Motorway closures

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/8226973.stm

M5 closed for eight fucking hours because some wanker climbed up a
bridge. It took the selfish arsehole seven hours to finally jump and top
himself. In the meantime thirty-five miles of queues built up...

I've said it before, I'll say it again: it should take no more than
twenty minutes to get a sniper on scene. Then everyone else can get on
with their lives.

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Yes, but its OK for you to bloody moan from a distance.

You didnt have the resulting gridlock for miles around while the clueless
sheep with no bloody sense of direction milled around ineffectually trying
to bypass the motorway.
It is NOT a good idea to have 2 trucks meet in the narrow village lane
with an entire herd of cars and caravans following each of them to
preclude any possibility of reversing out.

 

Yesterday morning, there was news that they'd closed the M25 opn my
route to work. Took the bike, reckoning it should be clear by the time I
got there. It wasn't - bad smash, apparently, so I filtered to, and yes,
the muppets were leaping out of their cars again, so I filtered using
the horn "enthusiastically".

Saw one rider give a volley of verbals to some silly cow who nearly
collected him with her car door as she decided to go walkabout.

Turned off at J6, and went down via East Grinstead. Got to work five
minutes late.

Coming home after work, and **** me, they'd done it again. Same place
(to within half a mile), same carriageway, truck pulled over, smashed
car, van on its side, janitors and Fire Brigade everywhere.

It's a motorway. It's a straight fucking line. How hard is it to drive
on it?

I suppose the idiots will be doing it all over again this weekend, it
being a Bank Holiday.

 

I had the pleasure of filtering past a nice 6 car pile up yesterday.

Again, on a road in a straight line.

It's the end of the holidays here too. All the fuckers are coming back to
Paris...

 

Let me know if you find out. There are lots of "how the **** did they
manage that" accidents on the M20.

The most interesting one so far was the person in the minivan that
managed to hit one of those newfangled 'buffers' that they stick on the
end of the armco. By the looks of the car they'd managed a sideways 360
and then parked it behind the armco.

I'm so not looking forward to that, given that I'm going up to
Silverstone on Monday afternoon.

 

Totally in agreement with you.
What gives _one_ person the right to **** up countless thousands of others
to go about their daily business un-impeded?

Unfortunately, the police don't seem to be able to _deal_ with a situation
properly now. Their first action is to _always_ close a road. I'm sure, that
even with most crashes/incidents they can get the traffic by if they really
wanted to.
I think they enjoy fucking everybody about, it gives them such a sense of
power!

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You'd think.

Do those who cause this accidents get any sorrt of penalty? Cos i'm fucking
sick of hearing about the carnage every Friday but god forbid I should drive
down our main stretch at 34mph.

 

I'm reminded of that Chinese bod recently, who got tired of waiting and
just walked up behind the jumper and gave him a helping push.

 

In communiqué <1j57am5.hk2sx21l20ncaN%>,

I'm glad we caught the 07:50 chunnel train on Wednesday. Decided to opt
for the long way round the M25 and up the M40 instead of the Dartford
crossing. All running remarkably smoothly.

Not looking forward to the usual M6 malarkey up to Liverpool in a couple
of hours. The tart is a bit wide in the beam with the throw-over
panniers on[1]. We had to filter for mile after mile last year.

[1] Note well secured clear of the hot bits.


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"one small step for a man; one giant leap for another".

 

Hm. This one. Ouch.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/surrey/8227619.stm

 

Decent of the guy to turn himself in once he realised though.

 

Seems fairly minor for such a long closure.

'Several hours to investigate'

How? - surely it's simple - board fell off van, hit bike, bike crashed.

That's summed up the investigation in about 20 seconds.

 

Some arsehole tailgating, stomps on anchors and swerves in front of
truck, truck driver stomps etc, jacknifes and unlucky sods behind him
are collected by trailer.
The **** who caused it fucks off into the distance...

Was on 'Motorway Cops' or summat last week - pretty much as above and
showed a Corsa with no roof, removed by trailer.

 

Down, not across...

 

Yes, I reckoned so too. Probably rides himself.

 

Dartford seems to be completely useful ATM. Every weekend, it's backed
up for miles.



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Seems to be the case even during weekday evenings. I think I'll go via
the Blackwall tunnel Monday evening.

 

I dread to think what it's like during the rush hour. 1040 ish this
morning heading south, 3 miles. North was the same. This is a weekend
morning FFS.

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You forgot "...the thirtyseven photographs with a paragraph on the back
of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence..."