Cars in the wrong line happens every day on the Black Cat Roundabout and more so on the bigger roundabout under the A55 just next to it - plenty of instances recorded on my dashcam - had an instance only this morning that was almost identical to the Audi incident - a Polo did exactly the same thing to a lorry that I was following at that very same point. But enough of that argument.
I bought my first car a week before my 17th birthday in 1966 - a 1963 Austin Mini Countryman - the woodie type, cost me a year's salary (£395) - would love to have one of those now, not seen one for many years!
I never had a professional lesson, just drove round with Dad next to me - I couldn't afford lessons. Did take two goes to pass the test as on the first occasion it rained heavily and the windows steamed up - I hit the kerb when asked to do the manouvere of reversing round a corner!
A few years later, when I was 20, my cousin and I both entered a Road Safety Rally in Liverpool - I had no navigator so completed the course on my own and finished 3rd overall from over 100 entries - won a free IAM Test which I took, without getting any special lessons, a year later and passed!
Over the 50+ years of driving I have averaged about 12k miles a year, my driving has included a fair bit of competition including rally driving on roads and in forests. I am proud of the fact that in all that time I have only had one insurance claim and that was way back in 1975 when I had a slow head-on at a blind bend on a minor road, I had actually stopped but the oncoming car slid on loose gravel. I remember once reading that drivers will have an accident every nine years on average so hope I'm not tempting fate as I'm way overdue for one.
I consider myself to be a careful driver but certainly not infallible so always cautious especially when there are others around - when I started to drive I was told to treat every other driver as a complete idiot, as there are times when you would be correct in that assumption!
