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[MOCAŠ]

Reversing onto a main road (or from one onto a driveway) is sometimes unavoidable, but one sensible precaution that people seem not to take these days is to use a banksman. I seem to recall this was quite common practice maybe 20 or 30 years ago.

 

[Mr. B]

Reversing onto a main road (or from one onto a driveway) is sometimes unavoidable, but one sensible precaution that people seem not to take these days is to use a banksman. I seem to recall this was quite common practice maybe 20 or 30 years ago.

Motorists normally do have banksman with them in the car - wife / girlfriend.

I'd rather take the risk to be honest.

 

[MJH]

I'd rather take the risk to be honest.

It doesn't matter about anyone else then ?

I know it's not easy or convenient sometimes to take a bit of extra care but it's one thing risking your own neck but with this outlook you are effectively saying you're happy taking a risk with others lives too.

Regardless of whether it's legal, recommended, advised or if the other party was at fault by going too fast or not looking, we all still have a duty of care to our fellow road users. So, if it's safer to drive out nose first or reverse using someone to watch you out, then you should. Not just accept the risk with a flippant disregard for others, which is typical of many people today who really don't give a f'k about anyone else as long as they're OK

 

[MOCAŠ]

^ I think Mr B's post was tongue-in-cheek (in a humorously misogynistic kind of way).

 

[DITTRICH]

Take it as a lesson learnt,parked around the next blind bend could be a bin lorry.
Exercise caution when you can't see.

Or keep a reasonable distance behind the car in front and listen carefully as it disappears from sight... but seriously...I think it is a fact of life that people travel the long and twisty roads assuming the road they cannot see around the bend is free. I'm not saying it is right, merely that's how things tend to happen. When I have to slow down or stop in situations, my first concern is what is behind me and to keep my car visible to anyone coming up behind me to they can stop without doing me in. Crests of hills and sharp bends.

 

[Charles Morgan]

^ I think Mr B's post was tongue-in-cheek (in a humorously misogynistic kind of way).

Agreed.

 

[Beetnik]

When I took driving lessons in the early 70s (and when cars had only four forward gears which could also be usefully used to supplement the poor brakes of that era) my instructor had a series of rhyming couplets to suggest which gear was most appropriate for given circumstances.

I don't remember them all but the one which stuck in my mind and which proved most useful over the years was:

'If you can't see
Number three'

A good maxim for the OPs circumstances, methinks.

 

[MOCAŠ]

Wmy instructor had a series of rhyming couplets...

'If you can't see
Number three'

If a crash should ensue
Number two...

 

[scottydee]

It's always puzzled me why people don't reverse into the driveway, so they can drive out. Far easier option.

 

[MOCAŠ]

It's always puzzled me why people don't reverse into the driveway, so they can drive out. Far easier option.

It's not always that straightforward. If your driveway is next to a blind bend, you could end up reversing against oncoming traffic.

 

[Dieselman]

Your turn

Sorry. I'm not going to be petty like you...

 

[Mr. B]

I wasn't being petty you pudding.

I enjoy reading your input and views.

 

[MOCAŠ]

Now, now, you two - time to kiss and make up...

 

[developer]

I don't see the problem - one simply drives on via one entrance and off via the other - simples .

 

[MOCAŠ]

I don't see the problem - one simply drives on via one entrance and off via the other - simples .

You only need a carriage drive if you don't have room to turn a car around within your premises. And they do tend to have a whiff of "commercial property" about them...

 

[Mr. B]

Now, now, you two - time to kiss and make up...

No tongues though.

 

[developer]

You only need a carriage drive if you don't have room to turn a car around within your premises. And they do tend to have a whiff of "commercial property" about them...

Commercial Edwardian house - how very dare you .

 

[scottishman2]

You obviously were going too fast. In this instance it was a woman reversing out - it could equally have been a kid off his bike, a horse etc.

I have this odd picture in my head of a horse reversing out of a driveway... followed by a kid going backwards on his bike....

 

[Bosco]

Being hit reversing in is probably better...it won't make you late if going somewhere..

A German tourist in a Porche Cayanne reversed out of a parking space into the side on the Mrs' A140 as we drove by on the road and did so much damage the car was an economic write off. I could cheerfully have guzzled him.

 

[Troon]

Just caught up on this one:

Staffordshire County Council - Highways

The use of mirrors on the highway is not recommended because of:-

• Distortion of the perception of distance and speed of vehicles
• Reflection of headlamps at night
• Glare from sunshine
• Obscured by condensation and dirt

A mirror erected on the public highway without authorisation from the Secretary of State is an illegal sign in terms of the Highway Act 1980 and the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and may be removed by the Highway Authority.