Giving way to oncoming traffic

cyclonebri1

I'm pretty sure I have this bang on.

You were faced with a typical none thinking driver that assumes that when they are commited to the "wrong side of the road"?, or are going against the flow of traffic, assume they have the right of way due to "position".

Thats the other drivers standpoint.

You decided that you would teach this driver a lesson by forcing a "stand off".

Have I got this right?

So who is right, and who is not?


Of course you are correct, not by what you did, but by your correct understanding of the rules of the road.

Me?, Yeah I feel similar, (and have done the same :o), but you cannot try to educate, they simply choose not to understand, they are the planks of the road.


Accept they exist and will, maybe later than sooner, get there just desserts, ;)

vikingaero

newlywed wrote: »

:rotfl: where on earth do you live???? That doesn't happen much here!

(and yes I have read and do abide by the highway code).

I live in Southern England in the Victorian times.

Rolandtheroadie

sickparrot wrote: »

It's not just laziness it's downright dangerous. Anyone pulling out of a side road on your left wouldn't be expecting someone to be on completely the wrong side of the road.

Thats why you look both ways at a junction when your emerging.

Strider590

Young women in newish cars are typically spoilt brats who can't do anything wrong. Daddy buys them everything they want and if they get into trouble with the law, for having the fog light on (for example) they flash a bit of leg and get away scot free.

I know im making wild generalisations, but to a large extent it is sadly true.... I had one trying to cross a narrow bridge where the signs had given me right of way, she was most unladylike and expected two cars to reverse back down the bridge to make way for her new German "Mini".

DaveF327

andygb wrote: »

Thinking about it, she drove for about two hundred yards on my side of the road, just to pass one parked car. I don't know if this was laziness, or just a bad attitude, trying to get me stop and let her pass.

Enforced chivalry, perhaps? I thought women wanted equal rights nowadays...

GTRsmiles

You did exactly the right thing! And good on you, the only way that you would be required to give way to her is that if you had just come round a sharp corner before the parked car on her side of the road and she had committed herself before it was possible for her to see you. Otherwise, if your lane is clear, it’s your right of way.

I had exactly the same thing with an idiot bully bus driver about 18 months ago, but this was much worse and ended up with the bus driver receiving a formal disciplinary as I proved that he broke the law.

I do have it written down on another car owner’s forum if anyone’s interested and wants a read, it does make for quite enjoyable reading, especially if you are fed up with bus drivers using the size of their bus to dominate the road? Happy to post it here if andygb doesn’t mind?

skiddlydiddly

sickparrot wrote: »

It's not just laziness it's downright dangerous. Anyone pulling out of a side road on your left wouldn't be expecting someone to be on completely the wrong side of the road.

No they wouldn't but they should check anyway.Look Right,left,right pulling out of junctions.

To the OP-in this instance it does sound like you are in the right as you managed to stop level to the parked car before she got to it.If she'd already been coming through then it would have been her right of way.Unless road signs/marking said otherwise.
Advanced drivers are taught to move out early to let oncoming cars know what they are doing and leaving enough room for any parked cars to open their door.You also have better control of the car as you are not suddenly lurching out from behind parked car which pushes you even further acorss the other side of the road.Two hundred yards is a bit excessive though .

mikey72

We get this all the time in our village, with continuous parked cars down one side of the road.
Funniest one when I had the right of way, in my camper, some sales rep decided to overtake the line on parked cars, and then tried to squeeze between me and the cars on his left.
He didn't fit, so wound down his window, and shouted
"get that heap of junk moved or I'll move it for you"
I stopped the engine, said "what", and he wound his window up and reversed back out of the way.

Another time I started to drive, again on my side of the road, and met a woman who came the over way, well after I had started to go though the gap. She reversed into a gap on her left, and very indignantly shouted, "didn't you see my indicator".
Yes, she was indicating right to overtake, so that meant I should give way to her, in her version of the highway code.

sequence

Lots of muppets about these days who think being on the wrong side of the road gives them right of way, sadly.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Is it really such a disaster to let a selfish driver go first and get out of your way all the quicker to bother someone else? Or is confrontation to be welcomed at all times?