I witnessed another fine example of middle lane madness today, something I see every single day in all honesty. It erks me most when drivers do it so blatantly, sitting in the overtaking lanes for junction after junction with hardly an obstruction to overtake in sight.

This morning a young woman with dark, shoulder-length hair in a black Volkswagen Polo (a very recent registration, ending with ZXM) hurtled westwards along the M56 in the middle lane in an apparently catatonic state. I could see her in my rear view mirror clocking up mile upon mile, at first in the middle lane and then the outside lane, at times with no car within several hundred yards. At one point, there was a driver in the inside lane and she sat in the outside lane - nothing to stop her pulling back across - with a great 4 by 4 tailgating her.

What possesses these people? When she finally passed me - in the outside lane - she wasn’t on the phone or singing… nothing that would explain the oblivious attitude. It seriously worries me - because that indifference to the road will inevitably lead to accidents or road rage… and then who will she blame.