what do you mean 'what trap'. if you can't work out what the civic driver is doing here then you're very naive. wake up, there's nob heads like this on the road unfortuanetly. the saving grace is that OP had the common sense to let off instead of hammering the pedal down, as someone with less experience or a more aggressive attitude or a death wish may have done.
How I kept calm I'm not sure...
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what do you mean 'what trap'. if you can't work out what the civic driver is doing here then you're very naive. wake up, there's nob heads like this on the road unfortuanetly. the saving grace is that OP had the common sense to let off instead of hammering the pedal down, as someone with less experience or a more aggressive attitude or a death wish may have done.
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Yes you have...but I still don't get your point!
to keep it brief, there's idiots out on the road who are opportunist. op was in wrong place, wrong time, driving an rx down a b road rapidly and perhaps not as carefully as he may have done on other occassions (see highway code post from milanochris). civic driver lured him in. nobody died.
Videoing yourself driving down a B road is not an offence, and no amount of hand rubbing will create one.
I hope to end this discussion here. You are evidently stupid and wasting everybody's time with your asinine opinions.
ok thanks, pmkeates.
You perhaps need to brush up on the difference between DO NOT and MUST NOT in the Highway Code. Overtaking past a junction is 'risky' and obviously advised against but not illegal. Had the civic not sped up I'd have been back in before that junction anyway.
No problem. Feel free to post again if you ever feel the need to be reminded!
You presumably then never overtake anything?
Riiiight. So just in case someone with no brain decides to block you when overtaking, you'll just sit there and do nothing? That's fine and entirely your decision (probably based on you having a car that prevents you from overtaking safely) but it is a bit irrational to apply that to everyone.
The only reason I was still overtaking when passing that junction was due to the actions of the CTR. A car travelling at a steady speed requires almost no time at all to pass.
This thread is a source of continual amazement for me.
P.S. What is an 'rx'? I was in an MX-5 and one that looks so close to standard from the outside that you'd be hard pressed to know it was anything different to a normal MX-5 - especially at night!
People do this sort of thing around here too much,
Just because i drive around in a 1.4 Fiesta, it takes that little bit longer to perform the overtake, the other drivers deem it acceptable to out accelerate me.
Life not a big race, if an overtake is safe and legal to do so, what's the point in preventing it? Some thing i will never understand.
Just because i drive around in a 1.4 Fiesta, it takes that little bit longer to perform the overtake, the other drivers deem it acceptable to out accelerate me.
Life not a big race, if an overtake is safe and legal to do so, what's the point in preventing it? Some thing i will never understand.
aah dunno why i had been saying rx, apologies. i haven't always driven a 1.0 lupo btw though have never owned what i would class as something rapid but through work and family, i have driven some pretty quick stuff and believe it or not, a 1.0 lupo is capable of overtaking!
my point about me personally not overtaking on such a road as the one in your vid is there is very little point, the driver of the civic enforces this as he accelerates away, only to get stuck behind atleast one other car shortly after. there's loads of roads like that around here, through driving on them for years, i've realised there's little point risking a manouvre as it often saves minimal time.
And because there are so many sheep with this attitude on the roads I frequently find myself at the end of a queue travelling at 30-40mph on a B road when there is simply no need. This is, IMO, down to a complete lack of confidence and ability combined with some kind of brainwashed idea that overtaking is somehow dangerous or bad.
It's really not hard. If you come across another car after you overtake, you overtake them as well.
This^^
You end up with a train of cars following a horse box or something at 30mph. It's infuriating and although people should definitely have more self control, it encourages unsafe overtakes.
I agree, I drive the same stretch of unlit (in winter) road (Kewstoke Toll Rd) every day on my journey home from work, I know every corner, lump and bump.
I always use full beam when there is no oncoming traffic, if I didn't, that would make me stupid, which i'm not.
