Another "who to blame" thread

fadetogrey

Flash your lights, stand on your horn and make very rude gestures,then as you pass him go in tight to his car to scare him into the ditch.:D:D Ok im kidding but some of them really do get on my wick.:cool:

iolanthe07

So I sort of assumed that "undertaking" was illegal over there?

I can only speak for California, and if it was technically illegal, then the law wasn't enforced. Driving on the freeways is much more relaxed than on our motorways, and one of the reasons imho is that you can pass on either side.

mikey72

Strider590 wrote: »

Captain slow should have licence revoked..... Probably been driving 40 years and never had an accident.

What happened to the "use both lanes and filter in" policy?

and

"Why queue in one lane"

Lum

mikey72 wrote: »

What happened to the "use both lanes and filter in" policy?

and

"Why queue in one lane"

That would only apply if Captain Slow was going at least as fast as the people in the left lane.

mikey72

Not if he's stuck on the outside and no one will let him back in.

Lum

According to Jase1 the merge was 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile after the roundabout exit, yet this incident happened immediately after the exit, so by Strider's rules Captain Slow was merging far too early, not to mention being in the wrong lane for his chosen speed.

Did this happen in the recent heavy rain out of interest? It seems to have brought all the idiots out of the woodwork. Had one last night who had been doing 50 in a 70 in the right hand lane of a DC so nobody could get past, then a little later was doing 30 in a 50 on a very wide SC (The kind that 20 years ago would likely have had a "suicide lane" down the middle.) who of course had to accelerate once they realised I was overtaking them.

I guess this annoyed them as they then proceeded to follow right up my chuff at 50mph with full beams on, followed me into the next roundabout at which point they promptly lost it and and hit the roundabout with their offside front wheel. Yay for the wet weather performance Goodyear Eagle F1s, I guess

Strider590

mikey72 wrote: »

What happened to the "use both lanes and filter in" policy?

and

"Why queue in one lane"

I wasn't aware of it being a queue situation?

Are we confusing this matter into something else?

I thought from OP description that cap'n slow took the right hand lane without reason and continued to hog it oblivious to the cars behind......

mikey72

I don't know how you and Strider find them.
I never seem to have these sort of problems.

Lum

Perhaps Jase and Strider do more mileage than you?

When I used to do 60,000 miles a year due to my job I encountered a lot more idiots than my GF who at the time commuted within the same town we lived in, and I would regularly have stories of stupid people.

These days she has a 1 1/2 hour commute and I half a half hour commute. She considers it a good day if only one person tried to kill her on her commute.

Things like people changing lanes without looking, or seemingly drunk people weaving all over the road are non-events that don't even get mentioned unless we're both in the car together.

InsideInsurance

You would almost certainly find a split liability situation as both are doing things that heighten their duty of care. Undertaking shouldnt occur on british roads but at the same time a vehicle switch lane has duty of checking the other lane is clear before proceeding to make their manover.

Given the undertaking vehicle is in an official lane rather than creating their own lane (as motorbikes can on single carriage ways) you'd probably make the lane changing vehicle more liable.

Obviously in 90% of cases like this the undertaking vehicle will deny they were doing any such thing and Captain Slow will claim that the other vehicle was the one attempting to change lane