Steve
Rules first.
It must be on the motorway not banking etc.
Ok I'll start......
Wheel barrow lane 2. M62 jn 26-27
We had a foreign car come straight at us on the m23 a few years ago!
he was waving franticly for me to get out of the way, cheaky sod
And yes i was going the right way !!!
BMW with a flashing orange light at the corner.
Audi without a car stuck on its front bumper.
The Flying Scotsman (albeit on a trailer)
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BMW with a flashing orange light at the corner.
Audi without a car stuck on its front bumper.
You only ever see a single shoe on the side of the road, never a pair. Well I saw a single flipper.
Also, an unopened can of Spam sitting on the central reservation. It's surprising how much junk you spot when you're sitting in a traffic
jam.
A pig, of the bacon variety, happily walking across the carriageway. It was the A1 if we are being picky.
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Originally posted by nick997
A pig, of the bacon variety, happily walking across the carriageway. It was the A1 if we are being picky.
Foreign HGV driving flat out the wrong way down the M6 toll road on the hard shoulder....(I was in lane one).
Flashed the driver who waved cheerily back at me........needless to say I phoned the Police. Somehow he had come out of the services/junction the
wrong way.
Took a few seconds to realise what I was seeing.
Rich
Goat, on the A1 near washington services
3 horses on the M6 Preston junction. They were trotting through the stopped traffic. Obviously traffic had stopped for them lol
Driving through a snowstorm on the motorway which was actually the polystyrene insulation of the caravan two lanes away that some fukw1t had just
parked his astra in the side of.
Steve
Being overtaken by one of the wheels of the bus I had just overtaken, M6.
Someones roofbox and contents on the outside lane of the M8.
Also once saw people having a full picnic, table/chairs the lot, on one of those "Police only" raised platforms.
A Rover SD1 rolling over at high speed when a front tyre blew out
I saw a motorhome backwards on a recovery wagon, with its roof coming off in pieces. Bloody driver wouldnt stop! A big chunk had broken someones windscreen.
Does me in a Furore F1 count! It usually seems to create some confusion!
a lorry in full blaze there was no saving anything from that
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Originally posted by russbost
Does me in a Furore F1 count! It usually seems to create some confusion!
not on a motorway but on the old A130 a man laying on his back in the opposite lane at 11o/c at night completely out of it.
Artic on its side having gone through the central reservation of the M25....it was blocking all three lanes on the other carriageway. Lots of people
died on that.
Business Jet on the M27 which had overshot Southampton Airport and went down the embankment onto the motorway....hit two cars.
A carbon fibre bike fall off a car and smash into a million bits.
I saw a car on my side of the M27 roll, flip over the central reservation, and land on its wheels in the outside lane of the other carrieageway!
And against the rules - after the snow 2 years ago. I saw an artic lorry perfectly upright, stuck in the snow drift/bank. We all did a double take as
we drove past and gawped at what looked like a giant stake in the ground! 
M1 southbound, after a weary day in Newcastle returning to the Midlands. A Ford Fiesta, driven by the most terrified OAP I have ever seen... mainly
because he was stationary in the right hand lane and facing the traffic!!! No damage at all (and no other car in range), no services anywhere to have
come out the wrong way, not a clue why he was sat there.
I half suspect he's still there...
[Edited on 19/4/12 by Slimy38]
Going up to scotland in an 7 seater defender to do our D of E gold expedition. We slowly catch up with a bus and proceed to be mooned by 5 or 6 women
on the back row of a big bus. All hawt, too. Our scout leader thought it best to overtake which upset us all greatly
[Edited on 19-4-2012 by Benzine]
Following a Morgan 3-wheeler replica on the M1 after visiting a car show... it was roaring along, the driver had the full sheepskin flying jacket,
with matching Biggles helmet and goggles, and every time he wanted to change lanes he was giving hand signals...
Oh - he was also doing about 80+ mph at the time!
I was quite impressed...
Saw one of those Police forced car stops on the M180 a couple of years back....about 5 Police cars i think....like you see on police. camera, action.....
A Dodgem car, complete with electric pole, doing about 60 mph.
30 years ago a family group who's campervan had broken dancing the congo along the hardshoulder - didn't stop laughing for 20 miles...
Elvis,well a bloke in an Elvis outfit on the M6 hard shoulder
Driving down the M1 in my truck @49mph... I regularly see LHD foreign truck drivers coming past watching the telly on a lappy and often see them
driving with both feet up on the dash with the steering wheel in between
And for some reason Portugal truck drivers out in the 3rd lane, it looks bizzare (to me) seeing 3 trucks side by side across the motorway. Oh and that
goes for Range Rover drivers towing trailers as well.
