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Bellend Sebastian

How is it possible to drive the wrong way down a dual carriage way without noticing?

By Bellend Sebastian, in General Chat

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Bellend Sebastian

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I've no idea. But driving back along the A46 last night, that's exactly what someone was doing. Well, I assumed they hadn't noticed anyway.

It was all a bit scary, as by the time we had realised that the oncoming car was on our side of the carriageway it had gone past us. If we'd been in the outside lane, I think they'd be scraping bits of us off the road now

GLC

GLC

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I've no idea. But driving back along the A46 last night, that's exactly what someone was doing. Well, I assumed they hadn't noticed anyway.

It was all a bit scary, as by the time we had realised that the oncoming car was on our side of the carriageway it had gone past us. If we'd been in the outside lane, I think they'd be scraping bits of us off the road now

:blink:

StanSP

StanSP

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Old age? You'd be surprised.

Tiredness? Sleeping at the wheel?

It's about as ridiculous as 'falling asleep while a tattooist sticks a needle in your face'.

Lillehamring

Lillehamring

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Foreigners :@

Cheers Labour :D

:giggle:

i thought you wrote 'cheap labour'.

Webbo

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I've no idea. But driving back along the A46 last night, that's exactly what someone was doing. Well, I assumed they hadn't noticed anyway.

It was all a bit scary, as by the time we had realised that the oncoming car was on our side of the carriageway it had gone past us. If we'd been in the outside lane, I think they'd be scraping bits of us off the road now

I did this not long after I'd passed my test. I left a Little Chef on the A6 the same way I entered ignoring the no entrie sign thinking it wouldn't matter.

I very nearly soiled my trousers when I saw a bloke heading straight at me and the expression on his face will live with me for ever.

Luckily there was a gap in the central reservation quite soon after and I got back in the right direction.

Moral of the story: Always obey no entry signs.

Bellend Sebastian

Bellend Sebastian

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I think the main thing I took from it is that if I'm ever in that situation again and don't happen to be in the other lane from the bloke heading in my direction, I'll probably be dead before I get the chance to get scared about it

Guest Bilo

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I'd bet my arse it was a foreigner aged over 40.

shen

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I think the main thing I took from it is that if I'm ever in that situation again and don't happen to be in the other lane from the bloke heading in my direction, I'll probably be dead before I get the chance to get scared about it

Happened to my dad and I in Germany as well a few years ago. He was driving and I was sleeping on the passenger's seat around 2 or 3 am. Suddenly I wake up as the car swerves quite violently and I just remember seeing us heading straight into the crash barrier, but somehow my dad managed to evade it. Another car a few hundred meters ahead was standing in the emergency lane. We stopped at the next gas station and my dad's face was completely white and his knees were trembling. The other car eventually came too, and him and my dad just looked at eachother terrified about it all. They didn't initially notice the ghost driver, because it just looked like any other car on the opposite lane... It's almost a miracle that we survived that experience with only a scare :|

Thracian

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Old age? You'd be surprised.

Tiredness? Sleeping at the wheel?

I don't think it's any more "old age" than anything else. Old people are likely to know their way around even if they go slowly. Foreigners who don't understand the signs seems to be as big problem as anything lately. That and confusion over road signs because there is so much street "furniture" now it has become ridiculous and some of them are either badly placed or misleading.

Finnegan

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I don't think it's any more "old age" than anything else. Old people are likely to know their way around even if they go slowly. Foreigners who don't understand the signs seems to be as big problem as anything lately. That and confusion over road signs because there is so much street "furniture" now it has become ridiculous and some of them are either badly placed or misleading.

Siiiiigh.

Webbo

Webbo

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Such activites are the preserve of the stupid, inattentive and senile.

:yesyes::(

I also did it on holiday in Florida, but I've got an excuse there as they drive on the wrong side of the road.

Teece

Teece

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Have seen someone do it on the Blaby by-pass before, they turned out of the rugby club entrance (or whatever it is) to join the carriageway, but obviously didn't realise it was a dual one because they turned right :S

Cue much beeping and flashing

saw some fool on a moped coming towards us out of the darkness in the wee small hours in Cheshire once too, then the police so dont know if it was part of his elaborate escape plan or something :rolleyes::dunno::D

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