Gone are the days when you could blast across the country esp in the middle of the night, there are so many people not only speeding but driving like loonys killing themselves and others at an alarming rate,
i think there are more speed cameras in aberdeen than lamposts,,
For me i was one also, there was a time i could do tullos to auchinkilns junction as it was then in an hour and ten minutes, to put that in perspective thats about the time it takes from aberdeen to dundee in a transit luton,, Until one night when my boss was giving me a lift south as we approached the laurencekirk junction and an xr2 meteored into the roof of a fiat panda which was right in front of us after striking a series three at over 120mph four people died that night 3 out of four in the fiat and the xr2 driver (who was my first ever fatalitity) which is why its now the speed limit is a fifty there,
But the decider for me was one summer i spent working in cruachan power station and drove back to lanarkshire each day as my shift ended in the early hours of the morning,
one night as i passed through inverary i noticed a car pull out behind me,, i payed it no mind,,,,, until he caught up with me at the long straight just before rest and be thankfull,, i thought he had just pulled out behind me at clachan,,,, i only noticed the blue lights when i had passed the turn off for dunoon,, but no apparently he had been chasing me all the way from inverary and he was really pessed off, when i stopped they cut in front and he jumped out ran up to me shouting and swearing(i barely had the window opened) telling me how many people like me that were getting killed at the wheel because we didnt realise the dangers of driving in the country because of things like deer and livestock, he then went on to lament that at no point was my speed under 90 miles an hour, what a trouble he had trying to catch me up,,,i set him off again when i tried to explain that i only slowed down because it started to rain,
He was so angry that he was jumping up and down so much his hat fell of and rolled into a puddle, Boosh up he went again,,, now by this time all i can hear are banjo's i'm convinced all people are going to find my body the woods,,,
Then the strangest thing happened he went all sheepish and told me that he wasnt going to report me this time,(it must have been the expression on my face) but had it been one of his collegues that it would have been an instant ban, ofcourse he is quite right,,
He tells me if it happens again he's going to throw the book at me, All i can say is i'm glad they never had cs spray or tazers back then,
So for the rest of that summer i never sped,, not once, i took my warning to heart, now i've gone the other way i drive like miss daisy, so i'm afraid i'm most likely the one you get stuck behind, lol tio
