That spelling looks wrong but I can’t find an alternative that looks right…<\/p>\n
We were on our way back from Soph’s parents last night; the route from their part of rural Worcestershire to our bit of rural Oxfordshire is single carriageway ‘A’ road all the way. Not one ‘A’ road, we have to switch between a bunch of them, but the quality of road remains the same all the way.<\/p>\n
It was dark, about 2.5c and there wasn’t much traffic on the roads.<\/p>\n
At one point as we were coming across the top end of the Cotswolds we caught up with a lorry which was following a car.<\/p>\n
The lorry was a six-axled articulated lorry and it, like us, was doing 60mph. Which is illegal; the national speed limit for Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) on a road of that specification is 56mph.<\/p>\n
But the lorry driver wasn’t having any of that legal nonsense.<\/p>\n
He pulled right up behind the car and put his headlights on full beam. And left them on full beam.<\/p>\n
I felt sorry for the car driver, it must have felt as if he was getting lasered to death; lorry headlights being set at a punishingly blinding height for car drivers even when dipped.<\/p>\n
But this lorry-driving maniac had only one thought; he had to get to wherever he was going and he had to get there quicker than the 60mph that he was being held back to – by the car in front.<\/p>\n
I dropped back a couple of car lengths and flipped my headlights up to full beam and left them there until the lorry driver eventually dropped his back to dip.<\/p>\n
What a total shite this lorry driver was.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the car turned off, probably to find a hospital to have his retina-burn treated, and the lorry sped away from us in a burst of speed that was completely inappropriate for a country road.<\/p>\n
The lorry registration number was X111 EDC. We think the haulage company was ‘Spicer’s’.<\/p>\n
If anyone can throw any light on this company I’d appreciate it; this was dangerous driving at its worst and should be reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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