Near miss

hargi

hargi

hargi

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So driving to work this morning, on the backroads.
Im on the main road approacing a staggered junction. Im on th emain road so dont have to stop cast at either side have to give way to me, so us on the main road are driving away nicely at 60 then a woman pulls out from the right nearly straight into me. I swurved a little and slammed all on she breaked and we managed to finish with her about 1 foot from my door.
im guessing if i had have speed up it wouldnt have been as close but instinct made me break.
Its getting worse round here with people just pulling out, not indicating and generally just disobaying any road sence.
Since she didnt hit me and there was no colission none of us got out and we just drove off.
Did i do right? I know your supposed to stop if there is an accident but threr wasnt here.

cheers
 
You don't need to stop in this situation, just chalk it up to experience and move on. By this I mean what you need to do in future is anticipate the probable hazards in this location and drive accordingly. Think to yourself "right, some plank is likely to pull out in front of me shortly, I'd better be ready". If this means slowing down then so be it. :)
 
I was driving this morning. I got in the car around 8:30am. Now my commute is usually 20 minutes long and it's a mix of A roads and then straight onto the M1. So it's pretty generic with zero complications.

I have no speed cameras just one red light camera which again is smooth with zero problems. Anyway so I got into my Lexus and started driving away, everything seemed normal. No one pulling out or any odd behaviour, traffic again was normal. Covered the A road, got onto the M1 everything normal. A little bit of traffic and a 50 zone, again usual stuff, nothingout of the ordinary. Got off the motorway and made my way to the office, again all usual stuff, pulled into the office car park, opened my door and spaghetti fell out everywhere!
 
The standard of driving has really deteriorated over the last 5 to 10 years. I try to drive so defensively now and assume the worst - that people don't go where they indicate or simply don't bother indicating. At a junction I tend to watch the wheel rather than the car itself because you can see whether it's turning and therefore whethere the car is likely to move too (for some reason I find it easier to watch the wheel than the entire car).
 
With cars waiting to turn out of side roads, it's always best to look at which way the driver is looking rather than the car itself (if you can. It's not possible in all cases). If they don't look in your direction they're probably going to pull out on you.
 
This is an example of one of the reasons I sold my motorbike. It was happening regularly. I'm not one to tar a whole group with the same brush but it was usually women in small cars :p
 
As others have said, chalk it up to experience, learn from it, and be grateful that no-one was hurt and nothing was damaged. Take a little solace from the fact that it probably put the willies up her more than it did you! Hopefully she'll also have learnt something from it too.
 
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