Motorway madness

[big albig]

On the way home tonight from work, just about getting dark
some pillack decides only to drive up the wrong way on the M4
coming to meet me westbound not far from jct 48, if i would
have been going any faster we would have met head on, somthing needs to be done about this before anybody else Dies' because of mindless morons who Can't drive and bloody read road signs.
Any hows mr plod has been informed an the said driver I belive is now
helping them with their enquiries as we speak.

Al
Eastbound from now on .

 

[Dickieboy]

Glad your alright Al, that's your biker observation and reflexes working for you

 

[CoffinDodger]

On the way home tonight from work, just about getting dark
some pillack decides only to drive up the wrong way on the M4
coming to meet me westbound not far from jct 48, if i would
have been going any faster we would have met head on, somthing needs to be done about this before anybody else Dies' because of mindless morons who Can't drive and bloody read road signs.
Any hows mr plod has been informed an the said driver I belive is now
helping them with their enquiries as we speak.

Al
Eastbound from now on .

I was caught up in the post accident jam of such an incident in Port Talbot a couple of weeks ago.
I don't know what it is about the M4, but we seem to get an awful lot of drivers travelling in the wrong carriageway direction.

 

[Sergeant Pluck]

Exactly how does a person 'accidently' get onto the wrong carriageway of a motorway?! Surely it's not that easy - it must require you to actively think about what you are doing, or else a truly monumental act of feckwittery......

Pluck

 

[Timolgra]

I don't know what it is about the M4, but we seem to get an awful lot of drivers travelling in the wrong carriageway direction.

Perhaps they're keen to get out of Wales

 

[Taff]

Exactly how does a person 'accidently' get onto the wrong carriageway of a motorway?! Surely it's not that easy - it must require you to actively think about what you are doing ...

The "accident" Coffindodger mentioned happened after a car being "followed" by a Police car deliberately drove down the wrong carriageway knowing that the Police car couldn't follow it. Sure enough, he drove head on into a couple driving back to Kent.

 

[MMC]

Interestingly, one of the crashes used to 'justify' the M4 speed cameras was caused by a car going the wrong way on the motorway. Less than 5% of the crashes even had excess speed as a contributory factor...

 

[(RIP) Geriatric Germ]

Whats all this about then?

Trundling along in the Granny Lane of the East Bound M4 at my limited 56MPH on Tuesday around lunchtime near Newbury two cars overtook in the two outer lanes at not much more than my speed and pulled in front side by side, the outer car indicating left all the time and seemingly trying to force the left car off the carriageway . The traffic was quite heavy as usual but the two cars seemed oblivious and the antics continued for around 5 miles putting a lot of other vehicles at risk, with the centre lane driver constantly swerving, almost hitting the other car. It all ended (in tears I hope) when a patrol car passed me in the outside lane, slowed down to observe and then pull them both onto the hard shoulder, at time I was being overtaken by another truck and couldn't swerve or brake enough to do more than miss by inches the Aggro. driver who was really wound up, rushing to open his door and get to the car infront, or be first tell Plod why and wherefore. Another couple of inches wider with his door or the side draught of my truck and at least his right hand/arm/door would have been history. So much for Road Rage. I was sorely tempted to stop and relate what I had seen, but thought better of it as the Plod had obviously seen part of the Madness.

 

[Kevmulcock]

I managed to stop a doddery old man from trying to join J36 (the wrong way).

I guess for the poor sighted, it is just another route on to the motoway

He just looked lost and unsure of what the feck he was doing. I just waved alot, and sent him back around the roundabout (the right way). bloody close though!