Which side of the road do we drive on?

[benb]

OK, I would say that I was going a bit too fast for the road, but the driver was going too fast too, and seemed to think it was OK to drive on the right - there would have been ample room had she been on the left. But it's my fault apparently for being a "bloody cyclist" I think she said.

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAdHKKku3H0[/media]

 

[lit]

It seems like she started to go left after noticing you but then decided to go back to the right.

I would have made her go around me but then with some drivers I might have been a while.

 

[crumpetman]

Both of you going a bit too quick for that section which is wide enough for just one car but the car driver should have at least been nearer the left hand side. Glad that you both got on the brakes in time. It was a bit silly of her to say "bloody cyclist" as had you been driving a car it would have caused much more hassle for one of you to reverse out of the way.

 

[benb]

Both of you going a bit too quick for that section which is wide enough for just one car but the car driver should have at least been nearer the left hand side. Glad that you both got on the brakes in time. It was a bit silly of her to say "bloody cyclist" as had you been driving a car it would have caused much more hassle for one of you to reverse out of the way.

She probably just said it on the spur of the moment, in the same way as I said "bloody hell". I agree that I was going too fast, but if she had been on the left there would have been room for me to get through, as you can see when you look at how much room there was on her left.

Anyway, no harm done. The brakes were great, locked it up and went sideways, but stopped me really quickly.

 

[Moodyman]

That road is too narrow for there to be a meaningul left/right side to it. Driving in the middle there is understandable.

As Crumpet said, both of you should have been a little slower considering it's a blind bend.

 

[Riding in Circles]

She was driving like an idiot, so yes if she had been over to the left where she should have been then you would have been able to get through but the fact is that she wasn't and a collision would have hurt only you. However you were both able to stop so neither of you were going too fast.

 

[Trumpettom001]

I get this occasionally - here's a two lane, one way street......

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=IqoziYGEuKk


(not that i want to hijack this thread, but why does youtube not let me embed videos? I'm copying the code from the embed tab on youtube, but it comes out like this:


<object width="660" height="525"><param name="movie" value="

 

[gaz]

I get this occasionally - here's a two lane, one way street......

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=IqoziYGEuKk


(not that i want to hijack this thread, but why does youtube not let me embed videos? I'm copying the code from the embed tab on youtube, but it comes out like this:


<object width="660" height="525"><param name="movie" value="

Thats for embedding on a website with HTML code. As you can't use HTML on most forums it won't work.
What you need to do is get the normal URL and wrap the media tags around it

[media]Insert youtube link here[/media]