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

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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?

🤣. Well I certainly can’t drive it seems. 33 years of driving. Clean license. Only accidents have been people driving into me from the side. Go figure.

average speed road.. they are the easiest ones for joing/merging as everyone is normally going the same speed!

They would have merged around you if you held your nerve.

Nope. I am on the dual carriageway with four cars baring down on me from the left and overtaking cars on the right.

Well that’s the million dollar question isn’t it. The first vehicle was a white van and I wasn’t prepared to see if he was on his phone or not.

Just how close are you driving to the car in front of you to mean that a car can't come on to the motorway from the slip road?
Just leave more of a gap in front of you!

Not necessarily. I’ve moved over at 70 to allow a slower moving car on the slip road to join. As soon as they’ve joined they’ve sped up to 70+ so I couldn’t move back in. Rude tossers, frankly.

That’s the literal opposite of what the OP is describing, if you read all her posts she is definitely the one on the motorway and not the slip

I find the worst for these are traffic light controlled slip lanes. You get a sudden influx of cars all picking up speed and close to each other in one go. They are, as so many have said, supposed to merge in turn with the traffic already on the carriageway.

We have a notorious junction locally where two lane slips merge onto a two lane dual carriageway. They're fun as half the time the slip lane people won't even merge with each other let alone the main carriageway! I keep out of it by staying in the overtaking lane and doing 80

I swear some people on here have only read about driving in books and not done it in real life. I hope I don't meet them, they seem to have no empathy for the road conditions.

it's a 99.9% certainty they would have just joined around you.

You should always back off for anyone slightly in front of you on the sliproad as they may not have seen you in their blind spot, obviously they should check that before moving out but not everyone does. As for anyone behind them, they will have seen you there and would have slowed to join behind you.

There is a junction near me that's a nightmare, quite short slip road and cars come flying down it at a speed that won't allow them to stop. Every time I'm coming up to it I move over to the fast lane until I'm past it.

I've always believed that the cars on the motorway have priority and it would be dangerous for them to slow down to allow cars on the slip road on. If necessary cars on the slip road need to stop like at any junction until there is a space. Obviously if you can't you move over but when it's busy it's just not possible especially with the idiot middle land hoggers.

I fact the motorway slip road I use most often on the M62 often has a queue to join the motorway at busy times. The junction before actually has traffic lights on the slip road (not before. Literally just as you join the motorway) on a rolling cycle to slow the traffic on the slip road down before joining which flies in the face of all the posters saying slip road has priority and you have to let them on so they can maintain speed.

That's not something I'd be boasting about 🤣 I've never had anyone drive into me from the side or the back. That's not luck, it's because I'm aware of those around me. I've been driving just 2 years less than you have and it always puzzles me how people think the length of time since they passed their test makes them a better driver.
I'm always adjusting my driving to cater for others. Such as leaving a bigger gap in front if they're up my backside etc. However I have had extra driver training for my job so you can't help it if your style is outdated.

Adjust your speed to allow a car in. If you know the junction is coming maybe start to adjust prior.

wow - well this thread explains a lot of the driving seen out there on the roads - if there is so much misinformation about something so simple...

Exactly. Now I know who these twats who expect you to pull over into the middle lane and cut those drivers up are, they're MNers.

Not necessarily. I’ve moved over at 70 to allow a slower moving car on the slip road to join. As soon as they’ve joined they’ve sped up to 70+ so I couldn’t move back in. Rude tossers, frankly.

And this ^. It happens so often, usually an Audi or a RR type car. A lorry driver on PH seems particularly unimpressed with this type of shite driving. I've been driving over 30 years and I still hate slip roads because as shown here, a lot of people appear to have no idea what the rules are around them.

Just wait a moment then. You don't have to immediately ricochet back to the inside lane

There's one by me too, I do the same.
Other than that I watch to see what's coming down the ramp towards the road I'm on and adjust my speed accordingly.

This thread is proof that no one knows how to drive. The cars on the carriageway have priority! The slip road cars have to give way. How do people not know this?

Wait for them to finish effectively undertaking me you mean? Well yes, I have to really, don’t I?

The person I quoted didn’t understand what the previous poster meant by this, and I was explaining. The driver joining is still wrong and inconsiderate. They should have matched their speed so I could move back in, and then overtake in the normal way.

If you don’t understand this you’re part of the problem.

It’s at the same time astonishing yet unsurprising.

This thread is proof that no one knows how to drive. The cars on the carriageway have priority! The slip road cars have to give way. How do people not know this?

I know, it's so scary, but it does explain a lot of the dreadful driving that I see!

I understand it, and I don't drive like that. But I don't get the dramatics over having to spend a few moments in the outside lane.

this is not correct.

• You must give priority to traffic already on the motorway: do not force your way into the traffic stream.

https://www.safedrivingforlife.info/advice/car-driving/develop-practical-driving-skills/car-driving-motorways-dual-carriageways/

Boasting 🤣

I know this. But I also know that it makes absolute sense for me to move across a lane to make it easier for people to join from the slip road if safe for me to do so. I also know that I need to leave decent space in front of me so it won't be hard for people to join.

Just because they should give way, it doesn't mean I shouldn't do my bit to joining easier

Four cars. No car in front which is how I accelerated to avoid a collision.