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tomstickland wrote: »

Stopping is the worst thing you can do. Accelerating onto a motorway from standstill is very dangerous.
If they did end up in that positon then the best course of action would be to accelerate along the hard shoulder and then pull into the left hand lane when travelling close to 70mph.

Indeed, and that's what I'd do, while the absolutists on this thread might pull out at only a few miles an hour

And for those who say Police cars never get things wrong

Driving along a motorway, I've had a car pull out off the hard shoulder doing hardly any speed at all, and obviously not having looked in his mirrors. I had to swerve to avoid it, something I could only do safely because I'd had an intuitive feeling it might do this and already checked the mirror.

If someone had been overtaking me just then, I'd have smashed the back of it

A few minutes later it turned out to be an unmarked Police car.

And I have driven down the hard shoulder for a short while when joining, because the idiot behind me on the slip road decided to overtake me at precisely that wrong moment when there was no other space

To the OP: once you'd realised the misjudgement of being still alongside, I think you took a sensible approach, though perhaps using the hard shoulder while dropping behind the lorry might have been a bit better. I hope the criticism here won't make you panic in future

banger9365

most of you are not going to like this.
i was in lane one of the motorway (in a lorry 44ton)and there was one in front and two in lane 2 passing us and to make things worse one behind me too, there was a 4x4 coming down the slip road it's one of the thing you look at in a hgv would you beleave and the 4x4 wanted to be where i was,right theres four hgv round me and my self making 5 in total all doing nothing wrong and with in the speed limit for a hgv(thats under 60mhp,more like 54/55 at best).
what do you thing happened.
we where not going to survive a controled stop at that speed with five hgv's and the look on the other drivers faces showed that,
in lane three there was cars so the two that was passing where stuck in lane two and three in lane one,we where that close to each other that you could not pass apiec of paper between ower mirrors try to aviod the 4x4, now by the time you have read this the 4x4 is on the barrier ,not the hard sholder any more.the 4x4 hit the lorry in front of me and bounced of me in to the barrier all because of a few seconds to slow down on a slip road that all it neaded nothing else,this happen a lot of years ago and rememder it like yesterday because we have to live with it and your family has to has well

tomstickland

Telling anybody that it is OK to join a Motorway from ther Hard Shoulder is quite bluntly, seriously bad advice.

So what does a vehicle do after it has stopped on the hard shoulder and starts up again?

banger9365

uses the hard shoulder to get up to speed before joining the main caraigeway,it's in the book all you have to do is read it and learn it ,us it and hope every one else is doing the same

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tomstickland wrote: »

So what does a vehicle do after it has stopped on the hard shoulder and starts up again?

That is totally different scenario, that is an emergency situation and a perfectly legal thing to do.

bert&ernie

I'm with Douglas Bader on this one: "Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the the obedience of fools"