Got up at 05.45 and picked up my old rally navigator mate and his son to go and watch the Roger Albert Clark Rally near Scarborough. Just passing junction 29 of the M1 near Chesterfield nearing 8 o'clock when a gantry sign said "slow accident". The motorway was closed both ways. Three hours later we were allowed to drive back down the fast lane to the junction and get off the motorway. Not even any relief of the boredom by watching bikes having close encounters with people wandering around on the carriageway, as they would have all been able to come off at the junction tantalisingly close behind us. Oh well, at least we managed to get two ticks in the CAMRA book at interesting Derbyshire hostelries, before returning home. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Yamaha WR250Z/Supermoto "Old Gimmer's Hillclimber" | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
I just knew some one would pick up on that. I paraphrased, OK? Quite. At one point we felt it necessary to phone Derbyshire constabulary, as it seemed to us that a controlled evacuation of the motorway could have been organised fairly easily, and earlier, once it became clear just how serious the incident was. Ten minutes later the Highways Agencies folk appeared and started turning people (at least in cars) round in an orderly fashion. I claim no credit for this. Talk about disinterest by the plod on the end of the phone. They could have at least told us that they were already organising an escape plan. Indeed. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Yamaha WR250Z/Supermoto "Old Gimmer's Hillclimber" | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
Indeed. I had a nasty one of them last week. Pulling into a petrol station some idiot walked into me... knocked me over, bike on foot. Now my foot's in plaster, crushed by the bike and in need of an op. I suppose you don't hear very many examples of motorcyclists being knocked over by pedestrians though. -- | |What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack| | |in the ground beneath a giant boulder, which you| | |can't move, with no hope of rescue. | | Andrew Halliwell BSc |Consider how lucky you are that life has been | | in |good to you so far... | | Computer Science | -The BOOK, Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy.|
