Motorway Horror Stories

[SueEllen]

Getting into a road rage incident at 100mph on the M3(not my fault by the way, they started on me), which then did escalate to the driver overtaking and constantly slamming their brakes on in front of me.

Eventually I reovertook and sprayed my windscreen wipers(wow). Only for them to pull over beside me and start to try and hit my car. Being me, I of course stood my ground and wound my window down, hit the indicator and waved with my fist and indicated with my finger for them to pull over.

They reciprocated my winding down their window and pointing a hand gun out of the window.

I hit the breaks!!!!!!!

Ahh you are one of those drivers I've seen on the M3 doing the racing and other idiotic things.

There seem to be lots of road rage incidents on the M3. Not good when you are minding your own business driving a long at 90.

BTW Breaks on push bikes, cars and other motor vehicles is spelt "brakes".

[d000hg]

Getting into a road rage incident at 100mph on the M3(not my fault by the way, they started on me), which then did escalate to the driver overtaking and constantly slamming their brakes on in front of me.

Just bump them gently when they do this...

[MarillionFan]

BTW Breaks on push bikes, cars and other motor vehicles is spelt "brakes".

bollocks. When I wish to slow my car down I use a beach wind break. Don't know it all do you!

[vetran]

Upsetting the Winchester chapter on the a281. If you see a battered Granada with five dirty blokes in it don't overtake.

Ford white van pulling a caravan at 80mph loses the caravan in the outside lane, he joined the remains upside down on the hard shoulder as most of the other motorists tried their wind breaks.

Lorry in front of me on the M25 lost the back tread it unrolled like carpet abot 30 feet in front of me, caught it on the rear wheel.

Hitting a deer at 30 mph in my Volvo, car 0 (it walked away) deer 2 (Bonnet and the original steel bumper).

Lorry driver falling asleep and quite fancying my lane at 70.

[NotAllThere]

A long section of exhaust plus silencer speeding through the air towards me, rotating. Time slowed down, but that didn't appear to improve my reaction time. It either missed or no great damaged was caused that I recall, as otherwise I would recall.

I'm afraid you died. This is the afterlife...

I've had a fairly easy time of it, it seems. The worst I've seen was in incredibly thick (freezing) fog on the M1 one Christmas eve. Most of us were tootling along at about 30mph, where we were at a reasonable distance and could see the fog lights of the car in front. Every now and then, some maniac would come hurtling past.

[Lockhouse]

Driving my BMW the engine and all the electrics failed in the fast lane of the M11 in a blizzard which had come on really quickly. I skidded to a stop, got out of the car (now left in the fast lane with hazards but no lights....) and stepped over the central reservation. A car came up behind my car, only saw it at the last moment, swerved to avoid and did a 360 in the snow ending up on the hard shoulder banking missing both me and the car by 6 inches. In 30 secs there was traffic stopped behind me and I heard at least one shunt further back up the queue. The police arrived and closed the motorway until I could get going again.

[Lockhouse]

Also....and this was my fault, driving my Supra out one morning forgetting I'd put it away the previous night without bolting the targa top down....Luckily the guy behind me didn't get hit by it and it needed nothing more than a respray!

[BlasterBates]

Getting into a road rage incident at 100mph on the M3(not my fault by the way, they started on me), which then did escalate to the driver overtaking and constantly slamming their brakes on in front of me.

Eventually I reovertook and sprayed my windscreen wipers(wow). Only for them to pull over beside me and start to try and hit my car. Being me, I of course stood my ground and wound my window down, hit the indicator and waved with my fist and indicated with my finger for them to pull over.

They reciprocated my winding down their window and pointing a hand gun out of the window.

I hit the breaks!!!!!!!

If I were you I would have some machine guns fitted they're much more efficient than hand guns. I find it is very difficult to aim a handgun on the motorway.

[Pogle]

If anyone starts behaving aggressively towards me at 100mph on the motorway, I get out of their effing way!

I've had cars coming up behind me flashing their lights at me whilst I was doing 95mph in the outside lane (no, It wasn't a police car!)
I have never flashed my lights at someone to get them to move and never will, I think its rude and intimidating and could cause the person in front to react in either a childish way - slowing down etc or panic and move out of the way before they've checked its safe.


If someone is too close behind me I get out of their way, they are behaving like ****** and I'd much rather not have them around me.

[Scrag Meister]

Not a personal experience, but saw on TV last night a woman being pushed in her Clio down the motorway at some speed, by a large arctic for some distance.

The scary thing is that the lorry dirver was not aware cos the car was small enough for him not to be able to see it from where he was sitting, and the power of the tractor unit was so much as not not even notice it either.

Not sure when it happened, may be old news but I had never seen it before.