M5/M6 merge/collision driving poll

[saaby93]

NoNeed said:

I think they were both driving without due care and attention from the off. The caravan would have had a very long time to get into the M5 lane and plenty of signage telling him to do so. Closing the gap and ignoring an indicator is on par and for me the same, but what I am saying is I can kind of understand lorry mans frustration where as caravan man is clearly mental.

ok keep with it thanks
so caravn driver is clearly mental he has his left indicator on, the M5 is about to slip off to the left,



Do you think a rational person would go up the inside of the caravan?
I realise the truck driver may not be rational if hes feeling frustrated

[saaby93]

NoNeed said:

Have I said he is rational? and do you see danger in the picture? really as I don't

ok thanks
so the truck driver may not have seen danger either
and he's probably not being rational

It's easy for us sitting here
I see loads of danger in that photo with that indicator on, so the last place I'd want to be is on the inside of that caravan
If I dropped back I wouldn't be in any danger when it moved left later as I was pretty much expecting it to do from the indicator.

[saaby93]

NoNeed said:

You keep posting it like it means something but to think that the caravan driver will go for a tiny gap behind the zafira as opposed to the one in front would be daft/stupid/mental. No sane person could think he was going to try and put it in there.

Its almost a standard move for HGVs - someone else posted that the Caravan driver was acting like an HGV driver.
They pull forward of the HGV theyd like to pull in front of, put the left indicator on, pull left ever so slightly, then drop back gradually to allow anything inside to move forwards, with the expectation the HGV behind keeps back too, then move left into the gap.
The truck here didnt drop back, instead looks to have moved forward, which he shouldnt have done with that left indicator going. The caravan driver should have realised this but instead still tries to move left. In trying to avoid a collision it uses the hatching (although it could have gone up the M6) and the truck driver is still determined not to drop back.
The inevitable happens, entirely predictable for these two , but completely avoidable

No Need thanks for going through that - it helped a lot

Edited by saaby93 on Friday 24th April 23:47