i suppose if you drive slow then the person behind has to drive slow so if there is a crash the impact speed should be lower.Driving that slow... safe... really.
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Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!
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airbusA346
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Gramaisc
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http://www.safespeed.org.uk/tailgate.html says, amongst other things - You do not need the twerp on your back bumper. You need a nice safe space all round your vehicle. On an A road if there's a straight with no oncoming traffic simply slow and indicate left. Consider a hand signal. He'll get the message and overtake. If he doesn't and it's still clear continue to slow gently until he does get the message. Keep an eye on the traffic behind him. If it's night in these circumstances be sure to use your main beam headlights so he can see the road ahead of you for his passing manoeuvre.
Tailgating is now a specific fixed penalty offence, but you can probably forget about the risk, unless you do it to an unmarked cop car.
Consider a hand signal...?
Tailgating is now a specific fixed penalty offence, but you can probably forget about the risk, unless you do it to an unmarked cop car.
Consider a hand signal...?
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Sorry, next time you're up my bumper, weaving about in your Rover, I'll speed upDriving that slow... safe... really.
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Glam
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If i'd had some tosspot driving so close up my arse, my car too would have suddenly refused to have gone over 10mph along the country lanes. With or without one of my children in the car. And again, I would have felt compelled to give way to every single car that came towards me.Driving that slow... safe... really.
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Consider a hand signal...?
I also excell at hand signals.
airbusA346
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Sorry, next time you're up my bumper, weaving about in your Rover, I'll speed up
I haven't got a ***** Rover and I would be past you at the first opportunity.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Really! Most surprising...
Floss
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If someone is so close behind you that it feels like you're towing them, then I think you would be inclined to go slow, one it makes you feel like someone is trying to drive you off the road and two if you have to break suddenly the person behind is highly likely to end up in the back of your car, by going faster it just will make the impact bigger. I had something similar happen yesterday going into Penkridge it's 30mph but the idiot in the BMW by his face was really peed off with me for sticking to the speed limit. I could see his expression so clearly because he was so far up my backside, I won't feel intimidated by anyone doing that and yes I will go at the speed I should and not be made to feel I should move out the way.
Trumpet
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Funnily enough I had a similar experience on Friday morning. I was fourth in line behind a Stan Robinson truck doing about 25 mph just approaching the S bends as you come into Great Bridgford from Woodseaves direction, a common enough scenario in the mornings. A chap in a black Mercedes SUV came romping up behind me and sat about a yard off my bumper swerving across the white lines and back. There's absolutely no way he could or would have overtaken just there so what's the point. Why does a presumably intelligent middle aged guy in a £50k motor drive like a knob in a £200 Saxo?
Noah
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You get a lot of tw*ts in overpriced cars who think they have the right to ignore the speed limit through Penkridge and that they have the right to try to bully you into going faster. It doesn't work.
Dabbler
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I'm not 100% sure, but I think the road markings actually encourage that? It used to really annoy me at times, but I looked at the markings one day and I think it seemed to suggest that you could, a bit like the Eccleshall Road / greyfriars roundabout. Will have a look tomorrow when I come off at J13!
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
I don't see anything on the current Street View to suggest that, though few people will actually turn left there, I suppose - the Eccleshall Road / Greyfriars issue is a bit different, the left lane is Greyfriars or Stone Road, the right lane is Greyfriars only - as it is two lanes into two lanes, it shouldn't be an issue, but you do have to be ready for the hard of thinking to pull across you on the Waggon & Horses bend.
Gramaisc
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That's because there are two lanes available on the A34 link and around the roundabout. It provides twice as much queueing space on the light-controlled slip road, without any need to 'zip' into one lane anywhere.
"Zipping" is to be avoided, unless you go back forty years or move to Germany, as we see on Chell Road.
c0tt0nt0p
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If the A449 to Stafford off that roundabout had 2 lanes (or even 2 filtering immediately into one) I could understand that but it doesn't....
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Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
It is not a free-for-all - these are the rules.
When taking an exit to the right or going full circle (unless signs or markings indicate otherwise):
- Signal right and approach the exit in the right hand lane
- Keep to the right on the roundabout until you need to change lanes to reach your exit
- Signal left after you have passed the exit before the one you intend to take