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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2017 15:58:59 GMT
I know this is a different subject but it's good old idiots on Facebook who think they are experts. I'm having quite a polite debate with a bloke who seems to think that if you are going up hill and have to overtake a parked car you have right of way over oncoming traffic. he won't even contemplate that that advice on the highway code is for single track roads. just gets my goat right up. steam, let off No one has a right of way in 'conflicting' situations such as you describe. The old way of thinking was that on a steep hill the downhill car should give way to the uphill car. This was because if the uphill car had to stop there was a chance that it wouldn't have enough power to move uphill again - not really relevant today unless you meet a classic car or a 2CV. I mention the 2CV as I once had an incident on Hardknott Pass in the Lakes - this involved having to get 20 cars to reverse so I could get to a less steep part of the road... |
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Post by patty on Oct 13, 2017 16:09:31 GMT
I always thought vehicles going up hill had right of way but I really dunno about the pulling out to pass parked car bit...that don't seem quite right
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Post by thebfg on Oct 13, 2017 16:34:58 GMT
I always thought vehicles going up hill had right of way but I really dunno about the pulling out to pass parked car bit...that don't seem quite right I'm with you. you can't claim right of way on the wrong side of the road. ever. reversing. but your going with the flow of the traffic. |
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Post by Gone on Oct 13, 2017 16:47:03 GMT
I always thought vehicles going up hill had right of way but I really dunno about the pulling out to pass parked car bit...that don't seem quite right I'm with you. you can't claim right of way on the wrong side of the road. ever. reversing. but your going with the flow of the traffic. I thought that going down hill had right of way so I had a look at the highway code, and rule 155 includes ...."Give way to road users coming uphill whenever you can" |
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Post by thebfg on Oct 13, 2017 17:37:20 GMT
I'm with you. you can't claim right of way on the wrong side of the road. ever. reversing. but your going with the flow of the traffic. I thought that going down hill had right of way so I had a look at the highway code, and rule 155 includes ...."Give way to road users coming uphill whenever you can" my thoughts are. is that advisory. and does it concede right of way. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2017 18:39:59 GMT
I thought that going down hill had right of way so I had a look at the highway code, and rule 155 includes ...."Give way to road users coming uphill whenever you can" my thoughts are. is that advisory. and does it concede right of way. The highway code is advisory and as such it can't concede a right of way. |
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Post by patty on Oct 13, 2017 18:49:54 GMT
my thoughts are. is that advisory. and does it concede right of way. The highway code is advisory and as such it can't concede a right of way. so as I daily face a rat run in a narrow lane do I or not give way whatever way Im going?...that seems such a wussy way to drive...mutter mutter..wanna change car for tank mutter |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2017 18:58:31 GMT
Get an old land rover ?
Or bash the car with a hefty bit of wood so as to dent it but not damage the paintwork too much.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2017 18:59:59 GMT
my thoughts are. is that advisory. and does it concede right of way. The highway code is advisory and as such it can't concede a right of way. Bloody hell there are some real highway code anoraks on here ! I had no idea. |
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Post by thebfg on Oct 13, 2017 20:55:13 GMT
The highway code is advisory and as such it can't concede a right of way. so as I daily face a rat run in a narrow lane do I or not give way whatever way Im going?...that seems such a wussy way to drive...mutter mutter..wanna change car for tank mutter it maybe the case that actually on a single track road the uphill vehicle may have priority. however I would hate to crash and test that. |
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Post by patty on Oct 14, 2017 5:28:02 GMT
so as I daily face a rat run in a narrow lane do I or not give way whatever way Im going?...that seems such a wussy way to drive...mutter mutter..wanna change car for tank mutter it maybe the case that actually on a single track road the uphill vehicle may have priority. however I would hate to crash and test that. one of the worst offenders is this b..... woman in a black Nissan Quasquai who drives centre road position at speed both ways...it's obviously her commuter route and she's not gonna give way for anyone...oh and its not me! |
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