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4 November 2010

Audi A6 in Metropole Hotel car park, Birmingham NEC

Audi A6 parked safely in Metropole hotel car park – after nearly having someone crash into the rear of it on the M40/M42 slip road

Business Car Manager Editor’s Blog from the ACFO Fleet Awards

GRATEFUL yesterday to the quick-thinking of the guy following me off the M40 and onto the M42/NEC slip road in the gathering gloom and drizzle. Suddenly the traffic stopped. Dead.

The Audi’s brakes pulled me up sharp as I angled to the right to minimise any impact from cars behind running into me which could have pushed me into the car in front. I couldn’t go further to the right and into safety as I saw another driver cutting late across the lanes and into the slip road hemming me in.

I looked in my mirror expecting the worse

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Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton is an award-winning journalist and the founder of Business Car Manager (now renamed Business Motoring). Ralph writes extensively about the car and van leasing industry as well as wider fleet and company car issues. A former editor of What Car?, Ralph is a vastly experienced writer and editor and has been writing about the automotive sector for over 35 years.

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