Bone headed driving incidents

[DoreSlamR]

Thought I might start a thread about bone headed traffic incidents and near misses, this is brought on by a couple of recent incidents.

The first was a couple of days ago. I was driving home at night on a dual lane highway that was ending and going back to single lane.

There was an old camper van with hazards flashing and was obviously being towed by the Pajero right in front of it. they were in the left lane.

In the right lane was myself and another car who was in front of me. They were a bit undecided if they should pass the van and Pajero or not. At this stage we had about 500m of dual lane plus another 400-500 of merging space, so plenty of room.

This is where the car in front decides they wanna merge over to the left lane BETWEEN the van and Pajero, I don't know how they didn't realise there was a tow rope in between. So they're indicating to move over, while I've now backed right off expecting a three car pile up any time soon. Luckily the gap was too small for them to merge so they pull back away, they then decide to have another shot at it, this time leaning on the horn while trying to merge. By now they're running out of road and finally the car decides they aren't gonna make it and slams on the brakes and starts flashing the van.

I can just imagine the poor guy in the van shitting themselves and not being able to do anything except hope for the best.

Was scary stuff.





P.S. Sorry if it's hard to read.