Seriously? You need to pass THAT badly?

[PepperElf]

My BF was a little disappointed I didn't actually see it but apparently when he was driving to get gas last week he had to face an interesting moron...

He took a left hand turn (advance green) onto another road. By the way the roads are designed, this left hand turn puts you on the far-left lane (2 lanes each direction). If you want to move to the rightmost lane you can but you have to be careful because the opening part of that lane is dedicated to people taking a right hand turn into it.

Now granted I don't really feel those people should be making a right on red when we have the advanced green but ... well we won't run the risk of hitting them either.


So the problem he had was this. He *did* need to get to the right hand lane to get gas, but there were cars there (people doing right-on-red) so he couldn't just run them off the road of course and had to wait to make his lane shift.

That wasn't good enough for the moron behind him. Moron behind him was pissy that my BF was in his way and not moving over (into the cars already there of course) so he decided to pass on the double yellow.


O_o yeah. I mean if he'd just been patient my bf would have been out of his way but nope. jerk wad just had to be in front, even if it meant driving on the wrong side of the road.

[Sakka]

Had a driver similar to that on a local highway last week on my drive home.
A lot of the highways around here are very winding and only a single lane in each direction with the odd passing lane here and there or the dotted yellow line.

I'm driving home after work, going a bit over the speed limit. Guess it wasn't fast enough for the SUV behind me that kept looking like it was trying to kiss my back bumper each time I looked in the mirror. Part of the highway, there is a sharp curve to the right where the lanes open into one lane in one direction and a passing lane for vehicles going in the other direction.

Anyone care to guess where the SUV chose to pass me?

On the double yellow, on a sharp blind curve, less then 30m from where the highway widens into two lanes in the direction we were going in.


Karma sucks: Just after the SUV passed me and was back in the lane, here's a cop car coming in the opposite direction.

Karma wins: There was enough traffic ahead in the passing lane that the SUV got stuck.

[BrenDAnn]

Trying being in the passenger seat when a semi with a full load passes the car you're in on the right, illegally, and nearly takes your car out. Yep. Had that happen once. Dad was driving me back from college for a weekend, and I thought he was gonna kill the guy. I mean, he actually got out of the car at the next intersection and went over to talk to the guy. Yeah. Dad didn't take too kindly to his daughter almost being killed by an impatient asshole like in the OP.

[PepperElf]

"passing on the right"...

That always confused me. IIRC it's legal here (in KY & TN)... what's illegal is passing on the right if you're using the shoulder.

Mainly because the shoulder is reserved for emergency vehicles and disabled cars. In fact the law requires disabled cars to be moved to the shoulder (if no injuries).

Not sure about highway hills though. I mean when it goes to a 3 lane uphill... the far right lane is usually (by law or by courtesy, not sure which) for trucks cos they have to use low gear.

[Andara Bledin]

California made "passing on the right" legal so long as you are doing so safely.

No speeding, no leaving the lane, no driving in non-traffic zones, etc, etc, etc.

^-.-^

[PepperElf]

that makes sense really cos sometimes ... sometimes you have the weirdo who sits in the left lane stuck on cruise control.