You cannot just ignore right of way and then complain when the motorist who has that right of way isn't being considerate, that's not how it works.
This seems to apply more to that man than the woman.
Dumb, inconsiderate Britain plunges to new depths
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You cannot just ignore right of way and then complain when the motorist who has that right of way isn't being considerate, that's not how it works.
This seems to apply more to that man than the woman.
This is hilarious. What a waste of time!
It's a shame either of them didn't go full retard/badass by ramming the other back out the way. What would have been funnier would be the old man get out of the car, lock the doors and casually stroll off
It's a shame either of them didn't go full retard/badass by ramming the other back out the way. What would have been funnier would be the old man get out of the car, lock the doors and casually stroll off
And I would've bought you a beer.
What a pair of planks. I see it loads in my area though, but it rarely lasts more than a few minutes before one of them realizes there's more to life than having the upper hand in a situation nobody gives a toss about.
Quite. Why is the article about her refusing to reverse??
I've had some fool chase me for 5 minutes just to shout at me for holding him up by forcing someone to reverse because I had right of way.
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because they're dumb chavs
She's obviously being a bit stubborn though is technically in the right, the old guy who shouldn't be driving should have reversed. I'd bet if one of them had gone up to her politely and said something like: 'Look I know you're in the right but I've got kids to pick up from school please could you back up' then they might have had a different response.
Instead you've got a bunch of white van types and some chavvy mum shouting at her - why would she want to do any favours for people shouting at her, that's surely going to make her even more stubborn since she is actually the one in the right in the first place.
And with the old guy probably driving slow, who says the road wasnt clear when he entered it and she was a good 200m back?
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One of our refuse lorries was two thirds of the way down a narrow street when some idiot decided to turn into it and stop in front of him. The guy got out and told our driver to reverse all the way back up the hill to let him pass which my colleague obviously refused to do.
The guy said he wasn't going to move and our driver just said "fine, I'm getting paid for this so fine by me", got back in his cab and whipped out his newspaper.
The guy lastest 12 minutes before conceding defeat and reversing back the relatively short distance so our vehicle could pass.
The guy said he wasn't going to move and our driver just said "fine, I'm getting paid for this so fine by me", got back in his cab and whipped out his newspaper.
The guy lastest 12 minutes before conceding defeat and reversing back the relatively short distance so our vehicle could pass.
It's a small tunnel. Evidence suggests that this is not the case.......as they were both in the tunnel at the same time
If he's 2 thirds of the way through them that means he was already committed and in the tunnel when she went you know what **** it I'm gonna go and block him.
Pretty sure when it's talking about parked cars etc if the person who doesn't have right of way has already committed to he manover when you get there its your job to wait not block the road
One of our refuse lorries was two thirds of the way down a narrow street when some idiot decided to turn into it and stop in front of him. The guy got out and told our driver to reverse all the way back up the hill to let him pass which my colleague obviously refused to do.
The guy said he wasn't going to move and our driver just said "fine, I'm getting paid for this so fine by me", got back in his cab and whipped out his newspaper.
The guy lastest 12 minutes before conceding defeat and reversing back the relatively short distance so our vehicle could pass.
Heh on one of my bike lessons we were going down a side road with parked cars on both sides so just about wide enough for one vehicle. We're going down and a woman pulls out of a side street and comes towards us competly filling the road so even on a bike we couldn't get past and then is just staring at us, could just here my instructor laughing over the headset before saying "hey, put your kick stand down" and cracking up with laughter as she realises she had to reverse back into the side street
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When you approach something where it is signposted that traffic coming from one way should give way to the other, then surely the give way point isn't when both are at their respective junctions but when both can get to the junction of the car that has right of way.
In other words, if you cannot pass the point at where the car that has right of way would become an obstruction before they do (estimating both your speeds) then you do not have right of way and you should wait until you can pass the obstacle without slowing them down.
A better example than a round-a-bout would be when there's a parked car on your side of the road, reducing traffic to one lane like in this story. When traffic is coming the other way you wait, but if there is, say, a 3 car gap in that traffic you don't pull out on the basis you can enter the congestion point before the next car gets to it, you pull out when there is a gap big enough for you to pass without having to stop any traffic coming the other way.
So in this case, he could not get past the point he needed to before the woman got to the point where she had right of way and so he was in the wrong.
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Old bloke shouldn't be on the road.
Woman should have been 'helped' out of her car and her car parked some where safe.
Woman should have been 'helped' out of her car and her car parked some where safe.
The saddest thing is that someone has been paid to report on this story and then it was published as click bait to other DM trash. The slightly less sad thing is that someone has exercised editorial judgement and deemed that enough people will find the story interesting to make it financially viable to publish.
