Overtaking on a slip road

[mawallace]

There's a slip road leading to the dual carriageway.

Often there's a car in front of my which is moving slower than myself - the other day approx 40mph.

i can see that the dual carrigeway is clear and I know I can pass the car before I get to the top of the slip road.

IS this good / bad driving? Any times when it's acceptable?

[Pericoloso]

No problem whatsoever in overtaking on a slip road ,some people dawdle up to a major road and try to merge

into 70 mph traffic at way too low speed.

Just leave them behind.

Do it not too aggressively though.

[InitialDave]

mawallace said:

Any times when it's acceptable?

Any time you can do it safely.

[Pica-Pica]

I frequently do it if there is enough slip road width and length. It is not an issue if done safely. Never had an adverse reaction from those overtaken.

[Pica-Pica]

I frequently do it if there is enough slip road width and length. It is not an issue if done safely. Never had an adverse reaction from those overtaken.

[lyonspride]

There's DC local to me, it's a 40 limit just come down from a 70, where the slip lane is quite short and people seem to like driving to the end of it, stopping and waiting to pull out whilst turning their head 180 degrees to check for traffic.
The slip lane is partially a blind bend (ie you can't see the very end of it from the bend) and a few times i've come around the bend accelerating to match the traffic speed and slot into a gap, only to find some dipst stopped in the slip lane a head of me, causing me to have to evade them at speed whilst trying to join the DC.

Dawdling down slip lanes and/or stopping on them is highly dangerous and your better off ahead of these idiots than finding yourself turned into the sandwich filling when they dawdle out into high speed traffic. Overtaking them isn't illegal, but for safety i'd do it even if it was.

[Torquey]

The problem I find is most people hog the right hand land in anticipation of joining the main road/motorway. This leads to undertaking if you want pass - which is often seen as aggressive driving by many the f**kwits.

If you weigh up the risks, I'd say its more risky to join the motorway at 40mph bunched up with other dawdlers than it is to make one quite overtake on the left, on the slip road

Edited by Torquey on Monday 23 April 09:50

[simoid]

Torquey said:

The problem I find is most people hog the right hand land in anticipation of joining the main road/motorway. This leads to undertaking if you want pass - which is often seen as aggressive driving by many the f**kwits.

If you weigh up the risks, I'd say its more risky to join the motorway at 40mph bunched up with other dawdlers than it is to make one quite overtake on the left, on the slip road

Edited by Torquey on Monday 23 April 09:50

And if they’re indicating right, you could say it’s fair game to pass on the left. I can see how it would be acceptable to utilise this on long slip roads, perhaps inter-motorway links, where people use L2 for the whole way.

[Liquid Knight]

InitialDave said:

mawallace said:

Any times when it's acceptable?

Any time you can do it safely.

If you can make the maneuver with enough of the slip road left to make entering the motorway/dual carriageway an obviously separate maneuver; yes.

If you merge on to the main road having only just completed the overtake it can make the vehicle on the slip brake or slow down to a hazardous speed and/or make vehicles on the main road pay more attention to you than those around them.

Time it right, no problem, get it wrong and potentially cause a massive pile up.

Like any "common sense while driving" issues if you have to ask, don't bother trying.