Sad.
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Let the CSI’s begin…
Not sure how long it had been broken down, but he should’ve been out and away from the car as soon as possible.
Not really a hard shoulder is it?
RIP fella, shame, probably just out for a cruise in his MGB-GT by the looks of it?
rambo19:
Let the CSI’s begin…
If the CSI’s start waffling on about it being the MG drivers fault blah blah & how they shouldn’t be there in the first place blah blah then in some circumstances I could agree with them.
During my time on recovery, I had the joy of picking up the stranded MD of a large haulage Co’ in the York area from the hard shoulder of the M1.
Him, his trophy wife & 3 gorgeous kiddies were all sat in his 7 series BMW for over 1 hour before I got to them.
I took him to one side, so as not to humiliate him in front of his family, & put him to rights as to just how stupid he was, so much so that his ginormous ego actually felt the need to complain about me to my boss, who also put him bang to rights about the stupidity of sitting in a car on the hard shoulder (bless him).
Chas:
If the CSI’s start waffling on about it being the MG drivers fault blah blah & how they shouldn’t be there in the first place blah blah then in some circumstances I could agree with them.During my time on recovery, I had the joy of picking up the stranded MD of a large haulage Co’ in the York area from the hard shoulder of the M1.
Him, his trophy wife & 3 gorgeous kiddies were all sat in his 7 series BMW for over 1 hour before I got to them.
I took him to one side, so as not to humiliate him in front of his family, & put him to rights as to just how stupid he was, so much so that his ginormous ego actually felt the need to complain about me to my boss, who also put him bang to rights about the stupidity of sitting in a car on the hard shoulder (bless him).
The best pint of beer I have ever drunk in my whole life . . . . !
Picked up an elderly couple whose car had broken down on the way home. They had broken down in lane 2 of a 5 lane approach to a roundabout on a major approach road to Nottingham city centre. The chaos the breakdown caused was mentioned on the local radio traffic reports.
I was gobsmacked to find them sitting in the car, drinking tea from a flask without a care in the world.
At this point of the approach to the roundabout, vehicles would be braking from a NSL section & looking to be in the correct lane, quite a lot on the mind of a fast approaching driver from the rear & a classic example of why you should always expect the unexpected.
How they weren’t rear ended I’ll never know.
Pulled up in front, got 'em safely inside my cab, loaded their car & proceeded to take them the few short miles to complete their journey.
Whilst trying my best to be extremely ‘stern’ with the bloke on the trip home, I realised they were both semi half wits. Nice, but not quite all there. A bungalow without the lights on if you know what I mean.
When everything was sorted at their home address, the bloke thrusts a bottle of his home brewed beer in my hands & thanks me, assures me he’ll not be so stupid in the future.
I don’t work for tips, some of you get them most of you don’t. On this job I was averaging £80 a week, never has someone thrust their home brew in my hands. It only reinforced my opinion that the bloke was a nice, harmless ■■■■■■.
At the time I was teatotal & didn’t even drink beer !
2 days later my shift ended at 6am, at 8am I had opened that bottle of beer. That was the best bottle of beer I have ever drunk in my life, I cannot describe to you how it tasted. It was perfection.
Sadly, I could not remember where I’d dropped the halfwits off !
Stupid comment about “dump trucks”. That’s not a dumptruck for a start, and what a '70’s view of lorries saying “they take ages to get going…and don’t want to stop.” My last tipper pulled like a train and had fantastic brakes, although my eyesight appears to be better than the tipper driver in this case.
Look at the DM comments about “hard shoulder”.
Wot hard shoulder? This looks like the bit near the turnoff for Gomez by the looks of it. No hard shoulder for miles around…
Chas:
rambo19:
Let the CSI’s begin…If the CSI’s start waffling on about it being the MG drivers fault blah blah & how they shouldn’t be there in the first place blah blah then in some circumstances I could agree with them.
During my time on recovery, I had the joy of picking up the stranded MD of a large haulage Co’ in the York area from the hard shoulder of the M1.
Him, his trophy wife & 3 gorgeous kiddies were all sat in his 7 series BMW for over 1 hour before I got to them.
