Motorway queues and 'rubbernecking'

Peter is actually from Kent, and you go where the work is. I dont mind paying a toll so long as it is fair.
Incorporate road tax into the fuel. Reduce Government fuel Tax at the same time.
Of course I didnt think they built Motorways to attract cars.Easing congestion in the countries By-Ways, how silly of me.
BTW I am also for Hydrogen Cars, Nuclear Plants for electric, as well.
I do apologise "Crush All Cars" rename yourself TROLL.

Peter is actually from Kent, and you go where the work is. I dont mind paying a toll so long as it is fair.
Incorporate road tax into the fuel. Reduce Government fuel Tax at the same time.
Of course I didnt think they built Motorways to attract cars.Easing congestion in the countries By-Ways, how silly of me.
BTW I am also for Hydrogen Cars, Nuclear Plants for electric, as well.
I do apologise "Crush All Cars" rename yourself TROLL.

The cause of the congestion is simple. Too many cars. Guys like Peter need to pay more for the motorways, by toll if necessary. Or have their cars crushed.

All building motorways does is attract cars like a swarm of flies. Why do people live in Andover and work in London? It's complete nonsense.

Crush all the cars

The police had to almost beat people back when my friend and I were struck by that motorcyclist. They closed the road so that we could all be tended to, but people tried to walk down the set-aside on the other side of the hedges. I hope they enjoyed seeing a horse almost sliced in two slowly bleeding to death. It beats me how ghoulish people are, the sick bast****.

I cannot understand drivers that slow down for a look. What exactly is it that they want to see? Many times when at the scene of an accident I have seen one happen on the opposite carriageway, caused by rubbernecking.
Trust me people when I tell you this:- You really don't want to see it! As a member of the emergency services I saw some real horrible accidents. Things that will live with me for the rest of my life. I had to see them to do my job, you don't have to!
One of the things that always amazes me is how the driver slows to have a look regardless of who else is in the car. You may be foolish enough to want to see a mangled carcass etc. but surely not when your children are in the back? Do you want them seeing it too?

Good words Reg! I experience this kind of behaviour on the M62 between junctions 32 and 30 in West Yorkshire and I know the type of people who will be racing up on the fast lane and at the 200 yard marker for junction 30 will shoot across and cut me up.

Which is why I don't let such drivers in and if they miss their exit, well, it's their own fault for leaving it to the last minute trying to 'beat' all the other cars.

As 'hg' says, there are a lot of drivers who feel they have to win a situation. And you see all those drivers in the 3rd lane on the motorway driving Audi's, BMW's, Mercs and other high-class executive saloons!

I might get to my destination 5 minutes later than the person who stormed up the motorway and then cut someone up to make a quick exit but I'll arrive with my blood pressure the same as it was when I woke up that morning.

As for rubber necking... I don't see the point to be honest in looking at other peoples misery. That's what Eastenders is for. As a passenger it's a reaction to look at something but when you're driving it's just plain dangerous. In that time, which may only be a few seconds, you have looked away something may have changed in front of you. Remember, rubber necking causes more accidents... which results in more rubber necking... and more accidents. It's a vicious circle.

I love driving, it's just the other ignorant and idiotic drivers that make it stressful.

You are not alone in your appreciation of what happens on this stretch of motorway. Luckily I do not have to use it as often as you, but many who have travelled to Gatwick or the Eurotunnel almost certainly will have. Even if you have pulled off the M25 at the Heathrow turn, drivers will have had a flavour of what it's like.
It is a bad piece of motorway and dual carriageway design, that exit/slip roads are not vastly longer. In some instances traffic trying to leave the motorway tails all the way down the slip road back onto the Motorway itself!
People also don't seem to want to believe road signs telling them their exit is a mile, or half a mile away. Apparently the method is to fly up to your junction, in the fast lane and, on a nose to tail motorway assume it won't be snarled up at your junction, (even though it is everywhere else) and then fly off at your exit, cutting up three, four or five lanes of motorway users.
May I say if anyone using this stretch of motorway does drive dangerously like this and you happen to be reading, you might like to reflect on the FACT that this makes you a Dick!
No, I do not have Tourette's you are just a Dick. Make sure it is mentioned on your tombstone.

If only people knew! I was in a minor accident on the M6 and had to wait on the hard shoulder for a tow. Luckily the wait wasn't long and it was August bank holiday so the weather was fine. That was 20 years ago, but what struck me then and what remains a vivid memory today was just how gormless these rubberneckers looked as they stared in my direction through the passenger side windows.
In case any rubberneckers still haven't got the message you look like you're dead from the neck upwards!
None did offer assistance that day and I can only recall how grateful I was for that- because it would have been ungrateful to turn down the well-meant assistance of a family of morons!

It's just all a big race to some people. They must 'win'.