Northbound on the A74
Heading towards Glasgow, we'd just passed a service station when I became aware of a car to my right heading in the same direction. This was not good as I was in the outside lane and he was on the other side of the central reservation in the other outside lane!

"What the f***?" I bellowed. I beeped my horn, waved at him etc, but he seemed completely oblivious. Other cars were now having to swerve to avoid him and a serious accident was only a few minutes away. I zipped on ahead slightly and started to flash my lights at the oncoming traffic. A car ahead of me pulled in as the driver grabbed his mobile phone to call the police.

Sure enough police cars arrived in short order - flying down the outside lane of the other carriageway! Eeek!

I was by now too far ahead to see what actually happened, but as it didn't make the news the following day, I can only assume that it all ended safely.

What possesses someone to drive down the wrong side of a dual carriageway? If you want to kill yourself, then on you go, but don't bother getting others involved. Arsehole.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 16 Feb 2009, 16:30, 2 replies)

Happens all the time...
..in Germany. They're called "Falschfahrer" and they're either suicides, pissed out of their minds or old folks who missed their turn, and have turned round and gone back the other way.

This is on the German Autobahn, where, technically, there is no speed limit.

You can imagine the mess.
( Stevedix http://www.stevedix.de/blog, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 15:16, closed)

This happened to me
Except it wasn't just one idiot, it was hundreds. It honestly seemed like every other car on the motorway was heading in the wrong direction. What is the world coming to?
(Helixdaunting, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 23:55, closed)