How not to join a motorway!

robatwork

Not read a newspaper for a long time but is the standard of journalism always this great?

"But the Honda driver badly misjudges his filtering and his car is flipped on its side by the truck."

They can't even get a basic fact correct.

rev_henry

Looks to me like the driver of the car genuinely thought that having an accident was a better fate than the heinous crime of driving across some chevrons.

Captaincodpiece

rev_henry wrote: »

Looks to me like the driver of the car genuinely thought that having an accident was a better fate than the heinous crime of driving across some chevrons.

I'd have risked £100 and three points had I been stupid enough to find myself in that situation.

forgotmyname

Its shocking the amount of people that do not know howto join a motorway.

Same people who are pottering along at 50mph on the inside lane and move across to the middle lane when they see a junction approaching.

Watched some idiot do this the other day. The motorway was fairly empty and no need for them to move over at all. I passed them on the inside doing 70mph and stayed in the nearside lane at that speed all the way to the next junction where i got off.

welfayre

That video's been doing the rounds for while, first time I saw it it was supposedly part of a "crash for cash" scam.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2643427/164-bogus-claims-day-push-insurance-premiums-Rocketing-cash-crash-fraud-costs-driver-90.html

Avoriaz

welfayre wrote: »

That video's been doing the rounds for while, first time I saw it it was supposedly part of a "crash for cash" scam

That would be a very dumb "crash for cash".

The chances of serious injury or death were quite high for the car driver and any passengers.

Typical Daily Fail shoddy journalism.

sh0597

could be partly the hgv to blame I don't know what his view was like though

photome

anotherbaldrick wrote: »

Refer to previous thread about looking over your shoulder when entering from a slip road, without doing this you cannot be sure you do not have a blind spot with a bloody great HGV hiding in it.

Its one good example of when you should look over your shoulder, but dont tell the likes of Strider who has perfect periphial vision and can see out the back of his head.

Of course the driver still should have known the truck was there before he got to the exit point

photome

forgotmyname wrote: »

Its shocking the amount of people that do not know howto join a motorway.

Same people who are pottering along at 50mph on the inside lane and move across to the middle lane when they see a junction approaching.

Watched some idiot do this the other day. The motorway was fairly empty and no need for them to move over at all. I passed them on the inside doing 70mph and stayed in the nearside lane at that speed all the way to the next junction where i got off.

I had one yesterday who stopped at the end of the slip road when the dual carriageway was empty!!!!

heartbreak_star

I must admit that as I have always driven small, low-powered cars (well, up to now when I've borrowed OH's!) I've sometimes been a little nervy of joining big motorways, but I'm also sensible enough to know how to do it PROPERLY.

Y'know, looking for a gap and squaring up to it and moving into it at the right speed...and if I need to speed up or slow down for a gap, I do.

I wonder whether more driving lessons should be devoted to joining/leaving dual carriageways. I think I got to do it three or four times in the few months I took to pass, and then once on my test.

HBS x