T-Junction etiquette
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Can't find any reference on here to this one, so apologies if this has been covered before. One of my pet hates is waiting at a T-junction to turn left or right, only for someone to pull up alongside me because they are turning the opposite way, thus blocking my view of oncoming traffic completely and effectively jumping the queue to emerge from the junction. I can't find anything in the highway code about this specifically, but I am right to be annoyed by it? Many junctions have such a wide splay onto the main road that it positively encourages people to do this, even when there are not two lanes marked for turning left or right.
Happened to me this morning at a really nasty closed junction where there really isn't room for two cars side by side. I was turning right and waiting for a gap in the traffic from the right (left was clear at this point). When I turned to check everything was still clear on the left a bloody great van had somehow squeezed between me and the hedge on my left, totally obscuring my view. I made the HUGE mistake of mouthing "Thanks" to him at which point he proceeded to make every hand gesture and expletive under the sun, folded his arms and sat there (even though it was clear for him to go) just so I couldn't pull out. After a while when the traffic had built up behind, he got bored and sped off!
Scary what happens to some people when they get behind the wheel...!
But I learned my lesson – don't gesture, shake your head, mouth words, or do anything to provoke those sorts of T**sers. Some of them are capable of much worse than just inconsiderate driving...
Scary what happens to some people when they get behind the wheel...!
But I learned my lesson – don't gesture, shake your head, mouth words, or do anything to provoke those sorts of T**sers. Some of them are capable of much worse than just inconsiderate driving...
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