>I watched an episode of Fifth Gear on Discovery H & L last night.
>They trashed an Alfa 164 with a LHD Foden artic to demostrate the
>crash that is a growing trend on British Motorways.
>After being involved in such a crash (where a car creeps past a LHD
>artic and then sits in the blind spot just in front of the front axle,
>then gets wiped out as the truck pulls out), I found it refreshing
>that they gave very good advice to car drivers on how to avoid it
>happening.
>
>When it happened to me the car driver got out and accused me of trying
>to kill him and his family. The car was stuffed with several
>generations of our sub-continental cousins, all wailing and screaming.
>Thats probably why he was going so slowly up the hill, due to him
>being overloaded.
>
>I informed him that if I had been trying to kill him, then he would,
>most assuredly be dead as 44 tonnes of Mercedes driven with intent
>would have made a real mess of his Pugrat. As it was, the first time I
>saw his car was when it was spinning in front of me on the M6.
>
>He complained bitterly to the Plod who turned up, but they said he
>should have been going faster and not to get in the way of trucks in
>the future. Good advice I thought. 1 written off Pugrat (probably a
>bit smelly after that evening's 'entertainment'). I found a couple of
>scratches on the Merc's bumper.
>

It makes me laugh that the police said he should have been going faster. With a
70MPH motorway limit, hidden speed cameras and mobile units on bridges, is it
any wonder that people drive badly? The days of being able to overtake safely
by temporarily increasing speed to over 80 in order to pass lorries have long
gone.