Slip roads onto dual carriageways.....

Strider590

I've just got home after a long day at the orifice, the final 3 miles of my journey involves entering a 40 limit dual carriageway from a minor road with a short(ish) slip road after a 90 degree bend. Said slip road has a car high metal fence with bushes growing behind, you cannot see around the corner at all.

So anyway, I enter this slip road today, peering over my shoulder as I approach the 90 bend, there's 1 car coming and then it's clear, so I cruise around the corner timing my acceleration to pull out behind this car.

Can anyone guess what happens next?

Yep, there's some muppet in an old Fiesta, sat stationary at the very end of the slip road...... I stand on the brakes, a wheels lock up and squeals briefly before the ABS kicks in, I stop with about 2 foot to spare, the driver then drives off slow as you like (about 15 in a 40).

I'm just shaking my head at her stupidity (it's dark and I know she can't see me) and in a rare moment of calm I don't toot, I don't flash, I just change lanes and calmly overtake. BUT she now decides to give chase, flashing and sounding her horn for about half a mile, so i'm contemplating exiting the vehicle and calmly explaining the law to her at the next set of traffic lights. She turns off a few hundred yards before that.......

I'm sure she'd have been all "you we're driving too fast!!" in the loudest screechy voice possible (because of course the loudest is always right). I'm sure i'd have explained the illegal nature of what she had done and pointed her toward the highway code section regarding slip roads and speed matching and i'm sure she'd have been screeching so loud as not to hear me anyway.

To be honest, I see this on a weekly basis and I wonder at what stage did we as a driving nation choose to forget that it's illegal to stop on a slip road? Or more to the point, when did we simply decide to ignore the law and do whatever the f**k we like?

I haven't used my onboard camera for a few months, but it's going back in the car tomorrow morning.....

Mark_Mark

She stopped at a giveway because a vehicle was approaching. What law has she broken?

Quentin

Strider590 wrote: »

......Yep, there's some muppet in an old Fiesta, sat stationary at the very end of the slip road...... I stand on the brakes, a wheels lock up and squeals briefly before the ABS kicks in, I stop with about 2 foot to spare, the driver then drives off slow as you like (about 15 in a 40).

I'm just shaking my head at her stupidity ....

Sorry, but you probably know that you are the self confessed stupid one.

Had you been unable to stop you could have been in a nasty collision, causing injury as well as damage, and all your own fault for driving too fast, not lookung ahead, etc etc.

Quietmanc

Mark_Mark wrote: »

She stopped at a giveway because a vehicle was approaching. What law has she broken?

More and more people ignore(or are oblivious to) the fact that a slip road,
be it on a motorway or not,is a give way.

Retrogamer

If you're on a slip road and there isn't a safe gap in the traffic to filter into it, do you then fall into a legal paradox?

I.e if you pull out in front of the other cars when there is a tight gap then you're driving without due care and attention.
But if you stop it's illegal as well (so OP says)
I don't know of any third option.

Beeping the horn out of frustration is illegal though.

spacey2012

So you were looking over your shoulder and did not notice a stationary vehicle.
Ever seen the film "Clockwise"

nobbysn*ts

I was right . Haven't even got the brains you were born with. Where do you drive, and we can take a detour?

dacouch

Strider meet FTBSOS

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/64413189#Comment_64413189

zappahey

Isn't this the guy that loads video clips of his poor driving on You Tube?

prowla

Sounds to me like had the road been clear, the OP could have neatly slotted in behind the car that was going to pass on the main road, but the lady who was at the end of the slip road didn't have time and so stopped to give way to the car, with the intention of then feeding out into that space behind it.

ERICS_MUM

the slip roads I use have white broken lines painted on the edge where it joins the dual carriageway and I always thought these meant "Give Way". Am I wrong, and what do they mean (if anything) ?

Thanks