wonder if this will cause a little debate …….8 points and £885.00 for an undertake on the Motorway DISCUSS………Too Harsh ? Deserved ?
You've only read part of the story, he was offered points+ fine at the roadside but refused and instead went to court.... Had he taken the roadside option he would have been looking at 3 points and ~£100, not what I'd call fair however in line with road law
Judging by the fixed cameras. He was in a reduced speed limit too, so it is not like he should have expected to make much better progress once in front of the car. Certainly there is undertaking and putting yourself in a position that facilitates your lane moving faster than those to the right.
he undertook at 70mph ..the car chasing him clocked 95 but then that slowed down when it caught him …from there he made a dangerous manoeuvre into that service area. as bloke says, the HGV had to brake !!!
lets be honest here, I'd suspect we've all done things as bad........ Or worse. All he's really guilty of is getting caught in my opinion.
He should have taken the 3points and £100 rather than challenge it at court. Definitely undertaking and poss speeding (not sure of the limit the cameras were enforcing). And deserved too if he did it 1 up in front of a marked up cop.
Dangerous manoeuvre ! However I have pulled a similar stunt when sat behind a European doing 50 in the outside lane, no amount of flashing or indicating made any difference and after a couple of miles i caved in and undertook him. Had I been caught I too would have not been keen on taking an one the spot fine
Nowt wrong with his initial manoeuvre, although I'd say the police gave him a fright and caused him to swerve in front of the truck. Damn Po Po causing trouble! Sheesh! PS That was tame compared to my morning commute
I don't see anything wrong in the clip as long as he don't go over 70 u can undertake if the person in the outside lane is going slower then the speed limit at that time?????
highway code rule 268 268 Do not overtake on the left or move to a lane on your left to overtake. In congested conditions, where adjacent lanes of traffic are moving at similar speeds, traffic in left-hand lanes may sometimes be moving faster than traffic to the right. In these conditions you may keep up with the traffic in your lane even if this means passing traffic in the lane to your right. Do not weave in and out of lanes to overtake.
That's one seriously outdated book tho init? Modern vehicles and foreign drivers make some of it nonsensical !
I undertake a LOT!! If I'm in lane 1 (70mph) and a slower vehicle is in lane 2 I just go past in lane 1. I used to move to lane 3 and pass then back to 1, can't be arsed anymore. Didn't a new law just passed (last year) to stop people hogging lanes 2&3 when 1 is empty? If you're going slow enough to be undertaken, you're in the wrong lane.
That's not actually undertaking rob .......if you read that paragraph I posted from the highway code , it says you can do what you have posted !
