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£940 fine and five points for middle lane hogger
macsmurray
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Good! About time too. If you don't know the rules of the road then get off the roads!
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Would you mind editing the Title please?
About time too - though IMO it's more often some terrified, hyperventilating old dear with white knuckles doing 35 in a battered old Micra - or a d!ck in an Audi A4 "rep-mobile special" (when he's not in the right hand lane trying to get his "4-rings-of-death" bonnet badge embossed in your boot)
So bloody inconsiderate
"Traffic police said six drivers were forced to brake and swerve to overtake the vehicle,"
Sounds to me like they need some driving lessons.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/11690110/Motorist-becomes-first-convicted-of-hogging-motorway-middle-lane.html
I would guess that Police drivers take driving lessons beyond what the likes of us have to undertake*.
*sorry about that choice of words.
Sounds like he was travelling considerably slower than the prevailing speed of the vehicles around him. I think he was lucky to avoid a dangerous driving charge.
I was on the M11 the other day and there were quite a few of them driving like that. I always go over to the left lane after overtaking and once these people see me going to overtake on their left they soon move over.
However, my biggest complaint is the idiots doing 70-80 and not indicating to overtake or go back in the lane after overtaking, but thats a whole new thread!!!
Last night I dreamt that a middle lane hogger was getting done and I was defending him in court and summing up to a jury Grisham style.
Then I heard this news this morning.
Nothing wrong with cruise control. It is not moving over to an inside lane that is the problem.
It is quite possible to make use of cruise control on UK motorways without hindering other motorists. It is not an alternative to staying alert however and some motorists may use it to do that.
It's not mandatory to indicate when moving back into the lane. I never do unless it's particularly busy.
Indeed, you don't have to indicate when returning to the normal driving position (the inside lane). Yet I often do out of courtesy.
Considerably?
How much less would you have to be going to cause those coming up behind you to have to brake hard and swerve?
Sound like he must have been doing 30 mph less or the other drivers weren't concentrating or there's some exaggerating going on.
At the speed which Police drivers reported it as a fact?
Tis irrelevant in any event unless you are arguing that there is a speed which justifies staying in the middle lane when you are not overtaking.