Traffic cop thinks I'm a mind reader(again)
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I'm travelling on a dark quite stretch of motorway cruise set at 50mph, in the far distance is what looks like a marked up police car moving in lane one, one truck passes me followed by another 100 metres apart, they both drop in in front of me, I now can't see the police car but It looked like it was travelling slower than me.
The first truck pulls out to pass the PC then the second truck indicates, at this point a green M reg Honda Coupe comes past me doing about 60mph, he sees the police car being passed by the first truck so he indicates and goes to pass in lane 3, he gets passed truck two then goes to pass truck one then the second truck goes to pass the police car, both trucks are doing about 54mph, I'm still on cruise at 50mph.
They all get passed successfully and as I near the police car and am just getting ready to indicate and pull out of lane one into lane two to overtake the PC, what does he do?.
Pulls out in front of me without indicating, I'll take it as a compliment he obviously could see I was in an Artic and so am a professional and as such am a mind reader.
When my dear old dad said to me many years ago "treat everybody else on the road like they are idiots", I didn't think he actually meant "everybody".
PS
They were after the Honda they stopped it but didn't detain it for long because it came passed me 40 miles further on and again 30 miles after that, still cruising along at about 60mph.
I like to see the police stopping what they might consider to be dodgy looking motors/people but I'm getting just a little hacked off with the lack of use of the indicators.
As you were.
The first truck pulls out to pass the PC then the second truck indicates, at this point a green M reg Honda Coupe comes past me doing about 60mph, he sees the police car being passed by the first truck so he indicates and goes to pass in lane 3, he gets passed truck two then goes to pass truck one then the second truck goes to pass the police car, both trucks are doing about 54mph, I'm still on cruise at 50mph.
They all get passed successfully and as I near the police car and am just getting ready to indicate and pull out of lane one into lane two to overtake the PC, what does he do?.
Pulls out in front of me without indicating, I'll take it as a compliment he obviously could see I was in an Artic and so am a professional and as such am a mind reader.
When my dear old dad said to me many years ago "treat everybody else on the road like they are idiots", I didn't think he actually meant "everybody".
PS
They were after the Honda they stopped it but didn't detain it for long because it came passed me 40 miles further on and again 30 miles after that, still cruising along at about 60mph.
I like to see the police stopping what they might consider to be dodgy looking motors/people but I'm getting just a little hacked off with the lack of use of the indicators.
As you were.
Slowly slowly said:
I'm travelling on a dark quite stretch of motorway cruise set at 50mph, in the far distance is what looks like a marked up police car moving in lane one, one truck passes me followed by another 100 metres apart, they both drop in in front of me, I now can't see the police car but It looked like it was travelling slower than me.
The first truck pulls out to pass the PC then the second truck indicates, at this point a green M reg Honda Coupe comes past me doing about 60mph, he sees the police car being passed by the first truck so he indicates and goes to pass in lane 3, he gets passed truck two then goes to pass truck one then the second truck goes to pass the police car, both trucks are doing about 54mph, I'm still on cruise at 50mph.
They all get passed successfully and as I near the police car and am just getting ready to indicate and pull out of lane one into lane two to overtake the PC, what does he do?.
Pulls out in front of me without indicating, I'll take it as a compliment he obviously could see I was in an Artic and so am a professional and as such am a mind reader.
When my dear old dad said to me many years ago "treat everybody else on the road like they are idiots", I didn't think he actually meant "everybody".
PS
They were after the Honda they stopped it but didn't detain it for long because it came passed me 40 miles further on and again 30 miles after that, still cruising along at about 60mph.
I like to see the police stopping what they might consider to be dodgy looking motors/people but I'm getting just a little hacked off with the lack of use of the indicators.
As you were.
Ah, but that is because lots of Police cars are BMWs and as they are normally poverty spec they don't have the optional indicators fitted. The first truck pulls out to pass the PC then the second truck indicates, at this point a green M reg Honda Coupe comes past me doing about 60mph, he sees the police car being passed by the first truck so he indicates and goes to pass in lane 3, he gets passed truck two then goes to pass truck one then the second truck goes to pass the police car, both trucks are doing about 54mph, I'm still on cruise at 50mph.
They all get passed successfully and as I near the police car and am just getting ready to indicate and pull out of lane one into lane two to overtake the PC, what does he do?.
Pulls out in front of me without indicating, I'll take it as a compliment he obviously could see I was in an Artic and so am a professional and as such am a mind reader.
When my dear old dad said to me many years ago "treat everybody else on the road like they are idiots", I didn't think he actually meant "everybody".
PS
They were after the Honda they stopped it but didn't detain it for long because it came passed me 40 miles further on and again 30 miles after that, still cruising along at about 60mph.
I like to see the police stopping what they might consider to be dodgy looking motors/people but I'm getting just a little hacked off with the lack of use of the indicators.
As you were.
SHOCK! HORROR!
According to uncomfirmed reports coming in a police car was joining a well lit stretch of the M6 last night when a truck driver alledgedly doing 85kph in lane one might have had to pull into lane two to let him on but, again I must stress this is at present unconfirmed the police car increased its speed and indicated right, the truck driver at first thought the policeman wanted to turn right until he realised there wasn't a right turn (signals can be so easily misunderstood), As it happened the signal meant the police car was joining the motorway, the trucker switched his headlights on and off to say "please join" and the policeman/woman flicked his/her indicator left then right to say "thanks" (unless that signal was misunderstood).
NEWSFLASH.
