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If a car hit a bike with the cyclist with no lights, dark clothing and going down the wrong way down a one way street, would they get done by the law?
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I only indicate right to leave a roundabout if the lane I am in is right or straight ahead. One prime example is the roundabout between my home and my parents.
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my ex wife was a legal clerk and they covered a case about this, and iirc the car driver still had to pay a big chunk of change, albeit it was reduced because the cyclist was considered partly at fault.
personally I thought it was disgusting. cyclist was fully at fault imo
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100% the cyclist’s fault as they were stupid enough to be not being savvy
Other than turning right at a mini-roundabout (where there quite often isn't enough time to put the left indicator on) why would you ever indicate right when you are exiting. Surely you have the left indicator on to tell any waiting vehicles that you are now leaving.
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I do change indicators from right to enter roundabout and left to leave
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Agree with this, although if a roundabout is heavily lane controlled I often won't indicate to exit as I follow the lane. However if I'm indicating right then I switch it to left before exit.
The driver would likely get charged with due care and attention, such is our backwards rules.
Look at Charlie Austin, at the time a premiership player for Southampton, went through a green light at a crossroads as a cyclist ran a red. Austin was charged with driving without due care and the cyclist, Anthony Grey, who by breaking the law caused the collision got a £30 fixed penalty and played the victim to all the papers claiming he can't remember or understand how it happened.
Someone probably thought I was a bad driver today, encountered one of those "people" who trundle along then when you overtake them they speed up and pass you, then trundle along again in front of you so you have to overtake them, repeat 
then got stuck behind them as they did 62MPH past a line of traffic doing 57-58... then once clear and they'd pulled into lane 1 sped up to pass them only for them to then match me for speed... at that point someone else came flying up behind me at 90+ and motioning for me to move over, put my foot down a bit but after clearing the car in lane 1 there wasn't much of a gap, though I could have pulled into it, until the next line of slow moving traffic but I just knew if I moved over to let the car behind me pass the car I'd just passed would follow on behind it and then almost inevitably slow down so stuck out in lane 2 until we'd passed the slower traffic which the driver behind wasn't too happy about.
then got stuck behind them as they did 62MPH past a line of traffic doing 57-58... then once clear and they'd pulled into lane 1 sped up to pass them only for them to then match me for speed... at that point someone else came flying up behind me at 90+ and motioning for me to move over, put my foot down a bit but after clearing the car in lane 1 there wasn't much of a gap, though I could have pulled into it, until the next line of slow moving traffic but I just knew if I moved over to let the car behind me pass the car I'd just passed would follow on behind it and then almost inevitably slow down so stuck out in lane 2 until we'd passed the slower traffic which the driver behind wasn't too happy about.
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If they were doing 90mph it was pretty much their problem not yours TBH.
I was making good progress so not that worried about it, but I generally won't hold people up even if they are doing those kind of speeds. But I just knew if I tried to be accommodating in that situation it would come back to bite me in the arse.
My god i hate when people do this, so many people don't like being overtaken, must be an ego thing i guess.Someone probably thought I was a bad driver today, encountered one of those "people" who trundle along then when you overtake them they speed up and pass you, then trundle along again in front of you so you have to overtake them, repeat
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so long as you are overtaking traffic that are in the inside lane you do not have to pull in. I know you said technically there was room for your car but (and I am just guessing here) going on how you worded it it sounds to me that technically there would not then have been a big enough gap between you and the car in front , which would have forced you to slow down.Someone probably thought I was a bad driver today, encountered one of those "people" who trundle along then when you overtake them they speed up and pass you, then trundle along again in front of you so you have to overtake them, repeat
personally I try not to be "that" driver who lane hogs. I won't lie sometimes I switch off a bit and get caught out (usually when am getting close to needing a break) and if I get flashed then I put my hand up and apologise.
but if it is a berk trying to climb in my boot whilst I am legitimately overtaking, all that does is encourage me to ease off and (l
therefore may lower myself to their level)
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It makes me sad when someone comes hooning up behind me so I pull over even though it's going to mean I'm cutting it a little fine to get back out before I catch up with the car now in front of me, and then the car that was doing warp speed decides to carry out the slowest over take ever then leaving me stuck in the left hand lane.
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I find it annoying when people indictable right in the roundabout (which has a right turn) but then go straight on. There's a roundabout near me where I've seem it happen and it almost causes an accident (as often they are in the wrong lane to go straight on).
Had a slightly weird one today - approaching a corner and a car coming the other way was well over the line and my car acted like forward collision assist was kicking in but no beep and/or alert icons as normally happens if it kicks in but the car definitely reacted to the other car's position - I don't generally get false positives on corners and it wouldn't have really been a false positive - but it was only a very fleeting moment when there was possibility of a collision so maybe the system reacted then deactivated almost instantly too quick for the alerts.
Then I had someone coming the other way passed park cars, cars parked on their side and I'd clearly already committed before they appeared and they had a good few seconds to think about it, who pushed through forcing me to stop to let them through... then when they got level they tried to be all like "we good?" and not in an apologetic kind of way so I was like whatever and then they looked most put out...
Then I had someone coming the other way passed park cars, cars parked on their side and I'd clearly already committed before they appeared and they had a good few seconds to think about it, who pushed through forcing me to stop to let them through... then when they got level they tried to be all like "we good?" and not in an apologetic kind of way so I was like whatever and then they looked most put out...
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I've noticed a lot of people go with thd "**** everybody else" attitude when it cones to parked cars. I try to move over to the middle of my lane to dissuade then from a dodgy maneuver as there's not always the space for 3 cars abreast.