Today I saw a a driver attempt a potentially very dangerous undertaking manoevre I hadn't seen before. On a dual carriageway one car (car A) was overtaking me, being followed through by an aggreassive tailgater in a faster car (car B). Car A passed me and and continued in the outside lane until it was safely past me. Meanwhile, car B cut in right in front of me and began to accelerate hard in an attempt to undertake Car A at exactly the moment that Car A also began to pull back to the nearside lane. Crazy!
cheers, Sofa Spud
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I thought I'd seen the worst when I overtook someone on an A-road in Devon, and as I was passing them I noticed another car overtaking me!
It was one of those stretches of road with one lane on one side and two on the other. Lunatic.
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why ?
if the road has visibility, no junctions etc tht would be quite safe.
starting an overtaking move without noticing a car behind you however...
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How about using a layby on the A1 to undertake two HGVs travelling at about 50mph.
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How about using a layby on the A1 to undertake two HGVs travelling at about 50mph.
My contribution is the guy who used the hard shoulder on a sweeping lefthand bend (with a high embankment, so no visibility) to undertake 3 lanes of traffic on the M5, at certainly 100MPH.
If anything/body had been around the bend...
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I thought I'd seen the worst when I overtook someone on an A-road in Devon, and as I was passing them I noticed another car overtaking me! It was one of those stretches of road with one lane on one side and two on the other. Lunatic.
I suppose you need to know how this starts to know who is really at fault. I have in the past been overtaking someone - having waited to see if they were going to themselves first - only to have them swing out when I was halfway past with no warning, forcing me to swerve further out.
Anyone seeing that from halfway through the manoevre would probably assume I was at fault.
Not that I'm saying that's how yours happened, either case is possible.
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"why ? if the road has visibility, no junctions etc tht would be quite safe. "
For a start the type of road DH decribes would have a double line to protect the single lane.
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Dashed on my side. Hard though it may be to believe, I did check behind me prior to pulling out...
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Who knows, the slowest of the 3 cars might even have been positioned considerately so that a car overtaking could do so without moving fully into the next lane. Unlikely I know, but I'm told it does happen.
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Last week I was overtaking someone on the M5. Using lane 3, as middle lane hogger in lane 2. Just about to complete the overtake and return to lane 1 when I noticed a red Mondeo undertaking the lane 2 car at ca. 90 - 100mph. He thought I was going to complete the maneuvre and then hung back.
This was a well-dressed man of 40 - 50 years old. You would think that experience and maturity would have made him think a bit harder...
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I have just returned from a stint in the Middle East where manoeuvres such as described are commonplace.
I saw one Arab overtake two lines of traffic for half a mile on wrong side of road forcing oncoming traffic to swerve and avoid him. At the junction , no-one would let him in so he mounted the pavement, went wrong side of a couple of road signs and continued on his merry way. Landcruisers a fag paper thickness from your rear bumper at 70 + are commonplace. No quarter is given and I saw more accidents in a week there than I will see in a year over here.
The trip to and from the heliport is the tensest part of the day.... the flying part is easy.
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I have just returned from a stint in the Middle East where manoeuvres such as described are commonplace.
The worst driving I've seen is in Egypt. Most of the cars were real clapped out Lada's, etc. At night there are no street lights, loads of drivers hammer along with no lights on then when two oncoming cars get close, they give each other a burst of main beam to make their presence known, and therefore dazzle each other. I'll never forget the coach trip from Luxor to Al Quesir with all the women screaming at regular intervals!
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I'm not sure your comment was tounge in cheek but out it goes David.
Hugo - BR Moderator
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Nsar - with all due respect, you're an idiot.
It's only in England that a comment like that would be preceded by "with all due respect". I'm still a recent-enough immigrant to enjoy these things :)
Some years ago, Simon Hoggart wrote that the most devastating insult in the English would have to begin "with the greatest possible respect" ...
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"why ? if the road has visibility, no junctions etc tht would be quite safe. " For a start the type of road DH decribes would have a double line to protect the single lane.
Not always. There are 3-lane roads with no continuous lines, so presumably double over-taking is permitted.
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I was once a passenger in a Volvo, coming back from a dance.
So on the top of the mountain the driver pulls out to overtake a couple of cars in front, except one of them pulls out as well, and then everyone drove faster, so there we were three abrest when an oncoming vehicle appears, my driver being on the outside simply pulled over onto the (wrong)hard shoulder and on we went, the oncoming car flashing through the gap.
There was no point in screaming.
It all felt quite surreal.
cheers
M
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Nice to see my old Thread resurrected!
I've got another scary moment from years ago. I was on a job collecting some HGVs. There were 3 or 4 drivers working on this job. A guy from the company organising the collection took us on a 60 mile trip to collect the lorries.
This was back in the early 1980's, just after the Mk 3 front-wheel drive Ford Escort came out. This guy had one of these and we piled into it for the 50 mile trip to the yard where the lorries were. Anyway, he was a rather fast driver and in one place we were on a wide single-carriageway A-road, doing 100 mph, overtaking a line of slower vehicles with a line of oncoming traffic - sandwiched between the opposing lines of traffic!
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