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I wondered if there were variable speed cameras in force but the gantry signs looked to be off.
If they were in place you often see very slow overtakes, or no progress at all if all lanes of traffic are travelling at the same speed. This is particularly the case where the cameras are set at 50mph or below as trucks an keep up.
As far as blame, the car could have completed the manoeuvre quicker but that doesn't let the truck driver off the hook, he is the one changing lane and the onus is on him to make sure that it is appropriate to do so. Most trucks have those mirrors above the door just for this purpose.
They are Kerb mirrors and on a right hand drive truck would be on the nearside/Kerbside no help with an offside blindspot!
Tony.
I wondered if there were variable speed cameras in force but the gantry signs looked to be off.
Even with cameras in operation, there is usually sufficient space between gantries to complete the overtake manoeuvre and return to the speed limit
I can't believe the people here saying the SLK took too long to overtake. It was travelling at the speed it wanted, in the second lane with two lanes available outside it for other vehicles. The videoing car was travelling at the same speed in the same lane. Yes, the SLK should have been in the inside lane for some of the time shown in the video. But it was in the second lane for plenty time to be seen by the lorry driver, had that driver started to check his mirrors as it saw it was slowly catching the vehicle in front. The lorry driver had plenty time to observe that the SLK was slowly approaching in the next lane so could have started indicating its intentions earlier. But instead he did as most lorry drivers do and flicked on his indicators very shortly followed by turning the steering. Ideally the SLK could have seen that the lorry was getting closer to the other vehicle on the inside lane and moved out to the next lane (if free, which it wasn't) or adjusted his speed just in case. But it wasn't essential. There's absolutely no way the SLK can take any of the blame. The lorry driver would know about his blind spot and should make regular checks well in advance to ensure that it was safe to change lanes.
Defensive driving, it's what you do to account for the other idiots on the road. The SLK didn't do any.
No good being right and dead.
As it happens I do practice defensive driving.
However, it's not much good being wrong and alive either.
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