PpPete
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wafflycat said:Am I reading this correctly? It reads as if the motorcyclist was approaching from your right. You entered RAB and find motorcyclist up your rear-end? Is that basically it?
If it is, then I'm sorry, but you're the one in the wrong as you're supposed to give way to the traffic approaching from the right, so you appear to have misjudged him - and ended up putting you both in a potentially dangerous situation.
Yes you read correctly Wafflycat- I misjudged his speed. He was 20 metres from his entrance to RAB as I was went onto the RAB. He covered that 20 metres + another 20 around the RAB before we left the RAB by the next exit with him up my rear end.
It's only a guess, but I'd say he entered the RAB at between 50 - 60 mph.
In my quick glance down the road from which he was approaching I didnt spot that... so technically my bad, because I entered the RAB at around 20-30mph - meaning that he had to slow, & that's not "giving way".
BUT if he wants to enter a RAB at double the speed most drivers find reasonable & safe he should maybe expect to find other vehicles in close proximity?...and not start shaking his fist at them , pointing at his eyes and so on.
As GrasB says - it can get complicated.