If someone coming the other way is on my side of the road, do I have to move over?

Jonesya

This is the tale of John O'Day
Who died maintaining his right of way,
He was right, dead right as he sailed along
But he's just as dead as if he were wrong.

docmatt

Deastons wrote: »

There's a realtively long, straight, wide single-carriageway road near me. People often decide to overtake while there's oncoming traffic by forcing the oncoming traffic to move hard to their left to create a magic overtaking lane down the middle of the road.

Today there was litter-picking happening - a van parked on the side and a couple of guys collecting rubbish.

A car was suddenly on my side, hurtling towards me as they overtook a lorry. I had no choice but to move uncomfortably close to the guys picking litter (not dangerously close, but closer than I feel comfortable with).

And this got me thinking, do I have to move over? If a car coming in the opposite direction moves into my lane, do I have to allow space for them? If we made contact, whose fault would it be?

I think it’s time you left the internet.

photome

Deastons wrote: »

You'll never know for sure.

I know.........

seatbeltnoob

OP is unlikely to die from this given they are in a tin box, the person more likely to die are the roadside works. I would err on the side of not budging, come to a slow crawl but to not mount the footpath to give way to a vehicle that has decided to get onto the oncoming side to overtake.



OP shouldnt be expert to swerve out of the way of dangerou drivers at the expense of putting pedestrians in danger

Aylesbury_Duck

seatbeltnoob wrote: »

to a vehicle that has decided to get onto the oncoming side to overtake.

But it didn’t. OP’s own picture shows that it didn’t and since the video hasn’t been posted, I suspect it doesn’t show quite the circumstances described.

seatbeltnoob wrote: »

OP shouldnt be expert

I think the general consensus is that he isn’t.

RichardD1970

seatbeltnoob wrote: »

OP is unlikely to die from this given they are in a tin box, the person more likely to die are the roadside works. I would err on the side of not budging, come to a slow crawl but to not mount the footpath to give way to a vehicle that has decided to get onto the oncoming side to overtake.



OP shouldnt be expert to swerve out of the way of dangerou drivers at the expense of putting pedestrians in danger

Have you looked at the photo's and read the rest of the thread. You are describing a completely different event.

Deastons

tho wrote: »

By the way did a quick search. No videos were uploaded to YouTube today that responded to the searches "wrong side overtake, my side overtake, close call overtake, wrong side litter pickers or near miss litter pickers"

What an unfortunate waste of your valuable time.

k3lvc

Deastons wrote: »

What an unfortunate waste of your valuable time.

As was most of the 6 pages of this thread :rotfl:

Deastons

k3lvc wrote: »

As was most of the 6 pages of this thread :rotfl:

Totally true! I got the answer I wanted after just a few posts, but people still see the need to waste time asking all sorts of other questions and accusing me of various things!

Scrapit

Deastons wrote: »

Totally true! I got the answer I wanted after just a few posts, but people still see the need to waste time asking all sorts of other questions and accusing me of various things!

You got the answer you need first.