Why, Why, Why???

[securespark]

Yet another disorientatated old fudger f's up and goes the wrong way on a major road, this time our very own M60.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.../pensioner-who-collided-two-vehicles-11405293

Why can't they stop ASAP on the shoulder instead of carrying on??

Doh, why are all these cars hurtling towards me??

If they really can't understand that they are on the wrong side of the road and need to stop, they should not be behind the wheel...

 

[Shutpa]

Yet another disorientatated old fudger f's up and goes the wrong way on a major road, this time our very own M60.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.../pensioner-who-collided-two-vehicles-11405293

Four years ago, on the way to the Eurotunnel, a disoriented old fudger drove the wrong way round the roundabout and smashed into my car. He admitted that the fault was his and his insurance company covered all costs including vehicle hire. That disoriented old fudger was 20 years old.

 

[securespark]

There's no age limits for stupidity or confusion. However, the propensity (for confusion at least) increases towards the older end of the population.

 

[wobs]

Surprised it wasn't Jct26:
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/badjunctions/60-560/

 

[securespark]

It is a mash-up, but I don't find it confusing.

The worst is the nearby slip off the roundabout that ends up joining the motorway from the right.

The M60 passes the roundabout and veers left, joined by this slip that dumps slow moving traffic effectively into the 3rd lane...

That's a bit !

 

[wobs]

It is a mash-up, but I don't find it confusing.

The worst is the nearby slip off the roundabout that ends up joining the motorway from the right.

The M60 passes the roundabout and veers left, joined by this slip that dumps slow moving traffic effectively into the 3rd lane...

That's a bit !

That's what I was referring to as well. An insane area of road engineering.
But as the link says, people have found themselves facing the wrong way on the M60 there.

 

[EFLImpudence]

It does look a bit of a cock-up but surely the only way to end up on the motorway in the wrong direction is to:

Ignore the previous 'AHEAD ONLY' arrows and writing on the road and then veer left to enter this:

I would say that the ahead only arrow in the picture is on the wrong side of the lights.

 

[Dave54]

I was coming along a newly dualled piece of road down here in Cornwall at dusk one evening some years back, when an old codger nearly ran straight into me. No other traffic about, I was in the left hand lane, and so was he (Why I ask?)! Coming straight at me! No lights of course. (Him!) I missed him, but only just!
You see 'em all the time down here. peering over the steering wheel, probably can't see properly, driving in the middle of the road. Weaving about.

Eye tests for all drivers, and regular driving assessments for over 80s?

I've just thought of another thing. Years ago I was talking about just having got new specs with someone out in the lane in front of our cottage. They didn't wear specs, and said they wondered if they needed them. I said about the requirement for reading a number plate at 20 metres, and we paced it out from my car. I could read it (with or without specs and I wear 'em all the time) and so could they. Another, older neighbour walked past and asked us what we were doing. "I don't need specs" he said, but then, when he tried, he couldn't read my numberplate!

 

[securespark]

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I would say that the ahead only arrow in the picture is on the wrong side of the lights.

There are at least 2 pairs as you approach the lights.

Plus, if you notice, there is a keep right arrow.

This video shows the approach to the RH slip at J25. You have to be observant, but there are signs (beginning 1:21) showing the merge. The slip appears on the right at 1:29.

The split in the carriageways is only there to allow the A6 (M) to leave the motorway, but it was one of many plans scrapped, although you can see the off slip as you drive round the M60 in the other direction.....

Watch this video and at 1:05 you see some red/white barriers in the central reservation. This part is actually metalled for a short distance and shortly after 1:05 you can see the sliproad pass between concrete pillars between the two carriageways and beyond to where the bypass would have started:

They should get it back on track and link it up with the A555 at High Lane.

 

[tony1851]

Interesting vid, thanks, and not a cone in sight at Trafford.
As mentioned before, a scary bit is joining it at Brinnington near the railway bridge, when you suddenly find yourself in the fast lane - not easy in a Defender!

 

[noseall]

Interesting vid

You have got to be kidding, surely?

 

[bernardgreen]

I said about the requirement for reading a number plate at 20 metres,

That "test" is not adequate for driving. People with tunnel vision can pass it and yet they may have little if any peripheral vision.

We were talking last night about an "old duffer" who insisted on driving even though he knew he was not capable. He considered himself to be safe as he never went more than 30 MPH, 20 MPH at night. If you stopped him from driving you were making him dependent on others and he resented that. The emotions of surrending his licence were too much for him. Fortunately he is physically no longer able to drive.

Another one was a woman suffering from dimentia. But still bright enough to have a spare set of car keys hidden away so that when her husband took her keys away she could still drive. One day her car was parked on the road across their driveway, she was standing by it looking lost. When asked how she was she said she was confused. She didn't know if she was going somewhere or coming home from somewhere. Eventually her husband disabled her car as the only way to stop her driving it.

 

[Himaginn]

I said about the requirement for reading a number plate at 20 metres,

That "test" is not adequate for driving. People with tunnel vision can pass it and yet they may have little if any peripheral vision.

We were talking last night about an "old duffer" who insisted on driving even though he knew he was not capable. He considered himself to be safe as he never went more than 30 MPH, 20 MPH at night. If you stopped him from driving you were making him dependent on others and he resented that. The emotions of surrending his licence were too much for him. Fortunately he is physically no longer able to drive.

Another one was a woman suffering from dimentia. But still bright enough to have a spare set of car keys hidden away so that when her husband took her keys away she could still drive. One day her car was parked on the road across their driveway, she was standing by it looking lost. When asked how she was she said she was confused. She didn't know if she was going somewhere or coming home from somewhere. Eventually her husband disabled her car as the only way to stop her driving it.

I know of another case when the old fellow, suffering from dementia, took his daughter's car and was found several miles away from home, no idea where he was or how he'd got there. They had to hide the keys after that.

 

[wobs]

Re the title... can I just say:
DELILAH!

 

[tony1851]

Interesting vid

You have got to be kidding, surely?