I took him to one side, so as not to humiliate him in front of his family, & put him to rights as to just how stupid he was, so much so that his ginormous ego actually felt the need to complain about me to my boss, who also put him bang to rights about the stupidity of sitting in a car on the hard shoulder (bless him).
I enjoy reading your stories on recovery Chas.
Funny looking hard shoulder.
But this is what happens when two numpties lives connect.
Tipper driver not paying attention and the ■■■■■ that sits in his car stationary on a live carriageway.
DC Albion1971 will be along in a moment to tell us all from a quick glance exactly what happened and that the lorry driver has been charged with death by dangerous driving and locked up for eleventy zillion years. 
Winseer:
Look at the DM comments about “hard shoulder”.Wot hard shoulder? This looks like the bit near the turnoff for Gomez by the looks of it. No hard shoulder for miles around…
quite right its the A2 not M2
This has been discussed on another forum I go on,apparently the driver of the mgb was actually stood in front trying to get it going when the tipper driver collided with it. Left a wife and 2 young children. 
Bit harsh to call either driver numptys. The mg was in lane one (as their is no hard shoulder being the A2) broken down and for how long you don’t know he may have been only a few seconds and still turning the key trying to restart it as any one will do when you break down . The Truck has come around a long blind bend (which it is) poss with another vehicle beside it with nowhere to go and their’s your accident.So bit hard to thro blame or call them numptys until the facts have come out don’t you think
hindsight is a great thing, But if i had broken down on such a fast bit of road i reckon i would have pulled entirely onto the grass verge, better to get stuck than killed.
it’s the survival of the more intelligent these days, not the fittest.
chester1:
Bit harsh to call either driver numptys. The mg was in lane one (as their is no hard shoulder being the A2) broken down and for how long you don’t know he may have been only a few seconds and still turning the key trying to restart it as any one will do when you break down . The Truck has come around a long blind bend (which it is) poss with another vehicle beside it with nowhere to go and their’s your accident.So bit hard to thro blame or call them numptys until the facts have come out don’t you think
Yes ok you are probably right, i was a bit harsh, but as truckertone says above, the second i am breaking down (and i have done before a few times) i land it completely out the way, whether its up a grass verge or bouncing it up a kerb and get the ■■■■ out of there asap. The problem is people are too casual and care free when they break down. It makes me so angry how people just amble about the hard shoulder.
FarnboroughBoy11:
chester1:
Bit harsh to call either driver numptys. The mg was in lane one (as their is no hard shoulder being the A2) broken down and for how long you don’t know he may have been only a few seconds and still turning the key trying to restart it as any one will do when you break down . The Truck has come around a long blind bend (which it is) poss with another vehicle beside it with nowhere to go and their’s your accident.So bit hard to thro blame or call them numptys until the facts have come out don’t you thinkYes ok you are probably right, i was a bit harsh, but as truckertone says above, the second i am breaking down (and i have done before a few times) i land it completely out the way, whether its up a grass verge or bouncing it up a kerb and get the [zb] out of there asap. The problem is people are too casual and care free when they break down. It makes me so angry how people just amble about the hard shoulder.
I sat in my car on the hard shoulder of the M74 near Beattock when I had a breakdown. It was ■■■■■■■ down with rain and there was nothing on the other side of the barrier except a cliff and every time a truck came past it was like having a bowlful of mucky water chucked in my face. Sit in nice warm, dry, comfy car and take the (very small) risk of something veering off the carriageway into you, or stand on the verge looking like a ■■■■ and getting ■■■■ wet through? I’ll take my chances with the former.
Rob K:
I sat in my car on the hard shoulder of the M74 near Beattock when I had a breakdown. It was ■■■■■■■ down with rain and there was nothing on the other side of the barrier except a cliff and every time a truck came past it was like having a bowlful of mucky water chucked in my face. Sit in nice warm, dry, comfy car and take the (very small) risk of something veering off the carriageway into you, or stand on the verge looking like a [zb] and getting ■■■■ wet through? I’ll take my chances with the former.
