The M25 is hairy at the best of times but it was coming off the Motorway that the "fun" started. Quite what takes over people's minds to drive so fast and carelessly in the wet and not to consider standing water and aquaplaning I have no idea. Van driver cam up the hard shoulder and undertook us going across two lanes on the roundabout and so cutting right in front of me and you could see the rear was sliding. He held it together but fish tailed away in front of me and then to cap that I had the guy come over from my right to then cut in front of me - it's two lanes people so the van made his own lane and matey boy - God knows what he was thinking.
I am by nature a defensive driver, having driven 30 to 40,000 miles a year when I was working in the 70s, 80s and 90s and so you tend to work out what is happening and treat absolutely every other driver as a full blown idiot. You just know that again, like last night in all the spray and rain people move lane with not indication, cut in front of you or come speeding up to the rear of your car. The behaviour is mitigate in some way by the power of braking systems etc. Talking of which auto and electric drivers - stop touching your brakes when driving at 70 mph!
Anyway, it was one of those terrible rainy, spraying nights, hidden puddles and idiot drivers. I was glad to get back home. I do like my AWD car though as it certainly assists in driving conditions like yesterday.
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