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NiceBlueWellies:
They wouldn't have entertained coming through if I had been in the disco, but I was in my Nissan Primera!

I was only 2 streets from home, wonder if I will see them again today???????? :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Plum:
My ole man always tought me to "treat everyone on the road as an idiot" . . . . . .

Have always done so . . . . . . an passed it on to me kids . . . . . .


its the only way to travel,  oh i an please "boys n girls",    allways allways ! ! ! axpect the unexpected. . . . .

Bush Tucker Man:
Here's another instance of people not looking.


A couple of years ago I hired a twin-axle box trailer to move some furniture from the mother-in-laws to her sisters over at Todmorden

Job went well, nice easy, a very stable tow.

On the return journey I decided to divert down some of the side-streets in Hebden Bridge in order to photograph the packhorse bridge over Hebden Water that gives the town its name.
As I manoeuvred donw one narrow street, with aprked cars on the nearside & trailer tyres rubbing the kerb at the other

Some complte numpty in a B*W (as usual :roll: ) threw the door open as the rear of the Discovery passed him.........

He shut it equally quickly as he saw an orange box bearing down on him :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Thankfully I'd seen him sat there & was ready for him to do something stupid (apart from drive a B*W of course)

People don't use their eyes anymore :evil:

Range Rover Blues:

--- Quote from: "sleeplessparadise" ---Not always true Mark. We went to Sheffield today to pick up some things and we went in Johnty's disco. Now not many of you will have seen it but it is certainly very battle scarred from doing the extreme course at Langdale. The number of people who look at this vehicle and think "Oh its big it must be going slow, I will just nip out in front of it!" is quite frankly unbelievable. We had to anchor up more than a few times both going and coming back.........trouble was coming back we were carrying two 20 litre drums of paint in the back!!! Luckily we didnt spill any of the paint but if we had I would not have been as calm I have to say :x
--- End quote ---


Glad it's not just me, Blue is called "the spanish inquisition" because "nobody expects........"

Sometimes I think it's invisible.

Range Rover Blues:
Oh, but as a driving instructor I have to correct some of you, there is no 'right of way' there is 'priority' and priority can only be given, never taken.  Rules of etequet dictate that you give priority to a car coming uphill, or if the obstruction is on your side of the road but unless a road sign dictates give priority to oncoming vehicles you should not expect oncoming cars to sto for you, in the event of an accident you cannot argue "but you should have stopped", it goes knock for knock ie both parties at fault.  It is slightly easyier to prove blame if the centre of the road is marked and only one party crosses it, but if the obstruction is stationary then the centre line becomes useless anyway.

As for the courtesy to aknowledge when you let someone through, or lack of the same, is part of the reason people don't stop for oncoming vehicles any more.

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