wrong way driver caught in UK motorway!!!

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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 6:39 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2034686/M5-Wrong-way-driver-Deborah-Hunt-jailed.html

after reading the news, it remind me of several mat rempit(illegal motorcyclist without road tax, license often from underage to around 24 riding recklessly)seeing a police road blocking in front then goes wrong way and end up head-on with car and died on the spot.

another story in uk, a 20 yrs old woman charged with dangerous driving after driving wrong way and head-on with lorry luckily survived

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1371597/A90-lorry-driver-came-face-face-car-driving-wrong-way-dual-carriageway.html

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:14 pm

This is what happens when an entire country drives on the wrong side of the road. Blaming one woman, for the UK's poor roadway planning, is ridiculous.

Twisted Evil

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:26 pm

^^^ Now that's funny, I don't care who you are.

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:28 pm

in here, most of the biker whom went wrong way are not a woman but a boy aged around 14 to 25(our legal age of riding motorbike is 17). I've been seen an underage minor pull a wheelie on their parent's motorbike and even lay horizontal while speeding. these picture of a motorbike accident is actually caused by wrong way biker

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:40 pm

any body knows why the UK and some other countries drive on the other side of the road?

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:59 pm

Jim Morrison wrote:

any body knows why the UK and some other countries drive on the other side of the road?

different country different rules, country influnced by british drive on the left. as for japan its their practice

Elite Baiter Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 1702

Here in the uk its surprisingly easy to drive on the wrong side of the motorway.

All you need to do is the following:
miss the roadsigns
miss the warning signs
miss the road markings
miss the road layout
miss the fact other drivers are frantically waving, its not hiya
Forget motorways have two sides on a roundabout.

They always blame the driver, but its not there fault if there not looking out the window whilst driving and didnt see about 20 different clues as to which entrance is ahead.

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:13 pm

Getting off a roundabout at the wrong exit and finding themself on a motorway they didn't want is another old favourite, and getting caught reversing back up the sliproad is nearly as popular. Great fun when everyone else is behind them accelerating to 80+ to joint the motorway.

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:09 pm

Quote:

any body knows why the UK and some other countries drive on the other side of the road?

There's a right way to do things, and the way everyone else does it..

There is some chat about it allowing Roman soldiers to draw their swords freely, but I suspect it's a myth.

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:43 pm

Sweden switched from driving on the left to driving on the right in 1967.
http://www.volvoclub.org.uk/history/driving_on_right.shtml

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:31 pm

jose_cuervo's comment was really funny...

Quote:

This is what happens when an entire country drives on the wrong side of the road. Blaming one woman, for the UK's poor roadway planning, is ridiculous

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Then D11 comes along with...

Quote:

Here in the uk its surprisingly easy to drive on the wrong side of the motorway.

All you need to do is the following:
miss the roadsigns
miss the warning signs
miss the road markings
miss the road layout
Forget motorways have two sides on a roundabout.

They always blame the driver, but its not there fault if there not looking out the window whilst driving and didnt see about 20 different clues as to which entrance is ahead.

Excuse me while I go and change my shorts... Very Happy

My deepest sympathy to those involved. Sad

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:14 am

The US Virgin Islands is the only part of the United States where driving is on the left, the best part is almost all the cars there have left hand steering. I just wonder how many accidents are from forgetful US mainlanders.

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 2:03 am

Jim Morrison wrote:

any body knows why the UK and some other countries drive on the other side of the road?

GordonBennett wrote:

There is some chat about it allowing Roman soldiers to draw their swords freely, but I suspect it's a myth.

According to THIS its more to do with jousting knights and how they carried their lances.

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 2:42 am

I once had a car that the horn blew everytime I turned left. No kidding and I would wave in case anyone was looking. Laughing

Don't know why this thread reminded me of that. Confused

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:21 am

^^ thank you! that made my day!

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:09 am

Old people normally tend to be the ones who cause havoc on the UK's motorways.

There have been instances where OAPs have driven the wrong way for miles. And it's not a rare occurence. Those links below are just a tiny example. It's like there's some compass in the brain that flips around when you reach 70 years old and means that you just can't drive the right way down the motorway. It's every other fucker who's going the wrong way.
All those head-lights coming directly towards you? "Young people. Can't they tell the difference between the right and wrong way? I blame their parents. I'm 75 years old, I'm driving on the right side of the M1 and I never saw a banana until I was 16. Now I'll just drive straight into the front of this big bastard lorry at 140mph as he's not giving way to me and giving me the respect that my age deserves."

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9043121.Pensioner_drove_wrong_way_down_motorway/

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/231982/

http://www.heraldscotland.com/ban-for-pensioner-who-drove-down-motorway-wrong-way-1.914263

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Pensioner-arrested-wrong-way-motorway-crash/story-11285564-detail/story.html

Then there's the guy who took his 8mph invalid scooter onto the 70mph motorway.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7801758/Mobility-scooter-pensioner-causes-four-mile-tail-backs-on-dual-carriageway.html

Best one ever was some old dude who missed his turning on the M25. For those of you who don't know, it's the motorway that encircles London.
He drove aroud and around it for a day and a half. Cops found him on the hard shoulder when he ran out of gas.

Another OAP took 3 days to complete what's normally a 90 minute journey at most.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/26/man-lost-three-days-m4

And this is probably true as well:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/news-headlines/pensioner-completes-motorway-middle-lane-marathon-20070813342/

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:43 am

Reminds me of the guy riding his Vespa on the Autobahn a few days earlier. For those of you that don't know the Autobahn principle - there are parts of it without speed limit, legally. There I was, driving about 180 kph (110 mph, approx) in the fast lane passing a dude on a Vespa in the slow lane. Must have been either an idiot or someone with a death wish.

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:20 am

This explains it all...............

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic

And on a lighter note, ummmm............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39qdhbkTko4

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:45 am

One of my aunties (a formidable lady) in her mid nineties is still driving. Which I suppose is a little bit odd. But what is even more odd is the fact she has never taken a driving test in her life, because at the time, (in Ireland) there was no testing. All you needed was a car and a bit of chutzpah to get mobile.

When compulsory testing was introduced no one dared ask her to take it.

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:29 pm

Isn't there one little street in London where you have to drive the correct (American) way?

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