Accelerating whilst being overtaken

[MoelyCrio]

cmaguire said:

Rubber-Ducky said:

NSL. It's a C road with some nice twisty bits that can be enjoyed at speeds which won't land you in court.

That's highly unlikely. I'm not sure I can think of any road that is enjoyable at anywhere near the speed limit.

Eh? Maybe you dont know many roads. Lots of NSL where you'd struggle to mainatin 60.

[Yipper]

Lol. Floor it. Everyone secretly loves baiting redfaced whitevanman when you know he's got 8 minutes left to make his next drop and will probably have to go toilet in a Pepsi bottle

[Johnnytheboy]

ging84 said:

Very rare that accelerate as normal and floor it are different things for me

[MagicalTrevor]

Rubber-Ducky said:

MagicalTrevor said:

Highway Code - Rule 168
...Speeding up or driving unpredictably while someone is overtaking you is dangerous...

This was the essence of my dilemma. I had already started accelerating when he pulled out. The predictable course of action when going from a 30 limit to NSL is to speed up. Had I eased off the loud pedal then that would differ from my normal behaviour in his absence: to begin accelerating then stop doing so could be viewed us unpredictable.

Had he pulled back in at the same time then he would have hit me.

I'm reassured by the fact that all four options in the poll have double-digit support, and no one option has a majority.

I agree, I'd continue to accelerate as normal but I'd be mindful of letting that person clear me and be on their way. I might ease off slightly depending on the road, conditions and traffic though

[Efbe]

Johnnytheboy said:

ging84 said:

Very rare that accelerate as normal and floor it are different things for me

+1

[ben5575]

MoelyCrio said:

cmaguire said:

Rubber-Ducky said:

NSL. It's a C road with some nice twisty bits that can be enjoyed at speeds which won't land you in court.

That's highly unlikely. I'm not sure I can think of any road that is enjoyable at anywhere near the speed limit.

Eh? Maybe you dont know many roads. Lots of NSL where you'd struggle to mainatin 60.

Or he's in the wrong car...

[cologne2792]

This used to happen to me a lot locally: A nasty B Road off the A35 with a 30 mph limit through one of the few populated bits. It was 60 mph since the beginning of time, then eventually 40 and very soon after 30 mph culminating in a left hand corner, t-junction, NSL sign and then a long straight. People would object to a steady 30 mph and sit in my boot. Then when the NSL sign appeared would overtake on the corner just before the t-junction and then proceed to drive at 44 mph. In my 3.0 Capri I found the easiest thing to do was wait for them to overtake, check they hadn't collided with anyone at the junction and then simply overtake them.

[simoid]

Should: let him past.
Would: floor it (if he wasn't overly committed to the overtake and doing so wasn't dangerous, IE you have enough power to leave him behind even if he's accelerating before you).
Wouldn't: accelerate at "normal" rate as this might strand van driver in the other lane if he tried to continue the overtake, causing likely conflict.

Edited by simoid on Wednesday 30th November 22:23

[flight147z]

If somebody is driving like a nob I'd rather just let them go to be honest before it makes me do something stupid in turn

[simoid]

REALIST123 said:

paintman said:

Ekona said:

Common sense says to let him past. Rather an idiot in front of you than behind you.

+1

This. Always best to have the idiot in front.

Really? I'd say miles behind is optimal.

[johnwilliams77]

simoid said:

Really? I'd say miles behind is optimal.

Not always possible if a lot of traffic ahead

[cmaguire]

ben5575 said:

Or he's in the wrong car...

What is the wrong car?

[Rubber-Ducky]

Thank you to all who voted or posted - some good points raised. Interesting that there was no clear right or wrong answer from the poll.

I'm off to bed in a minute, so in case anyone actually cares what the outcome was, I went for option 4, but maybe not for the reasons you'd expect.

I'd like to be clear that at no stage was white van man overlapping with me, so he could have pulled back in at any point. If I'd stopped accelerating at the same time then we would have collided. This excluded options 2 and 3 for me. I figured that option 1 would likely lead to us accelerating in formation with him stuck on the wrong side of the road in my 5 o' clock - not an especially desirable situation. This kind of narrowed it down for me - I figured the best course of action was to remove myself from the situation by putting some distance between us, which I did with my right foot.

He pulled back in behind me, flashed his headlights and made a universally recognised hand gesture that indicated a level of disapproval on his part. Two corners later there was a healthy gap between us...

[RWD cossie wil]

It amazes me the amount of people that crawl all over your bumper when you are sticking close enough to 30/40/50 mph limits not to get done, but as soon as the road goes NSL they are nowhere to be seen... a few occasions I have had lunatics overtake me through villages /blind corners in 30/40 limits, taking huge risks to do so, only to find them dawdling a mile up the road & I have had to re-overtake them!

[ben5575]

cmaguire said:

ben5575 said:

Or he's in the wrong car...

What is the wrong car?

A car that you can't enjoy below the NSL

[pork911]

Johnnytheboy said:

A352 Dorchester to Middlemarsh.

Mostly NSL and twisty. I've used to it demonstrate to my Mrs that sticking to the limit can feel very fast in the right car.

How did she manage to contain her excitement?

[FGB]

Rubber-Ducky said:

Thank you to all who voted or posted - some good points raised. Interesting that there was no clear right or wrong answer from the poll.

I'm off to bed in a minute, so in case anyone actually cares what the outcome was, I went for option 4, but maybe not for the reasons you'd expect.

I'd like to be clear that at no stage was white van man overlapping with me, so he could have pulled back in at any point. If I'd stopped accelerating at the same time then we would have collided. This excluded options 2 and 3 for me. I figured that option 1 would likely lead to us accelerating in formation with him stuck on the wrong side of the road in my 5 o' clock - not an especially desirable situation. This kind of narrowed it down for me - I figured the best course of action was to remove myself from the situation by putting some distance between us, which I did with my right foot.

He pulled back in behind me, flashed his headlights and made a universally recognised hand gesture that indicated a level of disapproval on his part. Two corners later there was a healthy gap between us...

Did you stick to the nsl once you were under way?

[Johnnytheboy]

pork911 said:

Johnnytheboy said:

A352 Dorchester to Middlemarsh.

Mostly NSL and twisty. I've used to it demonstrate to my Mrs that sticking to the limit can feel very fast in the right car.

How did she manage to contain her excitement?

I doubt she was listening.

[drf765]

Well there's a new reason to get shot of speed enforcement vans. They stop tts passing you when you drive perfectly and lawfully.

I'm always amazed that sitting in a white van still affects the personality of the driver when his or her employer's contact details are on the van.

I would perhaps let the knob pass, there'll be another van enforcing just up the road.

[Audicab]

I've had this a few times. We live in a 30 limit village with 60 limits all around. There is a lad who has overtaken me a couple of times in an old 1.0 Peugeot in the village. Fine, a bit of a tttish move but hey ho. He then only does about 40 on the NSL road and slows down to about 35 on the bends and there is only really one overtaking place.

I just don't get his mentality or thought process.