As a follow on from my Twitter post - last night was weird! After finally setting off at 1am I noticed a matrix sign warning of a closure of the M5 30 miles north. I rang the office and they didn’t know anything about it. Sure enough, when I got to Jnc 21 we were diverted off the M5 via Bristol. This is a crappy road, but half an hour later I was heading back out of Bristol towards Avonmouth when ‘low and behold’ blue flashing lights and a police road block.
We were turned around and told to head through the center of Bristol to the M32. I rang in and told them the latest. They then informed me that the northbound M5 had been shut because a car had gone into the central reservation barrier and on doing so a car pulled over to the hard shoulder, the driver of which decided to run across the motorway to render help. This appears to have been unfortunate as this person was hit by the traffic hence the closing of the motorway to pick up the bits of the said person.
I was turned around because of yet another accident, but worse still I had to negotiate getting through Bristol city center on a Saturday night when all the pubs and clubs were shutting. If it wasn’t bad enough driving through hoards of drunk revelers, having the name ‘Buttercup’ on the side of the cab didn’t help at all and was noticed by pretty much everyone.
On to the M32 heading up to the M4 and again I notice more blue flashing lights. Beyond them I can see a matrix sign lit up but it was too far away too read. Just as I got parallel to the cop car some idiot jumped off the central reservation barrier and nearly into my path!! The irony is that the matrix sign (when I reached it moments later) read ”Caution, Pedestrians on the Carriageway”. No S**t!!
So an odd night and I’m now off to bed.
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