Anyone dashcam shopped a lane hogger?
Anyone dashcam shopped a lane hogger?
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Ken Figenus

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5,952 posts

133 months

Yesterday (11:35)
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I don't usually like dashcam snitchers unless its for something pretty serious, and middle lane hogging isn't serious - its just selfish and annoying.

Lost track of the number of times I had to go from lane 1 to lane 3 and back coming back from Gatwick late Sunday when the hogger should have been keeping left as there was NOTHING around them. It just seems that its getting worse and worse and a few prosecutions and Daily Mail headlines might help address it?banghead

Regards
Karen

paul_c123

968 posts

9 months

Yesterday (11:37)
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1 day amnesty on pitting them would help a lot.

Mabbs9

1,420 posts

234 months

Yesterday (11:37)
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I drove 500miles at the weekend. The motorways were slow. Not from actual congestion. From laziness with moving to the left. I'd be happy if more received a telling-off.

Richard-390a0

2,927 posts

107 months

Yesterday (11:57)
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I'd have no issues with you shopping the morons tbh. Go for it!.

Yellow Lizud

2,675 posts

180 months

Yesterday (12:38)
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Ken Figenus said:
Lost track of the number of times I had to go from lane 1 to lane 3 and back coming back from Gatwick late Sunday when the hogger should have been keeping left as there was NOTHING around them.
Just stay in lane 1, usually the fastest lane nowadays anyway.

Drezza

1,456 posts

70 months

Yesterday (12:45)
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No, but I got grassed up by a moron lane hogger to the police for undertaking one and had to do a 're-education' course. This country is the pits.

Shnozz

29,119 posts

287 months

Yesterday (12:47)
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Drezza said:
No, but I got grassed up by a moron lane hogger to the police for undertaking one and had to do a 're-education' course. This country is the pits.
That is pathetic. Police should be responding to ask why the submitting driver was able to be undertaken in the first place.

I thought if you maintain your speed and pass somebody on the left hand lane it wasn't an offence?

Actual

1,311 posts

122 months

Yesterday (12:48)
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Yellow Lizud said:
Just stay in lane 1, usually the fastest lane nowadays anyway.
Me too!

Driving on an empty 3 lane motorway at the speed limit with cruise control can be tedious and the encounter with the solitary middle lane moron adds some stimulation to the journey. Keeps me awake!.

Furbo

1,479 posts

48 months

Yesterday (12:49)
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Drezza said:
No, but I got grassed up by a moron lane hogger to the police for undertaking one and had to do a 're-education' course. This country is the pits.
There was more to it than you undertaking.

paul_c123

968 posts

9 months

Yesterday (13:16)
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Shnozz said:
That is pathetic. Police should be responding to ask why the submitting driver was able to be undertaken in the first place.

I thought if you maintain your speed and pass somebody on the left hand lane it wasn't an offence?
No, you pass on the right in this country (UK). There are limited conditions when you can pass on the left legally. Two wrongs don't make a right; and passing on the left is a greater offence too.

Simpo Two

89,237 posts

281 months

Yesterday (13:17)
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Ken Figenus said:
I don't usually like dashcam snitchers unless its for something pretty serious, and middle lane hogging isn't serious - its just selfish and annoying.

Lost track of the number of times I had to go from lane 1 to lane 3 and back coming back from Gatwick late Sunday when the hogger should have been keeping left as there was NOTHING around them. It just seems that its getting worse and worse and a few prosecutions and Daily Mail headlines might help address it?:banghead
I presume you mean outside lane hogger, not middle lane hogger.

No, I wouldn't film them and send the footage to the police. Not only is it tragically petty but one day it might happen to you. Just take comfort from the fact you're more perfect than them and enjoy your day.

the cueball

1,527 posts

71 months

Yesterday (13:20)
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I haven't sent anything away to the police, but if I can... I send footage to companies if employees are using their phones in company signed vehicles..

Like the fkwit in a HGV on his phone that had to emergency stop at the roundabout has he hadn't seen me on it...

I'm usually on a bike, so find phone usage far more dangerous to me than someone asleep in the middle lane.

I usually go by them in lane 1, sometimes they wake up, sometimes they don't.


119

12,510 posts

52 months

Yesterday (13:27)
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If I’m in lane one I just carry on and cruise past on the inside.

Very rarely see it though.

Cliftonite

8,587 posts

154 months

Yesterday (13:30)
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My friend has lots of dashcam footage of various Lane 2/3/4 hoggers but cannot send them to Police as she may have accidentally passed them all by maintaining her speed in Lane 1.


Shnozz

29,119 posts

287 months

Yesterday (13:36)
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paul_c123 said:
Shnozz said:
That is pathetic. Police should be responding to ask why the submitting driver was able to be undertaken in the first place.

I thought if you maintain your speed and pass somebody on the left hand lane it wasn't an offence?
No, you pass on the right in this country (UK). There are limited conditions when you can pass on the left legally. Two wrongs don't make a right; and passing on the left is a greater offence too.
I was referencing this

https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/answers/can-you-ov...

paul_c123

968 posts

9 months

Yesterday (13:44)
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Shnozz said:
"multi-lane carriageway in congested conditions,"

Shnozz

29,119 posts

287 months

Yesterday (13:47)
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paul_c123 said:
Shnozz said:
"multi-lane carriageway in congested conditions,"
Your definition of multi lane is what?

Your definition of congested is what?

Shnozz

29,119 posts

287 months

Yesterday (13:50)
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For what it’s worth, I have the displeasure of doing Yorkshire to Hampshire and back on a regular basis and the lane hoggers are truly dreadful. Now there are many sections of 4 lane motorways they have gravitated to lane 3 quite often.

Contrast that to the many miles I do in Europe where it’s never an issue. It’s a stark difference.

bergclimber34

1,371 posts

9 months

Yesterday (14:00)
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Education is the only answer, idiots will never be bored, even though you could possibly program traffic cameras to I D this, staffing is so low

I would suggest the person who got done for undertaking, there is more to that story

I routinely undertake, in as obvious a way as possible, but it 8s not right

Why? Multiple reasons, foreign drivers are a big part of it, education is, 4 lane motorways seemed to really make it worse, AFAIK, education seems the ono6 way

I will say 90% of the people I go close to or undertake never correct or bat an eyelid, but they do sometimes speed up, which is fine as I then stay in lane and allow them to progress.

BrokenSkunk

4,877 posts

266 months

Yesterday (14:34)
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Shnozz said:
paul_c123 said:
Shnozz said:
That is pathetic. Police should be responding to ask why the submitting driver was able to be undertaken in the first place.

I thought if you maintain your speed and pass somebody on the left hand lane it wasn't an offence?
No, you pass on the right in this country (UK). There are limited conditions when you can pass on the left legally. Two wrongs don't make a right; and passing on the left is a greater offence too.
I was referencing this

https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/answers/can-you-ov...
The Highway Code is not the law. It provides guidance on interpreting the law and it provides guidance on best driving practice. There is no specific offence for passing on the left.

Generally, if you ignore the advice given in The Highway Code you may be guilty of dangerous driving.