To think if you can’t drive to speed limits you shouldn’t be on the road?

[TheTruthAboutLove]

I know, I know that a speed limit is a limit, not a target.

However I’m talking about the ones who go much much slower than the speed limit on roads - which in my eyes is just as dangerous as people going over speed limits.

Tonight on my 30minute commute home I was behind;

A taxi which couldn’t decide what lane to be in so straddled both, doing 25mph in a 40mph limit

A car doing 30mph on a 60mph limit

On a motorway, and behind a car doing 50mph

Surely people need to realise this is just as dangerous as driving fast? I don’t tailgate, I stay the correct distances away from other cars so there isn’t any pressure, but these cars slowing right down are creating huge tails of traffic behind them which is horrific in rush hour!

Last time I had a flat tyre I had to drive back on the motorway on the spare and your not allowed to exceed 50.

Where were you that you couldn’t have used A and B roads?

I kept to the slow lane but still got beeped at by arsey motorists who had no idea why I was driving slowly.

There’s no such thing as a slow lane. You were going almost 10 miles slower than lorries. So lorries move into the middle lane and you slow everyone down. Fucking dangerous and incredibly selfish.

My spare tyre is a thin temporary one designed to get you home. Last time I had a flat tyre I had to drive back on the motorway on the spare and your not allowed to exceed 50.
It's a spare to get you home/to a garage to get a proper tyre put on.
Unless the flat tyre happened when there wasn't an open garage there's no reason to be driving on a motorway on it.
I was always told that you avoid motorway or dual carriageway driving on them precisely because of the 50mph limit.

@AlexaAmbidextra I have copied and pasted your post. Includes the word ‘tailgating’

Tailgating is illegal. Driving under the speed limit is not.

LochJessMonster. You will find that driving under the speed limit therefore impeding other road users may be classified as ‘driving without due care and attention’ and you may be issued with a fine and penalty points on your licence. So I wouldn’t be too smug if I were you. 🙄

Tailgating is illegal. Driving under the speed limit is not

Nishky. That was me quoting someone else’s post. My own post didn’t mention tailgating.

Can you show in the HC where it stipulates you must not drive slowly an impede other drivers?

I am aware of rule 144 but this would be hard to prove

I disagree.

Except where someone is driving slowly to hide a medical condition such as poor eyesight. Drivers should have regular medicals and whilst difficult, if they have poor health, not be allowed to drive.

Again another fun day out on the roads. I have a feeling I was behind @LochJessMonster!

I was in a 30, first car in a huge queue (I was about the fourth car and there were at least eight behind me), a Citroen Cactus was doing 17mph. Gets into a 60, and he does 33, back into a 30 and he does 17. Tailback is massive, cars are flashing him, and people try and tell me that isn’t dangerous driving?

TheTruthAboutLove the roadworks on the A1 in North Yorkshire have gone

And I didn't see anyone driving stupidly either.

@TheTruthAboutLove

I'd happily contribute to this thread for eternity with the incapability of some drivers

People wouldn't drive home via motorway on an emergency tire?
If I had a flat tire at work I would have been driving home up one of the several motorways I went to work on,on my emergency tire.
And it might have slowed the traffic a bit but at 50 a lorry will easily get past you,while on my local motorways the flow of traffic is regularly slowed significantly by one lorry passing another going at about 0.0001mph faster than it...
Everyone gets slowed down and frustrated.

the roads are full of incredibly self-righteous drivers (usually hairy-nostrilled old men) who think it's really clever to drive well below the speed limit

Not sure about the old men but I find such people are concentrating on their speedometers so much that they "forget" to use their indicators. I'd rather someone drove at the speed limit, indicated correctly and concentrated properly on the road!