Rights of way on a Slip Road?

[aprisa]

When you leave one Motorway to join another, first you get a one lane slip joined by crossing the short wide dashes, this then splits into two with normal dashes between the two lanes and further short wide dashes between the second and original Motorway. My question is who has right of way into the second new lane on the slip, the person already on the slip or another car leaving the Motorway and crossing the short dashes?

Just so that I know whether I have the moral high ground or not!

Nick

[7db]

Both have an obligation to check its safe prior to switching lanes. If there's a side-side accident, charge both with careless.

Moral high ground exists only for those who cooperate with other road users so that priorities are never crystallised.

[Mon Ami Mate]

I think both have responsibility, but the prevailing law is to give way to the right, so cold it be argued that the majority of burden may lie with the vehicle moving from left to right?

[7db]

I'm not sure where that priority-to-the-right has come from. There is also an argument that the slip road is a separate road so that traffic joining that road yields to traffic already on the road.

In practice, the late-joiner is usually the nob in my experience, having shuttled too far down the outside to gain one or two places in the queue and then left it a bit late to join the exit lane, often with a relative approach speed not anticipated by the more plodding driver.

[JMGS4]

Simple really! If you cross ANY line, dotted, hatched, lined or whatever you have NO priority... always give way to them that has.... any argybargy then it's mostly 50/50!

[herewego]

The only way I see a conflict here is if the person who has left the motorway first, accelerates up the outer slip lane until he is going faster than than the motorway traffic so preventing motoway traffic from changing to the slip lane. In that case I would say the person already on the slip road is definately wrong. He should stay in the inner lane until the danger of more traffic coming off the motorway has passed.

Edited by herewego on Thursday 21st December 10:53