Your right about that. The M50 is terrible for tailgaters. Some people feel if they tailgate, they will make you go faster.

You come on and give advice and then it’s woeful. 3 seconds in dense fog isn’t enough. If it were dense its unlikely you could see the car in front. Slow down, the slower you are the less breaking distance you need.

Larry – firstly, what makes you think I was talking about being in fog, of course you’d drive differently for the conditions! Read my post above where I say “generally” then go on to offer the 3 second suggestion. In actual fact, at motorway speed, the road safety authority advise only a TWO SECOND rule! I added another second for safety! You get up outta the wrong side of the bed this monday morning?!?

that was March 2007.

Well said xxx

Well said xxx glad yr partner was ok

Accidents don’t happen. They are caused. I was driving down the road on my motorbike a few years ago when a woman decided to stop without warning in the middle of the road to let some person out at a junction. I went flying over her car and into the car that drove out. My bike was fine but sadly i was in many pieces and ended up in hospital for most of that year getting operations and recovering. People need to learn and obey the rules of the road and not let people out when they feel like it or making up their own rules as they go along. That includes not being hesitant, not doing your make up, texting, having breakfast, etc. etc.

And how close to that car were you David . Mabye if you were further back taking due care you would of been able to react better and stop before hitting her car ?..

I was way way back but when i came around the corner she was right there. Nothing i could do unfortunately. I see similar occurances on the road every day.People just oblivious to rules of the road and other road users.

That’s sounds life waffle David

The operative word in your statement there David was PEOPLE! It’s people that cause accidents not women. Bitter much.

I have the scars to prove it Les Rock.

Just want to reply to David’s comment on his motorcycle incident not his earlier unfair comment on female drivers: from my experience accidents don’t just happen, they are caused by someone choosing to make a bad decision. Often that bad decision has no adverse consequence but in the case of David’s incident it would appear that the driver choose to do another driver a favour without thinking about what may be behind, to the left or right of him/her, I’m confident in my assumption that the driver was wholly focused on letting the other car out, both drivers will acknowledge each other and feel really good about what happened. As a motorcyclist and car driver I do understand the dynamics of navigating around a blind corner and if you are met with a stationary object immediately after that corner there is very little you can do; driving a car you try to avoid a collision but you’re likely to plough into the back of the car and hope everyone is wearing seat-belts – riding a motorcycle you have fewer options but the result will probably be the same. I have experienced an incredible amount of “courteous” drivers who want to do me a favour by stopping to let me turn off a road or let me in, sometimes they will give up their right of way at traffic signals to offer me a speedier exit from a junction, the list goes on and on. It is difficult to be upset with these drivers because the genuinely believe they are being kind but what they are really doing is creating an environment for an “accident” and without their choosing to ignore the rules that environment simply would not exist. More often than not the driver has not taken into account vehicles behind but more importantly vehicles, especially cyclists, on their left. That cyclist has no idea why that car has stopped, and from personal experience I have seen cyclists riding along the inside, as they should, obeying the green traffic signal, as they should, while I have a motorist waving at me to take a right turn right into the path of the cyclist… I see the cyclist because I am on a motorcycle and sit higher than most cars, what if I was in a car and couldn’t see that cyclist? Do I obey the rules and wait to take the right of way when I have it or do I ignore everything and wave at the kind driver and take the corner? I ask you all, how often to you reject an offer like that? I am betting that very few of you do, most people feel obliged to move when waved on regardless of the potential consequences because we don’t want to let down or upset the other driver that we have eye contact with. I am frequently shocked at the lack of awareness some drivers have, they seem to be focussed on what they see out of the windscreen only. If we all took the view that the rules of the road and the law should obeyed life on the road would not only be a lot safer but also easier and less stressful. I apologise for going on but when you see as many near misses caused by kind gestures as I have it really brings brings home the awesome power that motorists have without realising it, largely because they never really think about it.

David. Expect the unexpected, From The Road Safety Authority. And if you keep your distance it would not have happened. Only a fool breaks The Two Second Rule, also from The RSA.

Thanks Andrew. That’s the point i was trying to make but you OBVIOUSLY have a better way with words than I. Drives the wife mad when I don’t go as instructed by these people “leaving you off” but it is extremely dangerous. When they decide to stop traffic and direct you out they really are taking all the responsibility on their shoulders. Thanks again for putting it so well in your comment.

Or maybe i would be angry and want to have the person that caused it punished!

I some time wonder about ‘men’ like David and their silly comments about women . Does David have a mother , Aunt, Sister , Niece, female cousin, daughter ,female partner ? Grow up and just hope that no one was injured in a crash like this .

Maybe Eileen if people like you were on the receiving end of horrific injuries and suffering due to bad driving and carelessness by others you would be just as concerned about what caused the accident and not just say “ah shur nobody was injured so tis grand”!

Please dont feed the Troll that is David. Thanks, have a great day.

Glad he is ok Gemma. It’s scary how easy it can happen :(

May b it could have been yr fault u want to show a bit of respect for women !!!!!

What a stupid and sexist comment from David. At times like this the reaction should be the hope that no one is injured.