Standards of driving rant

[jammapic]

Absolutely mate... I do about 30k a year for work, and I have noticed that in the last few years people are getting worse and worse. Up until maybe, the beginning of this year I had never seen anyone fly up the hard shoulder at 90+mph, when the motorway was busy, but moving well at 70 or 80. This year alone I must have seen it 3 or 4 times.

I'll tell you the scariest thing though - the difference in driving for work during the week, where reps are flying up and down the motorway, and then the weekend where people who look truly terrified behind the wheel, try and battle the big scary motorway.

The stereotypical Sunday driver is now a weekend driver - and the amount of skill / knowledge / confidence some people have to drive on the motorway is truly terrifying.....

My boss and colleague had one a few months ago. Driving along in the fast lane, on their way to a meeting when a guy in a clapped out old Fiesta wanted to be past. They moved over to let him by, which he struggled to do as he was flat out. Next thing, he started to get a speed wobble so the guys dropped back seeing something was about to go terribly wrong. Before anyone knew what had happened Fiesta had taken out 2 or 3 cars in the middle / slow lane, and was facing backwards in the hard shoulder. Lack of control? Pushing a shit car too hard? Who knows. The fact remains, his driving skill was not where it needs to be.

Scary.