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Onslaught

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So today I almost get killed on the duel cartridge way! :mad: - I'm minding my own doing 70 in the left hand lane approaching a slip road onto the duel - There's a car overtaking me albeit very slowly, I see a car coming down the slip road but cannot pull over so continue driving, the next thing I know is she pulls out on me!!! :mad: I was lucky that the car that was over taking me just finished there maneuver & I was able to slam the anchors on and move over to the right, when I challenged her she just gave me the finger some rude words and continued driving!! Even though it was her fault...

As per highway code:

233: When you join the motorway you will normally approach it from a road on the left (a slip road) or from an adjoining motorway. You should

* give priority to traffic already on the motorway
* check the traffic on the motorway and adjust your speed to fit safely into the traffic flow in the left-hand lane
* not cross solid white lines that separate lanes
* stay on the slip road if it continues as an extra lane on the motorway
* remain in the left-hand lane long enough to adjust to the speed of traffic before considering overtaking.
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She did none of this! I presume the same above applies to Duel's cannot see why not.. Anyway I'm getting over it now but needed to express myself.. it could have been worse and my 9month son could have been in the car.. :(

I don't get why so many people these days just done bother to observe or follow the codes for such a simple thing as driving.. Its not hard to remember to give way to passing cars or drop speed to suit.. And it beggers belief she had the nerve to give me stick for it! Ill be looking out for 'T25 FML' tomorrow. On a side note I think I broke my horn highlighting my unhappyness with the event.
 
Expect the un-expected, assume everybody else on the road is a complete moron and you'll avoid such incidents.

Look on the bright side, you did'nt have an accident. :)

Edit: Did this occur in Scotland? Normally, those are the actions of your average driver within the M25 area.
 
Yeah people dont follow the highway code at all, i hate being in the inside lane when approaching a slip road, mainly due to what happened to you, I always try to get into the middle or outside lane or make a gap infront to allow them on.
 
chrislusty, then you get those people who will try to merge into motorway traffic by slicing across all three lanes at 50 MPH then spend the next 60 seconds accelerating to 70 or 80. Of course, should you even breathe during that maneuver, they'll swear blue murder at you.
 
Happens all the time. Best bet is to ensure you can get out the way by slowing down a bit before the slip road giving you somewhere to go.

really the guy in the outside lane should have seen what was gonna happen and should have backed off a bit giving you somewhere to go. He was probably looking for hot air balloons mind you.
 
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Regardless of the highway code you need to read the road ahead and try and see what could potentially happen. Seeing as there was a car to your right and there was a car trying to join the carriageway so you couldn't move over, I'd have sped up a little as I approached the sliproad, adjusting my speed so that I'd have been out of the way for her to join - you're most likely already going faster than the car on the slip road so should be able to increase speed a little more and give them room to get on.

Not exactly as per the highway code, but common sense and could save you finding yourself in a spot of bother.

Of course, this doesn't work so well if the road is absolutely rammed full of traffic.
 
Cueball said:
chrislusty, then you get those people who will try to merge into motorway traffic by slicing across all three lanes at 50 MPH then spend the next 60 seconds accelerating to 70 or 80. Of course, should you even breathe during that maneuver, they'll swear blue murder at you.
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Yes you get these people too, so you have to adjust your speed again, as said earlier, very few drive to the highway code, so common sense and reading the road ahead should get you out of trouble more often than not.

When i drive on the motorway, i go stay around a GPS reading of 75mph this is around 83mph on the spedo, fast enough for me to be out in the outside lane making progress.
 
Onslaught said:
Even though it was her fault...
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Thats your mistake right there... its NEVER the womans fault :p

On the very rare occasion that they don't try to blame the innocent party its their hormones that get the blame.

;)
 
If I get stuck in the inside lane I'll usually back off to allow the car on the slip road to join, safest option really and it's nice to let people in but they should not just shove their way in like what happened to you
 
R124/LA420 said:
Expect the un-expected, assume everybody else on the road is a complete moron and you'll avoid such incidents.
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Agreed. Although I nearly side swiped someone the other night because they were on an unlit road without any lights on! :rolleyes:
 
R124/LA420 said:
Expect the un-expected, assume everybody else on the road is a complete moron and you'll avoid such incidents.
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Exactly

I'd have probably slowed down in the situation described, thus allowing the car in the lane to the right to overtake faster, and allowing the person joining to join in front if I hadn't managed to change lanes by that time. I would avoid accelerating past someone on the sliproad if I was in the next lane, for the simple reason that there's a lot of morons out there.
 
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DannyDan said:
Exactly

I'd have probably slowed down in the situation described, thus allowing the car in the lane to the right to overtake faster, and allowing the person joining to join in front if I hadn't managed to change lanes by that time. I would avoid accelerating past someone on the sliproad if I was in the next lane, for the simple reason that there's a lot of morons out there.
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Yeah that was my exact thought. She's still a moron though...
 
just one of those tings m8, ive had this sort of thing happen more and more recently someone will pull out on me or cut me up and you beep at them and you get a mouth full or a finger the main one that annoys me is people in the wrong lane and pull across on you only for it to be "your" fault acorrding to them. To be honest ive give up caring now and just try to get on with my journey. Just be glad you didnt get hit
 
What did you expect to achieve by 'challenging' her? Did you want to give her a good telling off and a slap on the wrist? I know she probably scared the crap out of you but I don't see the need to pull up alongside someone to display your frustration with a scowl and waving arms. It just makes you look like a knob, even though the other person might be the knob. Your horn is for making people aware of your position, not for letting them know how angry you are.

Drive defensively and you'll have no need to challenge anyone. You gotta love the English attitude to driving, they all want to teach you a lesson :rolleyes:
 
Mr Joshua said:
That's a very unfair generalisation, there's lots that could be said about the Irish that would also be unfair.
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I'm sure there is. It's just an observation I made since moving here. You know who I'm talking about, the guy who comes up behind you on the motorway at 120mph and waits to the last minute to brake hard and ends up right on your back bumper to let you know that he is much more important and needs to get past, even though he can clearly see that there are cars in front of you.

Only one of many hundreds of examples but the English are more uptight drivers than the Irish. They like to show their frustration and make it known to other people that they're not happy. Oh I say, tally ho, how typically English old chap. In Ireland we just get on with it. I'm not saying we're better or worse drivers, just that we have a much more laid back attitude to driving which seems to make things happen much smoother and more pleasent to boot.
 
Scuzi said:
I'm sure there is. It's just an observation I made since moving here. You know who I'm talking about, the guy who comes up behind you on the motorway at 120mph and waits to the last minute to brake hard and ends up right on your back bumper to let you know that he is much more important and needs to get past, even though he can clearly see that there are cars in front of you.

Only one of many hundreds of examples but the English are more uptight drivers than the Irish. They like to show their frustration and make it known to other people that they're not happy. Oh I say, tally ho, how typically English old chap. In Ireland we just get on with it. I'm not saying we're better or worse drivers, just that we have a much more laid back attitude to driving which seems to make things happen much smoother and more pleasent to boot.
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So so true, just like the speed vigilantes who will do their best to impede your progress.
 
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