Or look for a bridge or culvert out of the elements. ■■
Trukkertone:
Rob K:
I sat in my car on the hard shoulder of the M74 near Beattock when I had a breakdown. It was ■■■■■■■ down with rain and there was nothing on the other side of the barrier except a cliff and every time a truck came past it was like having a bowlful of mucky water chucked in my face. Sit in nice warm, dry, comfy car and take the (very small) risk of something veering off the carriageway into you, or stand on the verge looking like a [zb] and getting ■■■■ wet through? I’ll take my chances with the former.Or look for a bridge or culvert out of the elements. ■■
I take it you’ve never been on the M74 between 15 and 14 then otherwise you’d know that there aren’t any. In any case, the car was disabled so I didn’t have any choice in the matter.
Trukkertone:
Rob K:
I sat in my car on the hard shoulder of the M74 near Beattock when I had a breakdown. It was ■■■■■■■ down with rain and there was nothing on the other side of the barrier except a cliff and every time a truck came past it was like having a bowlful of mucky water chucked in my face. Sit in nice warm, dry, comfy car and take the (very small) risk of something veering off the carriageway into you, or stand on the verge looking like a [zb] and getting ■■■■ wet through? I’ll take my chances with the former.Or look for a bridge or culvert out of the elements. ■■
there arent any near beattock. its several miles of nothing between j14 and j15. hilly and barren terrain with no roads near the motorway to cross it
Rob K:
FarnboroughBoy11:
chester1:
Bit harsh to call either driver numptys. The mg was in lane one (as their is no hard shoulder being the A2) broken down and for how long you don’t know he may have been only a few seconds and still turning the key trying to restart it as any one will do when you break down . The Truck has come around a long blind bend (which it is) poss with another vehicle beside it with nowhere to go and their’s your accident.So bit hard to thro blame or call them numptys until the facts have come out don’t you thinkYes ok you are probably right, i was a bit harsh, but as truckertone says above, the second i am breaking down (and i have done before a few times) i land it completely out the way, whether its up a grass verge or bouncing it up a kerb and get the [zb] out of there asap. The problem is people are too casual and care free when they break down. It makes me so angry how people just amble about the hard shoulder.
I sat in my car on the hard shoulder of the M74 near Beattock when I had a breakdown. It was ■■■■■■■ down with rain and there was nothing on the other side of the barrier except a cliff and every time a truck came past it was like having a bowlful of mucky water chucked in my face. Sit in nice warm, dry, comfy car and take the (very small) risk of something veering off the carriageway into you, or stand on the verge looking like a [zb] and getting ■■■■ wet through? I’ll take my chances with the former.
In your case yes I would have probably moved over to the passenger seat as there is no where to go on that stretch.
FarnboroughBoy11:
Rob K:
FarnboroughBoy11:
chester1:
Bit harsh to call either driver numptys. The mg was in lane one (as their is no hard shoulder being the A2) broken down and for how long you don’t know he may have been only a few seconds and still turning the key trying to restart it as any one will do when you break down . The Truck has come around a long blind bend (which it is) poss with another vehicle beside it with nowhere to go and their’s your accident.So bit hard to thro blame or call them numptys until the facts have come out don’t you thinkYes ok you are probably right, i was a bit harsh, but as truckertone says above, the second i am breaking down (and i have done before a few times) i land it completely out the way, whether its up a grass verge or bouncing it up a kerb and get the [zb] out of there asap. The problem is people are too casual and care free when they break down. It makes me so angry how people just amble about the hard shoulder.
I sat in my car on the hard shoulder of the M74 near Beattock when I had a breakdown. It was ■■■■■■■ down with rain and there was nothing on the other side of the barrier except a cliff and every time a truck came past it was like having a bowlful of mucky water chucked in my face. Sit in nice warm, dry, comfy car and take the (very small) risk of something veering off the carriageway into you, or stand on the verge looking like a [zb] and getting ■■■■ wet through? I’ll take my chances with the former.
In your case yes I would have probably moved over to the passenger seat as there is no where to go on that stretch.
I wouldn’t bother doing that either. Regardless of where you get hit, it’s going to be one ■■■■ of a big impact and you’re unlikely to survive it without life-changing injuries.
I should perhaps add that if it was fog or at night I wouldn’t be sit in nor be stood anywhere near the car. Even though it was raining heavy at the time I broke down, the visibility and light levels were decent and the traffic was very light so I made a judgement call based on that and stayed in the car.