I was going to blow off steam.<\/p>\n
You really wouldn’t believe the standard of driving I saw on the way to the yard this evening.<\/p>\n
The girl in the Golf in front of me who – for six miles<\/em> – spent the entire time texting.<\/p>\n At 60 miles an hour.<\/p>\n The lorry drivers (four of them) who blocked the M5 for eighteen miles by playing leap-frog in the first overtaking lane.<\/p>\n The thirty-eight car and van drivers I encountered who remain blissfully unaware that the middle lane is now officially designated ‘the first overtaking lane’ – and when you’ve overtaking you have a legal obligation to pull in to the left-hand lane, you dozy fucking wankheads.<\/p>\n I’ll admit I was also frustrated by a half-hour holdup when the M5 was closed because the driver of a Ford Focus decided to introduce his car to a bridge support in the middle section of the motorway at close to 70mph.<\/p>\n The policeman I spoke to confirmed – as the rubber marks clearly indicated – that no other vehicle was involved.<\/p>\n So it’s likely the driver either fell asleep or was also doing the text thing – or perhaps playing with their satnav.<\/p>\n I realise that the standard of driving in the UK is better than it is in some other European countries.<\/p>\n But we’re in danger of labouring under delusions of adequacy.<\/p>\n And we’re not adequate.<\/p>\n The standard of driving in the UK today is absolutely awful.<\/p>\n We need compulsory retests every two years.<\/p>\n We need IQ tests – without which the candidates don’t get even a provisional licence.<\/p>\n We need common sense tests – as above.<\/p>\n And we need penalties which keep people who are caught breaking motoring laws off the bloody roads.<\/p>\n Hanging about waiting for people to drive their cars in to motorway pillars isn’t good enough.<\/p>\n Yes the gene pool needs thinning out, but let’s keep these people off the roads in the first place – they could end up injuring or killing some poor innocent person.<\/p>\n B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was going to blow off steam. You really wouldn’t believe the standard of driving I saw on the way to the yard this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}