Nearly squashed a biker on the M4 in my lorry......

Minky_monkey · Traffic Copper Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Karma :

I've just come back from doing a run up to Bristol, on the way up there, there's a courier on an old (and I mean the old) X reg bike in lane two.

He's about a car's length in front of me and I'm in lane one with nothing in front of me. We're both around the 65 mph mark although he was ever so slightly faster than I.

All of a sudden, he loses power and makes a dive for the hardshoulder! The trouble is is that I'm about to run him over! I take evasive action by slinging the truck onto the hard shoulder. It shit the life out of him as he only looked once he'd commited himself to the manourvere! Confused

He shot back into lane two as I undertook him, half on the hard shoulder and half in lane one. He got to the hardshoulder once I'd passed.

Now bearing in mind I've got a customer in the cab with me at the time, my exact words were

"Fucking Hell!" When he did it. Gave me a rush of adrenalin, but he got away with that one!

hugo-a-gogo · Trackday Trickster Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Karma :

edit: oops, re-read it

you were in lane one, he was in lane two Embarassed

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Minky_monkey · Traffic Copper Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Karma :

Now go back and re-read it.

He`s in lane two with nothing in front, I`m in lane one with nothing in front......

And yes a 7.5 tonne recovery vehicle is speed limiter exempt.

Ah, saw your reply! Laughing

Milo · World Chat Champion Joined: 08 Feb 2002 Karma :

Bet that shook you up a little considering it could have been so much worse...
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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Reminds me of the time I came onto four lane bit of motorway down south. One of these stupid and complex junctions where my road joined and became the fast lane. The bike cut out just as I joined. Somehow coasted across three lanes of traffic only to find a row of cones joined together with a rope blocking off the hard shoulder. Shocked

Luckily someone had seen what was happening and slowed the traffic down enough to give me time to kick over a few cones and pull off the road.

After I got the bike going again (oiled up plugs) I rode off, there seemed to be no good reason for the presence of two miles of rope blocking off the shoulder Rolling Eyes

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