fifty-uk
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Saw some tw@ in a van on the M11 going home earlier tonight glued to the middle lane, a low-level bus came behind it and politely flashed as it was in the way, van driver stays in the middle lane
After a few more flashes the idiot then sharply brakes, never seen a bus manoeuvre so quickly
Some real idiots out there. Same happened to me on the same road yesterday, foreign van towing something in the fast lane at 60! Moves to middle lane as do i, and he then sits there not moving. Safe to say he got hand-shake salute as I drove past
After a few more flashes the idiot then sharply brakes, never seen a bus manoeuvre so quickly
Some real idiots out there. Same happened to me on the same road yesterday, foreign van towing something in the fast lane at 60! Moves to middle lane as do i, and he then sits there not moving. Safe to say he got hand-shake salute as I drove past
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Fast lane?????
ash59fifty-uk
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Ted said:
Third lane
What ? Traffic on both sides so twice the risk of being hit !
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After reading through all that pish (his statement) for a second time, I have to wonder why he was 'distracted' to see a flash of headlights behind him, " A flash of light distracts you from behind, you look into your rear view mirror...it dazzles you. You blink and re-focus, there is now a HGV bearing down on you…" I would have seen the lorry and known it was there for ages. I would also have known that he was catching me up. Over dramatising the situation with all the claptrap like "alarmed and distressed" And "all you can do is grip the steering wheel tight and hope for the best. Unless you have ever experienced someone aggressively driving a 30-40 tonne HGV behind you, or at you, and ask any person who has, it is very, very easy to simply say, “…why did you just not move over?” – Well, all I can say is, until you have been in such a situation, you have no idea, and I mean absolutely no idea, how that sort of acute stress disables your normal thought process. And "However I’ll say this, imagine now, its not me or you driving, instead...
...the driver is your pregnant wife, your mother, your father, your 85 year old grandfather or grandmother...or perhaps it’s your son or daughter; they have not long past their test.
Do you honestly and truthfully believe that anyone, regardless of who they are, should have their life put in danger, and that of other motorists because they didn't happen to move out of the way quickly enough?
What if their vehicle had spun out, hit the central reservation, hopped over into the northbound carriage killing an entire young family in the process? And it goes on and on. Emotional claptrap that's usually the sort of stuff you see and hear on tv shows that are playing to an audience, just like this idiot. If you have an artic or anything else beside you that looks like it's going to side swipe you, you either move over out of the way, brake or accelerate, not just sit there watching it all happen for the sake of bigging yourself up.
Yes the lorry driver is an idiot for doing what he did for whatever reason he did it, but this Stockdale character is an **** of the highest order with very little in the way of driving skill, anticipation or plain and simple common sense !
...the driver is your pregnant wife, your mother, your father, your 85 year old grandfather or grandmother...or perhaps it’s your son or daughter; they have not long past their test.
Do you honestly and truthfully believe that anyone, regardless of who they are, should have their life put in danger, and that of other motorists because they didn't happen to move out of the way quickly enough?
What if their vehicle had spun out, hit the central reservation, hopped over into the northbound carriage killing an entire young family in the process? And it goes on and on. Emotional claptrap that's usually the sort of stuff you see and hear on tv shows that are playing to an audience, just like this idiot. If you have an artic or anything else beside you that looks like it's going to side swipe you, you either move over out of the way, brake or accelerate, not just sit there watching it all happen for the sake of bigging yourself up.
Yes the lorry driver is an idiot for doing what he did for whatever reason he did it, but this Stockdale character is an **** of the highest order with very little in the way of driving skill, anticipation or plain and simple common sense !
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Lorry driver clearly in the wrong and will face the consequences but I hope the car driver gets done too as his lack of apparent due care and attention (not moving to lane 1) was a causal factor - none of it would have happened if he had.
Secondly he's put himself in that situation, why when faced with a clearly irate and irrational driver piloting 40 tons who's clearly ****** at you would you just not get the hell out of the way, that stubbornness could have cost him his life.
James.
Secondly he's put himself in that situation, why when faced with a clearly irate and irrational driver piloting 40 tons who's clearly ****** at you would you just not get the hell out of the way, that stubbornness could have cost him his life.
James.
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