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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: Alex HeneyAlex Heney Date: May 20, 2007 13:46
On Sun, 20 May 2007 12:08:10 +0100, "Mortimer" privacy.net> wrote:
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>"Rob" yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:eMOdnSXS9Jnwus3bnZ2dnUVZ8tOmnZ2d@bt.com...>> Mortimer wrote:
>> || "Mike Muppet" muppet.com.com> wrote in message
>> || news:f2p26i$6d8$15@aioe.org...
>> ||| leaenna_mills@budweiser.com wrote:
>> |||| Well I have to confess that I take great pleasure in undertaking
>> |||| Chelsea Tractors that sit in the outside lane of dual-carriageways
>> |||| whilst the inside lane is perfectly clear.
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>> || Yes, it's tedious to be travelling along a quiet motorway in Lane 1
>> || (because that lane is clear ahead of you for some distance) and
>> || encounter a car (more often a clapped out Ford Fiesta or Vauxhall
>> || Nova, in my experience) pootling along at 50 in Lane 2. So you have
>> || to make a big production of moving right over from Lane 1 into Lane
>> || 3 to get past him and then go back into Lane 1 again after.
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>> Why do you think you 'have to' do that? why overtake him when remaining in
>> L1 and passing him that way would be easier and safer?>
>Because according to the Highway Code it's illegal
WRONG.
According to the highway code it is something you "should" not do
(i.e. not recommended), not something you MUST not do (i.e. that would
be illegal).
> More importantly,
>overtaking on the blind side (the opposite side to the driver) is dangerous
>because few drivers check their left mirrors when they move left, whereas
>most check their right mirrors before moving right.
As you say, this is unfortunately the case.
It certainly *should* not be the case, and if it wasn't the case, then
overtaking on either side would be just as safe.
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>Thankfully in the UK we have resisted the American habit of permitting
>overtaking on either side
Sorry, but I disagree that it is "thankfully". If we did have that
system, then people would be just as likely to check their mirrors
before moving left as they would before moving right.
--
Alex Heney, Global Villager
43%% of all statistics are worthless.
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