Who was BU here - traffic incident

[JuanPotatoTwo]

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I'm sorry, I haven't worked out how to embed videos yet but, in a nutshell, two drivers come face to face under a railway bridge. The woman has right of way but the man refuses to reverse - claiming he doesn’t know how! It's one of those bridges where you can't always see the traffic you're supposed to give way to until you're already part way through so he should have been prepared to reverse.

Of course, if he really can't reverse, then he shouldn't be driving so it seems like the man is totally in the wrong - but I can't help feeling sorry for him. The video is fascinating if only to see how determined they both are.

I don't see how you can say the male driver was "scared rigid" by the woman's" intransigence." At the point when they met in the tunnel she obviously wasn't showing any intransigence, she was just a driver coming in the opposite direction with a right of way who was waiting for him to reverse. How could that have scared him?

Poor man? Why????

I can't watch the video right now but from the description I think the man was being the most unreasonable.

So if she was driving a fiat panda you might think she was more justified tootired?

Again, tootired, why would you panic just because you need to reverse? If you do, at the very least you should let someone else do it for you, and apparently this man wouldn't. And it does appear that the pressure was 100% on the woman, not the man.

Obviously the person in the more expensive car was at fault...

And of course they would only be standing their ground because 'they think they're something' in their basic topless merc...

I thought before I watched the video, with the way some people were going on this was a bridge on the approach to a level crossing on the highest most precarious cliff top in the universe....its a bloody straight (and relatively) wide road ffs

The man should not be driving. He can't control his vehicle and is a danger.

The woman should have moved. Regardless of whether or not she had right of way it was clear the man was incapable of moving. Why she Houghton her principled little stand was justified in inconveniencing dozens of other people I don't know. Can only assume she has an enormous sense of self importance. Impressed the bystanders did not try and push the damn cars out of the way.

Pair of buffoons.

Scenes like that make me despair of the human race sometimes.

There is no way he should be driving. He isn't safe. She should have backed up when it became clear he couldn't, taken diwn his registration number and reported him.

I have to actually sort of admire her not backing down to the baying mob though. That takes balls.

Of course if the woman had right of way the man should have reversed. If he can't reverse he shout be on the road-agreed.

But, that stubborn arsed woman only needed to go back a couple of feet and she acted ridiculously imo. Very selfish.

The woman should have reversed.

Yes, she was in the right, yes the man should get his licence removed but really, she need to be a little less selfish.

Not intimidating at all.

Where I live, I have to pull out of a t junction and drive along a curved road to get in to town. Trouble is, one side (my side) of the road gas cars stacked all along it. Often the cars are parked nose to tail up to the curve and beyond. You simply have to pull out when it looks clear and hope someone doesn't immediately pull round the corner, because of course, you are on their side of the road. Thankfully everyone understands it is a blind corner, and there's nowhere to pull in. So approaching traffic, who have right of way, are quite happy to sit and wait, or tuck in on the pavements and let you pass. People wave thanks and smile and everyone goes about their business.

Not following "right of way", but the locals have come to a compromise which works and keeps traffic flowing.

If someone doesn't wave thanks, I mutter "you're welcome" to myself and go about my day. UI don't block the road for 30 mins because the law is on my side.

I thought the woman had balls of steel. I'd have been an absolute wreck after even a minute of that standoff

Did nobody offer to reverse the man's car for him?

I think they were both as bad as each other tbh. I'm not convinced the man was frightened, more like quietly determined he wasn't going to give way to a woman driver.

I can't imagine what its like to be coming to the end of my driving life and just think that we should give those at that time of life a little more slack.

It would have made no difference to the woman to reverse back a few feet, instead she chose to sit it out, even when she knew there were people trying to get to their children.

As for her choice of car. Unfortunately, its too much of a common occurrence that I see women in this type of car being twats. And for those that may think I'm just jealous of her "expensive" car, trust me I'm not.

Neither of them were in the right. The man shouldn't be driving if he can't reverse, and the woman was in the wrong in this specific incident. Even if it's your right of way, you don't get to arrive somewhere and force someone who is mid-maneouver to stop what they're doing, back up and let you start. Right of way doesn't mean you can plough on and expect everyone else to magically disappear. It just means that you take priority over someone else who hasn't started coming through.

And to be honest, even if you think that right of way is an absolute moral and legal trump card, you've got to be a bit of a twat to try and enforce it in that situation. I live down narrow lanes. I've had multiple stand-offs with idiots who plough on past passing places and expect me to reverse miles down the road. But if I'm closer to the passing place I back up, even if the other person is being a nob and I'm swearing through gritted teeth while doing it.

People who cant control a vehicle shouldn't be given any more 'slack' ffs. They are capable of killing and seriously injuring people.

I can't imagine what its like to be coming to the end of my driving life and just think that we should give those at that time of life a little more slack.

If he needed 'a bit of slack' to remember how to reverse his car in that situation, I hate to think how much slack he would need in an emergency situation.

How do you watch the video? When I click on the link there's just still images, am I being really daft??

If he doesn't know how to reverse then he shouldn't be on the road. Simples

I can't imagine what its like to be coming to the end of my driving life and just think that we should give those at that time of life a little more slack.

Can you imagine what it's like to have your life destroyed should such a driver kill or injure a member of your family? Would you cut them some slack then?