The crass stupidity...

[Raistlin]

... of the average British driver never ceases to astound me.

This evening I was stuck in traffic on the off ramp of my local motorway, the M54. I couldn't work out why the standstill and nobody else had any idea, going by the quizzical looks from other drivers.

After having spent 20 minutes on the off ramp, I made it onto the Stafford road heading into the city of Wolverhampton, a dual carriageway, but the traffic was just as bad there, in fact, the motorway roundabout was lethal owing to the mass of traffic, so clearly, the problem lay further towards the city.

Eventually, I saw a blue flashing light just off the carriageway, although too far to see much more. That was the cause of the traffic mayhem, rubberneckers and gawpers trying to see what was going on.

The reason I feel moved to raise this point today is that, as I said, the Stafford Road is a dual carriageway, and I was in lane 2. As we were crawling along, stop and start, the car two in front of me suddenly stopped. Why? because there was an articulated truck in lane one and it was blocking his view of the Police car, or whatever it was, so he stopped and waited for the truck to move away so he could get a grandstand  view of whatever was going on. To make matters worse, there was a Police officer there, clearly at the end of his tether, waving and shouting at motorists to move on and the moron I mentioned, along with several others, just ignored his instructions until they'd got their voyeuristic fill.

Madness. Sheer madness.

Once past the blue light vehicle, the road was as clear as it usually is.

[Old Peter]

I know that road well, and all it needs to cause a jam at rush hour is a clown,  There are plenty on our roads.

The A5127 is a single carriageway between Sutton Coldfiel and the City of Lichfield crossing both the A5 and the A38.  The speed limit is mostly 50 mph and spells of 30 mph. So what do you get?  The driver who travels at 40 mph along the whole length and who manages to get in the wrong lane at all of the traffic Islands and who had not yet got used to using the trafficators.

They are worse [not much, though] than the boy racers.

Peter.