Poor/dangrous overtaking
Discussion
Driving back from meeting family in north Lincolnshire, mainly NSL roads and driving around the speed limit. Now I know that Lincolnshire has a bad rap for accidents but I thought it can't be that bad. Kind of changed my mind, never seen so many poor and dangerous overtaking manoeuvres.
First was quite comic, van shot passed me and somehow screws pulling back in after the overtake and ends up taking the upcoming corner on the wrong side of the road. How they ended up in that mess is beyond me.
Next was simply dangerous, Range Rover comes up behind me at speed. OK he is going to pass, fair enough. Not my job to police the limit and I prefer quick drivers in front of me rather than behind. That way they are not bothering me anymore. The problem is the place they decided to overtake, just before a blind summit. Noway they could have seen what was ahead. Most of the time they will get away with it on a quiet road but when they don't, could be very unpleasant.
Next was what looked like an old Astra. They choose to shoot passed just before a bend, once again noway they could have known what was coming. Though I did have to admire the size of the exhaust, it was proper chav sized, like the tail pipe of jet fighter, Kind of made me nostalgic for the 90's and all those Max Power modified cars you don't seem to see anymore.
I encountered a couple of more cars that must have been doing 90 to 100 (do they do some sort of cannonball run in north Lincolnshire?) but they went past on the straight with plenty of visibility, so fair enough.
Look I am no advanced driver but isn't a basic requirement of overtaking being able to see what is coming in the other lane?
First was quite comic, van shot passed me and somehow screws pulling back in after the overtake and ends up taking the upcoming corner on the wrong side of the road. How they ended up in that mess is beyond me.
Next was simply dangerous, Range Rover comes up behind me at speed. OK he is going to pass, fair enough. Not my job to police the limit and I prefer quick drivers in front of me rather than behind. That way they are not bothering me anymore. The problem is the place they decided to overtake, just before a blind summit. Noway they could have seen what was ahead. Most of the time they will get away with it on a quiet road but when they don't, could be very unpleasant.
Next was what looked like an old Astra. They choose to shoot passed just before a bend, once again noway they could have known what was coming. Though I did have to admire the size of the exhaust, it was proper chav sized, like the tail pipe of jet fighter, Kind of made me nostalgic for the 90's and all those Max Power modified cars you don't seem to see anymore.
I encountered a couple of more cars that must have been doing 90 to 100 (do they do some sort of cannonball run in north Lincolnshire?) but they went past on the straight with plenty of visibility, so fair enough.
Look I am no advanced driver but isn't a basic requirement of overtaking being able to see what is coming in the other lane?
Nampahc Niloc said:
You would be surprised what impatience does to people. The amount of times I’ve had on coming traffic cross into my side of the road just to overtake a bike.
Late in the evening, relatively empty roads. Plenty of safe overtaking spots if they were willing to wait 20-30 seconds.Most of the time they will get away with it, very little traffic on those roads at that time but there were quite a few farm vehicles on the road. Can't imagine even a Range Rover would come off best hitting a tractor or combine head on at 80-90 mph.
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