Dual carriage way near miss

[Monkeypuzzlegane]

I’m pretty sure I’m in the right but please let me know if something has changed.

Driving along a dual carriage way at 70. Petrol station and a young women decided to speed up coming on from the petrol station and just pull in front of me, I had to slam on my breaks. There was a car waiting to pull in but she went round them and just joined the carriage way.

She then flipped me off so I wasn’t too grown up and sounded my horn and flipped her off too.

I was always taught that people on the dual carriage way have right of way and it’s a give way basically. You wait till it’s clear to join.

This happened to me on a very fast road, the moron just pulled out- I couldn't believe it. A transit was in the outside lane coming up fast but I just had to pull out in front of him or I would have hit the person who pulled out. Luckily the transit driver saw what was happening and braked to accommodate me. I childishly sat on the horn but it was such a close call.

You shouldn't be driving a car with breaks anywhere, let alone on a dual carriageway, nor should you be breaking it further.

Why was you doing 70 on a duel carriage way ?
there was a petrol station with a short slip rd so I’m guessing it was in a built up area
which then makes you doing 70 over the speed limit ?
but she still shouldn’t of pulled out on you I’m just surprised you saw her doing all this

before hand and didn’t think to slow down !

Time for you to go and refresh yourself on the Highway Code.
You’re wrong - a dual carriageway can have one lane of traffic in each direction, and a single carriageway can have two - do some light reading :)

She should of waited. There's one like this near me, I'll always move over if possible but at rush hour it rarely is.

@CabernetSauvignon and @CharlottenBurger thanks I will add it to my list of spellings I get wrong with my severe dyslexia…..I hope you don’t go around taking to piss out of other peoples disabilities?

I believe my OCD deserves consideration too.

@CharlottenBurger your OCD doesn't mean you need to point out other peoples spelling mistakes

Thanks for the judgement. Duly noted. I don't know if I 'need' to do the things that I feel compulsions to do, but it is very hard to resist them sometimes, and MN does not allow me to go back and alter things I have written.

If you couldn’t move over, ie both lanes full, then she has to wait.

I dunno... feels a bit risky to be doing 70 in the conditions you describe - busy, both lanes full.

StopFeckingFaffing · Yesterday 17:36
Yes it is ultimately the responsibility of the vehicle joining the road to pull out safely but vehicles already on road should try to assist by leaving adequate spacing and/or pulling into the next lane if it is safe to do so

It shouldn't be necessary for cars in the slip lane to come to a standstill and wait for a space

Its hard to comment without having been there”

This. I always move out if I can.

70 is the national limit on a dual carriageway unless it's marked otherwise. Depending where you are in the country there are most definitely bits of roads like that.