Is this classed as Undertaking?

[32Ford29]

I have looked at the many threads but cannot see my answer....
So if I am driving in L1 of Mway at a steady 65-70 along with other cars and L2 & L3 are busy with cars that are doing about same speed if I keep my speed steady and keep going is this classed as Undertaking?
Or am I meant to hang my speed back to match the car in L2 so I stay behind?
I always though undertaking was if you deliberately switched lanes to Undertake say L3 to L2 and then back to L3 etc.....

[32Ford29]

Good as I was having a chat with somebody, who basically told me I must have undertook people for years, I like to think I have good lane discipline etc..Always return to the left lane, never sit in middle lane unnecessarily etc...but now it made me think maybe I was wrong

[32Ford29]

Douglas Quaid said:

If you’re in the middle lane you should be able to pull back over to the left lane without indicating at any point. If someone is undertaking and blocking that manoeuvre they’re in the wrong.

So this is what I mean, so everytime I reach a car in L2 i need to move from L1 to L3 to pass and then back because the wk in L2 cannot pull back in when he should!

[32Ford29]

Douglas Quaid said:

If you’re in the middle lane you should be able to pull back over to the left lane without indicating at any point. If someone is undertaking and blocking that manoeuvre they’re in the wrong.

Why would you not indicate?

[32Ford29]

7heGeneral said:

Unfortunately it is undertaking. I was doing as you describe with a marked police car behind me thinking i was doing no wrong. It was a 50 mph limit (A road) and I'd stayed on the limit, completely oblivious that they were counting how many cars I'd been undertaking. They had me pull over shortly after I'd moved in to the middle lane (the inside lane was soon going to turn off the main carriageway).

I got lucky that the officers understood that I'd "misunderstood" the rule about staying in the inside lane if it was free so let me off with a warning. Essentially if you are in the inside lane, you are not supposed to pass vehicles in the outside lane(s) unless the other lanes are stationary / coming to a halt.

Thanks 7heGeneral, that is probably the nearest to what I understood, I'll need to be more carefull in future,

[32Ford29]

KevinCamaroSS said:

32Ford29 said:

Thanks 7heGeneral, that is probably the nearest to what I understood, I'll need to be more carefull in future,

Even though it is at odds to rule 268?

NO, What I mean is so not to do what I have been. As this is obviously wrong

[32Ford29]

irocfan said:

All this talk about 3 lane motorways is all well and good but for those that condemn all undertaking as bad what would you do here:

I'm driving along a sparsely trafficked D/C (A127) having just left the 50mph zone outside lane as I'm passing slower traffic and I spot ahead a beige Fiat 500. As I'm going at a reasonable lick I can see I'm going to catch her up quite shortly so I stay in the outside, leaving her the inside lane to pull into. I was following for over a fking mile at 50 mph:
Came up behind her and dropped back a little - still in the outside lane
Indicated to the right - nothing
Flashed her - nothing
Beeped her - nothing
So indicated left inside lane and I was on my way (noting in my rear mirror that she was STILL oblivious in lane 2)

To me THIS Imho is undertaking

[32Ford29]

Todd Bonzalez said:

32Ford29 said:

Why would you not indicate?

When I passed my test about 10 years ago this is what I was taught and what I did on my test (received no infractions). Is it not correct then?

Was not aware that the driving test took you on a Motorway 10years ago.....or are you indeed not correct!

[32Ford29]

Todd Bonzalez said:

32Ford29 said:

Was not aware that the driving test took you on a Motorway 10years ago.....or are you indeed not correct!

Multi lane A road you absolute pedant.