Motorway Horror Stories

**Bagpuss** · 6 April 2010, 16:34

Someone parked in the middle lane reading a map.
A wheel coming off an Artic doing 50mph.
Numerous road rage incidents.

**Churchill** · 6 April 2010, 16:37

My Dad lost the gas bottle off the front of the caravan. Bounced across six lanes of motorway without hitting a thing.

**milanbenes** · 6 April 2010, 16:38

BGG,

I remember you telling the story about that car where the bikes fell off the back and if I remember you said, the family didn't notice and kept going and you built the picture of them pulling into the services later for diesel and the dad getting out and wondering where the bikes were

Milan.

**BlasterBates** · 6 April 2010, 16:39

I was driving back home on Friday when suddenly I heard somebody thumping on my roof (whilst travelling around 90 mph) ....WTF.

Anyway pulled over, and was relieved to see no-one on the roof

. It was the windcreen rubber sealing coming loose, and flapping, the adhesive was also coming off, which meant the wind was literally tearing the windscreen off...oh sh*t, anyway drove on the slow roads and limped successfully home.

The thought of the windscreen flying off at 90 mph is...... scary

I'll fit an ejector seat in case it happens again.

**realityhack** · 6 April 2010, 16:40

Lorry shedding a load - of housebricks.

**TimberWolf** · 6 April 2010, 16:41

A long section of exhaust plus silencer speeding through the air towards me, rotating. Time slowed down, but that didn't appear to improve my reaction time. It either missed or no great damaged was caused that I recall, as otherwise I would recall.

**Ravello** · 6 April 2010, 16:45

Lorry shedding it's load of live Pigs (yep really) on the M3, very scary, very long time to clear up, bacon jokes etc on radio begin to get boring once you've been sat there for 3 hours watching dead pigs being scraped up and live ones being rounded up...

Edit: Apparently it's happened again recently on the M11...

**TykeMerc** · 6 April 2010, 16:49

In the early '90's I saw a Volvo estate with 3 adults, 2 children and a large caravan doing 90+ fail to move properly from the outside to middle lane Southbound on the M6 near Stafford, the resulting partial jack-knife, rolling and utter disintegration of the caravan was impressive. The look on the face of the (fortunately) truck driver who unexpectedly stopped the caravan fridge from flying South on the Northbound carriageway with his vehicle was equally impressive.

Unsurprisingly traffic in both directions was stopped for several hours, fortunately the Emergency services were there very quickly and noone died.

I also witnessed a BMW 7 series driver try to cut in at the last very last second at a lane closure, the Land Rover (something) he tried to cut up was having none of it and the BMW driver finally stopped after whacking 4 or 5 of the big motorway cones.

Those are the two pieces of a very long list of muppetry that I've witnessed that stand out in my mind.

**Board Game Geek** · 6 April 2010, 16:52

Originally posted by milanbenes View Post

BGG,

I remember you telling the story about that car where the bikes fell off the back and if I remember you said, the family didn't notice and kept going and you built the picture of them pulling into the services later for diesel and the dad getting out and wondering where the bikes were

Milan.

Yup, they didn't ! Even though everyone was flashing them !

I can imagine the driver looking in his rear view, wondering why all the cars behind him were swerving all over the road, probably thinking "mad nutters".

I bet they got a shock when they stopped and the penny dropped.

Motorway Horror Stories