How I kept calm I'm not sure...
- Thread starter DRZ
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i agree, it is stupid but had a traffic officer pulled OP and offending civic over, it would be interesting to see what they made of OP's video. as stated, my point was that they are being as reckless as each other. i don't know the OP and he may (probably is) a competent driver but blitzing a car such as this down a windy country road is just what this civic driver wanted. christmas literally did come early for him, he got to pull of a stupid manouvre, go down the pub and tell his mates how he ''blew an rx away and said driver of rx must've been poohing his pants''.
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[TW]Fox;20882973 said:
what do you mean 'what is it with this thread'? why do you think the civic was doing under the speed limit? he's seen the OP coming and noticed he is moving at a rapid pace (maybe reckless is the wrong word but i would guess he has broken the 50 limit a fair few times) so he slows down, inviting the rx to overtake and then pulls off said stupid manouvre. the only reason he did it, was because of the car and the speed it was travelling. all of this is made perfectly clear by the painfully slow way the car turns off at the end.
the civic driver is an idiot, no doubt but (and i'm sure the op is fully aware of this) certain cars, driven at certain speeds along certain roads are exactly what this civic driver was looking for. he'd probably done 6 runs of it.
Hate to play devils advocate here but DRZ also broke the highway code if we're going down that route.
Section 166
^This one is questionable, you can't tell from a video if the corner in the distance is visible or not.
Section 167
There is a clear junction at 1:53 during the overtake, if Ross was there driving with his side lights on and would have pulled out and turned left there would have been a head on. If I'm not mistaken, the OP should have pulled out to check that the road ahead was clear of junctions, and then pulled out once clear.
Like I said, devils advocate, we all know you can't really see a junction coming up in the dark unless someone is there with their lights on, but in the eyes of the law this doesn't matter.
Not slating, just posting my interpretation of the Highway Code. Don't shoot me.
By the way, I'd have tried an overtake as well just like the OP judging by the video.
Section 166
^This one is questionable, you can't tell from a video if the corner in the distance is visible or not.
Section 167
There is a clear junction at 1:53 during the overtake, if Ross was there driving with his side lights on and would have pulled out and turned left there would have been a head on. If I'm not mistaken, the OP should have pulled out to check that the road ahead was clear of junctions, and then pulled out once clear.
Like I said, devils advocate, we all know you can't really see a junction coming up in the dark unless someone is there with their lights on, but in the eyes of the law this doesn't matter.
Not slating, just posting my interpretation of the Highway Code. Don't shoot me.
By the way, I'd have tried an overtake as well just like the OP judging by the video.
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this thread is shocking
first people say its silly to use full beam on a road you know
then someone says its weird that people flash them when they have full beam on
then another person says speeding is just as bad as accelerating to stop someone overtaking....
I really do wonder about people. Ive only been driving 6 years and it seems i know SO MUCH MORE than 90% of the population its silly.
Or everyone is drunk due to the holidays?
what trap? Im hoping DRZ reports this to the police and the kid in the Civic gets a nice few points and a fine for dangerous driving.
first people say its silly to use full beam on a road you know
then someone says its weird that people flash them when they have full beam on
then another person says speeding is just as bad as accelerating to stop someone overtaking....
I really do wonder about people. Ive only been driving 6 years and it seems i know SO MUCH MORE than 90% of the population its silly.
Or everyone is drunk due to the holidays?
what trap? Im hoping DRZ reports this to the police and the kid in the Civic gets a nice few points and a fine for dangerous driving.
solid post. i would like to recall my use of the word 'reckless'.
Driving on the roads is not about laying "traps" for people.
err i can't think of a better terminology in this instance. i think you'll find my thoughts on the civic driver are quite clear.
What won't he do again, go to overtake another car that *might* accelerate?
I genuinely can't believe some of the posts in this thread.
If that video were played in court any independant person would see the Civic travelling below the speed limit, MX-5 attempting a legal and fair overtake, Civic driver committing careless if not dangerous driving by speeding up, MX-5 pulling back in behind him after just a few seconds, and the Civic driver hooning off on the other side of the round around a bend.
I can assure you it wouldn't be a case of "well you might have drifted 5 MPH over the limit there".
What won't he do again, go to overtake another car that *might* accelerate?
I genuinely can't believe some of the posts in this thread.
i can't believe some of them either, yours being one of them.
you can assure me of it? can you assure me the defence wouldn't be rubbing their hands together with how they could manipulate the fact he was videoing himself driving down a B road?
Whether he's speeding or not isn't the issue, two wrongs don't make a right...that DRZ was driving quickly does not change the clear fact that the Civic driver acted like a plank.
have i not said what i think of the civic driver?
