Strange Behaviour No. 456 - Flashing headlights when overtake?
12 January 2001, 12:48 AM
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Scott,
I use that road a lot, it's great. I especially enjoy the traffic lights and often drive slowly towards them hoping they'll go red. yes it is childish and I am a muppet but after 1.5 hours of averaging 20mph on the m3 you need some release. (I never bust 70) just get there in 5 and a bit.
The right and left you mention, I saw a TVR which must have been a victim of lift off on that corner. (Did you know they turn white when the fibreglass shatters)
I use that road a lot, it's great. I especially enjoy the traffic lights and often drive slowly towards them hoping they'll go red. yes it is childish and I am a muppet but after 1.5 hours of averaging 20mph on the m3 you need some release. (I never bust 70) just get there in 5 and a bit.
The right and left you mention, I saw a TVR which must have been a victim of lift off on that corner. (Did you know they turn white when the fibreglass shatters)
12 January 2001, 12:00 PM
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Fraid not
Family recovering from flu...3 young ones to look after + wife this weekend. I've just got in from cold...wife's BMW had flat tyre (took 2 hours to replace wheel as alloy had stuck to hub), then found out battery was flat. Called breakdown service, waited an hour, he tells me the battery is knackered. Weekend will start with new batt.(£), new tyres (£)...this is second time in 18 months. Scoob is much more faithful!
now baby sitting... yahoo!!!
Family recovering from flu...3 young ones to look after + wife this weekend. I've just got in from cold...wife's BMW had flat tyre (took 2 hours to replace wheel as alloy had stuck to hub), then found out battery was flat. Called breakdown service, waited an hour, he tells me the battery is knackered. Weekend will start with new batt.(£), new tyres (£)...this is second time in 18 months. Scoob is much more faithful!
now baby sitting... yahoo!!!
12 January 2001, 01:31 PM
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A bus did it to me this morning. As described above absolutley no danger to life and limb, GLF speed limit not exceeded.
Help me Jeebus! I'm being advised how to drive by a bus driver!
Help me Jeebus! I'm being advised how to drive by a bus driver!
12 January 2001, 01:52 PM
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Scott W..
The begining of the A340 from basingstoke towards Aldermasten is great, it goes from one lane to two , then back to one and in the middle is a set of lights, so if you time it right you can be safely into the single track section the other side of the lights before anyone stopped in the left lane has seen you approaching
The begining of the A340 from basingstoke towards Aldermasten is great, it goes from one lane to two , then back to one and in the middle is a set of lights, so if you time it right you can be safely into the single track section the other side of the lights before anyone stopped in the left lane has seen you approaching
12 January 2001, 03:25 PM
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Scott,
At that bit that splits to Ascot/Bracknell - stay in the right hand lane then signal left to go back onto the Bracknell road. Not the obvious path (which is why you normally pass loads of traffic) but there is nowt to say you're not alowwed to do it!
As for the 'overtaking slower cars' syndrome. Didn't have the flashing headlights a couple of weeks ago. I had the 'I'll report you for dangerous driving'..!
Coming out of Hurst - 40 into a 60. Long enough straight that, as long as nothing is coming and the overtaken car isn't going too fast then overtaking os perfectly safe. Which is what I did. Now, around the bend is a t-junction - I was going right. I knew about this but that straight was the only place to overtake for miles and I didn't want to get stuck behind a slow-moving 4x4.
Pull up at the T - old bloke is going left and pulls up beside me. Mouths something out of the window. Seemingly smiling. I thought I must have a brake light out or something. Wind down my window and turn radio off.
'Yes?' 'I'm going to report you for dangerous driving'.. 'Que?' I think. before I could say anything he had driven off. I'm still none the wiser. I mean I didn't even have to break the speed limit to overtake him!
As for flashing lights - Kev - police were in the right there my son. Never assume the bloke flashing from behind you actually sees you! He/she could just have hit the light switch whilst looking for radio 3....
Dave
At that bit that splits to Ascot/Bracknell - stay in the right hand lane then signal left to go back onto the Bracknell road. Not the obvious path (which is why you normally pass loads of traffic) but there is nowt to say you're not alowwed to do it!
As for the 'overtaking slower cars' syndrome. Didn't have the flashing headlights a couple of weeks ago. I had the 'I'll report you for dangerous driving'..!
Coming out of Hurst - 40 into a 60. Long enough straight that, as long as nothing is coming and the overtaken car isn't going too fast then overtaking os perfectly safe. Which is what I did. Now, around the bend is a t-junction - I was going right. I knew about this but that straight was the only place to overtake for miles and I didn't want to get stuck behind a slow-moving 4x4.
Pull up at the T - old bloke is going left and pulls up beside me. Mouths something out of the window. Seemingly smiling. I thought I must have a brake light out or something. Wind down my window and turn radio off.
'Yes?' 'I'm going to report you for dangerous driving'.. 'Que?' I think. before I could say anything he had driven off. I'm still none the wiser. I mean I didn't even have to break the speed limit to overtake him!
As for flashing lights - Kev - police were in the right there my son. Never assume the bloke flashing from behind you actually sees you! He/she could just have hit the light switch whilst looking for radio 3....
