using hazard lights when approaching an accident

hothothot_3

hartcjhart wrote: »

Perhaps you can give us your VRM so that
1) if we see you on the road we can avoid you like the plague

2)report you for 'driving without due care and attention',see your quote above

TROLL 1

:rotfl:

no seriously, the Highway Code is not legally enforceable rules anyway. I think you are being premature to suggest I have committed any offence whatsoever.

in addition to having no endorsements (unlike yourelf no doubt), not even a parking ticket I also have Pass-plus, and see myself as a good example to other road users.

hartcjhart

hothothot wrote: »

TROLL 1

:rotfl:

no seriously, the Highway Code is not legally enforceable rules anyway. I think you are being premature to suggest I have committed any offence whatsoever.

in addition to having no endorsements (unlike yourelf no doubt), not even a parking ticket I also have Pass-plus, and see myself as a good example to other road users.

If you are a good example I would hate to see a bad example:rotfl:

my licence is as clean as the day I passed my test in 1975,I have no need for pass plus,as apart from holding an International race licence,I have passed the 'police' advanced drivers course,bodyguard defensive drivers course,and pursuit and contol course,so I am not being premature in suggesting you commited an offence as you have already admitted the offence

Had I not had to spend the time swerving to avoid a collission

hothothot_3

hartcjhart wrote: »

If you are a good example I would hate to see a bad example:rotfl:

my licence is as clean as the day I passed my test in 1975,I have no need for pass plus,as apart from holding an International race licence,I have passed the 'police' advanced drivers course,bodyguard defensive drivers course,and CO19 pursuit and contol course,so I am not being premature in suggesting you commited an offence as you have already admitted the offence

Had I not had to spend the time swerving to avoid a collission

1975 :eek: sorry to say this but weve got alot more complicated road systems, and there is more than just one gear for forward one gear for back nowadays. I have also passed a police drivers course and read Roadcraft.

DaveMacD

So, you've read Roadcraft, and yet you failed to adapt to a changing situation in front of you??? Methinks it's time to read it again...

hothothot_3

DaveMacD wrote: »

So, you've read Roadcraft, and yet you failed to adapt to a changing situation in front of you??? Methinks it's time to read it again...

I adapted by successful evading the threat.......just like a professional driver would, someone now as observant or with fast reactions would have hit into the idiot, that is why im so angry.

DaveMacD

You reacted to the emergency stop. But for whatever reason, you didn't fully react to the earlier warnings of the hazard lights, which would have saved the finish on your car seats

Are you angry because of the incident, or is it because almost no-one is backing up your driving?

hothothot_3

DaveMacD wrote: »

You reacted to the emergency stop. But for whatever reason, you didn't fully react to the earlier warnings of the hazard lights, which would have saved the finish on your car seats

Are you angry because of the incident, or is it because almost no-one is backing up your driving?

it wasnt an emergency stop - as there was nothing to emergency stop for!

It was hazards on and then slam the brakes, so forcefully I had to slam mine and suffer some mild whiplash.

angry because someone not as well trained as me might have been injured, even killed, and yet a few people here are defending what is clearly poor driving skill.

pompeyrich

Or from the other point of view, "I was heading up the A1 in terrible conditions, there was snow and visibility was reduced. I could see blue flashing lights ahead and slowed down in anticipation of problems, the car to my left put his hazard lights on and I did the same, to warn people of the potential danger. I looked in my mirrors and saw a car approaching at high speed, he showed no signs of slowing down so I dabbed my foot on the brakes to try to draw attention to the danger, luckily at the last minute he swerved and just avoided slamming into the back of me. He must have been lucky as the accident involved a lorry that had skidded into the central reservation, prrobably on the frozen road. The incident left me shaken but I suppose the other guy needed to get somewhere quickly and blow the rest of us".

Nixer

hothothot wrote: »

it wasnt an emergency stop - as there was nothing to emergency stop for!

It was hazards on and then slam the brakes, so forcefully I had to slam mine and suffer some mild whiplash.
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That IS an emergency stop. However you do have the option to drive defensively and not react to other people all the time. You can do this by maintaining stopping distances (especially in poor driving conditions), watching what cars up ahead are doing instead of just the one in front and spotting gaps to get into should you need to.
You could google "defensive driving" but I see that you already know everything there is to know about driving having read Roadcraft despite post #9 where you say you aren't that experienced on the road.

hartcjhart

hothothot wrote: »

1975 :eek: sorry to say this but weve got alot more complicated road systems, and there is more than just one gear for forward one gear for back nowadays. I have also passed a police drivers course and read Roadcraft.

a road system is a road system,wether single lane or multi lane motorway,one gear forward and one back,so, makes no difference,what we are trying to explain to you is how to drive a motor vehicle safely wether that be a robin reliant or a ferrari,

you seem unable to grasp the FACT that YOU were driving too fast for the prevalent road conditions and are now trying to blame others for your near accident