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Flashing blue lights: should I stop?
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It is usually congested when I drive here. It is not a long stretch of the road, it is a town centre with lots of turns, traffic lights and junctions. It will be a mess if drivers start to position themselves at the last opportunity. By positioning themselves early traffic flows smoothly through this network of turns, traffic lights and junctions. My usual routine is to position myself early in the right lane, drive through junctions and traffic lights, indicate right turn, change to the third lane, wait for traffic lights, then turn. In daylight there will be a lots of cars in the left lane, in front of me and behind. I do not think it will right for me to drive in the left lane through junctions and traffic lights because to change to the third lane I will need to go through the traffic in the right lane which will be difficult to do. I guess it was a habit to take the same position when the road was empty.
That's exactly my interpretation of what you should have done, most people would signal right to enter lane 2 early to ensure they aren't wrong laned. If there was no traffic around when you did this the signal would have been uneccessary at that point, as you would have signalled as you got closer to the junction.
Whether you did that or not I don't recollect but you certainly seem to understand the fundermentals but just got a little panicked and as said far too many experienced drivers are just as guilty,
I like the thanks button, but ,please, an I agree button.
Will the grammar and spelling police respect I do make grammatical errors, and have carp spelling, no need to remind me.;)
Always expect the unexpected:eek:and then you won't be dissapointed0 -
And the OP will never accept they are wrong, this is already obvious to me.
You are obviously having trouble reading through the red-mist you seem to be experiencing. The OP has admitted they were wrong and, as Lum has already pointed out, came onto the forum to see what the correct thing to do was. If the OP had no idea they had done anything wrong, then they really wouldn't have bothered asking, would they?
Throughout the posts, the OP has been pretty reasonable in their responses which, considering the personal insults you have thrown at them, is commendable.
It is to your credit that you have had no accidents in over 10 years of driving for the LAS. I have been accident free (tempting fate now) for over 20 years in cars and on bikes, but I would never come on here shouting the odds about new drivers in the way that you have. I'm not a perfect driver and I make mistakes, all of us do, including highly trained traffic officers - it's called being human. But you seem to think that you are the exception.0 -
You are obviously having trouble reading through the red-mist you seem to be experiencing. The OP has admitted they were wrong and, as Lum has already pointed out, came onto the forum to see what the correct thing to do was. If the OP had no idea they had done anything wrong, then they really wouldn't have bothered asking, would they?
Throughout the posts, the OP has been pretty reasonable in their responses which, considering the personal insults you have thrown at them, is commendable.
It is to your credit that you have had no accidents in over 10 years of driving for the LAS. I have been accident free (tempting fate now) for over 20 years in cars and on bikes, but I would never come on here shouting the odds about new drivers in the way that you have. I'm not a perfect driver and I make mistakes, all of us do, including highly trained traffic officers - it's called being human. But you seem to think that you are the exception.
You will have to excuse him, he's been
for a few weeks now. I am actually concerned for his health as his previous posts have been fine, but I know, as he has posted, that he has problems.
Maybe the medication is having an effect?I like the thanks button, but ,please, an I agree button.
Will the grammar and spelling police respect I do make grammatical errors, and have carp spelling, no need to remind me.;)
Always expect the unexpected:eek:and then you won't be dissapointed0 -
I think some of you need to reread the OP's posts again.
In fact one is quoted above.
With the OP yet again changing the story and the details of the situation to try and direct blame to anybody but themselves.
Funnily enough this is something that is very common in this country from what I have seen, especially with the younger generation.
You keep trying to have a pop. I am really going to worry what a load of internet keyboard warriers and trolls think.
Jog on..........0 -
Who on here really thinks bigjl have ever actually driven anything with blue lights on?
He's really starting to sound more and more like he hangs around outside the ambulance bays, earwigging the paramedics while he drops off the out patients.
(specially when the "younger generation" are to blame for everything apparently, remember, "it wasn't like that in our day")
edit - to answer the op though, if in doubt, do nothing.
Don't go left, don't go right. If you do what you're doing, you're predictable. even if you come to a stop in the middle of the road. May not be the best, but it's not you that's trained to drive, they are, they can sort it out.0 -
Who on here really thinks bigjl have ever actually driven anything with blue lights on?
He's really starting to sound more and more like he hangs around outside the ambulance bays, earwigging the paramedics while he drops off the out patients.
(specially when the "younger generation" are to blame for everything apparently, remember, "it wasn't like that in our day")
edit - to answer the op though, if in doubt, do nothing.
Don't go left, don't go right. If you do what you're doing, you're predictable. even if you come to a stop in the middle of the road. May not be the best, but it's not you that's trained to drive, they are, they can sort it out.
Be fair, I think they let St Johns use them.;)0 -
Who on here really thinks bigjl have ever actually driven anything with blue lights on?
He's really starting to sound more and more like he hangs around outside the ambulance bays, earwigging the paramedics while he drops off the out patients.
(specially when the "younger generation" are to blame for everything apparently, remember, "it wasn't like that in our day"
To be fair, I'd always thought he was some control room REMF and not an actual person who would be able to use blues and twos... Or as Woody said...It must be accepted as a principle that the rifle cannot replace the speed of the horse, the magnetism of the charge and the terror of cold steel.
The British Cavalry Manual 1907.0 -
And the OP will never accept they are wrong, this is already obvious to me.
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Do you mean just like you have over the definition of a dual carriageway.
OP If the road was empty there wasnt any need to be in the right hand lane so early and as you were, you should have been indicating right. Any sort of indication would have helped the police car in judging what you were going to do next0
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