British roads are some of the busiest in Europe and we are sure that many of our members have seen some strange things happen whilst driving.
Well, this is your chance to share those experiences with the rest of our members and don’t hold back. It is worth highlighting though that we will be moderating the comments just to make sure they’re not too strange!
Here are some of the strange experiences from the PetrolPrices team:
“Whilst driving up the M6 near Coventry saw a coach in the opposite carriageway completely on fire, the smoke was so great that you could not drive past so drivers had to stop in their lanes whilst waiting for the smoke to clear. It was like a scene from a war film and very scary and strange to watch a coach completely on fire”
Story from Jason, Managing Director
“In my local town centre, an elderly driver got confused with the sat-nav and they took a bit of a wrong turn… down a flight of concrete steps. The car was completely ruined and the chap was rather stressed by the whole ordeal. Since then, the council have put bollards in front of the steps to make sure something like this doesn’t happen again.”
Story by Nick in Marketing
“Probably the strangest thing I’ve seen would have to be a car rolling onto a roof in a road tightly packed with cars on either side. Simply had clipped one that was parked and rebounded off of another few before finally tipping up and rolling over. The driver was quite shocked but at the same time quite puzzled about her own effort.”
Story by Josh in Technical
Add yours in the comment section below and let’s celebrate the unique and strange nature of the British road network and what happens upon it.
High street Tonbridge, Kent circa 2001, I saw a car racing up the street and it took off on a humped bridge. With a young inexperienced driver at the wheel he turned the wheels mid air and when he landed, rolled multiple times through a bus stop (thankfully empty), hit a low wall and flipped 10 ft into the air landing on it’s side perfectly in a 1 metre wide footpath between building and wall. 5 occupants got out with barely a scratch between them!
Darren
Driving up the M5 traffic was brought to a standstill. Soon there were about 400 sheep spread over both carriageways chased by several police officers.
I managed to get onto the hard shoulder, and stopped a cop, let my three working Border Collies out and set them to work. Sheep soon herded off motorway into some farmer’s field.
Those cops were so grateful as most were on foot!
This happened about 40+ years ago and involved an old style mini van, the type with the starter button on the floor, as it took a very sharp right hand bend, it didn’t make it and slid down the embankment landing on it’s left hand side, the driver and passenger got out and promptly rolled the van onto it’s roof then back onto its other side and then back onto it’s wheels, it started up with no problem and was last seen speeding off over a field.
While driving north on the M6 near Carlisle I saw five blue plastic 40 gallon oil drums on the other carriageway heading south. They must have fallen off a truck and the driver had not noticed them following him. as it was very quiet luckily, no cars were following at the time. I called a friend and had him report the incident to the police.
Not sure if this qualifies but I was in a supermarket car park and saw an elderly woman driving into a disabled bay but instead of the car pointing towards the wall she managed to turn it 90 degrees so that the boot was towards the passenger door of the car next and the front towards a trolley bay!
Whilst driving up the M6 I noticed a cloud of what looked like snow.
Driving a bit further I noticed a blue saloon from which the white cloud was emanating.
Once alongside I noticed the reason for this cloud – a large, I mean the car width and height to the bonnet, square piece of polystyrene block.
No matter of peeping or flashing deterred the driver from pressing forward.
I wonder what happened when it got small enough to go under the spoiler?
Oh and another – when hogging the middle lane after noticing a white deposit on the inside lane.
I looked across at the cars I was passing on the inside lane and each and every one of them was getting a new “go-faster” white streak down the sides of their cars.
I hope it was white-wash?
Again my flashing and waving was completely ignored!
High street Tonbridge, Kent circa 2001, I saw a car racing up the street and it took off on a humped bridge. With a young inexperienced driver at the wheel he turned the wheels mid air and when he landed, rolled multiple times through a bus stop (thankfully empty), hit a low wall and flipped 10 ft into the air landing on it’s side perfectly in a 1 metre wide footpath between building and wall. 5 occupants got out with barely a scratch between them!
Darren
Driving up the M5 traffic was brought to a standstill. Soon there were about 400 sheep spread over both carriageways chased by several police officers.
I managed to get onto the hard shoulder, and stopped a cop, let my three working Border Collies out and set them to work. Sheep soon herded off motorway into some farmer’s field.
Those cops were so grateful as most were on foot!
This happened about 40+ years ago and involved an old style mini van, the type with the starter button on the floor, as it took a very sharp right hand bend, it didn’t make it and slid down the embankment landing on it’s left hand side, the driver and passenger got out and promptly rolled the van onto it’s roof then back onto its other side and then back onto it’s wheels, it started up with no problem and was last seen speeding off over a field.
While driving north on the M6 near Carlisle I saw five blue plastic 40 gallon oil drums on the other carriageway heading south. They must have fallen off a truck and the driver had not noticed them following him. as it was very quiet luckily, no cars were following at the time. I called a friend and had him report the incident to the police.
Not sure if this qualifies but I was in a supermarket car park and saw an elderly woman driving into a disabled bay but instead of the car pointing towards the wall she managed to turn it 90 degrees so that the boot was towards the passenger door of the car next and the front towards a trolley bay!
Whilst driving up the M6 I noticed a cloud of what looked like snow.
Driving a bit further I noticed a blue saloon from which the white cloud was emanating.
Once alongside I noticed the reason for this cloud – a large, I mean the car width and height to the bonnet, square piece of polystyrene block.
No matter of peeping or flashing deterred the driver from pressing forward.
I wonder what happened when it got small enough to go under the spoiler?
Oh and another – when hogging the middle lane after noticing a white deposit on the inside lane.
I looked across at the cars I was passing on the inside lane and each and every one of them was getting a new “go-faster” white streak down the sides of their cars.
I hope it was white-wash?
Again my flashing and waving was completely ignored!