I drive slowly sometimes because the roads are appaling still, unlike the company car mob in their leased Audis etc who dont have to worry about insurance and tyres/shocks im afraid I do, and after shelling out silly amounts of money for springs and stuff the last few years on my (not very old 2006) vauxhall im afraid they can lump it and sit behing me and be patient or by all means overtake if they want without complaining.

I was driving home from my cousins last week at around 12.30 am and am unfamiliar with the country lanes where she has recently moved to. Therefore I was driving more slowly than usual and in my mirror I noticed a police car behind, this made me even more nervous and so I began driving even slower. I was then flashed and pulled over by the officer and told that I was driving to slowly! Obviously I was not used to the roads, can we ever win!

agricultural vehicles? caravans? milk floats? cyclists? horse riders? Anybody going slower than 5 mph faster than the speed limit?
BTW how many accidents were caused by fast drivers (not just the idiots who execute unsafe overtaking manoeuvres)?

Slow drivers need to be taken as seriously as motorists caught speeding. I have found myself stuck behind vehicles that poodle along at ridiculously slow speeds and stop so far away from junctions it is unbelievable. I totally agree that these drivers should be penalised as they can cause accidents to.

Old people should be penalised as far as I am concerned, they should not be on the road after a certain age. The times I have been stuck behind someone old, their reactions are slower and decision making awful, they are a danger to other motorists, more consideration needs to be given to safety where they are concerned. They endanger lives.

I was once on the A13 heading towards Southend doing 70 MPH in the middle lane and I saw a car in the distance. Thinking I was going a little bit too fast, I gently started applying the brakes, but caught up with the car in no time at all. I think the driver must of been doing 40-50 MPH and it felt like my brakes were not working.

That was a couple of years ago, but I still come across these types of drivers today and sometimes have to break hard because a lot of traffic on the outside lane at the time.

It is really frustrating.

First take off all speeders and tailgaters, and those overtaking at all sides, and next all that drive without light in fog, mist, dusk, dawn, rain, spray, night.

And suddenly the motorway is empty enough so that slow drivers are happy to use the left lane, without feeling crushed by the lorry sitting on their boot.

I only ask two things of other motorists, to keep their stupidity to a minimum and stay a respectful distance from me. That includes front, back and sides. Driving slowly I can accept on a windy lane in the dark. Doing 40 in a 60 on strait road in the middle of the day is totally unacceptable to me.

And to the first moron that wants to drive slow to save his tyres GET OFF THE ROAD! Use the bus, you don't have to worry about tyres or shocks or slightly moist conditions if you get someone else to do all that bothersome driving for you.