No you haven't. You've just got away with it. You can juggle chainsaws every day for a week, a month or a year without incident but it is intrinsically dangerous, as is overtaking three abreast. It's Russian Roulette but in this situation you risk not just your own life but the lives of others.

 

Driving is intrinsically dangerous.

 

Overtaking three abreast on this particular road is no more a game of Russian roulette than simply overtaking.

 

No one moving over, no one swerving, no one braking just three cars passing each other on an extremely wide arrow straight two lane carriageway, a scenario which is perfectly safe on that stretch of road. I know as I've done it.

 

All these examples of other drivers not looking past their own bonnet, driving too fast, driving too close work together to make any scenario on any road dangerous.

 

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

Edited 27 October, 201411 yr by silver1011

Why is it the suicide lane? Why shouldn't you use it?

The way it was explained to me at the time was because if I was using the centre lane to overtake and someone else coming the other way decided to do the same then  we would be committing suicide,  makes sense to me

Best regards to all

The way it was explained to me at the time was because if I was using the centre lane to overtake and someone else coming the other way decided to do the same then we would be committing suicide, makes sense to me

Best regards to all

Oh. I see the scenerio. Yeah i agree.

Sorry, the way i read 'centre lane' i was thinking of motorways, hence my confusion hsha.

OK, I see where you're coming from. I still wouldn't do that, but I see what you mean.

 

I guess my OP was originally (mainly) aimed at people who seem to think that they have a god given right to overtake regardless of the existence, or road position, of oncoming traffic. As I said, I've had a couple of instances where people have forced me to swerve - not just ease over- but actually swerve to miss them.

In that case I agree the sense (if not the words) of the OP, but can top it.

 

The A77 (Fenwick moor road from the Malletshaugh to Kilmarnock) used to be four repeat four lane single carriageway, and you occasionally encountered someone making an overtake in their lane 3 (your lane 2). Speeds on that road were typically high (early to mid 1970s you would regularly encounter 70 to 80 mph cruising) so you can guess how fast the L3 overtekers were going!

Regarding overtaking....I used to enjoy watching 'Driven' where Plato and Brewer would review cars and overtake a moving vehicle as part of that test

' time exposed to danger' if I recall

Time is exposed to zero in effect if there is something present when you overtake 'up the middle'

Anyway, I googled 'time exposed to danger ' and found a similar thread to this on Pistonheads

Boy aren't we polite on here by comparison.

I posted an example of a suicide lane in post #10. Here it is again, relatively close to the piece of road in the OP...

 

 

I posted an example of a suicide lane in post #10. Here it is again, relatively close to the piece of road in the OP...

I see what you mean.

I have overtaken in such a lane on the bike. Only when i can see the entirety of the oncoming lanes are clear for more time than needed.

I dont like to risk somebody changing lanes coming the other way for reasons that it might not be possible for me to see, as im coming the other way.