I regularly use the M3 which often turns into 3 lanes all doing the same speed which does no-one any good. It seems the inside lane is regarded as a health hazard by many and this produces the dreaded lane hogger. I was only the other day merrily doing 70 in the inside lane with middle lane hoggers both fore and aft. The guy in front was slower than me and the guy behind was the same speed as me a good 100yds adrift. So I indicate and pull out having to make the outside lane to get by legally (the outside lane was completely empty). The guy behind then starts flashing his lights like mad. It gets harder to resist the temptation overtake on the inside. The best was a transit van which undertook me on the hard shoulder with the guys in the back making imaginative gestures through the windows. Any one else got any stories.
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Yup, know what you mean. There are too many stressed out drivers out there, hence all this 'road rage' stuff about. I went to London from the Midlands in my diesel Defender last year and am happy to cruise in lane 1, all the way at about 55mph. I had a guy in a Toyota van pulling a caravan following me for about 20 miles, way too close to my bumper and obviously getting angry for some reason. He was quite welcome to overtake but didn't. When I eventually moved over to exit onto the M10, he came past hradlightrs flashing and horn blazing, with gesticulations out of the window at me. I could not understand why he didn't simply overtake miles back. I then saw that he did'nt have any means of seeing behind him because he had only standard van mirrors, the rear view of which was obscured by the width of the caravan. So, he drives an unsafe vehicle and I get the aggression from him! Help!
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Yesterday on the M27, a whole load of Channel Islanders........Do they pass a driving test over there?? Most don't seem capable of driving on a motorway (I know they don't have them over there!!!)
They crawl along in both lane 1 & lane 2, blocking the slip roads when they could have pulled over to let faster traffic join.....
Maybe they should take a mainland test before they are allowed to drive over here.
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Yes they should flippin' well learn to stay in lane 3 like everyone else!
It's the responsibility of the joiner to blend in, not the established traffic to make room for them, so while they might not have been showing maximum consideration, they were scarcely in the wrong and I would hate to discourage aybody from actaully driving on the left.
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Drove from London to Wales twice this week and the standard of driving gets worse the nearer you are to London/Slough area
The M3/A3 is the same,mentioned this in a different thread last month
If you want to drive slow use the A roads not the motorways and look in your mirrors and get out of the way if the left lane is empty and faster traffic is coming up on you,and get off the phone its illegall you know!!
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Drove from London to Wales twice this week and the standard of driving gets worse the nearer you are to London/Slough area
That's my experience too, everyone seems to move over one lane as sson as you pass j12 eastbound.
The M3/A3 is the same,
The M3 in my limited experience seems to be the worst, i just sit in lane 1 and let the hoggers and tailgaters get on with it.
i drive Bath to Liverpool about once a month and the driving is nowhere near as bad, with the exception of the bit by Stoke.
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This morning, 9am, heavy rain and slight fog on M8. Constant stream of cars with either no headlights or just side lights on.
And then people complain when the govt or car makers introduce technology or legislation that makes decisions like this away from the driver?
Just a note that if you drive a silver car in these conditions, you pretty much become invisible!!
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