Driving/Highway Code question

AdrianC

4743hudsonj wrote: »

but you just cannot legislate for every prat and wolly behind a wheel who is willing to pull manoeuvres like that

You can, and they're already covered perfectly well in legislation. Careless (or Dangerous) Driving covers that just fine.

The difficulty is in enforcement.

4743hudsonj

AdrianC wrote: »

You can, and they're already covered perfectly well in legislation. Careless (or Dangerous) Driving covers that just fine.

The difficulty is in enforcement.

When we said legislate I wasn't being literal. I meant you cannot always account for idiots on the road and I have to disagree, unless you are psychic I don't believe you can adjust for every other drivers actions all of the time.

Stoke

topdaddy wrote: »

The problem is people see the vehicles on the right pushing in.


These people are wrong and are therefore bad drivers.

Merge in turn and dont get defensive cos im coming in, in accordance with the road signage. All the revving in the world aint gonna stop me and I dont pay my insurance so good luck to you if you wanna try it.

It's worth pointing out though, if a right lane merges into the left, it can be courteous to merge earlier rather than later. I do find it a teeny bit annoying when there's a sign saying you need to merge and rather than merging straight away, some twaddle usually in a Volvo, accelerates all the way to the end of the slip road and forces their way in. I'm not saying they should forced to the back of the queue, I'm saying merge when necessary, don't force your way to the front, because that does irritate people.

The only other thing I don't like is roads that have overtaking disappearing lanes, so people pull out of the queue to overtake 5 or 6 cars then expect you to let them back in? Now again, this is consideration for your fellow driver, but they showed !!!! loads of consideration to you when they tried to force their way in front didn't they?

Andy_L

ukpete79 wrote: »

my interpritation of that situation (I have delivery drivers in london all day so have experienced this personally) would be that the white arrow indicates 'filtering', and as such, the 'let one in' unwritten rule should apply.

Its actually a written rule but its one of those "should recommendations" rather than a "must law" and, lets face it, how many people pay much attention to the highway code anyway

Andy_L

Stoke wrote: »

It's worth pointing out though, if a right lane merges into the left, it can be courteous to merge earlier rather than later. I do find it a teeny bit annoying when there's a sign saying you need to merge and rather than merging straight away, some twaddle usually in a Volvo, accelerates all the way to the end of the slip road and forces their way in. I'm not saying they should forced to the back of the queue, I'm saying merge when necessary, don't force your way to the front, because that does irritate people.

but the highway code & signage says use both lanes & filter in turn. Not doing so slows down the flow of traffic for everybody & if everybody did it they wouldn't see the people following the rules as forcing their way in

topdaddy_2

Stoke wrote: »

It's worth pointing out though, if a right lane merges into the left, it can be courteous to merge earlier rather than later. I do find it a teeny bit annoying when there's a sign saying you need to merge and rather than merging straight away, some twaddle usually in a Volvo, accelerates all the way to the end of the slip road and forces their way in. I'm not saying they should forced to the back of the queue, I'm saying merge when necessary, don't force your way to the front, because that does irritate people.

The only other thing I don't like is roads that have overtaking disappearing lanes, so people pull out of the queue to overtake 5 or 6 cars then expect you to let them back in? Now again, this is consideration for your fellow driver, but they showed !!!! loads of consideration to you when they tried to force their way in front didn't they?

If you do not use the full road availible then again you are a bad driver by contributing to congestion. Same with road works. The taper is there for a reason.

Norman_Castle

Strider590 wrote: »

I had an incident last week on a 40mph dual carriageway where I pulled out (changed lane) to overtake a car that was turning left. I stayed out in the RH lane because the road was about to merge in just under 200 metres. I line up to merge in behind the car on my front/left and JUST as we get to the merge point some silly cow in a tiny red hatchback is gunning it up to the back of said car to stop me merging..... I sound the horn, the driver in front has seen what's going on, he hits the brakes and lets me in front, I give a "thanks" wave, a thumbs up and off we go.

If you moved back to lane one after passing the left turning car, this wouldn't happen.

antrobus

Norman_Castle wrote: »

If you moved back to lane one after passing the left turning car, this wouldn't happen.

Then the silly cow in the tiny red hatchback would have been gunning it up the RH lane trying to stop them merging.

Believe me, if you have a silly cow in a tiny hatchback gunning it up behind you, it doesn't matter what lane you're in.:)