If you are someone who drives down a slip road towards a busy dual carriageway with no intention of stopping ….

[EvangelicalAboutButteredToast]

Where do you think the cars are going to go if they is no space to go into the outside lane?

There is a really bad junction I’m currently dealing with every day. He cars come down the slip road in convoy. No ability for me to slot inbetween and they show absolutely no sign of slowing down to wait to join the trunk road. If I have a car on my right, where do these people think I’m going to avoid a collision?

Most of the time they will ignore you and close any gaps though

This can be dangerous too though. Both the car on the main road and on the slip road can end up braking to the point the car on the main road is going dangerously slow. If the car on the slip road is ahead of you, then yes slow down slightly. But if they’re beside you, do not slow down.

Coming to a complete stop on a motorway slip road is absurdly dangerous.

Obviously you should move over or slow down to allow merging.

Most motorways signpost to alert drivers of joining traffic well before the slip road

I hadn't moved 'well in advance' ! I had passed under the middle of the roundabout from which the slip road came and could see the traffic on the slip road.

Incidentally, some motorways have traffic lights to slow down/stop joining traffic during periods of heavy traffic, junction 11 on the M25 is one example

It’s on both parties to anticipate the issue and adjust speed / move in advance.

Absolutely not safe to get in a pissing competition and speed up or refuse to adjust speed just to maintain a sense of superiority.

I don’t do this route enough to quite know where it is until I’m on to of it. It’s even worse as I’m then taking the next junction off which is a short way past this junction and I need to merge left pretty much immediately.

No she doesn't at all. For example, a dual carriageway is really busy on a morning with both lanes full of traffic but still moving at 50-60 mph. Many cars definitely do not leave enough space inbetween them that vehicles merging from a slip road can safely join the dual carriageway.

It's necessary to stop and wait for a space in the traffic.

There are several junctions in the city where I live that are like this at peak times.

This!

I've had exactly this happen to me. I can only image that the driver on the main carriageway thought that they were being "nice"

I can’t move into the right lane as there are a flow of cars in that lane moving faster than me. I also have cars baring down on the slip road to merge coming at a fast speed with no tangible gaps inbetween. I just don’t know where they think I’m going to accommodate them.

Exactly. You 'draw back' to allow a car in, i.e. break slightly to slow down as you approach the slip-road.

You think so? Perhaps you don't drive on dual carriageways at peak times? I see it all the time.

This is unreal how many people think that you have priority on a slip road.

Read the Highway Code people.

People already on the motorway do not have to slam their brakes on to let traffic on.

Absolutely ludicrous for anyone to expect the car on the slip road to stop. If you’re in the left lane, have a bit of forward thinking and move to the right. Let the merging car in then you can move back to the left if that’s what you want.

If the right lane is packed or you can’t get over there, you still need to be thinking ahead, slowing down gradually, letting the car in, and off you both go.

Imagine a car having to stop on a slip road then join a dual carriageway in first gear while other cars are coming along at 70mph.

I’ll admit I’ve been driving donkeys but I thought the same. Drivers merging on the slip road should be adjusting speed to merge seamlessly. I’m just not seeing any adjustment from the slip roads. They are barrelling towards me and I don’t have a magic disappear button.

The whole point of slip roads rather than straight junctions is that cars joining the main road match the speed of the traffic and merge rather than coming to a stop and have to accelerate from 0 to 70 on the main carriageway which is incredibly dangerous.

Nobody should be braking, at most you should only need to ease off or accelerate slightly to either let a car in from the slip or slot in if you are joining the main carriageway.

@CocoapuffPuff

How'd you like to join a motorway from 0mph?

Junction 11 on the M25 (amongst others) has traffic lights on the slip road to stop joining traffic to 0mph

You should be moving over preemptively.

Whether or not the Highway Code says merging traffic doesn't have priority, anyone with half a brain cell knows that not moving over or making room is just asking for an accident because traffic cannot merge from a standstill onto a 70MPH road.

I really don’t understand what you expect the slip road drivers to do if you won’t make space and there’s no gaps in the traffic as you say? If they stopped how would they ever join it?

I would tend to let them merge in.

The ones that really piss me off are the ones that have plenty of space, panic and slam their brakes on or generally cause me to be concerned that they're just going to pull out! I take a slip road off the dual carriageway in the morning that it about 200 yards after an on-slip, so I can't move over, as I need the lane to get off.

The amount of times people end up getting stuck at the end of the slip road because they can't judge their merging properly, is so frustrating and fear inducing!

But I can’t adjust for four cars without stamping on my brakes. That’s the point. I can adjust for one, not for four.

I can’t make space for four cars! I mean my options are to brake really hard or accelerate. I chose to accelerate today but it’s bloody dangerous.

That’s totally fine. Adjust for one, let them on. Then the second car on the slip road goes behind you because the driver behind you on the carriageway has also adjusted their speed to create a gap.

This is all how it goes in a perfect world but we know drivers aren’t often like that, so I appreciate this maybe isn’t how it goes.

Also, the person coming onto the carriageway should also be forward planning. Looking down the slip road and over to the carriageway to see how busy it is, and adjusting their own speed, so it’s not all on the driver already on the road.

No I’m on the left hand lane of the dual carriageway taking the next junction straight after this problematic one .

I'm not sure I understand how you are finding this tricky, let one car in and get on with your journey.