Priority Question
Discussion
Came across a situation yesterday evening which had me wondering who (if anyone) had priority.
Driving down a slight hill, gentle left hand bend. Reasonably wide single carriageway, 30mph limit, long white dashes.
Car parked on 'my' side of the road ahead. Leaving a safe gap would involve marginally crossing white line.
Bicycle coming the other way, moving quite slowly due to the hill. Car behind looking to overtake, a safe gap would require the car to marginally cross the white line.
Clearly not room for both maneuvers to happen simultaneously so, with no obvious priority, we both ended up waiting a few seconds for the cyclist to progress so there was space to complete our retrospective overtakes.
However, one of us could have safely completed the maneuver with the other waiting.
Did either car actually have any priority over the other? From vague memories of living in a hilly area with single track roads / passing places, I recall the car coming up the hill has priority in some circumstances - would that be a factor?
Driving down a slight hill, gentle left hand bend. Reasonably wide single carriageway, 30mph limit, long white dashes.
Car parked on 'my' side of the road ahead. Leaving a safe gap would involve marginally crossing white line.
Bicycle coming the other way, moving quite slowly due to the hill. Car behind looking to overtake, a safe gap would require the car to marginally cross the white line.
Clearly not room for both maneuvers to happen simultaneously so, with no obvious priority, we both ended up waiting a few seconds for the cyclist to progress so there was space to complete our retrospective overtakes.
However, one of us could have safely completed the maneuver with the other waiting.
Did either car actually have any priority over the other? From vague memories of living in a hilly area with single track roads / passing places, I recall the car coming up the hill has priority in some circumstances - would that be a factor?
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