Police don't indicate (take two)

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Tue 6 Feb 2007 20:54
Police don't indicate (take two) - Doc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwVKuZh6crY
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Tue 6 Feb 2007 21:30
Police don't indicate (take two) - Fullchat
What a pair of saddos!! Why was there a need to indicate?
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Tue 6 Feb 2007 21:46
Police don't indicate (take two) - Westpig
What a pair of saddos!! Why was there a need to
indicate?
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well put......... You don't indicate to pull in, because it's expected that you should do so........you don't indicate to pull out, if there's no one there to indicate to....and the 2 saddos were in the inside lane at that point

it might not have hurt to have been in the inside lane, but you don't know what they were looking at either in front or behind and may have wanted the vision from the middle lane........looking at the inside lane traffic/ compared to general volume of traffic, it was a marginal call anyway
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Tue 6 Feb 2007 22:08
Police don't indicate (take two) - AlastairW
I appreciate it is not the done thing round here, but I prefer to indicate when pulling in. I feel it warns the numpty (I assume all other drivers are numpties) that I am doing so and now would not be a good moment to accelerate, say. It also shows I have made a conscious decision to pull in, rather than drifting from lane to lane.
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Tue 6 Feb 2007 22:41
Police don't indicate (take two) - Bromptonaut
Agree with Alastair, particularly moving from lane three to two.
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Wed 7 Feb 2007 00:16
Police don't indicate (take two) - Dynamic Dave
What a pair of saddos!! Why was there a need to indicate?


Also why was there a need to pull in? The police car was progressing at a faster speed than the inside lanes and no sooner had he pulled in he would have to had to pull back out again.
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Wed 7 Feb 2007 00:19
Police don't indicate (take two) - Lud
Yup. Couldn't help wondering why they didnt zip discreetly past at a speedo 76...
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Wed 7 Feb 2007 09:42
Police don't indicate (take two) - Clanger
I didn't hear the indicator of the camera car and I wouldn't have left it so long before pulling out for that lorry.
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Wed 7 Feb 2007 09:25
Police don't indicate (take two) - No FM2R
A pair of planks. Imagine having a life so empty that you find doing that rewarding !

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Wed 7 Feb 2007 10:38
Police don't indicate (take two) - FP
All this stuff about indicating/not indicating worries me a lot. I try to indicate always, for any manouvre, no matter how quiet the road. My logic is this: you do it as a habit (a good habit), so that when it matters that you do it, you don't have to think about it. Will anyone who doesn't indicate when the road is quiet actually remember to do it when things are busy and a dozen other factors demand their attention?

I am brassed off with drivers who fail to indicate what they're doing at busy roundabouts, leaving me fuming when I can't pull out; who pull up at the side of the road, leaving me to guess whether they're about to do a u-turn right in front of me; who move to the middle of the road without indicating they want to turn right, and so on. Now, I don't know how many of these drivers just never signal and how many of them meant to, but didn't, but of the latter, making it a habit might just enasure it happens when it should.
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Wed 7 Feb 2007 11:07
Police don't indicate (take two) - David Horn
I tend to indicate when going from lane 3 to 2, in case someone in lane 1 is going to pull out. Rarely when going from lane 2 to 1.
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