I didn't learn to drive until I was about 40. About 6 months after I passed my test I was driving on motorways. One day I was driving from Manchester to Leeds on the M62. I got to the Saddleworth Moor area and soon realised that I was going downhill and the speedo had crept up to 90 without me realising it (lack of experience). At that point a BMW, in the right-hand lane, shot past me like a rocket! He must have been doing at least 120. At that point a white van abruptly pulled out in front of him without indicating. How the BMW stopped I'll never know - but a hell of a lot of smoke came off his tyres! I have a feeling that that many people who drive that fast don't have those sort of reactions - and are probably not concentrating hard enough anyway.

Having said that it's the 'deadly creepers' who annoy me - people who drive 10 miles an hour below the speed limit - and often much slower. They seem to think that a motorway is indistinguishable from any other type of road and you can drive on it at any speed you like. My main problem with them is that they tend to block-up junctions - making it harder to enter on to, or to exit from, the motorway than it ought to be.

Oh yes, and why do they always seem to drive Fiats? 'The car in front, impeding my progress, is a Fiat!'