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Very little would surprise me when driving nowadays alpiner, some people seem to live in a litle world of their own when driving and everyone else is supposed to let them get on with it. I'm never quite sure what to do when I encounter such bad driving, leave them in front where I can see what they are doing but far enough back to be able to avoid them, or pass them and get as far away from them as I can so that I'm not involved in their antics if it all goes pear-shaped.

Dave

Quote: Originally posted by Surfer01 on 30/3/2013

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Maybe he was the overturned caravan the other day?

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The point is that the guilty driver admitted that he was looking down at his map on the steering wheel at the time, looked up and he was half way across the other side of the carriageway.

Are you sure? I saw that program and the man in the grey jacket who admitted reading a map, looking up and bang, was the passenger. The driver was the one in the yellow padded jacket who had moved across into the passenger seat to be more comfortable until the emergency services could deal with him.

Quote: Originally posted by tango55 on 30/3/2013

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I was watching 'Emergency 999' on TV yesterday and it was filming a previous head on car collision on the A82 in a remote area of Scotland. Two rescue helicopters had to attend the scene with three casualties, one which was severe but not life threatening. The point is that the guilty driver admitted that he was looking down at his map on the steering wheel at the time, looked up and he was half way across the other side of the carriageway. Bang! too late but the sadness of it all is that the innocent driver was the worst of the three casualties. Reading a newspaper or map whilst driving is absolutely stupid and it just shows the mentality of some ignorant drivers.

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Ifollowed a lorry and trailer on the M5 from just aftre exeter who was using half the hard shoulder to half of lane 2 Icalled the police but when he turned off at taunto there was still no sign of  any police vehicle on either carriageway and indeed I hadn't seen one when Iturned off for brean

  doug