Who Has Right Of Way?

[securespark]

5:03

 

[Roger928]

The guy with the onboard camera has right of way.
As he rightly says the bmw pulls out in front of him.
Its a bmw driver. What else would you expect?

 

[EFLImpudence]

He's turning right; the BMW is not.

 

[Roger928]

He's turning right; the BMW is not.

So if you are approaching a crossroads and turning right you give way to the bloke approaching the cross roads from your left?

The video sums up the situation. A lot of dangerous drivers out there.

 

[rsgaz]

The truck we're in has right of way. The BMW is at a give way double dashed line, whereas the truck is crossing a centre line.

Gaz

 

[EFLImpudence]

If you were approaching the crossroad (in the lorry) and there was a car halfway across which was turning toward you, you wouldn't turn right in front of it.

Apart from that, the lorry may have a forty foot trailer, so he could have let the BMW go first.

 

[Deleted member 63160]

The truck pulled out into the path of the oncoming car before it turned. It may have been indicating to turn left but how often do cars indicate early and carry on to a subsequent junction. The bimmer driver didn't cross the line untill the car had turned! He then hung back to allow the truck in front. Fookin bimmer drivers eh? Letting the dangerous tit in the lorry go first.

 

[Roger928]

If you were approaching the crossroad (in the lorry) and there was a car halfway across which was turning toward you, you wouldn't turn right in front of it.

Firstly the bmw wasn't turning towards the lorry driver. He was crossing a cross roads.
And secondly... when doing that you give way to the traffic on the main road that's turning right.
There's a junction just like that near where I live. And the amount of car drivers who get it wrong is astonishing.
When they see the left clear they think they can just bulldoze on.
Idiots.

 

[mattylad]

When is this?
I gave up watching a boring video that 7 minutes+ long - at time point would be useful here

 

[rsgaz]

time point would be useful here

5:03

 

[mattylad]

Thanks, it was before I had wasted a whole 5 minutes that I gave up.

p.s. I agree, the wagon driver has ROW, the BMW has a give way in front of him - ISTR give way markings do not specify a direction to give way to.

They are generally meant to convey "Give way to traffic on major road".

 

[securespark]

When is this?
I gave up watching a boring video that 7 minutes+ long - at time point would be useful here

I posted the time above the video. Sorry if it wasn't clear?

 

[DaveHerns]

Not a lot of point arguing over who has right of way if you and your beloved Beemer get flattened by a lorry.

 

[nickjb]

Neither. A right of way is access over private land like a footpath. What someone has there is priority. I know it's a bit pedantic and right of way is creeping in as accepted use but it does seem to sum up a lot of what's wrong with UK driving. People assume they have some divine right to plough on regardless of other road users.

 

[Brigade77]

What frightens me most about the driving standards in the UK is the morons who sit there in front of their computers in their underpants & talk the talk about "right of way" & "undertaking".

You lot needs to pick up a recent copy of the highway code !