Cooler wrote:
In Gear wrote:
Cooler wrote:
PS - Another small point. Is "closing in on slower traffic in L1 on the horizon" a good reason for staying in L2?
Possibly - given that at 70 mph - you are covering around 34 yards per second - compared to say 28 yards per second at 60 mph and 24 yards per second at 50 mph. If you are around 75 -77mph mark as most drivers do seem to be - then you have gained on them fairly quickly in reality.
Your horizon would be your limit point and fairly in synchrony with the being able to stop safely and very comfortably - without skidding or burning tyre rubber
in the distance you can see to be clear
This would be the only justification in remaining in L2 as you would be overtaking traffic you can still see and judge to be at a lower pace than yourself.
As said - will choose L1 as normal unless I intend to overtake and see ahead that there are a lot of vehicles in L1 who are below my very legal speed
InGear,
This seems to be the crux of the matter. If faster moving drivers in L2 see slower traffic spaced out in L1 such that hopping in and out of L1 would be inconvenient, they may prefer to extend their 'overtaking' for as much as half a mile, which is of course precisely what I observed.
C. .
And I would not term this as Middle Lane Hogging. My definition of the MLM is the chap/chappesse who sits there at 50/60 mph and forces other traffic at a legal to tolerated overspeed limit
to move from L 1 to L3 ot overtake.
Er.. note my words - we do have a tolerance margin of error - either way - within safety levels and competency as expected
However, the real MLM will sit in L2 regardless of traffic condition at a lower speed than warranted.
This type will attract our attention here just as much as the person driving at an OTT speed/style/standard for our patch
As said - we do have accidents in this area.
. No human being can claim not to be accident prone and as we have seen in the thread involving the bolting two year old who ran into a car with tragic consequence - some incidents are just that - pure tragic accidents as was the one which killed the Swiss guy and the one which nearly killed our own lovely Wildy
Cat.
However, we are consistent in actively helping prevent carnage around here. We record lowere than national average KSI stats each year - but higher than average prosecutions for downright offensive driving standards
No accident.
We are tolerant on blips - tough on blats
We will pull up a driver who is driving in professional judgement as a MLM to have a word but not necessarily prosecute - just as we have words with the blatters. Depends degree of blatting and standard observed as to how it gets dealt with. It also depends on the officer's professional judgement - and I think we are pretty much "hitting bull's eye" in this respect
or at least our stat returns seem to indicate this
I think your original point was that you are legally at 70 mph overtaking slower traffic and Mr Frustrated behaved like a
whatever. Nowt wrong with your driving. We might well have had a word with the other idiot though as COAST dictates he should have seen your logic for being in L2.
Note - I am not saying you are incorrect - more that we use L1 if we are limited to a certain speed, do not want to drive above a certain speed - which on a modern motorway should be 55- 60 mph as the considerate minimum in L1 - unless roadworks or congestion dictate otherwise
We certainly use L1 if nothing to overtake and the road ahead has very little traffic to overtake.
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After passing the MLM, the car in front moved to L2 and became a MLM himself! I moved to L1 which was empty for the next ¾ mile. But then the chap I'd been slipstreaming started slowing down. In fact he slowed to a speed less than that of the MLM we'd recently passed, and the MLM caught up! Unwilling to "do a squirrel" and pass my companion on the left, I slowed down with him. But then as well as traffic behind catching up, I had lorries looming ahead in L1. I was boxed in.
