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I have an unscientific theory that rain/the darker nights are linked to dozier driving than normal.
I was coming up Meadow Road in Oval today, just went through the blind corner/S-bend to see a grey Audi coming towards me on the wrong side of the road, with another car following it on the correct side of the road.
I had a car behind me and was pretty much boxed in, so I was sure a collision was imminent. For some reason I didn’t shout but I did do a ‘wake up’ movie-style whistle, really loud.
The Audi driver slammed the brakes on and stopped about a metre in front of me, bricking it and staring through the windscreen. He’d been looking down at his phone. There’s a school near there and kids cross that road all the time. I don’t know what possesses some people.