Would you report this?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTsFuzCJCEs
Coming down the motorway this evening I'm in the outside lane until about 200m then move to the middle as I'm turning off at the next junction. Sitting in the middle lane doing 65mph when a taxi comes up and forces me back into the outside lane. A blast of the horn and checking there wasn't another car coming up the outside lane he continues to push over . Had there been a car/truck in the other lane I'd have been toast. The lane he was in carries on as a inside lane for another two junctions it is not a merging lane on a slip road. Been driving for 20 years and it's the most aggressive move I've seen for a while.He didn't hit me but it was very close.
No doubt some PHr will say I should have slowed down to a snails pace and foreseen with my crystal ball he was going to move over even without notice or indication.
Coming down the motorway this evening I'm in the outside lane until about 200m then move to the middle as I'm turning off at the next junction. Sitting in the middle lane doing 65mph when a taxi comes up and forces me back into the outside lane. A blast of the horn and checking there wasn't another car coming up the outside lane he continues to push over . Had there been a car/truck in the other lane I'd have been toast. The lane he was in carries on as a inside lane for another two junctions it is not a merging lane on a slip road. Been driving for 20 years and it's the most aggressive move I've seen for a while.He didn't hit me but it was very close.
No doubt some PHr will say I should have slowed down to a snails pace and foreseen with my crystal ball he was going to move over even without notice or indication.
Edited by sutoka on Saturday 4th March 03:15
Edited by sutoka on Saturday 4th March 03:18
sutoka said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTsFuzCJCEs
Coming down the motorway this evening I'm in the outside lane until about 200m then move to the middle as I'm turning off at the next junction. Sitting in the middle lane doing 65mph when a taxi comes up and forces me back into the outside lane. A blast of the horn and checking there wasn't another car coming up the outside lane he continues to push over . Had there been a car/truck in the other lane I'd have been toast. The lane he was in carries on as a inside lane for another two junctions it is not a merging lane on a slip road. Been driving for 20 years and it's the most aggressive move I've seen for a while.He didn't hit me but it was very close.
No doubt some PHr will say I should have slowed down to a snails pace and foreseen with my crystal ball he was going to move over even without notice or indication.
Coming down the motorway this evening I'm in the outside lane until about 200m then move to the middle as I'm turning off at the next junction. Sitting in the middle lane doing 65mph when a taxi comes up and forces me back into the outside lane. A blast of the horn and checking there wasn't another car coming up the outside lane he continues to push over . Had there been a car/truck in the other lane I'd have been toast. The lane he was in carries on as a inside lane for another two junctions it is not a merging lane on a slip road. Been driving for 20 years and it's the most aggressive move I've seen for a while.He didn't hit me but it was very close.
No doubt some PHr will say I should have slowed down to a snails pace and foreseen with my crystal ball he was going to move over even without notice or indication.
Edited by sutoka on Saturday 4th March 03:15
Edited by sutoka on Saturday 4th March 03:18
You'll get nowhere reporting that to the police.
If you feel strongly then contact Value Cabs, or whoever it is, and e-mail them the footage. They may have a word with the driver, and perhaps you'll save someone else getting swiped. but beyond that not much will happen.
It's so common now where we have these types of junction. Joining drivers fail to understand they don't need to merge and just swing into what they believe is lane 1.
Taxi man in this instance amplifies his error by being aggressive, or are you now in his blind spot and he's trying to work out what is going on?
He may have been distracted by Green Hatchback man's sweetass joining manoeuvre? Up the inside, brake, 4 lane drift.
Best practice is obviously to position yourself so there is no overlap. Plenty of opportunity to do that in your clip.
Similar to exits with a long filter lane off, avoid the overlap. Driver's late in realising this is their exit often aggressively move into the filter lane without any warning.
If you feel strongly then contact Value Cabs, or whoever it is, and e-mail them the footage. They may have a word with the driver, and perhaps you'll save someone else getting swiped. but beyond that not much will happen.
It's so common now where we have these types of junction. Joining drivers fail to understand they don't need to merge and just swing into what they believe is lane 1.
Taxi man in this instance amplifies his error by being aggressive, or are you now in his blind spot and he's trying to work out what is going on?
He may have been distracted by Green Hatchback man's sweetass joining manoeuvre? Up the inside, brake, 4 lane drift.
Best practice is obviously to position yourself so there is no overlap. Plenty of opportunity to do that in your clip.
