I had a day off today and went off to Wiltshire to do some shopping and a few other things.<\/p>\n
I was mindful of one of my recent posts about first time passers being safer drivers as I was travelling on the M69 back to Nottingham (actually, the very start of the M69 where the M6 joins it at Walsgrave). There I was, happily driving along on a near empty carriageway, when a silver Ford Galaxy ( reg no. S171 SHJ ) nearly<\/em> pulled out in front of me without reason (the lanes don’t merge: they just join, so it goes from 2 lanes to 4 lanes).<\/p>\n I slammed on my brakes and it dipped back in, and then the idiot pulled out properly this time, obviously thinking I had slowed down to give way!<\/p>\n I watched the Galaxy over the length of the M69 to the M1 repeatedly pulling out in front of other cars without signalling – the driver seemed to want to stay in the left lane, but was travelling faster than everything in that lane. At the M1 junction, the Galaxy overtook one last lorry – but decided to slow right down to do it, which meant I had to again brake and fall in behind the lorry.<\/p>\n The last I saw, the Galaxy was going into Leicester Forest services. As I glanced over, I saw the diminuitive form of a blonde woman (designer sunglasses, black clad)\u00a0sitting arched forward, white knuckles gripping the wheel, staring fixedly ahead at the car she was tailgating.<\/p>\n I wonder how many goes she<\/em> had at the test before passing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a day off today and went off to Wiltshire to do some shopping and a few other things. I was mindful of one of my recent posts about first time passers being safer drivers as I was travelling on the M69 back to Nottingham (actually, the very start of the M69 where the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}