Hogging right lane

Johno100

wanderlust23 wrote: »

I meant as a qualified driver obviously. I saw many of these scenarios as a learner. Thanks for your suggestion but I still fail to see where I am in the wrong.

Did you have to have a lot of lessons?

wanderlust23

Johno100 wrote: »

Did you have to have a lot of lessons?

Not really relevant is it? I live in a busy city so you wouldn't need many lessons to see these kind of scenarios.

Johno100

wanderlust23 wrote: »

Not really relevant is it? I live in a busy city so you wouldn't need many lessons to see these kind of scenarios.

So you were tailgated and flashed (so to speak:D) when you were having lessons? What did your instructor say on those occasions?

wanderlust23

Johno100 wrote: »

So you were tailgated and flashed (so to speak:D) when you were having lessons? What did your instructor say on those occasions?

I said I've seen many of these scenarios and if you actually read the thread properly, the scenario I was referring to was the "staying left and suddenly trying to dive across at the last minute" that another poster mentioned.

I'm sure we've all experienced impatient drivers. Perhaps you are one of them

Johno100

wanderlust23 wrote: »

I said I've seen many of these scenarios and if you actually read the thread properly, the scenario I was referring to was the "staying left and suddenly trying to dive across at the last minute" that another poster mentioned.

I'm sure we've all experienced impatient drivers. Perhaps you are one of them

And perhaps you should gain some experience on the roads before seeking to criticise the actions of others.

wanderlust23

Johno100 wrote: »

And perhaps you should gain some experience on the roads before seeking to criticise the actions of others.

Sorry I didn't realise I needed to be an experienced driver in order to criticise the actions of other drivers.

I'll come back in 10 years shall I with a different view? :rotfl:

Johno100

wanderlust23 wrote: »

I'll come back in 10 years shall I with a different view? :rotfl:

Hopefully, as Albert Einstein said - "The only source of knowledge is experience."

martinthebandit

To be honest if you were sat in the outside line with plenty of space in the inside lane for you to pull into and were not signaling your intention to turn right then yes you should not be surprised to get flashed by the vehicle behind you that wants to make quicker progress.

Wether the car behind you is breaking the speed limit illegally is immaterial, irrelevant and not your place to judge.

Car_54

wanderlust23 wrote: »

If I'm doing the maximum speed limit for that road and I plan on taking the next right I fail to see what the issue is?

I'm sorry that some of the responses have been less than helpful, but that's what happens on internet forums. I shall try to be constructive.

The issue is that the driver behind was probably not clairvoyant, and so had no way of knowing what your plan was!

As Biggles has said above, if you had been signalling right then he could have decided it was safe and within the rules to overtake on the left.

On the other hand, if he thought it was too early for you to signal for the junction, then he might have been uncertain about your intentions.

If it was in fact too early to signal, then it was probably also too early for you to have changed lanes.

wanderlust23

martinthebandit wrote: »

To be honest if you were sat in the outside line with plenty of space in the inside lane for you to pull into and were not signaling your intention to turn right then yes you should not be surprised to get flashed by the vehicle behind you that wants to make quicker progress.

Wether the car behind you is breaking the speed limit illegally is immaterial, irrelevant and not your place to judge.

Well apart from his lights blinding me because he wanted to break the speed limit, I suppose it's not really relevant is it?

Car_54 wrote: »

I'm sorry that some of the responses have been less than helpful, but that's what happens on internet forums. I shall try to be constructive.

The issue is that the driver behind was probably not clairvoyant, and so had no way of knowing what your plan was!

As Biggles has said above, if you had been signalling right then he could have decided it was safe and within the rules to overtake on the left.

On the other hand, if he thought it was too early for you to signal for the junction, then he might have been uncertain about your intentions.

If it was in fact too early to signal, then it was probably also too early for you to have changed lanes.

Thanks for replying however I disagree that it was too early for me to change lanes. If I had changed lanes and then immediately had to slow down to take my right turn wouldn't that me more annoying for the driver behind not to mention possibly dangerous?