Overtaking lane hogger

I don't think the lorry driver was on the phone. I think it's clearly obvious at that time of night he was talking to the terrified prostitute he had tied up in the back!!!! Hehehehe sorry if I've offended any prostitutes

I'm delighted that driver got done and I'm sure the UK copper went to town on them and a court date ensued hopefully with a ban depending on how many points the driver already had.

It doesn't matter frankly who the lorry driver was talking to its neither here nor there.

To suggest the lorry driver slam on when the other vehicles are braking hard is beyond pedantic, to suggest the lorry driver did something wrong in this situation is completely off the point. The bill were too busy with the incompetent driver to worry about the lorry driver. In this case the only thing to do is use your bloody common sense and continue on which he did.

Personally I would have been in knots of laughter myself with someone like that getting their comeuppance.

Ok so lets all picture this scenario for a moment...

Vehicles are all trundling along the M50 in lane 1 with slightly faster traffic moving along in lane 2.
Someone at the same time is using lane 3 (for the sake of arguement he Is overtaking)
Then suddenly, he slows down very quickly, right down, almost to a crawl.
Are some people on here saying that all the traffic in lanes 1 and 2 have to slow down to match his speed and not pass him out for FEAR they might be breaking the Law.
Because let me tell you something that is complete B()//()X and you do not understand how to drive on a motorway.

Sorry I should have said that there is an exception made if he is signalling that he is in trouble, then common sense pravails to give him space to get to the hard shoulder.

K.Flyer wrote: »

Ok so lets all picture this scenario for a moment...

Vehicles are all trundling along the M50 in lane 1 with slightly faster traffic moving along in lane 2.
Someone at the same time is using lane 3 (for the sake of arguement he Is overtaking)
Then suddenly, he slows down very quickly, right down, almost to a crawl.
Are some people on here saying that all the traffic in lanes 1 and 2 have to slow down to match his speed and not pass him out for FEAR they might be breaking the Law.
Because let me tell you something that is complete B()//()X and you do not understand how to drive on a motorway.

salonfire wrote: »

I actually think CiniO would. And that's baffling.

I think most of us would have the common sense to drive on.

Yes. If someone suddenly slows down on the most most right lane, it is already an emergency situation on motorway and therefore everyone else should slow down or stop.
Otherwise, it's obvious that within very short time there will be big accident, as no one expects when left and middle lane are moving normally, that there will be obstruction on the most right lane.

Besides - no one normally slows down or stops on right lane, unless it's emergecy (breakdown, heart attack, etc), or someone is just purely stupid.
Whatever it is, it is a situation which requires everyone else to slow down and not overtake on left.

Imagine you are driving on the most right lane, and your car cuts off and starts to slow down. What you want to do, is to get to hard shoulder, but if all other drivers follow what is said here and keep going, then he will be stock and eventually have to stop on overtaking lane casuing incredible danger.

It's really that simple - don't overtake on left.
And described situation of someone gradually slowing down on right lane, is just one of the cases, when this rule is especially cruicial.

So because the cops are pulling someone on the outside lane the who motorway should come to a complete stop while they go across 2 -3 lanes to a siding...

No. You are wrong

The truck had slowed from ~56MPH to 45 during the brake test according to the display, keeping behind the cars, then the blues and twos came on and the lanehogger jammed on, the truck had slowed to 40 before the cars went out of view.
We've no idea what the truck was pulling but I think its pretty certain it couldn't match the cars stopping distance so once an overlap was established, i.e. the truck was side by side with the cars, the safest thing to do was for the truck to drive on through leaving the way clear for the cars to pull to the left in the shortest timeframe. Anything else created a greater danger for any cars coming from behind, potentially the truck coming to a stop in lane 1 and cars coming to a stop in lane 2 because there was no way across the truck, or worse still, a jacknife.
The truckdriver took the safest option IMHO.

Supergurrier wrote: »

I present to you the average Irish motorway driver, all we need now is a cup of coffee in one hand and a mobile in the other :pac:

In scruffys defence, I'm sure I've come along behind her on an empty motorway and when I moved into the overtaking lane to pass, she obligingly moved to the empty left lane to let me pass before returning to the empty right hand lane :eek:.
Just too stereotypical to be real, I think this poster would be more likely to be found under a motorway bridge rather than in their 'fast' lane.

AugustusMinimus wrote: »

Not sure if this has been posted already. I must have watched this 5 times already.

WARNING: Some bad language in the video.

Some?

Thanks

CiniO wrote: »

K.Flyer wrote: »

Ok so lets all picture this scenario for a moment...

Vehicles are all trundling along the M50 in lane 1 with slightly faster traffic moving along in lane 2.
Someone at the same time is using lane 3 (for the sake of arguement he Is overtaking)
Then suddenly, he slows down very quickly, right down, almost to a crawl.
Are some people on here saying that all the traffic in lanes 1 and 2 have to slow down to match his speed and not pass him out for FEAR they might be breaking the Law.
Because let me tell you something that is complete B()//()X and you do not understand how to drive on a motorway.

salonfire wrote: »

I actually think CiniO would. And that's baffling.

I think most of us would have the common sense to drive on.

