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?

The only person's driving you're responsible for is your own.

Other driver was wrong for speeding.

You were wrong for being in the outside lane when not overtaking.

So, you take responsibility for your own error and move into the inside lane. You can't control what the other driver does, so just ensure you drive as safely, legally and sensibly as you can.

Your husband told you you were in the wrong, lots on here told you you were in the wrong. Accept you were in the wrong. You were in the overtaking lane, not overtaking, you can be given a fine for that if it were on the motorway. It is not your job to police other peoples driving. Yes, the guy was close and flashing you, but if you hadn’t been in the wrong lane, he’d have just passed and been on his way.

If everyone jumped off a cliff...

I suspect so!

Also unless you are driving a vehicle with. Properly calibrated speedometer then when it shows 50 on your display you actually be travelling at less than 50.

Most people don't use lanes properly, doesn't make what you did correct. YABU.

Almost 100% of people in your rl and on mn think you were wrong so probably time to accept it. We have all sat behind a lane hogger feeling frustrated. It doesn't matter what other people do or don't do, you shouldn't have sat there.

Yeah. Exactly. It could have been Paw Patrol.

I don't agree with anyone breaking the speed limit but I would still use the left lane unless overtaking.

I also think that you staying there to make a point is more likely to cause an accident. What if an emergency vehicle came up from behind and you couldn't get back into the left hand lane? What if you broke down suddenly?

You just want to be told he was wrong and you were right, don't you?

This. Right hand lane is for overtaking, unless you are attempting a manoeuvre imminently to switch to a new road. Doesn’t sound imminent in this case to me, you should have moved over. I drive on the M4 which can involve all sorts of interesting swaps to lanes, I never move before 500 yards unless it’s a deadlock. Keeps the traffic flowing. Not up to you if people speed and safer just to let them go by.

Hi OP. Folks on here are loving the opportunity to pile in with “unless you are overtaking, stay left” Yes. That is the general rule. But motorways split and it isn’t good driving to stay in lane 1 when you need to be in lane 3 or 4 in half a mile. This really depends how long it was until the point you needed to be in the correct lane for your exit. 5 miles, yes, you’re wrong. 1 mile, maybe 2 miles? You were right.

It’s not your job to police other people’s speed and that is dangerous. But neither should you be forced to take a dangerous last minute manoeuvre or miss your turning because some meat head thinks the motorway is their personal race track.

OP, I totally get what you are saying and I get that by moving over you are enabling the aggressive driver to speed. However, I still think you should have moved over. I would have. The right hand lane is an overtaking lane but it's not clear from your OP how far it was before the road stopped being a duel carriageway.
I've no power to stop other people from speeding but I do have the power to make things as safe as possible for myself and one way to do that is to get out the way of aggressive speeding drivers. Having a speeding aggressive driver right behind you is dangerous.

Another thing to consider is whether you were actually going 50 or whether you were going slightly under. If your speedo says 50 is possible you were going a few miles an hour slower.

There is a long stretch of road near me that's 30mph but feels like it should be faster. I put my cruise control on at 34mph ( which is actually about 32 mph) and it pisses people off.

So I should have weaved in and out in the run up to it going down to one lane over a bridge when both lanes had cars in because an arsehole wanted to be in front speeding with cars in front of him and behind on both lanes?

Doctor or way to emergency, baby crowning?

No one is saying he should have been there
Your question was should you have been there
The simple answer is no

Because they were going faster than you? Just move over. They wanted to overtake and you were hogging the lane

Why would you be weaving? Just stick left until you NEED to be right. That's the rule.

No it's not
Left hand lane = driving
Right hand lane = overtaking
It really is not confusing.

It wasn’t a doctor. If it was I feel for his patient. He just pulled in front then stayed in the right hand lane just in front of me. Didn’t disappear off to an emergency.

What are the "few exceptions"???? There are none for the ordinary driver and that is a fact

You're only driving your car. It's not your place to police others 🤦‍♂️

I don't understand when OPs post threads like this. They ask if they are being unreasonable. Everyone says they are being unreasonable. They then try and argue they are in the right.

And OP, you need to read the highway code

If you really struggle this much with how to use lanes correctly I'm not convinced you should be driving at all.

It doesn't matter that he was speeding and you think he's an arsehole for that, you still get out of the way if you're not overtaking someone. Hogging the outside lane is never correct regardless of how morally right you think you were. Your DH is correct, you should have moved.

Yup five pages of ‘you were wrong’ with explanations as to why. Still arguing?