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Oh - last post I made looks like this has already been covered earlier in the thread, sorry  tentage said people have actually been booked for `undertaking. Barking mad I think. They should charge the people sitting in the middle/outside lanes for not dropping back surely.'

Quote: Originally posted by LegsDownKettleOn on 16/3/2010

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Rule 268:

Do not overtake on the left or move to a lane on your left to overtake. In congested conditions,
where adjacent lanes of traffic are moving at similar speeds, traffic in left-hand lanes may
sometimes be moving faster than traffic to the right. In these conditions you may keep up with
the traffic in your lane even if this means passing traffic in the lane to your right. Do not weave
in and out of lanes to overtake.

What these rules are effectively saying is if you are in queuing traffic and your lane is moving faster than the one on your right then you may pass the slower moving traffic. It also infers that if the lane on your left is moving faster than your lane, you may not enter it in order to pass vehicles in your lane. Therefore, you may not pull into the left hand lane to pass a middle lane hogger.

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 bernie !

What happened to dreadnought was just awful, so dangerous & very upsetting. I don't really think of that as a right to hold up traffic - they were simply travelling at a safe speed.

I don't personally defend my right to `undertake' other people, but I do question the wisdom of a law which might penalise anyone for happening to quite safely pass someone who is stupidly hogging the middle or outside lanes - as the `hoggers'  to my mind  are the ones with no consideration for others. Silly bad driving like this can provoke others into deliberately passing on the inside lane, or simply accidentally doing so.

That does not make anyone passing or wishing to pass a 'hogger' a bad, bad mannered or inconsiderate driver.

Quote: Originally posted by Is that all,60mph!! on 19/3/2010

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I have a sticker at the back of my van that reads"Sit back,relax and enjoy the view of my lovely caravan"

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Oh I need one of those