Near miss on the A90

[MrJan]

The driver was stupid - granted. But in the UK there is a legal requirement for adequate signage to prevent you from driving the wrong way down a one way roads, (which the slip road and subsequent D2 is), this signage was absent, therefore legally speaking it would be difficult to ascertain what to charge the driver with! White arrows on the road have no legal meaning.

Fairly sure you could make a driving without due care charge stick.

[Mark]

The driver pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and has been fined £700, banned from driving for 2 years and ordered to take an extended retest.

[SGWilko]

How is this confusing? Apart from those big white arrows and the fact that you folks always drive on the left side of the road

Bingo.

[Drew]

The driver pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and has been fined £700, banned from driving for 2 years and ordered to take an extended retest.

Well deserved too! How much warning do you need?! If you aren't going to notice arrows on the road, you're not going to notice "no entry" signs either..

[ioan]

The driver pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and has been fined £700, banned from driving for 2 years and ordered to take an extended retest.

I wish the same outcome would happen in Austria too.
Around here this, they call it a ghost driver, happens several times a week and they usually don't park it, instead they continue driving in the wrong direction till the next exit road.
This is one of the reasons why I listen to news radios all the time when in the car instead of listening music.

[Mark]

You don't have traffic reports which interrupt the current station?

[ioan]

You don't have traffic reports which interrupt the current station?

Have it,to clarify I meant to say I listen to radio instead of listening to music from CD and other source than radio, but it is still mostly news radio.
There is probably some functionality built into the GPS/radio that allows it to interrupt even playing music for a traffic report (like it does for incoming phone calls). Never tried it though.

[Mark]

Yeah all cars I've driven allow for playing CD's etc to be interrupted by traffic reports.

[Dave B]

I've rarely found radio travel updates to be particularly useful or up-to-date. All too often they rely on people phoning in, by which time the incident has usually cleared. Radio 2's seem the most accurate, but being a national station it's little use to me driving up the A1(M) to find out that the A303 is blocked near Andover.

[Sonic]

I've rarely found radio travel updates to be particularly useful or up-to-date. All too often they rely on people phoning in, by which time the incident has usually cleared. Radio 2's seem the most accurate, but being a national station it's little use to me driving up the A1(M) to find out that the A303 is blocked near Andover.

I always used to enjoy the spoof 'One road travel' on R1. Completely pointless like all traffic reports aside from live feeds on t'internet.