{"id":5552,"date":"2011-03-31T19:53:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T19:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2023-03-22T00:06:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T00:06:48","slug":"idiot-drives-wrong-way-on-dual-carriageway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5552","title":{"rendered":"Idiot Drives Wrong Way on Dual Carriageway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Another frightening tale from the real world<\/a> in the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report is a little flaky – the car is described variously as “this little car” (cutesy), a “Vauxhall Astro (sic)”, and a “Vauxhall Corsa” (got there eventually).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me paraphrase in plain English: an idiot driver came up an EXIT slip road to drive the wrong way up a dual carriageway, hit a lorry – causing it to jack knife across the road and turn over- and destroyed her own car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you look at the pictures, the damage is unbelievable. Of course, you won’t be able to see the chaos it caused on the roads while they cleared the wreckage – police had to close the road for 6 hours. Nor will the fact that the jack-knifed lorry (or the idiot in the Corsa) fortunately didn’t kill anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The imbecile driving the Corsa has been charged with dangerous driving. According to the Mail, the Crown Office has said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Procurator Fiscal at Aberdeen has received a report concerning a 20-year-old woman in relation to an incident on the A90 on 22 March 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The matter remains under consideration.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I can’t wait to see how this one pans out. I can almost hear the mitigating circumstances now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an aside, about 6 years ago I was driving along the A50 (a dual carriageway which is 4 lanes wide in places) from Derby to Nottingham. I was doing 70 mph when around a bend came another car driving in the outside lane the wrong way. I did things in the proper order:<\/p>\n\n\n\n