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14/2/2019 at 9:42pm
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i would have GENTLY applied the brakes to indicate to those behind that i was slowing down. braking doesnt have to be dramatic or abrupt, so the following traffic was really unlikely to have "wiped you out" at the same time i would be indicating so that the vehicle on my offside has a chance to see my side repeater and moved out to position myself to the right hand side of my lane..
this would have achieved a few things, it would have given you more time to assess the flow of traffic joining to accurately gauge what was going on, it would alert those behind to the change in your speed and alerted the driver in the next lane that you were looking to pull out, or at the very least allowed them to pass you so you could then pull out. moving out to the right of your lane would also have given you a better view of the situation, ensured you werent in the blindspot of the vehicles joining and alerted those in the right hand lane to a possible problem, if only by dint of the fact that they are all wondering what the bloke in the noddy car was up to.
now, they are all perfect scenarios and noone can accurately judge how close you really were to your missis selling your tent. you thought the traffic behind was going to wipe you out, in reality they may very well have been driving perfectly and aware of whats going on up front, just like the, ahem, "pillock.." as you referred to him who actually realised what was happening and let you pull out.....
however.
if you want me to be honest, i would have anticipated what was going to happen at the junction and made sure i wasnt in that situation in the first place. i would have either slowed down before and moved out or accelerated slightly before the junction and moved out.
i mean come on bob, we are onto the fourth page of this thread describing exactly this sort of stuff, so its hardly a surprise, is it?
and on another forum, somewhere else someone has posted a thread about an old bloke in a noddy car who failed to read the road and caused everyone else to move out of his way......
its all subjective bob, and everyone sees their car as their own castle nowadays. everyone is a perfect driver and everyone else is always at fault.
like i said.
people make mistakes.
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Quote: Originally posted by Ewen c on 14/2/2019
So the car behind you wasn't leaving a decent braking distance? Other wise you could have reduced speed and tucked in behind the car in the other lane.
Was there anything in front of you that would have allowed you to speed up and get in the other lane? Admittedly this would have broken the speed limit but it would have been an emergency.
Oops, forgot you drive a Micra. Probably flat out at 70.
Well, there was more than one car behind me as the road was fairly busy so they were all fairly close to me and each other travelling at 70 mph. There was nothing in front of me.
There was a row of cars on the slip also travelling one behind the other at 70mph and converging on a collision course with me and the cars behind. Then I had the car in the outside lane which by then was probably level with my rear side window, so I was trapped.
Slowing down wouldn't have helped much because if the first car on the slip didn't get me the others would have and there was no room between them to slip in between and no gaps behind me for them to slip in between.
I couldn't move out into the outside lane because of the slowly overtaking car almost alongside me so indicating to move out might not have deterred him.
Bearing in mind it takes longer to write this than the actual incident which was a matter of seconds - lol.
Anyway, I had no choice but to move out into the outside lane otherwise the car coming off the slip would definitely have collided with my nearside and at that point I was slightly more concerned with avoiding him than where the car in the outside lane was but as luck would have it he had braked to allow me in.
In my opinion the car in the outside lane, which was exceeding the speed limit and by doing so was slowly overtaking me giving me no room to move out on approach to the slip, was at fault. Had he not been speeding, not only would he not have caught up with me in the first place but he wouldn't have been alongside on approach to the slip, so I could easily have moved into the outside lane as I would normally do in such circumstances. Due to his actions I was trapped between him and the converging traffic and had nowhere to go.
It didn't help that the converging car was intent on ploughing into the side of me regardless, whereas he could have stayed in his original lane for awhile longer as it was not just a slip road as such, it was where two main roads converge with different lanes for different destinations.
Post last edited on 15/02/2019 10:41:45
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