Motorway Driving Question

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Dclutterchique wrote: »

I'm going to highlight a fact that no one else has raised: The speed limit on a slip road is the same as the faster road that it joins/leaves, unless the signage says otherwise, eg temporary speed restrictions. So, it can be argued that there is plenty of time to get up to speed on that particular slip road and that the other drivers could have been doing 35/40 mph when they left the East Lancs Road and promptly reached 70mph once they were on the slip road. If you were 40/50mph while still on the slip road they soon would have caught up with you. I do agree that holding a mobile phone and/or using hand signals not laid down in the highway code hardly makes the other motorists 'driver of the year' material.


As a slight off topic, has anyone else looked at the pictures of that stretch of the M61 and though "that's not a Motorway, that's an 'A' Road with delusions of grandeur"?

I think people need to consider slip roads as acceleration/deceleration roads which is what they really are.

They are there to allow you to adjust your speed to the prevailing speed of the road you are joining or to decelerate safely without affecting the flow of the road you have just left. In other words at the point that you cross the dotted line separating the slip road from the main carriageway you should be travelling at the prevailing speed.

keith1950

OP... what right do you think you have to slow down drivers who want to do 70mph.

If someone comes up behind you move over and let them passed.
Although I accept everyone has to learn take this as a lesson.

Drive in a manner that doesn't effect other road users. If your blocking their way move over, even if that means changing lanes every time someone catches up to you.

If you carry on driving like this you will cause other drivers to take risks that may cause accidents.
50mph is definately too slow for a motorway.

fred246

Interesting I regularly drive at 50mph on the Autobahn. Some sections have no upper limit. It is obviously not seen as a danger there.

Johno100

fred246 wrote: »

Interesting I regularly drive at 50mph on the Autobahn. Some sections have no upper limit. It is obviously not seen as a danger there.

What in the left hand lane?

Car_54

fred246 wrote: »

Interesting I regularly drive at 50mph on the Autobahn. Some sections have no upper limit. It is obviously not seen as a danger there.

Hardly relevant, as the OP was on the M61.

fred246

Johno100 wrote: »

What in the left hand lane?

If you are overtaking I would be in the left hand lane but I've never found any need to overtake. Sometimes you have to be in the left lane when a road is splitting.

fred246

Car_54 wrote: »

Hardly relevant, as the OP was on the M61.

I think this discussion was a little broader than just how to drive at one particular junction of a particular motorway.

dannyrst

not all people who speed do it because they think they are more important or have a better car and want to rub it in peoples faces.

Some people just enjoy driving fast.

SparkyMark123

This topic reminds me of that old jasper carrot joke

My mother in laws never had an accident in 50 years of driving..... She's seen thousands.

To put it bluntly I believe you were in the wrong and here's why.

In this country we drive on the left unless overtaking and move into the correct lane at a roundabout in good time without impeding other road users which you clearly did.

To give this some context if on your driving test if you got into the right hand lane Togo right at a round about a mile down the road without good cause and stayed there you would fail no if buts maybes.

To then compound this by doing 50 mph on a motorway and maybe you can see how dangerous you made it for other road users with a lot more experience.

Iceweasel

fred246 wrote: »

Interesting I regularly drive at 50mph on the Autobahn. Some sections have no upper limit. It is obviously not seen as a danger there.

You should hear what the German truckers on their CB radios have to say about folks like you.

Especially when you reach a 'no overtaking for trucks' section.