WHERE ARE THE COPS WHEN YOU NEED THEM!!!!!
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Originally posted by foskid
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Originally posted by russbost
Does me in a Furore F1 count! It usually seems to create some confusion!
Not at all, looking forward to seeing it one day
I once saw Armed police pull 3 men from a car at gun point on what was probably the M3 or M4 (we were heading east from the westcountry). it was a
bizaar thing. We were in normal traffic going along at normal speed when very suddenly everything cam to a halt infront, we were about 20 cars back so
we couldn't really see what was going on at the point. After a couple of minutes we opened up the sun roof to have a look to see if we could see
what was happening (Other people were getting out of cars to do the same thing. So 20 cars up theres police cars blocking the road, and 20 metres or
so in front is a large convertible in lane three and a police car straddling the hard shoulder and lane one surrounded by about 8 policemen, most of
them armed, and one by one three men came out of the convertible with their hands on their heads and ran over too the police car where they were
thrown on the ground and searched/cuffed. Once one was doe the next guy would come out and they did the same.
after the third guy was clear, officers were walking down telling people off for getting out of thier cars and saying everything would be moving soon.
Then traffic set off as normal and we drove passed the remaining police cars on the shoulder.
I've seen the results of accidents and allways find that pretty scary, at one I stopped so a police car with sirens on could get across from an
on ramp to a crashed car in lane three and had someone almost crash into me because he was doing more than the 50 limit posted aproaching the wrecked
car (There was a board not far back saying the lane was blocked).
German Sheppard (dog) wearing a white womans jumper walking down the inside of lane 1?!?
[Edited on 19/4/12 by liam.mccaffrey]
About 30 years ago I was going North on the A19, over the River Tees fly-over. 18years old, flat out in a brand new Transit with a full pallet of
bricks in the rear (1 1/4 imp ton) in the outside lane. Coming towards me, in my lane; an old biddy pushing another old gal in a wheel chair !
Must have been over a mile in either direction to any slip road.
Still think about where they were going to and from, whenever I drive over the fly-over to this day.
Regards
Jon
Mini coming the wrong way in lane one of the M56. Closing at 150mph! Christ the gap closes quicker than you expect and your brain works it out a lot
slower than you'd like!
Truck coming off the Weaver bridge on the M56 when a gust of wind tips it onto 2 (well 6 really) wheels. Did 400m at 45' tips back and carrys on
without slowing. Took a while to pluck up the nerve to overtake.
About 1980 going up the M61 past the services. Very windy and having trouble holding my Renault12 in one lane at 60, when a Reliant goes by like
I'm stood still. A gust of wind and it lifts off, floats clear over lane 2 and lands on the inside lane, then disapears into the distance.
Travelling down a 3 lane private road at 100 ish, noticed a motorbike on the inside of the hard shoulder, thought that's strange, followed by Oh Shit, there's a lamp post covering lanes 2 and 3. dodged that, and passed 4 or 5 cars on the hard shoulder punctures and a nice shiney new audi with a busted radiator
3 pressure vessels falling from the back of a scrap container after hitting the signage over the motorway little bit of swerving and heavy breaking
Three stick in my mind from when i used to do a lot of miles with work....
Following an audi, watching little things about nut sized bouncing down the road and suddenly lots of white smoke - basically the engine was giving
way over a 10 second period.
Following a caravan bouncing from one wheel to another and dragging its car across all three lanes.
Driving up the m40 (From london to brum) and watching a plane fly over the motorway in the distance and lots of men jump out the back. Reality was the
motorway curved in the distance but i didn't know it at the time and was expecting to find a blood bath in a few miles time.
A biker passing me at about 100 pulling a wheelie. heavy traffic at the time.
A dead body lying in the grass on the side of the A1 in the middle of nowhere. That was about 10 years ago.
Was an old tramp.
A guy in a black mercedes parked in the outside lane and having a wee on the central reservation.
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Originally posted by BigLee
The Flying Scotsman (albeit on a trailer)
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Originally posted by Benzine
Going up to scotland in an 7 seater defender to do our D of E gold expedition. We slowly catch up with a bus and proceed to be mooned by 5 or 6 women on the back row of a big bus. All hawt, too. Our scout leader thought it best to overtake which upset us all greatly
[Edited on 19-4-2012 by Benzine]
I once pulled a wheelie at 100mph in heavy traffic
M1 southbound yesterday. In traffic jam. Severed horses foot. There was a good 18" of it
A Mercedes Saloon car doing 70 - 80mph in the middle lane of the M1, with the Offside wheel (still attached to the vehicle) bouncing nearly a foot
clear of the road as he/she was driving along. The back end of the car was not going up and down at all.
