Knight Of The Road
Blind, stupid or both 488Dave was thinking very hard : Driving very carefully and quite slowly with a few sheets of polystyrene on the...
It shouldn't be by now. But it always is, usually because a region's traffic comes to an effective standstill.
It seems to me that the companies insuring at-fault lorry-drivers are getting away with liquidate - they ought to be paying compensation to thousands - maybe tens of thousands - of victims per incident and they don't pay a bean.
Let's simplify (and probably cheapen it) it by calling it £10,000 per lane-mile closed, per hour. For example, close the M25 one-way over an 8-mile stretch of three-lane for four hours and the insurance policy pays out £960,000 in addition to any other putting right of injury and property-damage). That would concentrate minds. It would certainly lead to court cases with counsel for the insurance companies calling into question the issue of whether the motorway needed to be fully closed...
Some of it was already there (as A45 Cambridge bypbutt, etc).
But you're right. They should make an early start on converting the bit between the M1-M6 junction and the next A14 junction, with a proper flyover making the first bit an easterly extension of M6 (M14?).
But would even that stop lorry-drivers crashing into each other? It doesn't seem to stop it on the M25, does it?
