Rubber-necking
Discussion
Right, I'm new here so forgive if this has been done to death.
Driving from York to Oxford today down the M1 I past what seemed like crash after crash after crash and was forced to slow down for all of them. However, only one crash was on the southbound side of the motorway. Once you've seen one accident in your time they all look much the same so why do people slow down to see what's happened? And who's the brave lot of b
ds who slow down in the first place?
What a waste of time. Harrowing as well: one accident saw a 911 get sandwitched between a pair of Artics ... suffer THAT without the ability to speed up and forget.
Driving from York to Oxford today down the M1 I past what seemed like crash after crash after crash and was forced to slow down for all of them. However, only one crash was on the southbound side of the motorway. Once you've seen one accident in your time they all look much the same so why do people slow down to see what's happened? And who's the brave lot of b
ds who slow down in the first place? What a waste of time. Harrowing as well: one accident saw a 911 get sandwitched between a pair of Artics ... suffer THAT without the ability to speed up and forget.
Rubber neckers, just nosey goulish pillocks if you ask me. I was in a huge long queue of traffic the other day on a stretch of road that is rarely congested. Eventually came upon a minor crunch, clearly just panel damage, no-one hurt. It wasnt even blocking the road, yet everyone was slowing right down to have a good look. The couple in the car in front of me almost came to a standstill and were having a right old nosey. I gave a long blast of the horn and got a sheepish wave of apology as they moved off.
I was on the hard shoulder once as a witness to an accident that had happened in the outside lane.
Car had gone into the back of another car which had pushed the first car into the central res.
As I was waiting for the police to move the people / their car over to the hard shoulder and to come and take my statement, a van driver in the middle lane (outside lane coned off) was gawking so hard at the accident that he almost ran over a police officer right in front of him that was directing the traffic
You have never seen a copper go
so fast!! Good on him thought, the van driver (large skinhead inbred looking chap) looked scared to death when the policeman had finshed with him 
oh and to add insult to injury he wasnt wearing a seatbelt either 
Think the policeman had thought christmas had come early
Car had gone into the back of another car which had pushed the first car into the central res.
As I was waiting for the police to move the people / their car over to the hard shoulder and to come and take my statement, a van driver in the middle lane (outside lane coned off) was gawking so hard at the accident that he almost ran over a police officer right in front of him that was directing the traffic
You have never seen a copper go
so fast!! Good on him thought, the van driver (large skinhead inbred looking chap) looked scared to death when the policeman had finshed with him oh and to add insult to injury he wasnt wearing a seatbelt either Think the policeman had thought christmas had come early 
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