Soldato
Interstates here have signs saying Minimum Speed 40mph, if you are driving less than that for reasons other than rain/traffic you can and will be ticketed... good idea in my opinion
http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/psni-pull-motorist-over-driving-12400236
Finally some one has taken notice of the 40 everywhere brigade, I just wish there more traffic officers to further enforce this.
Edit: this is the stretch of road they were stopped on https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.3...4!1slzzYohvZXWPqkpgMHynqUA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Not sure I have much faith in that kind of driving ability.
The most dangerous thing is people joining motorways / dual carriageways at too slow a speed.
You can see the artics slamming on the anchors as even the gap they left isn't enough.
It's when you come across a line of people doing 40 and not overtaking. Arrrrrrrrrrrr
The most dangerous thing is people joining motorways / dual carriageways at too slow a speed.
You can see the artics slamming on the anchors as even the gap they left isn't enough.
This, this is the thing that annoys me more than anything else.
There will be one slow moving vehicle, literally open road as far as they eye can see ahead of it, and people will just sit there like idiots trundling along at 35/40 mph mile after mile.
I quite often overtake lines of cars 8 to 10 cars long on the way to Nottingham as they sit there blindly following a lorry on the A52.
if 8 or 10 other people do not think its safe... are you sure you are not in the wrong? possibly only one in every few hundred drivers would make that move...
think how long you are on the wrong side of the road, doing 60/70/80...
A few seconds?
Just because 8-10 other people don't have the confidence or driving ability to perform a simple overtake doesn't mean it's not safe.
Exactly..people just seem averse to overtaking, even when it's safe.
The gf was driving back from Guildford the other day on the A31 and we were stuck behind a guy who kept varying his speed between 40 and 50 (in a NSL) and braking for no reason on a straight road. It was really frustrating her, but when we reached a perfect overtaking spot she wouldn't do it as she "doesn't like overtaking".
Interstates here have signs saying Minimum Speed 40mph, if you are driving less than that for reasons other than rain/traffic you can and will be ticketed... good idea in my opinion
Thing is they will never tell people to stop driving so slowly, because the H&S wombles and lycra brigade would throw a fit. To them slow = safer in ALL possible situations and is the solution to all road deaths ever.
A few seconds?
Just because 8-10 other people don't have the confidence or driving ability to perform a simple overtake doesn't mean it's not safe.
It's alright doing that, until someone further up decides they are going to overtake and pull out without expecting a car doing 80mph up behind them.
I was stuck behind a (I honestly think drunk) driver doing 20 in a 60 last year, police came up behind and pulled me because they felt my radar cruise was following him too closely (at 20) for a 60 road >.>