Traffic joining motorways

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Don
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Since when did people think that traffic entering the motorway have right of way over traffic already on it?
Last week I had two incidents when passing junctions. One was a car trying to join the motorway who sounded their horn at me when I failed to move over to let him join (there were no other cars joining and if he had accelerated or decelerated he could have joined in front or behind me), the other one was where a car in lane 1 suddenly moved to lane 2 to let a car join and nearly ended up with my S2000 embedded in his tailgate as I was overtaking him in lane 2 at the time.

These events got me watching traffic join at further junctions and it seemed to me that a lot of people seem to think that they have right of way when joining the motorway.

Anyone else noticed this recently?
 
Its frustrating both ways, sometimes people try and kill you joining the motorway mindlessly, other times you see people have no awareness of traffic wanting to join the motorway and don't make room if the 1st lane is rammed and there is space to move over.

It's just a general lack of awareness.
 
I've had quite a few people pull out into lane 2 when I'm overtaking them at fairly higher speeds to let someone off a slip road, one of them actually proceeded to slam their brakes on so I had to lose about 40mph in not much time at all. Unfortunately there's no lane 3 to move into either at this end of the M4 :(.
 
Minstadave said:
Its frustrating both ways, sometimes people try and kill you joining the motorway mindlessly, other times you see people have no awareness of traffic wanting to join the motorway and don't make room if the 1st lane is rammed and there is space to move over.

It's just a general lack of awareness.
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This.
 
Minstadave said:
Its frustrating both ways, sometimes people try and kill you joining the motorway mindlessly, other times you see people have no awareness of traffic wanting to join the motorway and don't make room if the 1st lane is rammed and there is space to move over.

It's just a general lack of awareness.
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This, and what's with people trying to join at like 30. Use the loud peddle on the slip road.
 
Glaucus said:
This, and what's with people trying to join at like 30. Use the loud peddle on the slip road.
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Nothing enrages me more than being stuck behind someone who pootles to the end of the slip road before speeding up, or only reaches a maximum of 45MPH before attempting to join the traffic flow. It's irritating at best and downright dangerous at worst.
 
MrMoonX said:
No, I'm not a **** so always move over in plenty of time to let people on.
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But sometimes you just feel like being a **** and they have absolutely no right to force they way in.

***edit - I mean cruising at a constant speed, not actively blocking someone by matching their speed or something equally absurd.
 
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I find people generally have a determination to join the main carriageway as soon as possible- even if this is at ~15-25mph below the speed of the traffic... instead of using the whole length of the slip road to build up speed grr!
 
I had one guy in some Chelsea tractor speed up to block me from coming out in front of him when joining a main A road. I put my foot down and did it anyway, but I know he did it deliberately because he did the same to someone else a few minutes later, making them stand on their brakes and stop at the end of the slip road. He stayed in the inside lane and deliberately sped up and slowed down to block people trying to merge from the left.

So it's not just people joining from the slip that are *****.
 
Yup, see this all the time and it's my biggest annoyance on the road, it's a give way line not a right of way line.
 
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: driving on slip roads is the worst in the country apart from supermarket car parks. The vast majority of drivers seem to make no attempt to even look at traffic on the main road, never mind make any attempt to merge safely. The pootle down the slip at 50mph and then wonder why they can't merge, or they hammer down at 80mph and then swerve to avoid the car in lane one they are about to crash into, or they swing into lane one without looking etc, etc, etc.
 
Remember when the Government used to spend our money on useful things like Road Safety Videos that weren't just about speeding (Clunk Click Every Trip, Don't Drink and Drive etc), wouldn't it be a really good idea if they started doing those again for things like this where people have forgotten the Highway Code. Think of them as a reminder of how the roads are supposed to run as opposed to how people *think* they should.

I swear that if I win enough on the Lottery I'll pay for these safety ad's myself!
 
Great Farcebork group I'm following... https://www.facebook.com/HighwayCodeGB?fref=nf

There was a tread on this exact subject a couple of weeks ago!...

I see this problem everyday I'm up and down the M4, people thinkning they have the right to join the motorway at a junction even if there's no room in the traffic that's already on the carriageway (all 3 lanes rammed!).

Saw some guy nearly come a cropper as he argued with an Eddie Stobart lorry already on the motorway the other day!. There's a few video's of Dashcams in Lorrys of exactly this!! People getting pushed sideways as they think the lorry (or anyone for that matter) should move, even when there's no room!!

The others that annoy me are the ones that slow down on the slip as you approach on the carriageway 'flashing' to let them in and the slow and slow and stop, do they not look in their mirrors!!?? I either have to slow soooo much till they get the point, or take my life in my hands and hope they don't decide to pop out as I speed back up and pass them!!!
 
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