I was headed along the M80 Glasgow to Stirling motorway last night with my two kids on board. Cruising at a nice steady 75 and had just overtaken a few slower moving cars. Then I noticed a man standing on the hard shoulder. He turned, looked round, and started to walk across the motorway in front of me.

I hit the brakes - full bore emergency stop from 75 mph. I discovered that Octavia vRS brakes are all they're cracked up to be. With the help of the ABS I steered round him and carried on my way. Nearly cacked myself though, and needed a long stiff drink when I got home.

Still don't know why he did it. It wasn't dark, and although I've a black car, it has xenons and should have been obvious.

 

Wonder if anyone travelling behind had him after you passed.

Chip

 

What's the current point score for hitting a nutter on the motorway? is it the same as causing a chav to crash in the city center?

 

Horrible thing is it would most likely be made out to be your fault.

 

Not nice, sounds like he wanted to commit suicide.

Know how scary it is, having once met a cyclist, with no lights, heading the wrong way down the outside lane of a motorway at night. He was just a drunk foreigner though, and he did get collected about 2 miles further down the motorway by 2 cars!

 

On a motorway it can't possibly be your fault.

Should have hit him, the gene pool would thank you.

 

maybe he was drunk or on drugs.....did you report this to the emergency services...they should have picked him up...

 

Nothing scares me more than people standing randomly by the side of the road in the dark! Where i live there are lots of country lanes and people appearing from the dark is not nice i just keep my doors locked and hope they dont run in front of me!!

 

had a close call going to work at some obscure club last winter.

Country road- unlit, and nothing but fields.

Come round a bend (not speeding either) and this pillock is walking in the middle of the lane in the irection of the traffic- no reflective things, no light nothing at all- idiot.
Was very very close.

 

I would have carried on braking into the hardshoulder, jumped out and shouted 'what the fu ck are you doing you ****'

 

I felt like stopping, shouting "wtf were you doing" and then ripping the barstewards head off.

 

We don't have them stepping out in front of us round here , but pedestrians still pose a bit of a scare problem.
We live on the edge of the Lincolnshire fens , and many's the night, we'll be driving home and have had a few near misses with dolts who totally ignore the "wear something white at night", advice. They are virtually invisible until you are right upon them. I wonder how many end up in the dykes round here.

 

I've run down two pissheads that stepped onto the road in front of me.

I wouldn't want to do it again - not pleasant seeing a teenage girl face down in a pool of blood convulsing .

Still - it was a long time ago - the biggest impact is your Insurance no-claims - despite it not being my fault my no claims was suspended for a few years as these pissheads could claim against me - not great when you're 20 . And I had to pay for the repairs to my car

Pissheads were fine !