Motorway queues and 'rubbernecking'
Having had another bad week on the M25 I decided I had to get this off my chest. I use the M25 anti-clockwise to return home from the M4 interchange, but the worst stretches in my opinion are the M3 interchange and the A3 interchange.
Queues at these sections are exacerbated by the mindless morons who nip down the long exit approach roads and then nip back into the inside lane on the M25. You also have the last minute lane changers going from the middle lane to the exit slip road. All this poor driving does is increase the queues as drivers jockey for position. To top it all you also have to avoid the foreign lorry drivers who are doing the same thing but they do not bother to look before they move. They just pull out and go where they want to with no thought for anyone else on the motorway.
Rubberneckers who slow to a crawl, gawking...
A typical journey will also be slowed down by the rubberneckers who slow to a crawl, gawking at what has happened to some unfortunate driver on their side, or on the other side of the motorway. Why can't they get it into their heads that their journey would be so much quicker and safer if they drove with consideration for the road conditions and avoided the temptation to be nosey rubbernecker?
Finally, what about all those impatient drivers who nip off at an exit because there is a queue in front of them. They then cause a bottleneck on the other side of the interchange as they battle to rejoin the motorway. Is it just me or does this sound like crazy behaviour? I don't know what the solution is to all this but I feel better now!
By: Peter M25 Commuter
Comments from visitors
People make mistakes,Laz. S**t happens.
Rider of the Apocalypse - 5-May-10 17:03
I only say this because 1 accident I've been in was the result of what I later saw to be a van on car crash, the moronic mindless 27 year old woman caked in make up behind me was on her phone and staring at the accident. I saw this from glancing into my rear view mirror but had nowhere to go as the traffic had stopped. Crunch. When I got out, she stayed put and the police came over. She claimed I reversed into her car. Retard. As far as I know, the police saw it and she was heavily fined, given points and her insurance company didn't try to contest police statements.
So you are saying "what the h*ll does he mean by that" no doubt ... well how many drivers do you know that can drivemore than one car at a time??
If building more roads generates more cars, where do all the drivers come from to drive those extra cars??
If we increase the capacity of the motorways to accommodate the number of drivers who actually use a particular stretch of road, then where will all the other cars come from to fill it up??? End of problem, and no need to crush more cars.
Just crushing cars, and the car "Scrappage" scheme as it is called, generate more polution producing new cars than running older ones longer. Regardless of how "clean" newer engines are.
We should all be driving Hydrogen powered vehicles, and pollution would from cars would be almost non-existant.
Vintage driver - 13-Jan-10 21:49
At least I think it is in admiration.
Although on the M42 the other week, I witnessed a BMW cut across the chevrons to make the exit, and seconds later a police car that had been cruising behind a lorry put on its lights and shot off after the BMW, leaving all the surrounding drivers with a warm happy feeling in their tummys!
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
Youthful Griper - 14-May-08 11:59
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.
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!





