Incident on motorway today

Healthis · 13-09-2012 06:42PM #1

EDIT as people have forgotten how to act civilised

jack of all · 13-09-2012 06:45PM

This should be interesting...

Doom · 13-09-2012 06:46PM

Its the overtaking lane, not the fast lane....when finished overtaking pull back into the left....tool

Hootanany · 13-09-2012 06:46PM

Report him for dangerous driving. Did you get his reg.

monkeypants · 13-09-2012 06:46PM

The fastlane...

Who's first?

derryvella · 13-09-2012 06:47PM

:mad:It is an overtaking lane, NOT a fast lane. Rules of road say you DRIVE in left lane and only use right hand lane for overtaking.

Stheno · 13-09-2012 06:47PM

monkeypants wrote: »

The fastlane...

Who's first?

too late

Healthis · 13-09-2012 06:48PM

No need to be nasty people

Mr Simpson · 13-09-2012 06:49PM

Healthis wrote: »

Yeah I was in the fast lane......oh and less of the nasty comments please and he was a cop I could hardly report him now

No, you were in the OVERTAKING lane, he shouldn't have undertook you, but you shouldn't have stayed in that lane. How about you look after your own driving before gesturing at other drivers about theirs.

L5 · 13-09-2012 06:50PM

Obvious troll

Healthis · 13-09-2012 06:51PM

L5 wrote: »

Obvious troll

Huh? How do you come to that conclusion ?

ba_barabus · 13-09-2012 06:52PM

Healthis wrote: »

Driving up the M7 today just before the big ball at Naas when an ordinary estate car undertook me while I was in the fast lane doing 80mph. He had tailgated me for abit and I was peeved off that he had being so close to me so I was even more annoyed that he undertook me........anyway when he done that I pointed my finger in anger at him as he passed and flashed my lights when he went back in on front of me........anyway to my shock blue flashers came on in his tail lights and he put his hand out the window signalling for me to get out of the fast fane despite doing 80mph.......Even though he didn't stop me should I be worried about this, like expect a summons in the post?

I hope you also had your fog lights as you were driving in the fast lane

TheBody · 13-09-2012 06:52PM

L5 wrote: »

Obvious troll

I was just about to post the same thing.

Chuck_Norris · 13-09-2012 06:54PM

*gets popcorn*

Marcusm · 13-09-2012 06:55PM

Healthis wrote: »

Yeah I was in the fast lane......oh and less of the nasty comments please and he was a cop I could hardly report him now

Put simply, the general consensus is that you should take this opportunity to revisit the rules of the road to brush up not only on appropriate terminology but also on legal driving requirements.

You should count yourself lucky that he didn't pull you over and provide you with a piece of paper known as a penalty charge notice for failing to drive in the left most lane available to you!!

On a matter of language, undertaking is carrying something out. Overtaking is surpassing or exceeding. Undertaking is not the same as overtaking or passing on the left/inside.

ba_barabus · 13-09-2012 07:06PM

Healthis wrote: »

EDIT as people have forgotten how to act civilised

Healthis wrote: »

Driving up the M7 today just before the big ball at Naas when an ordinary estate car undertook me while I was in the fast lane doing 80mph. He had tailgated me for abit and I was peeved off that he had being so close to me so I was even more annoyed that he undertook me........anyway when he done that I pointed my finger in anger at him as he passed and flashed my lights when he went back in on front of me........anyway to my shock blue flashers came on in his tail lights and he put his hand out the window signalling for me to get out of the fast fane despite doing 80mph.......Even though he didn't stop me should I be worried about this, like expect a summons in the post?

In case anyone missed the big drama

dr.fuzzenstein · 13-09-2012 07:08PM

Lane 1

The normal 'keep left' rule applies. Stay in this lane unless you are overtaking.

http://www.rulesoftheroad.ie/rules-for-driving/motorways/on-the-motorway.html

Just in case you where unclear on that, OP.

Marcusm · 13-09-2012 07:25PM

Healthis wrote: »

EDIT as people have forgotten how to act civilised

You might earn more respect if you acknowledge the hubristic elements of your post rather than getting irritated by the schadenfreude enjoyed by other posters.

mhigh86 · 13-09-2012 07:25PM

the motorways are full of people like yourself blocking up the Fast lane, do you not realize when im tailgating and flashing my lights it means im on a timed lap.....

Maggie 2 · 13-09-2012 07:26PM

I travel that road regularly and am at a loss to know what the fcuk other drivers are about! Like other posters have said, drive on the left, overtake in the middle or outside lanes and get back into the left again. Morons hogging the middle and outside lanes, like the original poster are driving dangerously and should be out off the road.
By the way, it's NOT motorway after the big ball.

Big Nasty · 13-09-2012 07:26PM

Healthis wrote:

Driving up the M7 today just before the big ball at Naas when an ordinary estate car undertook me while I was in the fast lane doing 80mph. He had tailgated me for abit and I was peeved off that he had being so close to me so I was even more annoyed that he undertook me........anyway when he done that I pointed my finger in anger at him as he passed and flashed my lights when he went back in on front of me........anyway to my shock blue flashers came on in his tail lights and he put his hand out the window signalling for me to get out of the fast fane despite doing 80mph.......Even though he didn't stop me should I be worried about this, like expect a summons in the post?

I don't normally jump on the bandwaggon but man you're way wrong here.

You were in the fast passing lane when there was obviously enough room for you to pull back in if the unmarked car could undertake you. His whole point was that you shouldn't be sitting in that lane unless you are overtaking other cars, i.e. he was telling you to move back in to the driving lane.

