So, there we were heading south down the M6 on Saturday lunchtime, reasonable traffic with everyone making good progress at around the speed limit.

We'd just come past Junction 14, when a Renault Clio loaded up with "lads" decided to join the outside lane, just in front of us. Literally just in front of us, as in right in front.

I backed off and continued. Watching the Clio in front weaving around the outside lane with the four lads inside clearly having a good time (in their own minds at least) As they passed another car which had a football teams pennant flying the lads on the passenger side of the Clio were leaning out of the window gesticulating at the other car, with the driver and other passenger joining in form their side.

The car continued to weave down the road one minute almost joining the middle lane and the next right over by the central reservation. I backed off a bit more, biding my time and waiting for a suitable gap so I could leave them well behind us.

Next second it was too late, the weave got too much and the driver overcorrected sending the car bouncing over the kerb on the central reservation and into the barrier. With a bang the front offside tyre exploded sending the car into the barrier and into a spin, the back left corner entered the middle lane followed by the front of the car, and the Clio pirouetted across the motorway, narrowly missing a 4x4 and one other car. After a 360 spin the Clio came to rest against the barrier on the hard shoulder.

This all happened in such slow motion I had time to check my mirrors, apply the brakes and bring the S2000 to a crawl in the outside lane amongst the debris of the front left of the Clio and then get over to the hard shoulder, while also keeping an eye on what was going on to my left.

I ran back to check that no one was hurt (thankfully no one was!). I couldn't beleive what I saw though, the car was full of cans of lager! The four lads had all clearly been drinking and were making no efforts to hide the fact!

The two cars that the Clio had narrowly missed had also pulled over and we all waited for the police to turn up. Having seen the stash of booze in the car there was no way that they were getting away with this one!

The police eventually turned up, along with the highways agency and a couple of ambulances. The driver duly failed his breath test and the three passengers received a serious bollocking from one of the coppers for their attitude.

From the statements the police took form the witnesses and from what he told us it looks like the lad who was driving will be facing a charge of driving without due care as well as drink driving. Hope they throw the book at him.

Sadly though from his attitude while we were waiting on the hard shoulder I don't think he'll learn a single thing. The bravado he showed was unbeleiveable, he was more concerned about the damage to his car than what could have happened and to have him stand not far away and proclaim how great a driver he was because he controlled the car throughout the accident. Yeah right! If he was that great a driver he wouldn't have benn drinking while at the wheel, or allowing his mates to drink in the car, or allow them to act like complete twats nor would he have lost control in the first place.

Eventually we were on our way and made it tot he NEC to see Clarkson, Hammond, May and The Stig act like twats in a car

Yet more proof that it's the other's out there we have to watch out for most of the time! Go careful and keep your eyes open!!

 

First, from the title, I thought you'd stacked it so great that you've not!

When you see stuff like this, you prepare for the worst but generally nothing ever comes of it, so it must have been a shock when it unfolded infront of you.

Its inevitabley drivers like you who adopt a defensive position, that prevent others around you from ploughing into the incident, your controlled braking, also means everyone behind you does too.

Must have made the Top Gear display seem rather boring in comparison!

I bet the driver will be less churpy today, on a sober Monday morning.

 

Shame the Clio has such a high NCAP rating. They deserve several broken bones at a bare minimum. Paralysis or death preferably.

 

More luck than anything else that someone wasn't seriously hurt.

Glad to hear you and your motor made it out unscathed though.

This reminded me of an accident one of my freinds had on the motorway, he wasn't drink driving or anything like that, but he's by no means the best driver on the road. Drives far too fast for the conditions and takes risks. He was belting along the M25 towards the dartford bridge, when he lost control of his van in the fast lane, he clipped the central reservation much like the clio driver did which then sent him into a spin. He said the car spun from the fast lane, all the way over to the hard shoulder where he eventually came to a stop, allbeit facing the wrong way. When he was telling me the story, he said the only thing he can clearly remember is his Sat nav telling him to "turn left, turn left, turn left, turn left" as he span

 

And its these simpletons who wonder why their insurance is too high.

I can just picture the little tool now

"honestly mate, I swereved to avoid the other cars mate....Burp!"

Throw the book at him, His mates are no better either.

On the other hand, I hope you had a laugh at the motor show. I went a couple of weeks ago at Earls Court and had a good time

 

****s like these will get a ban, which they'll ignore, a fine that they can't pay cause they don't have a job, and stroll through life regardless. Courts should deal with these cases with a baseball bat, that teach something.

Phew, feel better now.

 

Glad it wasn't you.

Bharat

 

Close one. Glad no-one was hurt.

These twats could have killed someone and I hope this is addressed puntively in his upcoming court appearance.

 

there needs to be a more serious punishment for drink driving on the mway. mandatory jail in this case.

it's so easy to kill someone at motorway speeds.

 

Why?

Like it's gonna deter chavvy scroates like these?

You only have to watch "police interceptors" to see the overgrown children that plod has to deal with all the time these days. One minute they're hurling abuse at officers, the next minute crying for their mummies. And that's before plod loses his rag with them.