slip road problem

[shauniebabes]

You are on a slip road ready to join the main road. The car ahead fails to merge and ends up stationary at the end of the slip road. Now is the safest way to deal with the situation to

a) merge onto the main road and overtake them
b) pull in behind them and let them merge first.

Option "a" risks them pulling out in your path. Option "b" risks being rear ended.

[BoostMonkey]

A - Then move into lane 2 for saftey

[ScoobyChris]

Option b) sounds the safer of those two, especially if there's a hard shoulder to use as an escape route. Do we know why the vehicle has stopped in the slip lane? If an option is for you to merge and overtake them, presumably it's not because they're unable to join the motorway and that would make me concerned that they might do something unpredictable...

Chris

[Distant]

A is the safest option for me. I'm going to do pretty much whatever it takes to avoid stopping in a live lane unless I have to. Drive round them (into lane 2 if possible) and let them get rear ended, not me.

[shauniebabes]

ScoobyChris said:

Option b) sounds the safer of those two, especially if there's a hard shoulder to use as an escape route. Do we know why the vehicle has stopped in the slip lane? If an option is for you to merge and overtake them, presumably it's not because they're unable to join the motorway and that would make me concerned that they might do something unpredictable...

Chris

This was one of those short slip roads with no hard shoulder.

[Techn0]

Maybe be in a gear that will enable you to safely overtake the car and move into lane 2 or 3 without holding up other traffic?