Wibu not to reverse

[DannyDogg]

Blue cars are parked, mine is the green car and the ‘trainee driving instructor’ is the red car. He yelled that no one has right of way when cars are parked and I should reverse all the way back as he had priority. I wasn’t wrong, was I? Arrow are just to show direction.

yanbu (unless he was already nearly through)
cars parked on his side, so you have right of way.

It's your right of way as his side is blocked surely ?

You have priority; the blockage (parked cars) is on his side of the road so he has to wait for a gap.

Were you expecting him to reverse around a bend?

The obstruction is on his side. And you're almost out, so he would absolutely have seen you coming and would have known he couldn't pass you. He should have waited until the highway was clear.

Did you stand your ground? I'd have refused to move!!

Surely YANBU. You'd already passed a number of cars so had committed to moving up the road. He should not have pulled out until his way forward was clear. I would not have reversed in a million years in this situation (even if I am wrong! 😳)

his side is blocked, and dont you have priority as well as you are further through?

You were right as long as he'd just passed a gap but if it was a worried looking learner I might have taken pity

The only time it could possibly his right of way is when he's already pulled out to pass the cars before you reach the parked cars from your side.

That’s what I thought but he was adamant that he was right and told me he would know as he was a trainee driving instructor

I would have expected red car to wait. Looking at your diagram you had already committed. He was wrong but I'm sure he knows that.

Unless the parked cars go further back on his side than in your diagram. If they're further back on hi side than yours, then maybe you should reverse. Or pull up onto the pavement completely to allow him to pass?

No bend just a bad diagram 😂 road is completely straight

That’s probably why he’s still a trainee

I had passed nearly all the cars as per the diagram, he had not even passed one

I did think about the pavement but thought that was not allowed?

He was in the wrong then. He shouldn't have pulled out as you'd already committed and had right of way. What happened in the end?

never drive on the pavement

If he’s a trainee driving instructor he’s obviously got a lot to learn still!

Oh good! Then my original comment stands. He pulled out when the road was not clear, it's not like you'd both been driving from either end of the blockage and met in the middle.... He just hasn't looked ahead and refused to wait. Idiot.

Did you clock the driving school on his car? Email them!!

@bluerunningshoes

No one suggested driving on the pavement. But if the parked cars stretched in both directions for a long distance, and these 2 cars had met in the middle then, if it were me, id have pulled up onto the pavement fully, let him squeeze through and then pulled back on the road. When you're stuck in a road full of parked cars that's sometimes the best option... legal or not! But this guy wasn't coming from the other end of a stretch of parked cars... He was the the start but didn't look ahead.

However, if an oncoming vehicle has already committed to the overtaking procedure whilst you are approaching, you must give way.It’s essential during a driving test that you look well ahead whilst before and whilst passing parked cars for this type of situation and be prepared to give way even if it’s your right of way.

www.drivingtesttips.biz/passing-parked-cars.html

He is right in the sense of when one lane is blocked neither has right of way, but as you where already well committed and that was clear he should have waited. Same would have applied if cars where on “your side” though

Thanks demented pixie, that’s interesting to read, I was way past most of the cars before he pulled out in this instance, I guess that might be the right if way he was referring to though?

Wot?

No chainsaws?