Scene of the accident visited today....

Barkers Lane?

Have you got any witnesses?
I think your stuffed from a damages POV, but I would rigorously defend
any actual charges.

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steve auvache says...

It might be what is written in the Highway Code, but the HC isn't about
what's legal, it's a guide to safer driving.

 

Well, legally it's the only way she could have got into her house.
And I must admit, I wouldn't be expecting someone to stop so soon
after pulling out of a junction. Even if their indicator was going
for the drive, I'd assume it was left on from pulling out from the
side road.

Tough call.

 

While I agree the scooter rider was probably not 100% to blame for
this, it is always wrong to assume that an indicator has been left on
and that a second turn is or is not to be made. Under normal
circumstances, you aim to to cover for both possibilities.

 

I'm not sure the turn across the broken crosshatching by the island is
strictly illegal, but it's certainly a bit dodgy. If I was being a safety
Nazi, I'd recommend she drives up to the roundabout and comes back on the
other side of the road, where she can safely turn into her drive.

 

I'm not sure, you are even allowed to cross a double solid white line
to access property.

And presumably DP managed to rear end her in the crosshatching? I
suspect she might have had more right to be there than he did.

DP, I think you need specialist advice on this. I hope you don't get
done for the DCA thing but from what I've seen I can't see that it
wasn't your fault.

I've nearly got caught out like this myself. Car pulls out of petrol
station on rhs into 50mph single carriageway. He's moving slowly and
there is no other traffic about so I don't slow down and prepare for an
overtake. Except he stays in the middle of the road (right turn lane)
and turns right off the main road. The petrol station is right on the
junction.

You'll know this one Platy, it's the petrol station on the A38 by the
Berkeley turning.

Anyway, DP, best of luck.

 

I used to come tanking down the road towards that junction on my way home
from work, but I kept having to anchor up for traffic going in and out and
every which way. Anyway, it's a 40 nowadays.

 

<thinks: I'm sure it was 50 yesterday>

There's 2 Berkeley turnings (to my mind). It's the one by the petrol
station[1] not the one by the Applegates coach/bus workshops (which is
a 40).

[1] Berkeley Heath Motors perhaps?

 

This one:

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.c...b=freegaz&pc=&zm=0&scale=5000&up.x=288&up.y=7

I'm sure it's 40, but ICBW. Used to be NSL right through to Newport, which
used to be a 50, but is now a 40.

Fucknose.

 

That's it. I like the OS overlay on the aerial map, hadn't seen that
before.

Taking us all down to the level of truckers.

 

I think that's a much more serious offence.

Also you might catch something.

 

You can cross broken line outlined cross hatching if necessary, but
not solid lined. You should treat solid lines a s a kerb.

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"Chas" says to "Donegal Paul"

She didn't see me when she pulled into the traffic?

So do i, but it won't stop me using it

I thought that's what you were saying but thought I would give you the
benefit of the doubt.
Turns out you *are* a tit.
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"Colonel Tupperware" said to "Donegal Paul"

Thats the one.

Unfortunately no :-(

Probably, but im definitely pleading not guilty to the charge
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Oh, I know. Personally, I would have been filtering there in the
first place, what with the junction and the keep left bollards to get
round.

 

Why does it "have to be" Everyone parked facing in on a drive could have
reversed in and been facing out. And if you do that then you do the
reversing when you can see the traffic. If you can't reverse into a drive
you shouldn't be on the road.

 

As I recall, it's only illegal to reverse out on to a main road when
you have the opportunity to turn the car before doing so. So, given
a small drive it is not possible, and therefore the (admittedly more
dangerous manoeuvre) is permitted.

Further recall suggests that this little nugget came to my attention
as the result of a private motorist suggesting that the coppers who
had just followed him into his drive to give him a ticket for some
misdemenour be prosecuted for reversing on to the main road, since
the aforementioned drive was large enough to turn first. Even
further recollection suggests that his driving days were numbered
thereafter, since a result of this vendetta was that every cop
pulled him on sight.

 

I really can't imagine a drive which would be impossible to reverse into if
you could reverse out of it. Can you describe one?

 

OK, I was a little unclear in that. I meant a drive that you can
turn in; so drive in forwards, turn, then drive out forwards. No
reversing at all.

 

OK, I was a little unclear in that. I meant a drive that you can

You would think there'd be something better to do on Xmas day than have a
discussion about reversing into or out of drives. I'd better get back to the
Brussel Sprouts.