Nearly died on the M4 this morning

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Happens quite often at the M6/M6Toll junction.

You are minding your own business on the M6, overtaking heavy traffic when suddenly overhead signs appear telling you that the lane you are in will cost 2 arms and 2 legs because it is the Toll Road, and to carry on on the motorway you have to turn off.

There have been a couple of pile-ups here, not caused by this lunacy, oh no definitely not.

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Thanks all. To be fair, theres plenty of people out there looking for jobs and willing to do them properly. Idiots like this don't deserve to have a job.

Ultrasonic

Crabman wrote: »

May be worth telling VOSA about what happened...

Out of interest, why VOSA rather than the police?

I'd be inclined to contact the police, particularly if I thought there might be CCTV footage of the area. Surely what the lorry driver did constitutes dangerous driving?

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Well, emailed the company and they reckon they've identified the driver and they will deal with in their weekly meeting.

Yeah right....

Tempted to speak to police I must admit....

notanewuser

Jcn 33 by any chance?

vaio

[quote=[Deleted User];discussion/4628067].........Of course, I saw him wondered what he was doing but then he pulls out 100 yards in front of me. Know I know stopping distance at 70mph is about that.... Crapped myself, but had to swerve into outside lane (luckily nothing coming) and then watched as cars behind me almost ploughed into the back of me.......[/QUOTE]

Glad there was no contact/injury but I'd have thought with 100m to play with the move into the other lane (where nothing was coming?) could have been done in a more controlled manner than swerving such that other cars almost ploughed into you.

I might be tempted not to invite the police to start looking at any CCTV and hope that the cars that almost ploughed into you because you swerved into their lane don't make a complaint about your driving either.

Lum

I'm wondering if this is in the south east Wales section. There's lots of tear-off junctions like that and I regularly see stupidity around them. The icing on the cake is that after a whole series of this type of exits, the very last one the Chepstow/M48 exit, the one most likely to be a tear-off is not, it's just a normal exit, but by this point everyone has decided to just sit in the middle lane rather than have to deal with another such exit. They then continue to sit in the middle lane all the way over the bridge.

Crabman

Ultrasonic wrote: »

Out of interest, why VOSA rather than the police?

This incident is worth reporting to the police, it's up to the OP as to whether they do so. However, the police generally don't seem to take action without another witness to an alleged incident.

VOSA on the other hand can and do stop HGVs for detailed inspections including tachographs examinations. They use intelligence from reports and other sources to decide which vehicles to stop.

If the HGV driver is prepared to break the law and risk killing innocent drivers in the manner described by the OP, it's probable that they will have taken shortcuts with regard to other aspects of the law too.

almillar

As TrickyWicky hints to - the lorry driver should have stayed in the sliproad, and in many, not all, cases could have slipped right back on after a roundabout or other junction.
Was there no hard shoulder the driver could have used to get up to speed?

Exemplar

Most fleet lorries will be tracked. However the tracking won't show movement to within a few metres (if you get my drift..). However I would still ask them to look at their fleet records as they should be able to see who was in that area at that time.

Glad you are OK.