A warning about T-junctions.
Andrue
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This afternoon my car was almost written off. I was turning off a main road and as I turned in a car that had been waiting to pull out drove straight at me on the wrong side of the road. I think they were trying to overtake the car in front that was turning right. Absolutely bloody crazy of them and luckily we came to a stop with half a metre between us.
What's even more shocking is that if I wasn't there they'd be entering a main road on the wrong side of the road - and it's a nearly blind junction from both directions.
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Aynho&aq=0&oq=ayn&sll=52.8382,-2.327815&sspn=7.701807,19.248047&vpsrc=6&t=h&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Aynho,+Northamptonshire,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.994612,-1.25485&spn=0.001916,0.004699&z=18&layer=c&cbll=51.99473,-1.254746&panoid=xe8z_2hbFa5bSpk_Wo5FdQ&cbp=12,281.82,,0,3.49
Basically: I was turning left, two cars were waiting to come out. The first started to pull out as I turned in and the vehicle behind him tried to overtake and ended up nearly nose to nose with me.
Scary as hell. The only good thing was the speed of my reactions. Actually the first I knew about it was wondering why I was pressing the brake pedal. Then I saw the car. It seems that part of my brain can react fast without needing a concious decision.
What's even more shocking is that if I wasn't there they'd be entering a main road on the wrong side of the road - and it's a nearly blind junction from both directions.
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Aynho&aq=0&oq=ayn&sll=52.8382,-2.327815&sspn=7.701807,19.248047&vpsrc=6&t=h&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Aynho,+Northamptonshire,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.994612,-1.25485&spn=0.001916,0.004699&z=18&layer=c&cbll=51.99473,-1.254746&panoid=xe8z_2hbFa5bSpk_Wo5FdQ&cbp=12,281.82,,0,3.49
Basically: I was turning left, two cars were waiting to come out. The first started to pull out as I turned in and the vehicle behind him tried to overtake and ended up nearly nose to nose with me.
Scary as hell. The only good thing was the speed of my reactions. Actually the first I knew about it was wondering why I was pressing the brake pedal. Then I saw the car. It seems that part of my brain can react fast without needing a concious decision.
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That is all I have to say
This should be in my 1970s thread
The thread title is pretty misleading really.
It's not like this is a regular thing that happens on a T-junction is it. It was just some dangerous idiot deciding to drive on the wrong side of the road which they'd probably do on any section of road not just T-junctions.
In this case there's also the likelihood that if I hadn't been there it might have been traffic on the main road that suddenly found itself facing a head on collision.
Here endeth the public service announcement
And I'm not quite at 12,000 posts yet. But yeah - I know how DS works.
It's Aynho.
The problem there is having the road number written on the road like that, it should be facing the junction .
I just thought to myself 'what a cycle path'.
Sounds like you've got them down to a T!
/coat
Which is all the more surprising as one of them was a traffic cop.
People often advise drivers to "treat all other drivers as idiots" but if you truly did that, you would never leave the house. Alertness is all we have to help us, as most of the oncoming drivers manage to avoid swerving out and killing everyone, but stories like this also give a background of knowledge of just what daft things may just happen.
True story.
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