The snow melted and revealed plenty of pot holes on the roads. On the way home to London on the M40 after a new year weekend gathering, I found myself having to dodge potholes on the motorway- sometimes successfully, sometimes not so successfully. This could be quite damaging for the car as some of these were quite deep. Large stretches of the motorway are poorly lit which makes it all the more difficult to spot and avoid these when driving through at night.
I was not travelling at particularly high speeds because of the potholes and insufficient lighting, and was more on my guard than usual. I was much alarmed when I suddenly spotted two figures in bright yellow fluorescent jackets standing in the middle of the left hand lane, with spades/shovels apparently doing some maintenance work on the road, their maintenance vehicle parked besides them with lights on. I was travelling on the left hand lane and quickly tried to slow down and change lanes without causing an accident. I managed to avoid them and my passenger told me he thought he saw them signalling something to me while we were driving towards them, as if to tell us to go into the next lane. I didn't see the hand signals but I didn't want to pile into them either so did it anyway. I also didn't see any warning signs to inform drivers that there were men on the road and there were no barriers to protect them from the cars. I still cannot believe that actually happened but it did.
Whoever you are, you two men in the left hand lane, please don't do it again!
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