dangerous motorway driving

dangerous motorway driving

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sammyboy77

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26 posts

88 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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hi, i was doing my usual monthly trip from cornwall to aberdeen today. on the M6/74 i experienced the worst case of lane 3 hogging ever. young lad refusing to move into lane 2 or 1 on a quiet daytime road. i would like to be travelling about 5 or 10 mph faster than him but he would not shift. personally, i dont undertake unless it is slow moving lanes / roadworks / filters / etc. several times i moved to lane 2 at the same speed and to improve my sight lines and he pulled in front and slowed down about 10 mph.after about 30 miles of this i pulled into a service area. REALLY all the way through Cumbria in lane 3?????? Dangerous git in white fiesta st reg SY16 PRX.

Flumpo

3,685 posts

72 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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Just trying to follow your description.

You were behind him in l3 but wanted to get passed.

You pulled into l2, he then pulled into lane 2 and slowed down?

Was he not letting you pull into l3 and overtake him?

danllama

5,728 posts

141 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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Little nudge on his rear quarter would have done the trick. wink

Osinjak

5,453 posts

120 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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Just undertake him and get past the throbber. Why piss about getting involved with bell ends?

Sheepshanks

32,519 posts

118 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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On quiet roads I don't even try to move them, just pass in lane 2, or even 1 if it's that quiet.

parabolica

6,703 posts

183 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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Sheepshanks said:
On quiet roads I don't even try to move them, just pass in lane 2, or even 1 if it's that quiet.
Yup. I only do the London - Aberdeen trip maybe 2-3 times a year but without fail there will be either middle-lane or outside-lane morons on the quietest stretch of the M74 with zero traffic around them. I'll usually be in L1 already doing 70 or thereabouts; I just stay in lane and pass them so I can get on with it. I've seen others doing the orbit move around them but if you have that much time and gall to do that with them you're no better than the MLM in my opinion.

baldy1926

2,136 posts

199 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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I've noticed recently as well cars just sat in lane 2 on dual carriageways.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

185 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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I had a couple of examples of this at the weekend, one on a surprisingly quiet bit of the M25 just sat in L4.

I find a little feint as if you are going to undertake them and then a fairly rapid overtake does the trick.

Osinjak

5,453 posts

120 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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I can't quite get my fat head around the fact that the OP has encountered a hazard on the road and actually made it worse by 'doubling the odds' for 30 miles(!) Call me old fashioned but when I encounter a hazard on the road I do my level best to get away from it, not make it worse by hanging on to it for 30 miles.

Daft, really.

Torquey

1,888 posts

227 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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25 minutes of sitting behind a car because you don't want to overtake in an unused lane which would take around 15 seconds?

spookly

4,009 posts

94 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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I've seen 4 empty lanes with some nugget sat in the outside lane. Even had the temerity to honk their horn at me when I cruised past in the leftmost lane. Some people are weird.

dibblecorse

6,872 posts

191 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Sammy which 2.0 Diesel White German Saloon do you drive ??

rxe

6,700 posts

102 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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My general rule is that undertaking is OK when you have a clear lane between the muppet and yourself. Him in L3, you in L1, L2 empty, go for it.

I made this the rule after some idiot tried to kill me (and himself) on the M40 one night. He was dawdling in the outside lane, very late at night/ early morning, I gave him a quick flick of the lights from > 100 metres behind, he brake tested me (not really a brake test as I had 100 yards...), then tried to swerve into me as I was going past. Much easier just to pass on the inside with a clear lane.

DoubleD

22,154 posts

107 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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baldy1926 said:
I've noticed recently as well cars just sat in lane 2 on dual carriageways.
This has been going on for years

MDT

455 posts

171 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Really, just undertake them... 99 times out of 100 they will not even notice anything has even happened.

romeogolf

2,056 posts

118 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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sammyboy77 said:
hi, i was doing my usual monthly trip from cornwall to aberdeen today. on the M6/74 i experienced the worst case of lane 3 hogging ever. young lad refusing to move into lane 2 or 1 on a quiet daytime road. i would like to be travelling about 5 or 10 mph faster than him but he would not shift. personally, i dont undertake unless it is slow moving lanes / roadworks / filters / etc. several times i moved to lane 2 at the same speed and to improve my sight lines and he pulled in front and slowed down about 10 mph.after about 30 miles of this i pulled into a service area. REALLY all the way through Cumbria in lane 3?????? Dangerous git in white fiesta st reg SY16 PRX.
Should have just gone past on the left and been done with it.

Limpet

6,292 posts

160 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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I just undertake these bellends. It's not worth the hassle.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

185 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Good old PH: it's the OP's fault, of course.

WhiskyDisco

796 posts

73 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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A few years ago I was driving along the M3 away from London, just after the Sunbury section. Clear motorway I came behind two cars in L3. Think it was a Volvo being followed by a BMW 3 series. I was in a rush to get to Reading for a surprise party so after a few seconds of sitting there I pulled over into into L1 and booted it to about 90 mph. I continued in L1 but dropped to about 80. After a few seconds, maybe a minute I looked behind to see the BMW coming up behind me. Hmm, I wonder if that's a police car? Then the blue lights.

Lone policewoman pulled me over. She asked if she knew why I'd been pulled over - lied and said that I did know, and that I was very sorry - no excuse other than I didn't like being held up in L3 at less than 70. She said that it was true that the Volvo was hogging the lane but it doesn't excuse my driving. She then asked for my licence and asked me to get back in the car with the family.

She came back to me and after showing me a photograph of a crashed car and allowed me to go on my way with a warning. I still don't know exactly why I got pulled - the undertaking, the excess speed, or something else. I suspect undertaking at speed.

Even after this pull I maintain that undertaking is OK as long as:

1. It's a one way street (like a motorway)
2. The action can only be performed by not exceeding the speed limit
3. I do not then move directly in front of the car I was behind previously
4. Keep 'em peeled for the boys (and girls) in blue


tinnitusjosh

324 posts

71 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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baldy1926 said:
I've noticed recently as well cars just sat in lane 2 on dual carriageways.
I know it's poor form, but i tend to hog the right line of the A41 near me in order to keep the left lane clear for people that want to join - saves having to swerve around people that merge and take too long to get up to speed. Everyone else is welcome to [try to] undertake if they want wink