Yes. If someone suddenly slows down on the most most right lane, it is already an emergency situation on motorway and therefore everyone else should slow down or stop.
Otherwise, it's obvious that within very short time there will be big accident, as no one expects when left and middle lane are moving normally, that there will be obstruction on the most right lane.

Besides - no one normally slows down or stops on right lane, unless it's emergecy (breakdown, heart attack, etc), or someone is just purely stupid.
Whatever it is, it is a situation which requires everyone else to slow down and not overtake on left.

Imagine you are driving on the most right lane, and your car cuts off and starts to slow down. What you want to do, is to get to hard shoulder, but if all other drivers follow what is said here and keep going, then he will be stock and eventually have to stop on overtaking lane casuing incredible danger.

It's really that simple - don't overtake on left.
And described situation of someone gradually slowing down on right lane, is just one of the cases, when this rule is especially cruicial.

You obviously did not read what I posted after I wrote after that.

K.Flyer wrote: »

Sorry I should have said that there is an exception made if he is signalling that he is in trouble, then common sense pravails to give him space to get to the hard shoulder.

What is being referred to in general is the idiot drivers we unfortunatley encounter on our roads every day.

And on that basis I ask you to read the rules of the road again regarding motorway lane usage and passing other road users.

CiniO wrote: »

Not necesserily to stop, but slow down so other cars can pull back to the left.

The car was indicating to the right and slowing down, giving the impression that he was going to stop on the right hand side of the road. It was only at this point that the guy taking the video passed him, and only after he had already slowed his speed. Im not really sure what more you would want him to do; if he slows any more he puts other drivers at risk of slamming into the back of him, and considering the two cars he was "undertaking" were two lanes over then I dont see any danger whatsoever from him passing them.

Imo the guy taking the recording did everything absolutely correctly.

K.Flyer wrote: »

When the idiot in the outside lane saw the flashing blue lights he should have indicated left, changed lanes one at a time and pulled onto the hard shoulder at a safe place.
Why do some people think if they are being pulled over by the Police / Garda that they just stop as quick as they can where they are.
If you are asked to pull over, do so, but at least find a safe place to pull in.

The person stood on their brakes in the overtaking lane of a motorway when they knew there was a car right behind them. You cannot think of this person as having average intelligence; they are quite clearly dangerously stupid...

djimi wrote: »

The car was indicating to the right and slowing down, giving the impression that he was going to stop on the right hand side of the road.

This was the motorway. How could somone stop on the right side?
I admit indeed that I didn't notice he turned his right indicator, but that was a bit nonsense here. Maybe he's done it accidentally.
Anyway - I doubt UK regulations permit to overtake on the left side on motorway if someone is indicating right (like it works on other roads).

It was only at this point that the guy taking the video passed him, and only after he had already slowed his speed. Im not really sure what more you would want him to do; if he slows any more he puts other drivers at risk of slamming into the back of him, and considering the two cars he was "undertaking" were two lanes over then I dont see any danger whatsoever from him passing them.

In this particular case, traffic was nearly non-existant, so there was very little danger anyway.
But imagine if that happend during the day in big traffic.
If truck driver kept going, and hundreds of other cars behind him, then lane hooger together with squad car on his tail would be stock at slow speed on overtaking lane, and they wouldn't be able to pull to the left, until someone eventually would slow down on the left lane. This makes really dangerous sitation
Say you are driving in a queue of cars at 50MPH on left lane on motorway, and decide to overtake. You check your mirrors, and seeing there nothing behind in lane you want to take, you change lane, just to find out there is two vehicles crawling straigh in front of you.

Once again - undertaking on the motorway is dangerous, and even more dangerous is not slowing down to let slow vehicles come back from overtaking lane to the left side.

Imo the guy taking the recording did everything absolutely correctly.

According to law he didn't as he undertook.
According to common sence, there wasn't any danger as traffic was very low. He obviously shouldn't slam on the brakes, and it's hard to say from the video if there was a need for to slam on the brakes provided he wanted to avoid undertaking. Maybe he could avoid undertaking just slowing gradually.

Anyway - no one should undertake, and provided you can avoid undertaking without endangering cars behind by slamming on the brakes, you should.
If there was a queue of cars on left lane, maybe if first few can't slow down that quick, than at least next few should.




Are you really guys trying to say, that if there is a slowly moving vehicle on overtaking lane on the motorway for whatever reason, it's perfectly OK to keep going at contant speed on left (driving) lane and ignore the situation?

Totally agree and I hope he lost his licence.
Funnily enough I saw a similar event on the M50 not so long ago.
Southbound approx 5.30pm between Finglas and Blanch jctns a dark Audi sitting in the outside lane when an unmarked Mondeo came up behind him.
He tapped his brakes as well, but moved out of the way quick enough when they flashed the blue an reds.
But they did not pull him in!!
He moved over and they took off !!??

Inbox wrote: »

Cinio likes to use his brakes alright, we all saw his video were he jammed on and came to a complete stop in a total over reaction and made a bad situation worse.

I relation to that situation ended as good as it could end up (at least for me).
If I didn't slam on the brakes I would take part in head on collision.
If I didn't nearly stop, other car would hit me (either back or side).