Your bad driving encounters

Dis86 said:
Yes, from the definition. The rules are really simple. If you're not overtaking then keep left. If you're not keeping left when you should you're causing an obstruction (congestion).
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I do understand the dilemma of the other driver staying in the right lane in the scenario outlined. Though about 400 - 500 metres is about where I aim to be moving in to the right lane. I have more than a few times been caught out trying to get into the right lane to turn right off a carriageway because ******** think the right lane on a dual carriageway is only for overtaking. You then create an even bigger danger having to slow to 30 or 40 to get over before the turn, as the ******** think you are trying to cut them up.

Then they have the gall to get annoyed that you dared to turn right and slow them down in “a 70 zone”. Even if you have been in the right hand lane and indicating your intent to take the right hand turn for the past quarter of a mile.
 
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Brun said:
There's no specific law that makes undertaking illegal at all, hence the lack of 'must not' in the Highway Code. However all the 'should not' and 'do not' rules mean undertaking is covered by careless or dangerous driving laws.

My concern was regarding our 'resident' professional driver claiming it's ok to pass on the left as long as you don't move from directly behind the car in front.

I'll concede that there's a fair amount of ambiguity around all this, but the above is complete fantasy as far as I'm concerned.
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Just think out loud here, but if a driver has to move left to get past someone, surely they were middle lane hogging to start with (imagine a mind blowing emoji here :cry: ).
 
theone8181 said:
Just think out loud here, but if a driver has to move left to get past someone, surely they were middle lane hogging to start with (imagine a mind blowing emoji here :cry: ).
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If you are unable to pass cars on your left due to a car in front of you and cars to your right (middle lane for example) then you are not lane hogging.
 
Richie said:
If you are unable to pass cars on your left due to a car in front of you and cars to your right (middle lane for example) then you are not lane hogging.
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There is room to move left in the scenario described. So implicitly, you're progressing in the middle lane with an empty lane to your left.
 
Police couldn't easily stop both cars, so just stopped the car in front they thought was worst offender ?
it having blindly not clocked them and pulled across to let them through, and police could see driver inattentively jawing with passenger.
Need those minimum speed signs like they commonly have in USA (some UK bridges have them no ?)


Usually the upcoming slower 1st lane traffic/hgv's 4/500m in front, which presents the dilemna to either hold(hog) the 2nd lane after overtake or pull to 1st briefly
knowing that you might get boxed out at that upcoming traffic by following cars, or have to accelerate uneconomically to get back out into 2.
If a following car is keen to get past will often blink indicate left near end of overtake to give him a window, and see if he wants to take the initiative.
 
Only loosely related to this thread but watched someone confidently parallel park a Navara in a space barely bigger than the vehicle in one continuous move earlier - I wouldn't have even attempted it - I've not had to parallel park really in the last 10 years so a bit out of practise as well. The people either side of them weren't so happy though trying to get out.
 
Had a scary one last week.

Left work late, 22:30, had to do a bit of out of hours work.
Travelling northbound on the A1 at 70-75mph and I see a car in the distance ahead of me swerve all of a sudden. I thought “what a moron” and nothing more about it.
That is until I then realise the issue, a car with DRLs coming towards me on the wrong side of the road.
Evasive manoeuvres were made as it shot by making a horrendous noise.

I then see a police car on the other (correct) side of the road, following. Then a few hundred yards further, another 4 police cars are flying up the road in pursuit.

Shook me up a bit. Took a couple of hours for the adrenaline to go.
 
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LuckyBenski said:
I don't think I'd know immediately what that sign should look like? Is it a blue circle with the minimum speed on?
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What is it with the MGIF brigade? (Must Get In Front). Travelling home on a dual carriageway and approaching my exit. I am in lane 1 and have left a decent space of about 40-50yds to the car in front for reaction/braking distance and the car behind me is about 300 yds away. The 3, 2, 1 signs are just about to start for the exit

Cue dumb wee lassie in a Corsa coming up lane 2 and, instead of slotting in behind me in the circa 300yd gap between me and the car behind, oh-no, she has to get by me, slam the indicator and and pull into the 40-50yd gap and then brake because she's a bloody idiot :mad:

She didnt even save herself any time as the lane she wanted on the slip road (2 lane slip road as it turns left or right at top) was backed up so she would have ended up in the exact same position regardless. Silly wee tart :mad:
 
My one today has yet again been people who dawdle then speed up as or after you've overtaken them.
First was a guy in am sq7 who drove at 40 in a 60 and then when we hit a 40 floored it like his backside was on fire.
 
Few days ago, bimbling along on my bike at 50 in a 50, with literally everything pulling into the outside lane to overtake me. Cue roadworks signs and the two lanes going into one 800 metres ahead. So, everyone immediately pulls back in to the now stationary lane one, and I pull out to lane two and overtake all of them, still at 50mph, then slot in at the front when the roadworks start...

:p
 
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