Did I do the correct thing?

rollingmoon

Car_54 said:

rollingmoon said:

'Knights of the road' are something I can really do without. Nowadays when I encounter one I use hand gestures to indicate clearly that they should use their right of way and proceed. 

If you were to read the Highway Code, you'd find that no-one has "right of way".Ever.

You're a Knight of the Road, aren't you?

finbaar

I'm happy to ley people out of junctions when they are turning left, obviously them turning right is a lot more problematic. But I'll only flash once and I'm not stopping, if they don't want to pull out, are not paying attention or are to slow, fair enough, you've got to respect the drivers behind as well Most people accept the offer, some don't . I don't always accept the offer myself when it's offered.

Nasqueron

rollingmoon said:

'Knights of the road' are something I can really do without. Nowadays when I encounter one I use hand gestures to indicate clearly that they should use their right of way and proceed. 

More than once I have been flashed by one of these highway heroes to proceed when it was absolutely unsafe to do so; on one occasion in recent living memory, waiting to turn left onto a major road, I witnessed one particular genius anchoring up in front of a line of cars, narrowly avoiding an accident*, while flashing his lights furiously at me to pull out. Had I done so I estimate the time saved on my part would have amounted to a whole 20 seconds...

*obviously this means the cars behind were too close, but the point is that by his ridiculous behaviour he dramatically increased the risk of a completely unnecessary RTA.

You can spot the people driving along in their own world very easily, the same sort of people who, if they looked in their mirror, would see there is no-one behind them / no-one for 30 seconds, yet they slow and stop to flash someone over, delaying themselves while you have to get ready to move off as you were waiting to go behind them. Just drive and let people turn when there is sufficient space that they are happy with!