This image is from the wrong side of the road but shows the road itself. (click for streetview)

Holy Hell! That was a scary moment on the way into work today!

I left the house early, about 6:45am today, five minutes into my drive I come up behind a tanker doing about 40mph. I’m on a long strait which I know well so I move to overtake it. As I’m about half way along the length of the tanker he pulls across lanes; into the one I’m in – the oncoming lane! Not a lane you should cross into anyway, but certainly not if NOT if I’M ALREADY IN IT!

This manoeuvre on the part of the tanker forced two of my wheels up the bank, off the road, foot to the floor, flying through the air followed by a cloud of muddy dust. Obviously I managed to land the car fine or I wouldn’t be here to write this, horrifies me to think that if it had been wet I could have easily ended up in a hedge or if I’d been slower to react I’m pretty sure the car would have rolled. Not worth thinking about really.

I always complained about Stoke’s drivers, and with good reason, but I’ve never seen something like this in Kent before, you expect people to play by the rules, naïve perhaps but I thought people around here knew how to drive.

Below, for your amusement, is the horrible trailer for Spielberg’s first (made for TV) movie, Duel (1971).

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