Dave
12 January 2001, 03:39 PM
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hutton_d,
I love it when people say stupid things like "I'm going to report you for dangerous driving" what do they think the police are going to do??
Surely at the end of the day it is going to be merely your word against them and what one person thinks of as dangerous driving another person might think of as completely reasonable.
StuartH what do the police do when they get timewasters phoning up with stories of alleged dangerous drivers??
I love it when people say stupid things like "I'm going to report you for dangerous driving" what do they think the police are going to do??
Surely at the end of the day it is going to be merely your word against them and what one person thinks of as dangerous driving another person might think of as completely reasonable.
StuartH what do the police do when they get timewasters phoning up with stories of alleged dangerous drivers??
12 January 2001, 04:12 PM
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I get a lot of this flashing malarkey when i overtake slower cars in the rallycar, but i must say when i towed it from South Wales to Cambridge on a trailer a few months back, the flashes i had from lorry drivers after passing were well handy in helping me pull back in safely...
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12 January 2001, 05:04 PM
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Dave,
I have been know to do that trick once or twice!
The problem being that although there is a double white line when you merge back in again, a number of cars don't realise this is the case and still want to get out to overtake all the other traffic as soon as possible which you have to be aware of, and sometimes be a bit of a downer.
Scott
I have been know to do that trick once or twice!
The problem being that although there is a double white line when you merge back in again, a number of cars don't realise this is the case and still want to get out to overtake all the other traffic as soon as possible which you have to be aware of, and sometimes be a bit of a downer.
Scott
12 January 2001, 06:05 PM
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Ascot/Bracknell split... My journey home every day too; I hate it when people stay in the right lane and slip back into the left Bracknell lane... but maybe only because I've not done it myself - got that feeling it's the sort of thing 'they' could nick you for if in a bad mood...
Still, in the Scoob in the 'proper' left lane you can see someone doing it and nip back into the right lane and away before they get there, 'cos they've slowed for the dink. Unless they're also in a Scooby...
(Natutally always obeying the double white line referred to above...!)
[This message has been edited by GEJL (edited 12 January 2001).]
Still, in the Scoob in the 'proper' left lane you can see someone doing it and nip back into the right lane and away before they get there, 'cos they've slowed for the dink. Unless they're also in a Scooby...
(Natutally always obeying the double white line referred to above...!)
[This message has been edited by GEJL (edited 12 January 2001).]
13 January 2001, 12:15 PM
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On same road this evening, just a bit further along (dual carriage section by sports centre). Road clear, but I catch up a bog standard family car doing 30mph in RHD lane (40 zone). Stay behind for a bit, then decide to slip into nearside lane (still staying behind the 30mph car)... waiting for a reaction.
Just after I do this, the car gradually veers over to nearside lane, so I signal right and pull into RHD lane. Funnily enough, without any indication, the car starts to veer into RHD lane (ah ha, I think). Arrive at roundabout where road increases to 3 lanes. Car infront takes middle lane, so I take RHD and squirt the throttle... (ha, the car nips into the right like a magnet). Brakes on and P1 FULL light set takes high beam (lights up the moron nicely ). Since, Im now on a roundabout, I revert to normal lights for curtesy of other drivers, but moron takes same exit as me. Funny, how he now straddles 2 lanes. From now it's all high beam for the remainder of this journey, until this F**ker takes another route - we can all be bast**ds if we want to
What is it that motivates these jerks??? It just makes me want to smack him one.
Just after I do this, the car gradually veers over to nearside lane, so I signal right and pull into RHD lane. Funnily enough, without any indication, the car starts to veer into RHD lane (ah ha, I think). Arrive at roundabout where road increases to 3 lanes. Car infront takes middle lane, so I take RHD and squirt the throttle... (ha, the car nips into the right like a magnet). Brakes on and P1 FULL light set takes high beam (lights up the moron nicely
). Since, Im now on a roundabout, I revert to normal lights for curtesy of other drivers, but moron takes same exit as me. Funny, how he now straddles 2 lanes. From now it's all high beam for the remainder of this journey, until this F**ker takes another route - we can all be bast**ds if we want to What is it that motivates these jerks??? It just makes me want to smack him one.
13 January 2001, 10:32 PM
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Tyson,
It seems as though Bracknell just invites morons drivers to it!
People still cut me up at the end roundabout past KFC - and it's now got idiot lines around it telling people where they should be going!
Twin Bridges is just the same coming in from the A329 - go in right hand lane to go straight on, and therefore naturally the second lane after the exit under the bridge - how many cars in the middle lane ignore the left hand lane and stick to the middle lane all the way round?
At least justice was performed once recently, because as we pulled away a car in the middle lane cut me up a treat - little did he know that I had a Police Panda car behind me, who kindly pulled him over for doing so!!!
Scott
It seems as though Bracknell just invites morons drivers to it!
People still cut me up at the end roundabout past KFC - and it's now got idiot lines around it telling people where they should be going!
Twin Bridges is just the same coming in from the A329 - go in right hand lane to go straight on, and therefore naturally the second lane after the exit under the bridge - how many cars in the middle lane ignore the left hand lane and stick to the middle lane all the way round?
At least justice was performed once recently, because as we pulled away a car in the middle lane cut me up a treat - little did he know that I had a Police Panda car behind me, who kindly pulled him over for doing so!!!
Scott
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