Opinions, accident video.....

Strider590

Accelerating to prevent an overtake is seen in the eye's of the law as "racing" on a public highway and is subject to between 3 and 11 penalty points.... If you have points already then you could be looking at an instant ban.

http://www.lawontheweb.co.uk/Road_Traffic_Law/Motoring_Penalty_Codes_and_Points

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/DriverLicensing/EndorsementsAndDisqualifications/DG_10022425

This guy thought he was trying to prevent a normal car overtaking him

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/east-central/161719-driver-fined-for-trying-to-stop-police-overtaking-him/

mikey72

Strider590 wrote: »

Accelerating to prevent an overtake is seen in the eye's of the law as "racing" on a public highway and is subject to between 3 and 11 penalty points.... If you have points already then you could be looking at an instant ban.

http://www.lawontheweb.co.uk/Road_Traffic_Law/Motoring_Penalty_Codes_and_Points

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/DriverLicensing/EndorsementsAndDisqualifications/DG_10022425

This guy thought he was trying to prevent a normal car overtaking him

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/east-central/161719-driver-fined-for-trying-to-stop-police-overtaking-him/

Last one is quite funny really, not exactly accelerating though, you need to read the first line more carefully. I don't think anyone on here would disagree swerving in front of the car behind to stop it passing you is a bad thing.
Doing it with his pregnant girlfriend in the car should have got him a ban though.
"A driver has been fined £160 and docked six penalty points after he swerved in front of an unmarked police car to try and stop it overtaking him."

Strider590

^^ Well..... To be fair he was playing the vigilante or "plastic policeman", trying to enforce his version of law without having the right or the power to do so.
The method he used was to swerve, I suspect because he knew the car behind was too powerful to race against, but essentially he was still attempting to prevent another vehicle overtaking him.

mikey72

Is this rare footage of strider on a stealth overtake?
A view behind the camera perhaps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVUVauaY5QU&feature=related

andygb

Strider590 wrote: »

Leant this one in a safety briefing prior to driving an array of single seat racing cars at my first ever track day.

If you go to a track day, then in my experience you will be driving your own car, or if you are lucky, and a very good driver, then one supplied by a manufacturer/dealer.
On the other hand, when you go to a racing school for the first time, you will go around in a basic single seater, not as you put it "an array of single seat racing cars".
Could you please let me know where this track day was, and the type of cars you were driving.

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

Strider590 wrote: »

Accelerating to prevent an overtake is seen in the eye's of the law as "racing" on a public highway and is subject to between 3 and 11 penalty points.... If you have points already then you could be looking at an instant ban.

http://www.lawontheweb.co.uk/Road_Traffic_Law/Motoring_Penalty_Codes_and_Points

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/DriverLicensing/EndorsementsAndDisqualifications/DG_10022425

This guy thought he was trying to prevent a normal car overtaking him

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/east-central/161719-driver-fined-for-trying-to-stop-police-overtaking-him/

Nothing in that post qualifies your assertion that accelerating while being overtaken is seen by the authorities as 'racing'.

Strider590

A race is a competition and if your not "competing" for position when you try to prevent someone overtaking, then what are you doing?? Because your sure as hell not making the road any safer, not for the driver and certainly not for the school mini-bus coming the opposite way.......

Wig

Strider590 wrote: »

I know you'll find some way of pinning this one on me too..... Should be good for laugh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdwdGDmBLwQ

I notice the way you closed the gap when you saw the van was going to follow.

You have 2 - 3 car lengths in front of you in that clip, just imagine how would you feel if one of those two had just squeezed ( or merged ) in front of you? You'd probably feel the same way you made the truck driver feel. Think about what you are doing to other road users.

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

Strider590 wrote: »

A race is a competition and if your not "competing" for position when you try to prevent someone overtaking, then what are you doing?? Because your sure as hell not making the road any safer, not for the driver and certainly not for the school mini-bus coming the opposite way.......

None of which alters the fact that there is no offence of "accelerating while being overtaken", and that it is therefore not automatically illegal.

Now then, what about undertaking? You said that was illegal as well.

Wig

Strider590 wrote: »

^^ Well..... To be fair he was playing the vigilante or "plastic policeman", trying to enforce his version of law without having the right or the power to do so.
The method he used was to swerve, I suspect because he knew the car behind was too powerful to race against, but essentially he was still attempting to prevent another vehicle overtaking him.

In his defense he says "he has a pregnant wife in the back and became unnerved when the car behind came too close and he veered right, correcting himself when he realised"

I'd like to see the video of that one before I make any judgment on him.