To think I had every right to be in the right hand lane when driving the speed limit on a dual carriage way

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Dh thinks not.

So I’ve had to do a speed awareness course a while ago so do my best to keep to speed limits at all times.

Driving home on a curving dual carriage way on a slight tilt. 50 limit signs every few yards and a speed camera sign. The lane on the right turns into a fly over which I needed to keep on. So I was in the right hand lane driving at 50. A car came right up to my bumper and kept flashing. I stayed in the lane and pointed at the signs. He kept flashing then overtook me in a dramatic fashion, zoomed off( so breaking the speed limit) then slowed down so ended up driving not that faster than me but still over the limit.

Dh said I should have pulled over. I don’t understand why. Nobody on that road should be doing over 50 so what would be the benefit of me pulling over if I’m doing 50?

They also teach getting out of the way of unsafe speeding dicks on speed awareness courses. They're too erratic and unpredictable to try to manage their speed. If they're dumb enough to not notice the speed limit and tailgate, get them out of your 'bubble'

Doesn't matter what speed they're doing your not the speed enforcement. That lane is literally designed so you can get out overtake and get back in. Not block the lane.

Yes that's correct.Except for the Police, no other driver has the right to hog the right hand lane in this way. Besides, the right hand lane should be kept free for emergency vehicles unless overtaking, then you should pull back into the left hand lane if it's safe to do so.

There isn't much you can do about the flashing lights brigade I'm afraid. I've been in the process of overtaking and had the flashing lights brigade drive dangerously behind me whilst flashing lights. It's stupid if it's in a zone with Average Speed Checks but it doesn't stop them. Your best bet is to move safely into the left lane as soon as possible. It's safer to miss your turn off than risk them trying to get past.

Yeah and he wouldn't have had to bloody speed up so much to overtake you if you were in the LEFT hand lane! You forced him to speed up to overtake you. I don't advise you drive on the motorways in Germany. They are so strict with the right hand lane is for overtaking rule, you would have been flashed and beeped and received some nasty hand signals and looks with that attitude.

Her oh telling her she was wrong (who was actually in the car!) and 99% of people on here agreeing.

No.

Wait until the signage directs you get in lane for the turn off. Or if it’s a road you’re familiar with, move over when you know from experience that the turn off is coming up.

Oh FFS just move over to the left!! Right lane is for overtaking, were you overtaking? No! It doesn’t matter if you were doing the speed limit, just move the fuck over!

Why did he HAVE to overtake in the first place? I'm not saying the OP was in the right out should be the speed police, but if the driver behind chooses to speed and undertake, then no one is forcing them to do so. They should be following the speed limit like everyone else is required to do.

I don't like speeding, myself. The right lane is for overtaking so I'll be in the left lane unless the traffic is going significantly lower than the speed limit.

Having said that, if the left lane traffic on a 70mph road is going at 55mph because of a lorry or something, I'll go into the right lane to overtake that traffic and I'll do it at 70-75. If - as sometimes happens - someone rams up behind me flashing and gesticulating because they want to drive at 80-90 mph, they're just going to have to tolerate going at or slightly over the speed limit until I can go at a reasonable speed in the left lane. I don't see why I should crawl along at 45 on a national speed limit road because a speed king wants to go 20 mph above the speed limit. I've been in cars with way too many impatient drivers who just want to go fast to assume that everyone who wants me to move out of their way is dashing to a deathbed or taking a sick child to hospital.

You have the same attitude as a middle lane hogger 🙄 The worst driver.

You were probably right and he was definitely a scrotum. .

Your husband is right.
Stay in the left hand lane unless you are overtaking. What anybody else is doing is not your concern.
I have driven behind you and you have driven me mad!
'Speed marshall'! Not heard that before but brilliant moniker for you and your fellow speedy marshalls!

I’m kind of with OP in getting mad at all the people undertaking me over the speed limit when I’m in the right lane. And I’m usually there as I am overtaking others as well and often going faster then the left lane but usually keeping to the limit. Then you get the idiots who want to get past you faster than the speed limit and end up undertaking. When I learned to drive on the motorway with an instructor I was told to read the road ahead and told it was perfectly acceptable of there were lots of Lorrie’s for example ahead in the left lane doing 55 that I could keep right until past them all as going in then out then in then out each time can also be dangerous.

I was driving home last night on a single carriageway and the car behind was flashing me to speed up or something as they were right up my bumper. Eventually when the road had stopped bending with other cars coming toward me they sped off past me, way over the speed limit.

Except the speeding car had time to undertake then get back in front of her either before they both took the right exit or before she did (can’t make out which from the OP). If there was time for him to do that, she was in the right lane far too early.

You should drive in the left hand lane unless you’re overtaking - no exceptions. Anything other than that and you’re a danger

Because he was trying to overtake and you wasn’t therefore you’re in the wrong lane and he did have the right to be there rather than you.

Are you being deliberately obtuse?

No exceptions? Not even a divergence of the road? She should stay in the left lane despite needing the right lane to exit? If she had reached a sign telling her that lane 2 is required for her route she had every right to be in that lane. Her attitude towards speeding and policing speed isn’t correct though.

Because not everyone is going to choose to stick to the speed limit and it’s not up to you to insist they do so. The outside (right) lane is for overtaking only until you need to be in it to make your manoeuvre. You are repeatedly being told this on the thread. You asked for people’s views. Repeatedly arguing isn’t going to result in people agreeing with you!

Oh bless his little cotton socks, the nasty OP doing the speed limit in a lane she needed to be in making him speed up to get past her.

This thread is so far over the horizon of bonkers that I'm struggling to see any flashing lights.

Is that you, uncle Bryn?

‘I am driving at the maximum speed limit of 70 miles an hour. If he doesn't like it, he can move to Germany and drive on the Autobahn’

Ultimately you had a choice to safely pull over. Instead you engaged in distracted pointing at signs and engaging with poor driving with more poor driving.
Thats why you were wrong. Instead of taking a safe manoeuvre you chose h to e less safe option.
It doesn’t matter if the other driver is unsafe or a dick. You are still wrong if you chose the unsafe option yourself. It’s quite possible to both be wrong. I’d have pulled over for the safety of me and other road users, whilst leaving the poor driver to it. Policing people like this just increases the danger

Love threads like this

OP: Was I wrong?

An overwhelming, deafening majority in unison: Yes.

OP: No, no I wasn't, please allow me to explain at length person by person why I wasn't, ignoring you all.

OP, speeder was wrong, but so were you. Right lane is for overtaking, had you been a new driver you'd have failed your test outright for driving as you described, as its in contravention of the highway code.

YABVU. It’s this thing called the Highway Code. The right hand lane is an overtaking lane. Once you’ve overtaken, you move back in. It’s rude as well as bad driving.