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to want to thank the lady in a blue mazda on M25

405 replies

mw27pink · 25/09/2010 23:01

We were travelling on M25 this morning at about 9.30 on the fast lane. Couple of cars before us suddenly slowed down, but the breaks in our car did not work. All I remeber is me shouting at my husband to slow down as I could see us crashing into this convertable blue mazda(not sure about the make). The lady herself was able to break on time and get out of our way by 10 cm...I am still shaking. We were going out for a fun family day and it could have gone soo wrong. We never got a chance to say thank you to her as we had to move out of the motorway all togather, but I have been thinking of that woman all day as I dont think she realised how lucky she was avoiding us at 70ml/h crashing on her back. So whoever you are THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

OP posts:

iliketosleep · 28/09/2010 23:19

Was that aimed at my comment?

amarone · 28/09/2010 23:23

Scarier than a scientologist.

iliketosleep · 28/09/2010 23:40

I wasn't refering to the driving. I mean the attitude in the posts. Ffs I've read endless posts about OP's driving when it was her DH. I've read posts about her carrying on her fun day out and going on a motorway knowing full well the brakes are defective....erm where does it say this? I've seen her husband be called an incompitent wanker. Seen her been told to learn to drive. EVEN seen "I bet she had a 'Princess on board' sign in the back of the car" WTF has that got to do with anything???? Oh yes and she's had the piss taken out of her for typos. Like I said everyone else is perfect. Nobody knows what really happened. OP didn't go into full details, just brief information, the kind you get when your shook up from my experience. I find it very very unlikely that anyone would put their dc's lives at risk and if I'm wrong then I take this all back. MY opinion! Not defending anyone or anything as I don't know what really happened either but I do not see the need for so many personal and vicious attacks on her. Your all grown adults aren't you?

HerBeatitude · 28/09/2010 23:43

iliketosleep, I don't know, did you make a comment implying that drivers who think you should drive safely within the laws, are setting themselves up as perfect? If so, you weren't the only one, so it wasn't aimed at your comment specifically (if you did make one) but at the general thrust of that argument which just sounds mad ot me.

It's a bit like people who get annoyed that people who don't have affairs are setting themselves up as perfect. Or people who aren't mainlining drugs at the dinner table. Some things are just normal, not particularly perfect, IYSWIM.

Morloth · 29/09/2010 08:11

Cain you shouldn't be too hard on yourself, driving while drunk can happen to anyone.

If you had squashed a kid it would definitely have been their fault at least morally for stepping in front of your car.

I repeat my earlier comments of barking and moronic.

StealthPolarBear · 29/09/2010 08:37

ilike, most people would have come back on withiin 10 mins to say "oh no of course we didn't carry on! The other accident we saw was from the safety of an AA van"
In fact the OP has just come back to say how blessed and grateful she is, and how we are all picking on her and somehow lack basic social skills.
Rather driving skills than social skills!

catfunt · 29/09/2010 08:47

I was driving on the M62 yesterday (twice) and was mildldy terrified due to this thread

fifitot · 29/09/2010 08:49

I can't believe this thread. Surely the OP is joking? Surely she can see why people might be just a bit concerned?

Bloody hell - frightening.

Rockbird · 29/09/2010 08:53

OP, how many children were in that seven seater of yours when you went for your joyride? While we're at it, might as well ask you for Saturday's lottery numbers. There's as much chance of you answering that as the other question.

Utterly bonkers.

LadyBiscuit · 29/09/2010 09:04

catfunt I have got to use the car today. I am slightly scared and will be leaving about two bus lengths in front of me in case of morons

TheHeathenOfSuburbia · 29/09/2010 11:10

Exactly, LadyBiscuit, I was driving on the motorway yesterday, and was extra careful to leave a lot of stopping distance, in case there was someone like the OP driving behind me.

Am now slightly suspicious that the OP is made up by a police/fire officer sick of scraping people off the road... but there clearly are people that stupid out there, so...

prettybird · 29/09/2010 12:09

At first I was sympathetic to the OP but have since changed my mind - perhaps in part due to Animation's wierd defence of rear-ending incidents.

Braking distances are braking distances. That is why the police are always complaining, after multiple pile-ups that drivers don't leave sufficient stopping distances.

The second thing I do if I ever have to slow on a motor way becasue of brake lights ahead is look in my rear view mirror. This is to check if there are any nutters people driving dangerously without due care and attention behind me and to give me time to manoeuvre if I need to. Even though it would be their fault if they went into the back of me, I really don't want to be an accident if I can avoid it.

