Slip roads onto dual carriageways.....

nobbysn*ts

To striders wannabe police car, it means whatever he wants it to.

Altarf

Strider590 wrote: »

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?

Yes, you almost caused a serious accident because you didn't look where you are going.

Please tell me that you had your video camera recording, the police were called, took the recording as evidence, and as a result you are looking out from the wrong side of the bars.

Strider590

lol, predictable.......

There's a reason why it's illegal to stop on a slip road and a reason why you should speed match when entering one. You don't crawl a long and then come to a complete stop........

Mark_Mark

Strider590 wrote: »

lol, predictable.......

There's a reason why it's illegal to stop on a slip road and a reason why you should speed match when entering one. You don't crawl a long and then come to a complete stop........

What offence is that?

nobbysn*ts

Mark_Mark wrote: »

What offence is that?

Getting in the path of strider making "nah nah" noises?

DaveTheMus

drivers that lack confidence are a ticking time bomb on the roads.....it's only a matter of time before that indecision really costs them.

The most frustrating thing by far are the 50mph middle lane hoggers, I hate them.

Ultrasonic

Strider590 wrote: »

There's a reason why it's illegal to stop on a slip road and a reason why you should speed match when entering one. You don't crawl a long and then come to a complete stop........

I agree that people who accelerate too slowly on slip-roads are a problem.

In the situation described though it seems possible that someone unfamiliar with the short slip-road got near the end of it, realised they couldn't merge appropriately, and therefore had no choice but to stop. They are then stuck waiting for a much larger gap than they otherwise would in order to join the main carriageway.

I don't see there is any way this is illegal. (The alternative would seem to be a law requiring someone to cause an accident by continuing onto the main carriageway regardless...)

Building_Surveyor

This is why its far easier if you are already on the motorway to move into the middle lane or other lane on dual carrieway if free to allow people you see on the slip road to enter easily... Or is this being too courteous?

Arguably some slip roads are that short it's almost impossible to get up to speed.

Retrogamer

Strider590 wrote: »

There's a reason why it's illegal to stop on a slip road and a reason why you should speed match when entering one. You don't crawl a long and then come to a complete stop........

Mark_Mark wrote: »

What offence is that?

Retrogamer wrote: »

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.

Still waiting on an answer to that one.

Joe_Horner

Retrogamer wrote: »

Still waiting on an answer to that one.

You'll be waiting a long time because there's no law at all against stopping before joining the main carriageway. It may be (generally) bad practice. but it can't always be avoided and it's certainly not illegal

On the other hand the alternatives - pulling unsafely into the traffic flow or using the hard shoulder (if available) - ARE illegal.

And bombing down a slip road to "reach merge speed" without being aware of the car ahead that seems to be slowing or stopped is, at least, careless - "it wasn't my fault, I was looking over my shoulder" would be an interesting one to play in court