Scary motorway incident

[BolshieBastard]

If there was space in lane 2 to be undertaken then you should have been in lane 2 (I would actually put money on lane 1 being empty as well) as you clearly aren't overtaking anything.

Motorways would run a lot smoother and quicker if drivers knew how to use lanes 1-3 properly rather than just hanging around in the wrong lane for no other reason than laziness

Oh aye you can always tell exactly what's happening on a fast moving motorway when someone's relaying the info to you on a web site! 'WTF were you doing in lane 3 when lane 2 was 'clear'? Maybe it wasnt ******* clear? Maybe a car in lane 1 was indicating to pull into lane 2 ahead so he moved into lane 3?

**** me, such visionaries on here!

[NickFitz]

I just love the ones who think that entering lane 1 of a motorway from a slip road and signalling to enter lane 2 means they can completely ignore the traffic in lane 2, regardless of how fast it is going and whether there is room in lane 3.

Heading eastwards at J23 of the (two-lane) A14, where it merges with the traffic that came off the A1 a bit to the north, is always fun at busy times.

The two-lane slip road effectively becomes one lane at the merge point, so everybody races down the slope on the outside to get ahead of the lorries on the inside; then they have to merge with the lorries on the inside lane of the actual road to escape the lorries on the inside of the slip road that have caught up and are also trying to merge. This tends to leave them so frustrated that they veer out into the narrowest of gaps in the outside lane and put their foot down, only to have to brake sharply as they realise that some lorry that can do 56mph is overtaking one that can only do 55.9mph about a mile ahead, meaning nobody's going anywhere fast for the next five miles

It's no wonder that stretch is one of the most accident-prone bits of the A14.

[swamp]

This forum is turning into PistonHeads.

[thunderlizard]

Here's the CCTV footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBWOnPI7j5s#t=0m10s

[Alf W]

I was on the motorway this afternoon, keeping pace (and a fast pace at that) with lane 3.

Idiot car behind (large and new Beamer / Audi type car) is right behind me flashing lights and waving hands.

I go to move to lane 2, but another idiot behind Mr Angry undertakes us both in lane 2, meaning I had to brake and regain control in lane 3.

I wait for this guy to complete undertaking, then move into lane 2.

The first idiot then zooms past, before braking agressively with no reason to stay level with me, as I am driving a lot more slowly than his ideal speed of 100+mph.

Cannot swear to it, but, because he then sharply left the motorway to the hard shoulder with the car behind him, it appears that he braked so sharply that the guy behind him crashed into his rear!

Think I need a stiff drink.

So you were travelling too slowly to be in either Lane 2 or the Fast Lane. Do you wear a hat when driving? I admit the person originally behind you sounds like a bit of a knob when he clearly could have just undertaken you quite safely.

[Numpty]

So you were travelling too slowly to be in either Lane 2 or the Fast Lane.

There is no 'Fast Lane'. It is lane 3.

[VectraMan]

So you were travelling too slowly to be in either Lane 2 or the Fast Lane. Do you wear a hat when driving? I admit the person originally behind you sounds like a bit of a knob when he clearly could have just undertaken you quite safely.

The problem is lots of people are scared of overtaking on the left. They think it's illegal or something.

[NickFitz]

The problem is lots of people are scared of overtaking on the left. They think it's illegal or something.

It's not necessarily illegal, but it's extremely dangerous. It's much more likely that somebody will pull in, having failed to check their blind spot, than that they will pull out without doing so.

One thing that really gets my goat is those gits who sit right on your bumper as you go past the traffic on the inside and then, as soon as you get to a gap where it's safe to pull in and let them past, they cut in behind you (inches in front of the vehicle on the nearside) and accelerate up the inside of you.

Quite a few times I've had morons do this as I signal and start to pull in; if I didn't like my car I'd be tempted to just sideswipe the fsckers, given that their car is much more expensive than mine and they'd be clearly in the wrong from the Police and insurance company's point of view

Actually, a friend of mine did that with an old banger he was running a few years back. He reckoned it was well worth it for the look on the BMW driver's face as he said "Next time you try to cut someone up, you should first consider the effect of a collision on the value of their vehicle as compared with yours"

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Actually, a friend of mine did that with an old banger he was running a few years back. He reckoned it was well worth it for the look on the BMW driver's face as he said "Next time you try to cut someone up, you should first consider the effect of a collision on the value of their vehicle as compared with yours"

A git in nearly new BM parked so close to my beat up old Sierra one time that it required about 93 forward-back shunts to get out - I decided that as he/she couldn't be bothered to park considerately I couldn't be bothered to watch too carefully. I may have bumped his/her car a few times on the way out.

Just watching a cop show on telly. Some tool who drives a lorry for a living has just been pulled over in his car for doing 90-100 in lane three regardless of empty lanes to the left - his number plate reads F 6REG because he's one of those toolheads who rearranges the digits. At last! someone's getting nicked for it!

[AtW]

There is no 'Fast Lane'. It is lane 3.

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