An old boss once gave me a valuable bit of advice: he always braked harder than he needed to if coming up to "abnormal" stationary traffic (like on a motorway). That way, if someone was coming up too fast behind him, he still had a wee bit of extra room in front of him to "move into". The lanes on either side are not always empty (what would have happened to the OP if the blue Mazda driver had had nowhere to go?)

BTW: I am not a "perfect" driver. I once was at fault in a very similar accident: Four cars drving along a Lincolnshire fen (raised) road very early one October morning. The car in front stopped suddenly and started to reverse (I thnk to pick up a hitch-hier we had passed about half a mile back). The car behind him stopped in time, the car behind him skidded a bit - and I went into the back of him. What I hadn't realised was that the roads were icy :( It was still my fault. Fair cop. I couldn't swerve out of the way becasue that would have risked going off the road and dwon a steep bank, which would have been much more dangerous. :(

iliketosleep · 29/09/2010 12:54

This is also another thing, stopping distances? She said that the brakes failed. She was yelling at her husband to slow down. That doesn't mean that her DH wasn't trying to break cause i'm assuming that if brakes fail then the car doesn't slow down? I've never had brake failure myself but I know my imaginary brake when DH is driving doesn't work so I'm assuming there isn't much difference.

Morloth · 29/09/2010 13:01

If the brakes failed then they should not have driven passed an accident 10 minutes later. They should have been off the road and waiting for emergency assistance.

There is no possible way this can be spun as other than the OP and her DH being irresponsible. She uses the word herself like it is some sort of joke.

It isn't a joke, because when they finally manage to kill themselves and their kids with their stupidity they might take me and my kids with them.

iliketosleep · 29/09/2010 13:13

OK just found this one that I hadn't read...

Well.....I am speechless!! Obviously totally irresponsable of me and my DH, but none the less absoulutly greatfull to the brim for somebody else quick thinking to avoid what would have been a serious incident. I have not stoped blessing that woman (I dont know who she is and after yesterday she might not want to know who I am either!!) But I thank God that for every irresponsable driver (like us!!) there are so many good ones

So they admit they were irresponsible, which shuts me up BUT like I said in my other post, there is no need whatsoever for some of the vile posts on here! The one that got my back up the most was the "bet she has a 'princess on board' sign too" thats just down and out snobbery.

Morloth · 29/09/2010 13:22

I disagree, anyone who doesn't give a fuck about their own kids or my kids or blue mazda lady deserves a bit of vile. Would you feel the same if blue mazda lady hadn't managed to move out of the way and was now dead?

I absolutely think I am better than the OP and her DH, because I actually give a damn about the people on the road with me, this may make me a snob but I would rather be a snob than a moron.

iliketosleep · 29/09/2010 13:33

Your opinion i suppose, I just cannot abide snobs or bullying. Its not just this post there are a few.

Rockbird · 29/09/2010 13:35

But you can abide irresponsible drivers? God forbid anyone bullies them or looks down on them...

Morloth · 29/09/2010 13:38

I can't abide stupid people but what can you do?

iliketosleep · 29/09/2010 13:44

Did I say I did? but there have been worse. This was obviously accidental. Unlike the fool who tailgated me (about a foot away and also with my dc in the car) and was swerving left and right in a bid to get me to move. When I wouldn't he drove onto the right hand side of the road sped past about 10 cars in slow moving traffic towards oncoming traffic.

QuintessentialShadows · 29/09/2010 13:50

op and her dh are traffic bullies. I cant abide bullying either.

LadyBiscuit · 29/09/2010 13:53

It may have not been their fault that their brakes failed but it was absolutely deathly irresponsible for them to continue on their 'family day out' with faulty brakes.

And the OP has not denied that they carried on driving so presumably they are still driving around in their deathwagon. That's why the OP got so much grief.

I agree that the princess comment was a bit below the belt though.

BecauseImWorthIt · 29/09/2010 14:26

"Unlike the fool who tailgated me (about a foot away and also with my dc in the car) and was swerving left and right in a bid to get me to move. When I wouldn't he drove onto the right hand side of the road sped past about 10 cars in slow moving traffic towards oncoming traffic."

Why didn't you move? You could see he was a dangerous driver, yet you stayed in front of him, not letting him pass, which would have been much safer!

Morloth · 29/09/2010 14:33

I would say OP and fool tailgater are about the same actually.

Ladder · 29/09/2010 14:38

just reading through this thread and said the posting name catfunt.

Bloody brill. laughed out loud at that.

Ahem. As you were.

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