Close shave
It happened on my way to work on M60/M62 yesterday morning. Comfortable in the right hand lane on M60 shortly after 7 am. It was a bit wet so I kept my distance from the traffic ahead. The car directly in front of me changed lanes and I was now following a Ford Transit (the stupid one with very low sides and a something what looks like a mesh fence at the back.). It looked fairly empty, only some tools and rubbish in the back. I was following him at 80 miles/hr with 30-35 metres gap. As he started to change lanes a massive plastic bucket flew overboard. At first it happened in a slow motion. I saw the massive red thing taking off the back of the Transit, floating 2 metres above the road for what seemed like eternity before it crash landed right between the middle and right hand lane. I am not sure what happened next apart from me soiling my pants, of course, as it suddenly all started to happen much faster. The bucket crashed, thousand and one things spread all over the road, the bucket was in the air floating towards me and then changing its course to the middle lane again. A split second later I was in the clear. I don’t know if I used my brakes and I am sure I didn’t change direction as I wasn’t sure where to go. There was debris everywhere. So lesson learnt don’t follow directly behind those open Transits unless you have to. In which case leave a gap 2x as big as you would normally do.
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