A mildly infuriating situation yesterday on the M25, just one of dozens I’ve experienced this year alone:
I’m in lane 1, at a bit under 70 mph. Come across someone doing 60 mph.
Just ahead of me are three cars, all spaced across the second, third and fourth lanes. All doing 70 mph, no one overtaking the other.
They are soon joined by more cars in lanes 2 and 3, none of them trying to indicate or move into another lane to overtake.
So essentially we have a rolling roadblock, where drivers have picked “their” lane, got nice and comfy on the cruise control, and sit there in their bubble.
As for me, I had to wait ages for a safe gap, move out, overtake and got back into a totally clear lane 1.
Clear to the point where if I hit 70mph I would be comfortably overtaking the second, third and fourth lanes.
What on earth goes through folks heads is all I’m asking - the Highway Code states “keep left unless overtaking”, yet no one was actively trying to overtake. I know speed cameras are an issue, yet if you move back over, others can also accelerate safely to 70 mph, then move back in.
Sadly this is why we have “smart” motorways coming in - because fewer people seem to accept overtaking, claiming “it’s more dangerous to change lanes all the time” (?!)
So, AIBU to think people should keep left?