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  • EmilysDad
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    edited December 2019 #92

    There are times though when I wish the car in front would just get a move on. eg tonight on my way home from work (some people do work at the week end 😉) on a NSL road, the car in front was doing 35/40 and still hitting the brakes on every corner that can easily be driven at 50 - even in my tank of a ML ..... and continued at 35/40 on the 30mph limit!

  • JVB66
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    edited December 2019 #93

    If your NSL roads are a majority of country lanes as in this area then you drive to the speed you feel safe,and with modern very bright headlights  as one gets older the iris in our eyes do not respond as quickly as when younger which makes for "dazzle" from approaching vehicles,undecided i do not drive at night now unless there is no option then try to stick to lit duel carriageways, even if it means a longer routesurprised

  • EmilysDad
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    edited December 2019 #94

    The NSL was a small road, but the driver was a young-ish lad ..... I later overtook on a duAL carriageway 

     

    ..... but we digress and will be getting smacked wrists for digressing 😏

  • JVB66
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    edited December 2019 #95

    He could have had eye problemsundecided

  • SeasideBill
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    edited December 2019 #96

    Perverse pleasure maybe (whatever floats your boat), but definitely an example of dangerous driving. I completely understand your frustration and I’d quite happily shoot them, but what usually happens in those situations is that the offending driver eventually attempts a stupid overtaking manoeuvre which puts lives at risk including yours. Better to pull over if necessary and let them get on with it. Tomorrow is another day you get to enjoy.

  • SeasideBill
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    edited December 2019 #97

    ‘Duel carriageways’ -  I thought you did most of your duelling here?

  • EmilysDad
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    edited December 2019 #98

    should he have been driving at all then? ...... 🤔

  • dmiller555
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    edited December 2019 #99

    It was my father who advised me, 60 years or more ago that I could only drive one vehicle at a time, so I shouldn't worry about the other drivers. I should just try and miss them!  

     

  • EasyT
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    edited December 2019 #100

    It is often not how fast that you can take a bend but how far is the stopping distance available relative to speed. Perhaps the young chap felt that he needed more stopping time and drove accordingly. You may have judged otherwise.

  • SteveL
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    edited December 2019 #101

    Also depends on how well you know the road, tightness of the bends etc. It might have been there first time along it.

  • EasyT
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    edited December 2019 #102

    Some get impatient with me Steve, I have no doubt. I drive with the thought that if I see somebody in the road around a bend that I need to be able to stop. There are some that seem oblivious to a lack of forward visibility. 

  • thebells
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    edited December 2019 #103

    Not always easy to pull over when towing a caravan...and to be honest once you've let that first one past the next one follows right behind!

  • SeasideBill
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    edited December 2019 #104

    I think driving styles are influenced by where you do most of your driving. In my bit of the world narrow roads and bends are the norm and most local residents get into the habit of driving accordingly taking that style with them when driving elsewhere. That also seems to happen when Cornwall attracts plenty of visitors in the summer months from urban, busy road networks. Many of them drive very differently adopting the ‘quick or the dead’ approach to driving - it’s the habit they’ve got into. Many don’t do courtesy or know how to drive in reverse either! Wherever you are, driving to suit the conditions makes sense to me.

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