Yesterday I was travelling the A40 between Burford and Cheltenham and came across a familiar sight. a caravan on it's side on what appeared to be a perfectly good dual carriageway. Well it was on our side heading east.
On my return journey I had to drive the west bound carriageway and what an exterience, even in an Astra van!!!
The road surface was not only tramlined, but also rippled perpendicular to the carriageway. So the poor sod towing the caravan might just as well of been driving down a farm track at 60Mph, he'd probably of been safer.
Just when are the insurance companies and the vehicle tax payers (that's us by the way), going to stand together with the institute of advanced motorist's and ROSPA, to lobby government to actually quantify a minimum standard of road condition and enforce legislation on the highways agencey so that the roads are brought up to a safe standard.
Now please don't tell me that standards are in place because that would be poppy **** of the highest order.
In most accidents the first thing to be mutedis driver error, but unless your eignstein then controlling a caravan in that particular piece of road is a lottery!!
Rant over.
Steve L.
On my return journey I had to drive the west bound carriageway and what an exterience, even in an Astra van!!!
The road surface was not only tramlined, but also rippled perpendicular to the carriageway. So the poor sod towing the caravan might just as well of been driving down a farm track at 60Mph, he'd probably of been safer.
Just when are the insurance companies and the vehicle tax payers (that's us by the way), going to stand together with the institute of advanced motorist's and ROSPA, to lobby government to actually quantify a minimum standard of road condition and enforce legislation on the highways agencey so that the roads are brought up to a safe standard.
Now please don't tell me that standards are in place because that would be poppy **** of the highest order.
In most accidents the first thing to be mutedis driver error, but unless your eignstein then controlling a caravan in that particular piece of road is a lottery!!
Rant over.
Steve L.
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