Similar to exits with a long filter lane off, avoid the overlap. Driver's late in realising this is their exit often aggressively move into the filter lane without any warning.
Edited by M11rph on Saturday 4th March 07:22
Edited by M11rph on Saturday 4th March 07:23
The modern scourge of f**kwits joining the m-way and inexplicably moving immediately to the middle lane for no valid reason whatsoever...
Looks like he didn't check mirrors, and possibly he assumed he was merging with your lane. Either way he shouldn't be getting paid to drive others about with skills like that! Looks more like total ineptitude than aggression.
Looks like he didn't check mirrors, and possibly he assumed he was merging with your lane. Either way he shouldn't be getting paid to drive others about with skills like that! Looks more like total ineptitude than aggression.
Yes taxi driver was at fault ...
... however, and I accept this may be my motor cycling instructor head talking, that kind of thing happens so often that better anticipation would have avoided it being so close. Quite often you see dash cam footage of incidents and think, yes the other vehicle caused that but the camera vehicle just kept coming when it could have done something to avoid or reduce the severity of the incident.
Nearly 50 years ago when I was a novice motor cyclist, a wise man told me that being in the right wouldn't help me when I was lying in the road with serious injuries and that I should never assume the other guy is going to do what he should. Translated to the car, how many times have we seen other guy causes accident but insurance decides 50:50 etc? So in the car I apply this "the other guy is a total moron" philosophy to 3 things: people pulling out of or turning into junctions in front of me; lack of lane, indicator and give way discipline on roundabouts; lane drifting/pull out on dual carriageways. Not assuming anything in respect of those in particular has avoided a lot of incidents over the years.
Oh and before I get condemned by the usual road warriors, I have an M4 and I like to "press on", I just do it with a particularly eagle eye on the 3 most obvious risks posed by the huge number of idiots driving vehicles who don't know or care about what they're doing. And taxi drivers are amongst the worst in my experience.
... however, and I accept this may be my motor cycling instructor head talking, that kind of thing happens so often that better anticipation would have avoided it being so close. Quite often you see dash cam footage of incidents and think, yes the other vehicle caused that but the camera vehicle just kept coming when it could have done something to avoid or reduce the severity of the incident.
Nearly 50 years ago when I was a novice motor cyclist, a wise man told me that being in the right wouldn't help me when I was lying in the road with serious injuries and that I should never assume the other guy is going to do what he should. Translated to the car, how many times have we seen other guy causes accident but insurance decides 50:50 etc? So in the car I apply this "the other guy is a total moron" philosophy to 3 things: people pulling out of or turning into junctions in front of me; lack of lane, indicator and give way discipline on roundabouts; lane drifting/pull out on dual carriageways. Not assuming anything in respect of those in particular has avoided a lot of incidents over the years.
Oh and before I get condemned by the usual road warriors, I have an M4 and I like to "press on", I just do it with a particularly eagle eye on the 3 most obvious risks posed by the huge number of idiots driving vehicles who don't know or care about what they're doing. And taxi drivers are amongst the worst in my experience.
Edited by siremoon on Saturday 4th March 08:58
Edited by siremoon on Saturday 4th March 09:00
I love it when two piss poor drivers come together.
Taxi driver had no need to change lane.
If I were OP I would have stayed in furthest right lane, and certainly not stay on that converging path that is a permanent blind-spot angle. This is an occasion when a burst of acceleration to get past and be visible to the taxi driver would have been best (and by constant observation you should have known the outside lane was clear).
I would be embarrassed to report that.
Taxi driver had no need to change lane.
If I were OP I would have stayed in furthest right lane, and certainly not stay on that converging path that is a permanent blind-spot angle. This is an occasion when a burst of acceleration to get past and be visible to the taxi driver would have been best (and by constant observation you should have known the outside lane was clear).
I would be embarrassed to report that.
Edited by Pica-Pica on Saturday 4th March 08:58
sociopath said:
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t driving from the cab, st anticipation on your part
Agreed, OP just needed to ease off when it became apparent that the taxi was coming over regardless and the incident would have been avoided. t driving from the cab, st anticipation on your partLooks to me like the red mist descended and you were prepared to get into a collision over that piece of road.
I find that those joining a dual carriageway almost always assume you are going to let them in. Just anticipate and plan for it, it's not hard.
Don't bother reporting that to the police. Send a copy to the taxi co if you must.
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