warning about the police

Thank you, Ross

I don't fancy joining a motorway at less than 10mph, however I won't be crossing any white lines in the future.

[Ross9]

Indeed, a 10mph joining would be very concerning lol. The speeds that some people join the motorway at is shocking and numerous times I've been glad of having a quick car to allow me to join behind them and get into the middle lane and up to speed very quickly before the approaching traffic already doing 70-80mph catches up and has to avoid the slow moving merging vehicles.

One of those cases where the ditherer joining the motorway at 45mph isn;t involved in the accident, but causes it in their wake and still considers themselves the safest thing on the road becuase they've never actually had a bump.

Ross

Originally Posted by Ross9

Indeed, a 10mph joining would be very concerning lol. The speeds that some people join the motorway at is shocking and numerous times I've been glad of having a quick car to allow me to join behind them and get into the middle lane and up to speed very quickly before the approaching traffic already doing 70-80mph catches up and has to avoid the slow moving merging vehicles.

One of those cases where the ditherer joining the motorway at 45mph isn;t involved in the accident, but causes it in their wake and still considers themselves the safest thing on the road becuase they've never actually had a bump.

Ross

I don"t want to pick holes but why head for the middle lane?,its for overtaking only.:

[222s]

Which is what he is using it for - to overtake the car ahead doing 45mph that joined the motorway at the same time as him

[ChrisGrant]

Originally Posted by REAL ALE DRINKER

I don"t want to pick holes but why head for the middle lane?,its for overtaking only.:

Carefull we're very big in this Forum about NOT sitting in the middle lane !

[Ross9]

Originally Posted by 222s

Which is what he is using it for - to overtake the car ahead doing 45mph that joined the motorway at the same time as him

Exactly right, and then I would return to the inside lane until something else presented itself for overtaking, the majority of the time my lane discipline is very good even if I do say so myself, there will have been occasions where I haven't returned to the left no doubt, but I've never sat holding someone up when there has been a free lane to my left as I don't appreciate it if someone holds me up by being in an outer lane unnecesarily.

Some people are just really picky though and would have you hung for using an outer lane just to make progress even if you weren't holding anyone up but lets not get into that debate again, the sad ones that are that picky are the ones with time to debate it over and over so will always get the last word anyway

Ross

[LankyTim]

I dont hog the middle or outer lane, but worse thing in the world is to be in the slow lane and get "boxed in" by people not letting you pull out.

agreed! i hate it when that happens. the worst is when you are overtaking in the right hand lane and some speeding pillock flies up you a#* and flashes his lights to get you to move. i had a bentley do that to me while i overtook two lorries in the lefthand lanes on the m1. i just slowed down to pass them slowly. i hate idiots who do that. pure road rage!

[perussell]

yeah, almost as bad as the idiots who slow down on purpose in such situations which just further inflames the person behind making an already dangerous situation even worse.
I don't in any way condone the person who tailgates - and I don't have a hang up about what car they drive - but seems to me anybody who then purposely slows further is equally culpable!

ahh, good point. however imagine these scenarios:
1. driver a overtakes a lorry on the dual carriageway doing 70mph. driver b tailgates wanting a to move faster. driver a has to stop suddenly. driver b piles into the back of a and both get splattered by the lorry.
2 same situation, but driver a slows to 65, still faster than the lorry. has to stop suddenly. b hits a. a has more reaction time. a can swing towards central reservation. both cars are written off, but no one is involved. no pile up on or lorry road kill.

which is better? or maybe b will keep of a's a*& when all the b's in the world have hit enough a's for the police to intervene? tailgating is always against the law, and dangerous. i'd rather slow down and reduce the risk of a serious bang, then speed and risk getting killed.
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