He was dead right IMO whilst also decent enough to ignore the fact that you were doing 80mph in what is (AFAIK) a 100kmph stretch.

awec · 13-09-2012 07:39PM

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Maggie 2 · 13-09-2012 07:43PM

awec wrote: »

Are you saying a Guard happily ignored the fact that you were going almost 30km/h over the speed limit?

I think the original poster is just a prat, looking for attention. Ignore him and he might grow up and get a life.

Kenny Logins · 13-09-2012 07:45PM

Maggie 2 wrote: »

I think the original poster is just a prat, looking for attention. Ignore him and he might grow up and get a life.

I think you're wrong.

anewme · 13-09-2012 07:47PM

awec wrote: »

Are you saying a Guard happily ignored the fact that you were going almost 30km/h over the speed limit?

The speed limit changes near enough the big ball at Naas - it is 100kph on N7 and then changes to 120 just after the big ball past Naas on way to Newbridge, so if someone was in the overtaking lane sitting at 80 it would be very slow and would probably build up a trail behind them.

awec · 13-09-2012 07:48PM

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Bruthal · 13-09-2012 07:49PM

Doom wrote: »

Its the overtaking lane, not the fast lane....when finished overtaking pull back into the left....tool

Very aggressive there, are you typing while driving?:pac:

jsd1004 · 13-09-2012 07:50PM

Maggie 2 wrote: »

I think the original poster is just a prat, looking for attention. Ignore him and he might grow up and get a life.

I passed an unmarked GS car today at aproaching 160km/h. Their was a car ahead of me and behind me, I suspected the avensis might be a Garda car so tapped the brakes as i noticed the rear light aerials etc and the poor fecker behind me nearly tail ended me. The car ahead motored on. Passed him at about 140 and pulled in a bit. The garda was obviously on other business as it did not stop any of the 3 cars.

Lorgach · 13-09-2012 07:55PM

Everyone knows that on a 3 lane motorway, the left lane is the Slow lane, the middle lane is the Fast lane and the right lane is the Really, Really Fast lane..... If you don't believe me just read 'The Rules of the Road Irish Style' in a Blog by CynicalDub...... These are the real Rules of the Road.

slimjimmc · 13-09-2012 07:55PM

anewme wrote: »

The speed limit changes near enough the big ball at Naas - it is 100kph on N7 and then changes to 120 just after the big ball past Naas on way to Newbridge, so if someone was in the overtaking lane sitting at 80 it would be very slow and would probably build up a trail behind them.

100kph on N7, 120kph on M7, OP said he was doing 80mph which is not slow (but could still build up a trail).

Voodoomelon · 13-09-2012 07:59PM

There's definitely a disgruntled boards member out there creating these accounts in the last fortnight, asking questions they know winds up Motors members. Don't even answer them.

paddy147 · 13-09-2012 08:02PM

Giving the cop in the unmarked car the 1 fingured salute didnt really help you.

So he decided to flash the blue lights on his unmarked car to show you that he was a cop.

Consider yourself lucky he didnt pull you over.

awec · 13-09-2012 08:07PM

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Iwannahurl · 13-09-2012 08:11PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

He was dead right IMO whilst also decent enough to ignore the fact that you were doing 80mph in what is (AFAIK) a 100kmph stretch.

And that, in one swell foop, is Irish driving and Irish law enforcement neatly complementing each other.

Ignoring the fact that speed limits have been in km/h since 2005 or thereabouts, it does seem as if that stretch of the Naas Bypass has a 100 km/h speed limit.

So, it seems as if the OP was doing ~130 km/h and holding up an unmarked Garda car in the "fast lane", which clearly was not en route to an emergency, yet is uncertain whether he was nicked.

Apropos of not much, the big ball is a sculpture called Perpetual Motion (or should that be Petulant Motion?):

As an element symbol of motion, a sphere of this size with roadmarkings, would act as an impressive yet integrated celebration of travel and motorway design. It would appeal to a broad cross-section of roadusers and be a lighthearted and distinctive landmark.

Symbolic and lighthearted, like the Irish Rules of the Road perhaps...

paddy147 · 13-09-2012 08:13PM

awec wrote: »

160km/h? It's a real pity you weren't pulled in.

A chap was let off by a judge a few years ago for doing 200kph on the motorway.

His solicitor proved that even though he was traveling in a staright line with no other cars aroud him,and doing 200kph,he was not actualy dangerously/wrecklessly driving.

The judge let the chap away with it.

It made all the newspapers.;)

Iwannahurl · 13-09-2012 08:14PM

Voodoomelon wrote: »

There's definitely a disgruntled boards member out there creating these accounts in the last fortnight, asking questions they know winds up Motors members. Don't even answer them.

Cat among the pigeons?

awec · 13-09-2012 08:18PM

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paddy147 · 13-09-2012 08:23PM

awec wrote: »

That chap was clearly a moron. The judge an even bigger one by the sounds of it.

Well his solicitor made a very good case and he managed to show the judge that his client was not actually doing anything dangerous to other road users,as there were no other road users around him.

The judge accpeted that doing that speed on a clear straight stretch of motorway was not actually wreckless or dangerous driving.

Iwannahurl · 13-09-2012 08:26PM

paddy147 wrote: »

wreckless driving.

"Wreckless" = no wreck, ergo not dangerous?

TestTransmission · 13-09-2012 08:54PM

Thread serves no purpose

Incident on motorway today

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