Nearly bought it

[doodab]

...but the worst accident I have seen is on a single carriageway where a vehicle is overtaking a line of traffic on the other side of the road and a car joining from a junction on the right pulls up to the give way marking, checks right (but not left) and then turns left into the path of the overtaking vehicle.
I still see lots of people joining roads after only checking the traffic coming from the right..

Always wondered how Plod would apportion blame for that accident

You shouldn't be overtaking when approaching a junction.

Overtaking (162-169) : Directgov - Travel and transport

[Spacecadet]

You shouldn't be overtaking when approaching a junction.

Overtaking (162-169) : Directgov - Travel and transport

You do get some unmarked junctions, especially out in the sticks.

[doodab]

You do get some unmarked junctions, especially out in the sticks.

If you can't see well enough to see that it's there, you can't see well enough to overtake.

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DO NOT overtake if there is any doubt, or where you cannot see far enough ahead to be sure it is safe.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

That is exactly what old people say. It is the same mentality as those that whine about other people earning more money than they are, or the neighbour peering at next doors new car and checking that it does'nt cost more than theirs. People can leave their petty envies and egos at home and if they are not intending to overtake stop behaving like a flock of selfish sheep and leave gaps between themselves and the car in front.

Yeah - old people, selfish envious socialist bastards, they are.

[DodgyAgent]

Yeah - old people, selfish envious socialist bastards, they are.

And the Tory ones simply pull out of the way "and let him get on"

[doodab]

That is exactly what old people say. It is the same mentality as those that whine about other people earning more money than they are, or the neighbour peering at next doors new car and checking that it does'nt cost more than theirs. People can leave their petty envies and egos at home and if they are not intending to overtake stop behaving like a flock of selfish sheep and leave gaps between themselves and the car in front.

It's telling that you explain almost everything in terms of envy. It's as if it were the only emotion you understood.

[BoredBloke]

If you take a ford focus as being a typical car length, then 6*4.33m = 25.98m for 6 car lengths. If they only left half a car length between them then that's 38.97m without even getting past the truck.

How, when the op was at the back, did he know that there was a sufficient gap to get his car into 3 cars ahead? I'm guessing that the truck was moving slowly, so the chances are that the cars might be bunched up.

If the truck was 8m in length (a complete guess) then the OP was trying to overtake almost 50m worth of moving traffic. What a pillock!

[doodab]

If you take a ford focus as being a typical car length, then 6*4.33m = 25.98m for 6 car lengths. If they only left half a car length between them then that's 38.97m without even getting past the truck.

How, when the op was at the back, did he know that there was a sufficient gap to get his car into 3 cars ahead? I'm guessing that the truck was moving slowly, so the chances are that the cars might be bunched up.

If the truck was 8m in length (a complete guess) then the OP was trying to overtake almost 50m worth of moving traffic. What a pillock!

Just be glad he wasn't on a lawnmower at the time.

[Spacecadet]

Just be glad he wasn't on a lawnmower at the time.

Or driving beam up