I had a day off today and went off to Wiltshire to do some shopping and a few other things.
I was mindful of one of my recent posts about first time passers being safer drivers as I was travelling on the M69 back to Nottingham (actually, the very start of the M69 where the M6 joins it at Walsgrave). There I was, happily driving along on a near empty carriageway, when a silver Ford Galaxy ( reg no. S171 SHJ ) nearly pulled out in front of me without reason (the lanes don’t merge: they just join, so it goes from 2 lanes to 4 lanes).
I slammed on my brakes and it dipped back in, and then the idiot pulled out properly this time, obviously thinking I had slowed down to give way!
I watched the Galaxy over the length of the M69 to the M1 repeatedly pulling out in front of other cars without signalling – the driver seemed to want to stay in the left lane, but was travelling faster than everything in that lane. At the M1 junction, the Galaxy overtook one last lorry – but decided to slow right down to do it, which meant I had to again brake and fall in behind the lorry.
The last I saw, the Galaxy was going into Leicester Forest services. As I glanced over, I saw the diminuitive form of a blonde woman (designer sunglasses, black clad) sitting arched forward, white knuckles gripping the wheel, staring fixedly ahead at the car she was tailgating.
I wonder how many goes she had at the test before passing?