Early this evening, between 5 and 6pm -ish. Not sure of the road, was on way home in silver brava with a washing machine! Anyways to the yellow punto sporting with a big red sticker that fills the back window your a :tosser: of big proportions. Here's a little reminder of the highway code:

When joining a dual carriage way you are supposed to give way at the end of a slip road, not pull onto it at a stupid slow speed, forcing traffic accross a lane. Then when they overtake you, do not boot it to show off your wonderfull noisey exhaust, let them pass gracefully, then you may over take properly - your a C**k S****R people like you cause very bad accidents! :bang:

I'd love ten mins locked in a small room with you, I'll let you have a bat and club if you want to make it a fair fight

Sorry about the direct offensiveness but it really is deserved! If I had been in a wagon or large van - you'd be dead now, leaving me to mourn and take the greif for it! D**K S**T

jenks69 said:

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When joining a dual carriage way you are supposed to give way at the end of a slip road,

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noo you dont you merge in, did you not see the sign on the dual carage way telling you that traffic is joining from the left?

They are give way. Drivers are advised to merge, however if the possibility to merge isn't there, they are supposed to give way! That's why there are the white dashes at the end of a slip road. In any case the tool driving the yellow punto is wreckless and needs to be shot!

You only getting the signs advising about traffic merging on motorways, but even then it's still give way and doesn't mean pull out like a loon at not very many miles an hour!

there single dotted lines, give way are double,
anyway no matter as puntos have right of way over bravos

dave said:

there single dotted lines, give way are double,
anyway no matter as puntos have right of way over bravos

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Good job I was in a BravA then

But to be a pedantic git quoted from a copy of the Highway Code:

point 124: Where there are junctions be prepared for vehicles emerging.

We were prepared hence we had already slowed down to anticipate the movements of the punto.

point 233: in breif:

give priority to traffic already in the left hand lane.
adjust your speed to safely fit into the traffic flow of the left hand lane.

The driver of the yellow punto didn't do either of those.

All of the above aside, the yellow punto was driving like a muppet. He needs his head read before someone takes physical offense to his driving and he becomes a victim of a road rage assulat / bad accident, which is something I wouldn't wish on anyone, least of all someone who drives a fairly smart looking punto sporting!!

To the driver: It's a good looking car that goes very well, please please look after it and most importantly yourself and passengers!

jenks69 said:

Good job I was in a BravA then

But to be a pedantic git quoted from a copy of the Highway Code:

point 124: Where there are junctions be prepared for vehicles emerging.

We were prepared hence we had already slowed down to anticipate the movements of the punto.

point 233: in breif:

give priority to traffic already in the left hand lane.
adjust your speed to safely fit into the traffic flow of the left hand lane.

The driver of the yellow punto didn't do either of those.

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Funny, as far as I was aware, approaching an on ramp you should be moving over a lane anyway... that's the way I was taught in the advanced drivers class... but then I don't know.

Seraph said:

Funny, as far as I was aware, approaching an on ramp you should be moving over a lane anyway... that's the way I was taught in the advanced drivers class... but then I don't know.

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thats the best thing to do, if its safe to do so

jenks69 said:

Good job I was in a BravA then

But to be a pedantic git quoted from a copy of the Highway Code:

point 124: Where there are junctions be prepared for vehicles emerging.

We were prepared hence we had already slowed down to anticipate the movements of the punto.

point 233: in breif:

give priority to traffic already in the left hand lane.
adjust your speed to safely fit into the traffic flow of the left hand lane.

The driver of the yellow punto didn't do either of those.

All of the above aside, the yellow punto was driving like a muppet. He needs his head read before someone takes physical offense to his driving and he becomes a victim of a road rage assulat / bad accident, which is something I wouldn't wish on anyone, least of all someone who drives a fairly smart looking punto sporting!!

To the driver: It's a good looking car that goes very well, please please look after it and most importantly yourself and passengers!

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so he adjusted his speed. slowed down to wait for you to pass, so you should have speeded up no slow down as well

motorway driving is one huge peeve for me.

You are meant to use the on ramp to build up your speed so you can adjoin the traffic at their speed. However, people who don't move over before an onramp, make it so that you are dicing with death moving up an onramp at speed, as such a lot of people move onto the ramp and are forced to slow down.
Now say that yellow Punto had a 1.2 engine and just a big exhaust, getting up to speed is not an easy option, since you didn't move over, he saw you and was forced to stop (slow) until he could safely judge your speed, at that point he could then comfortably join the motorway, and begin to increase his speed so he did not cause an obstruction. You had admitted you had slowed for him anyway, so he assumed you were slowing to allow him to join the motorway.
Jenks, you will notice that when wagons approach a junction, they will safely move into the middle lane where possible, or cos they mostly don't go much higher than 60 will sit a decent distance from the vehicle in front to allow access. That is the safest, and quickest way to travel on the motorway.

I dont think I have ever been so missunderstood in one post so much!

The on ramp was concealed until the last few yards, so as soon as the punto came into view, slowed down - which wasn't enough for the punto to join safely in front of us but he pulled out anyway, thankfully a gap in traffic allowed us to pull over. The punto was going way too slow at the end of the slip road. If it had all happened a few seconds earlier we wouldn't have been able to move over a lane due to the amount of traffic over taking us.

We read the road fully we had no-where to go and punto didn't help by not putting his foot down. When we pulled over to give him room, matched us for speed until we were just over taking him, then he tried to undertake us, but he couldn't, if he had built up enough speed on the slip road he'd have been fine, or if he'd hung back just a little bit more he could have joined safely behind us without any danger to anyone.

Then once we were back in the left hand lane he shot accross the front of us at a roundabout and turned left - even though he was in the right hand lane.

I am more than aware of good etiqette on the roads, I have spent most of my living in lorries and cars towing etc. He had no regards for the traffic already on the dual carriageway.

What ever the technicalities he's still a :tosser:

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The on ramp was concealed until the last few yards, so as soon as the punto came into view, slowed down -

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there would have been a red triangle sign some way back telling you

dave said:

there would have been a red triangle sign some way back telling you

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Did you not see where i said "we couldn't move over due to other traffic"

I'll get me coat I am passed caring about this thread now.......... He was a nob end of! We did everything we could and should have done. The only thing we could have done was slow down to about 25 mph on a dual carriage way, but then we would have been as much a c**k as him!