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I thought 'near death' meant 'life flashing before eyes, light at end of tunnel' etc.
In that case, I woke up on the M6 northbound just past Birmingham at 2am about 8 years ago.
I was driving at the time. There were 3 lanes and the other cars had squished over so we were driving 4 abreast.
Scary. I now carry Red Bull.
Why was it so busy at that time that they couldn't just go in front of or behind you?
About three years ago I was heading to Northampton down the M1 past Watford Gap services in the rush hour one morning, when a lorry trying to overtake another lorry somehow lost it slightly and ended up sending some small car spinning across the carriageway. The entire motorway came to a halt with said small car three vehicles ahead of me in the outside lane, facing the wrong way.
The expression on the young lady driver's face as she stared back at three lanes of solid traffic pointing towards her was an absolute picture
After a moment she got it together, pulled round onto the hard shoulder behind the two original lorries that had caused it all, and we were on our way again. That's when I decided that commuting on the M1 in the rush hour was pure insanity.
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