Not motorway, but still impressive to see, the Metropolitan Police (all vehicles) Grand Prix, feeding in from Park lane, Bayswater road and Oxford
street, then proceeding in a VERY high speed manner up the Edgware road one Sunday late afternoon. At least 35 vehicles (cars, vans, bikes, box vans)
counted by one person on board our vehicle. Took nearly 10 minutes for them all to go by, never did find out what it was all about. The only thing we
could come up with was the kettle was on at Hendon and the last one back bought the bickies and did the washing up.
[Edited on 20/4/12 by jollygreengiant]
http://locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=118979
Great Dane - 10 plus years ago now I was passenger in a sprinter van towing a large trailer and both me and the driver saw this great dog running
towards the motorway. It jumped the barrier and dashed straight out. There was nothing the driver could do and we slammed straight into it. It was
so big it's head dented the bonnet of the sprinter. Upon slamming straight into it the van and then the trailer ploughed it under. Upon
noticing no slowing down occurring I asked the driver if he was going to stop
Typical Yorkshire response "Naw lad, naw point unless t'radiator is knackered"
WE were going to Nottingham VOSA down the M1 and saw a giant shiny red stiletto shoe on the back of a low loader. It was when the 50 limit was in force so we were alongside it for miles.
On the M54 a girl who flashed me her nether regions by kneeling on the back seat and lifting up her skirt with no knickers on and bending over!
Shame my dad was in the car with me at the time
Also a half alive / half dead cow in the fast lane on the M74 that had been hit by a partner Van.
On Tuesday I saw a guy cycling down the M621 towards Leeds, admittedly on the hard shoulder but still an act of lunacy!!
stuck in traffic, and next to the car, in the central reservation, and 12" long, big black, er, ladies toy...
Dead seagull, in my rear view mirror shortly after mistakenly taking off from the central reservation right into my path this morning.
Made a hell of a bang into the windscreen right at eye level! Wouldn't have wanted to be in a car without a screen helmet or not.
[Edited on 20/4/12 by iank]
Not seen by me - however !!!
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Originally posted by jollygreengiant
A Mercedes Saloon car doing 70 - 80mph in the middle lane of the M1, with the Offside wheel (still attached to the vehicle) bouncing nearly a foot clear of the road as he/she was driving along. The back end of the car was not going up and down at all.
)
A courteous driver obeying all the traffic laws. Not really I am just lying through my teeth.
A guy running down the hard shoulder in his underwear late one saturday night a few years ago on the A12 between Utrecht and The Hague....
Do I win?
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Originally posted by sebastiaan
A guy running down the hard shoulder in his underwear late one saturday night a few years ago on the A12 between Utrecht and The Hague....
Do I win?
A dead cat lying by the side of a sliproad,with
a freshly painted whiteline going straight over the top of it.
I nearly crashed with laughing.
Andy
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Originally posted by jossey
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Originally posted by sebastiaan
A guy running down the hard shoulder in his underwear late one saturday night a few years ago on the A12 between Utrecht and The Hague....
Do I win?
Sorry you came close but benzine won with 5-6 women mooning him.
Sorry but thanks for trying.
There will be another competition next week.
Not me but a mate showed me a picture of an Irish road sign half way down a slip road looking from the rear of the car. It said "Wrong way go back"
Miles of stationary traffic on the M40 Northbound that had beensat there so long people were out their cars waling around and chatting to people,
south bound was deserted.
Turned out to be because of that biker who got shot.
Boing 737 on the hard shoulder of the north bound M1. I was there in 1989 when the British Midland flight failed to make the runway at East Midlands
airport. I was travelling back to Leeds from London at the time. I think that about 47 people on the plane died and I am amazed that they
didn't take any traffic with them.
Less dramatically, I did a reasonable impression of the old Volvo advert where the driver is avoiding flying boxes whilst someone takes pictures. I
was driving down the M6 approaching a flat bed lorry with washing machine sized boxes on the back. Two of them fell off and started to cart wheel
down the motorway. I was approaching very fast so I swerved and went through the gap between the two of them as they rolled down the road.
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Originally posted by jossey
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Originally posted by sebastiaan
A guy running down the hard shoulder in his underwear late one saturday night a few years ago on the A12 between Utrecht and The Hague....
Do I win?
Sorry you came close but benzine won with 5-6 women mooning him.
Sorry but thanks for trying.
There will be another competition next week.
This was not on a motorway, but it did make me chuckle...
Holdup