Give him a medal 503

saying :

I have read what was actually written, and that isn't it.

What WAS actually written was :-

# The situation was that a car towing a tatty old camping trailer was # tailgating me in the middle lane of a motorway , flashing his lights # for me to get out of the way # # I was solo and doing a BIT more than 70 # # He eventfully came up on the inside and pushed me out into the outside # lane

Then, in a later post :-

# He was in the same lane to start off with # # Then he tied to over take me on the inside lane # # nuff said

Finally, we get a brief mention of overtaking, thrown in with a red herring about gaps between vehicles and an attempt to justify the vigiliantism :-

# No Iain I was overtaking , but I travel with sufficient space between # me and the vehicle in front # # There was no way he should have been travelling at 70 MPH with an un- # braked trailer

Alex immediately queried that (as did many others) :-

# So how was he able to pull alongside you in the inside lane - *after* # tailgating you and flashing lights at you?

At which point DieSea decided to huff off and hasn't been seen in this thread since.

Nowhere has it been claimed that he had to chop across to avoid hitting the vehicle DieSea was allegedly overtaking, as you clearly imply.

The claim of a vehicle being overtaken is obviously an attempt to justify his lane indiscipline. He's quite probably one of the large number of drivers who thinks that having a closing speed of 5-10mph on a vehicle that's several hundred yards away is perfect justification to not change lanes. After all, he's doing the speed limit, so anybody travelling any faster Must Be Breaking The Law.

Nobody's suggesting that the pillock with the trailer tent was in the right - merely that DieSea very heavily contributed to the situation. He should have defused the situation by either dipping into the gap between vehicles to his left, or accelerating to complete the pbutting manouvre more quickly and get out of a position of potential danger.

On seeing the other vehicle start to pbutt him on the left, he could have easily decelerated to remove himself from being next to an obvious pillock, especially if that (avert your eyes, Ivor) f***wit was rapidly approaching a vehicle in L1.

By merely obliviously bimbling along, he created a situation whereby a potential impact was far more likely.

But that's OK, because he thinks he was technically correct. I'm sure that'd have been a great comfort to his family.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they most certainly do increase the chances of a collision.