It was a Panda car(that explains it then)
According to uncomfirmed reports coming in a police car was joining a well lit stretch of the M6 last night when a truck driver alledgedly doing 85kph in lane one might have had to pull into lane two to let him on but, again I must stress this is at present unconfirmed the police car increased its speed and indicated right, the truck driver at first thought the policeman wanted to turn right until he realised there wasn't a right turn (signals can be so easily misunderstood), As it happened the signal meant the police car was joining the motorway, the trucker switched his headlights on and off to say "please join" and the policeman/woman flicked his/her indicator left then right to say "thanks" (unless that signal was misunderstood).
NEWSFLASH.
It was a Panda car(that explains it then)
Slowly slowly said:
When my dear old dad said to me many years ago "treat everybody else on the road like they are idiots", I didn't think he actually meant "everybody".
Same advice my driving instructor gave me, but interestingly he added that marked police cars can be the worst for cutting you up.... He was an ex-cabbie.
Jasandjules said:
Slowly slowly said:
When my dear old dad said to me many years ago "treat everybody else on the road like they are idiots", I didn't think he actually meant "everybody".
Same advice my driving instructor gave me, but interestingly he added that marked police cars can be the worst for cutting you up.... I have a theory about this not indicating, I think if you nearly hit someone whilst changing lanes or direction without indicating other people are hopefully preventing the accident so no harm done but the main thing is if there is a coming togeather the person not indicating can always say they weren't turning right/left/merging/pulling out/pulling in/etc etc etc.
Another of my dads saying "there's method in my madness"
Slowly slowly said:
Jasandjules said:
Slowly slowly said:
When my dear old dad said to me many years ago "treat everybody else on the road like they are idiots", I didn't think he actually meant "everybody".
Same advice my driving instructor gave me, but interestingly he added that marked police cars can be the worst for cutting you up.... I have a theory about this not indicating, I think if you nearly hit someone whilst changing lanes or direction without indicating other people are hopefully preventing the accident so no harm done but the main thing is if there is a coming togeather the person not indicating can always say they weren't turning right/left/merging/pulling out/pulling in/etc etc etc.
Another of my dads saying "there's method in my madness"
The OP is a classic example of an ill thought out and mindless plod bashing post!
Ignore the two vehicles that overtook you - they are an irrelevance, other than being a potential hazard to the police vehicle.
Both you and the police car were in lane one. Or were you? If the police vehicle "pulled out in front of you" then you must have already been in lane two - but you said that you were "just getting ready to indicate and pull out of lane one into lane two".
So, either way you are in the wrong. If you were still in lane one the police car presented no hazard to you by pulling out into lane two. If you were already in lane two, why were you "just getting ready to indicate and pull out"?
Before posting such garbage, please take a little time to think through what you are about to publish, and ensure that it makes some kind of sense. Your original post just makes you look like a right pirrock!
Ignore the two vehicles that overtook you - they are an irrelevance, other than being a potential hazard to the police vehicle.
Both you and the police car were in lane one. Or were you? If the police vehicle "pulled out in front of you" then you must have already been in lane two - but you said that you were "just getting ready to indicate and pull out of lane one into lane two".
So, either way you are in the wrong. If you were still in lane one the police car presented no hazard to you by pulling out into lane two. If you were already in lane two, why were you "just getting ready to indicate and pull out"?
Before posting such garbage, please take a little time to think through what you are about to publish, and ensure that it makes some kind of sense. Your original post just makes you look like a right pirrock!
kwakka said:
The OP is a classic example of an ill thought out and mindless plod bashing post!
Ignore the two vehicles that overtook you - they are an irrelevance, other than being a potential hazard to the police vehicle.
Both you and the police car were in lane one. Or were you? If the police vehicle "pulled out in front of you" then you must have already been in lane two - but you said that you were "just getting ready to indicate and pull out of lane one into lane two".
So, either way you are in the wrong. If you were still in lane one the police car presented no hazard to you by pulling out into lane two. If you were already in lane two, why were you "just getting ready to indicate and pull out"?
Before posting such garbage, please take a little time to think through what you are about to publish, and ensure that it makes some kind of sense. Your original post just makes you look like a right pirrock!
This is a motoring thread mate, you have to know a bit about motoring to post on here, come back when you are up to speed.Ignore the two vehicles that overtook you - they are an irrelevance, other than being a potential hazard to the police vehicle.
Both you and the police car were in lane one. Or were you? If the police vehicle "pulled out in front of you" then you must have already been in lane two - but you said that you were "just getting ready to indicate and pull out of lane one into lane two".
So, either way you are in the wrong. If you were still in lane one the police car presented no hazard to you by pulling out into lane two. If you were already in lane two, why were you "just getting ready to indicate and pull out"?
Before posting such garbage, please take a little time to think through what you are about to publish, and ensure that it makes some kind of sense. Your original post just makes you look like a right pirrock!
Try reading the post again, if it doesn't paint a picture for you, your in the wrong place.
andyuk911 said:
xllifts said:
NO NO you missed it chaps it was Dizee he is worried that indicating will flatten his battery again 
don't indicators sap power .. or the light cause friction 
That's if I've got my maths right....
tribbles said:
andyuk911 said:
xllifts said:
NO NO you missed it chaps it was Dizee he is worried that indicating will flatten his battery again
don't indicators sap power .. or the light cause friction That's if I've got my maths right....
Rumour has it that he's buying a new map for his car as well....begs the question would sat nav not get him there quicker!
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