Silver Mercedes with prat-plates – Reg. SAN 5S .
I’ve not done one of these for a while – I was getting too many and decided only to mention the extreme cases in future.
Going to a lesson this morning in Long Eaton, and travelling along Queens Road in Beeston. I’d noticed this Mercedes behind me driving slowly and holding up the traffic as I went past the bingo hall.
As I got to the traffic lights at Station Road he still hadn’t caught up. The lights changed and I carried on – and just as the two lanes started to merge I saw him accelerate. There was nowhere for him to go, but judging by his appearance the senile dementia didn’t allow for a change of plan. He forced me over and to brake hard as he cut in front.
He then proceeded to drive at 30mph in the 40mph zone (just as he’d been driving at barely more than 20mph in the 30mph zone previously). Precisely what was going through his idiot brain is anyone’s guess.
I made it clear I considered he had a problem in the general between-ear area. I think he replied that he had two problems, if I understood his sign language correctly. I didn’t get the chance to clarify, because he turned off at Meadow Lane towards Chilwell and refused to make eye contact (always a sign of guilt).