Who's in the wrong (overtaking - video inside)?

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boliston wrote: »

they probably have set schedules so slowing down on every overtake could impact on that - and having to slow by a maximum of 14mph for a short while is not the end of the world

If it's not the end of the world then they can slow down a bit to let the other lorry overtake quicker.

Because no one else's time is important just lorry drivers.

JustAnotherSaver

Samsung_Note2 wrote: »

Had something similar on a roundabout...left lane you can turn left or go straight ahead,right hand lane right turn...pretty standard stuff.

Only white van man pulls up in right hand lane (obviously turning right)..im in left hand lane and taking second exit which is straight ahead.

White van man decides the Highway code doesn't apply to him and goes straight across barging into the exit im taking,thankfully im aware he is there and take action to avoid him,obviously report the bloke as have dash cam and im staggered when the copper asks plain faced "Did you move over and allow him to pass"...seems if i hadn't then id have been guilty of refusing to give way and of then causing an accident.

Still cant get over that....:mad:

me neither. There seems to be a let people do as they wish mentality.

I know that statement will get countered. This is MSE after all

Jenhenten

I think the problem is that this specific stretch of road does not have clear markings and the two lanes merge into one. Those of us who are sensible drivers would merge in turn but each driver here appears to have an overinflated sense of self in believing that they have right of way. I don’t think it’s a simple case of overtaking as there could just about be two lanes at this point and it’s more a refusal to merge. I dislike driving down salterhebble hill for this very reason as it’s all too common. Maybe the new works on the road will allow more space for safe merging? Or better signage to allow for this? We can but hope.

tain

There are two incidents here, one with the blue car and the black car, then the black car again and the white van.

I'm gonna make an assumption and say that the incident at the end of the video (white van not allowing black car who went down a right turn only lane just to overtake traffic into the left lane) was also what happened at the start of the video.

If this is the case, then black car is the only one at fault initially. If they've chosen the wrong lane to go down, they should continue their journey until it is safe to turn around and join the traffic again. Or at the very least, they need to wait for an adequate gap before joining traffic again.

Everything after this is a product of that initial fault.

RHD_TJ

If you listen to the video at around two minutes when the driver with the camera speaks to the driver of the black car, the driver of the black car states that he was undertaken.

From that it would seem the initial driver at error is the driver of the blue car. After that the driver of the black car should have just backed off and not let himself get riled by ending up a few yards/couple of seconds back than he would have been if he hadn't been undertaken.

Having said that, we don't know why the driver of the blue car decided to undertake. Without seeing how it all started this is just a guessing game.

Who gives a flying **** they're both *****.