Country Roads

aardvaak

Why is it that people are incapable of passing someone coming in the opposite direction on country roads even though there is plenty of room for two cars - instead just stopping dead.

EssexExile

Don't know, give up, why?

aardvaak

EssexExile wrote: »

Don't know, give up, why?

I don't know that is why I am asking

Threewheeler

Probably saw you coming, with a big 4X4!

Strider590

Drives me nuts too, usually a bloody Nissan Micra that thinks it's a Challenger II.

What gets me is that slowing down doesn't make your car any smaller. Sure slow down until you've judged the gap, but don't come to a complete stop!

The true answer? Most drivers are totally incompetent.

facade

If they stop (8 feet from the edge of the road, in a Nissan Micra) and you hit them trying to squeeze past in the 5 feet 6 that they have left you to get a 5 foot 6 car through, it is your fault because you are moving.

reeac

Around my way in deepest Suffolk some drivers use the centre of the road as a matter of course and only move to the left at the last minute.....quite nerve-racking as you wonder whether they've noticed you.

Ectophile

Strider590 wrote: »

What gets me is that slowing down doesn't make your car any smaller. Sure slow down until you've judged the gap, but don't come to a complete stop!

Because slowing down or stopping allows you to pull right into the hedge without losing your mirrors.

aardvaak

Threewheeler wrote: »

Probably saw you coming, with a big 4X4!

I Havant got a big 4x4 just a little car

aardvaak

reeac wrote: »

Around my way in deepest Suffolk some drivers use the centre of the road as a matter of course and only move to the left at the last minute.....quite nerve-racking as you wonder whether they've noticed you.

I am in deepest Suffolk too it is around here I noticed it today

force_ten

I live in a very rural area and i mean it is something like 60 miles to the nearest dual carriageway so mos of my driving is on rural roads

I know every inch of the roads around here and do not really have an issue in the van or the car because I know where i can pass a car or where i have to yield to a larger vehicle

the biggest problem is strangers that don't know the road and often a less that clean windscreen makes it hard for them to judge the gap and as a result they are often over cautious causing frustration to others