Some dumb bitch almost killed herself and myself today.
I was driving in a perfectly safe manner, in the fast lane, on a 3 lane motorway @ around 70. Nobody behind or in front of me. In the next lane was the dumb overly timid bitch in her red Pug, going about 60. In the outer lane, a huge European truck. Well... as I reach the side of the Pug, the truck started to indicate for whatever reason... it didn't start to move, just indicate. So, about 0.5 seconds later, the dumb bitch decided to suddenly move out of it's way into the outer lane, where I was travelling. My front was about 2 metres from her rear, which might as well be nothing when I'm going faster than her. She must have seen me, had I been able to pass her I'd have been in her blind spot for all of 0.1 seconds.
Luckily I travel about 70-80 miles/day on the motorway, going with the flow in the fast lane, and through city centres in rush hour morning & evening, so I'm quite sharp to this kind of thing and I'm always half expecting someone to do something stupid. Of course I never take my eyes off the road. It might have been okay, had she not been going slower than me I'd have just eased off the gas pedal. Holy shit. I saw the truck indicate and I expect that she'd move out of the way - just not in a manner that would cause me to skid around 20 metres. Now I'm going 70 with no control over the car and I'm inches from her rear bumper.
Everything seemed to go in slow motion. It's funny how you remember safety things, like instinct - don't grip the wheel too tightly, keep calm, don't steer while skidding, control it, etc. I was going FASTER than her, so I can't believe that I didn't hit her, the centre rails, or skid into the middle lane. Had I tagged her, she'd have been into the rails, in that little shitty no-safety Pug at around 65. Bye bye legs.
People, please, check your mirrors before maneuvering. The human brain is fast as fuck - it takes a normal person what, a second to check your mirror and blind spot, maybe not even that.
Luckily I travel about 70-80 miles/day on the motorway, going with the flow in the fast lane, and through city centres in rush hour morning & evening, so I'm quite sharp to this kind of thing and I'm always half expecting someone to do something stupid. Of course I never take my eyes off the road. It might have been okay, had she not been going slower than me I'd have just eased off the gas pedal. Holy shit. I saw the truck indicate and I expect that she'd move out of the way - just not in a manner that would cause me to skid around 20 metres. Now I'm going 70 with no control over the car and I'm inches from her rear bumper.
Everything seemed to go in slow motion. It's funny how you remember safety things, like instinct - don't grip the wheel too tightly, keep calm, don't steer while skidding, control it, etc. I was going FASTER than her, so I can't believe that I didn't hit her, the centre rails, or skid into the middle lane. Had I tagged her, she'd have been into the rails, in that little shitty no-safety Pug at around 65. Bye bye legs.
People, please, check your mirrors before maneuvering. The human brain is fast as fuck - it takes a normal person what, a second to check your mirror and blind spot, maybe not even that.
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