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Overtaking a Slow Moving Vehicle

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  • #62
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    irish-stew wrote: »
    As a recently-ish new driver (test passed), over taking is still one of the things i am still wary of. On at least two occassions i have had the car i was passing speed up on me.

    Most recent was on a single carriage way, national road, no hard shoulders. Car in front driving well under the limit, 100kph section, never getting over 70-80, contantly braking, dropping to as little as 30. In the end i dropped to 4th, held back and waited for a suitable section to over take. Car behind me seemed to have the same idea as could see them in my mirrors edging over the white line as if they were looking for a gap.

    Came across a suitable section, long straight, car infront showing no signs of speeding up, nothing coming towards us, broken white lines, plently of time to pass, indicating, up to 5th, sped up, mirrors, out i pull, as drawing level, said car appeared to speed up as was now matching my speed (near the 100 mark) leaving me almost hanging in the oncoming lane (still clear thankfully). Now thankfully i was able to get past them, and back in the correct lane before a return to solid white lines, and end of long straight.

    Question is, if i was no longer able to get past them, due to them speeding up and now reaching or being close to the speed limit, what would have my options been, apart from me having to go over the limit to get past them, i doubt hanging back and pulling back in behind them was an opition as the car behind me had taken my spot behind them, and was probably also likely to have tried to over take as well.


    You followed him in 4th and changed up to 5th to speed up past him !?!:confused:


  • #63
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    opinion guy wrote: »
    You followed him in 4th and changed up to 5th to speed up past him !?!:confused:

    i know, should have maybe started off in 2nd or 3rd, was covered on the last page

    ;)

    the point was they started speeding up as i was passing and level with them, at that point i was doing close to the speed limit. They had not gone above 70-80 before that.


  • #64
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    P.C. wrote: »
    It is NEVER alright to drive with your full beams on when there are cars in front of you, wether you are overtaking them or not.
    It's like lamping rabbits, except rabbits never killed anyone by wobbling randomly around a road in a Corolla. So in comparison, you'd have to say lamping rabbits and shooting them is a bit harsh, while abandoning subtlety for a few seconds when dealing with dangerously incompetent drivers is not.

    I don't always do it, only when the driving of the last mile or two suggests there is a (possibly intoxicated) cabbage at the wheel of the top 3 cars. (Vento/yaris/corolla/focus, delete to suit occasion)


  • #65
    eden_my_ass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭eden_my_ass


    langdang wrote: »
    It's like lamping rabbits, except rabbits never killed anyone by wobbling randomly around a road in a Corolla. So in comparison, you'd have to say lamping rabbits and shooting them is a bit harsh, while abandoning subtlety for a few seconds when dealing with dangerously incompetent drivers is not.

    I don't always do it, only when the driving of the last mile or two suggests there is a (possibly intoxicated) cabbage at the wheel of the top 3 cars. (Vento/yaris/corolla/focus, delete to suit occasion)

    Dig up man for gods sake, now you're saying you do it around people you don't think are in any state to control their car...more chance of them overreacting and causing a lovely pile up. Dig up :P


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