But I'v just had a call (hands free of course) and need to hurry up, what am I to do????????? 
Middle lane hoggers = 3 points?
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But I'v just had a call (hands free of course) and need to hurry up, what am I to do?????????
If you need to ask questions I suggest you dont drive on a motorway
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imamartian
surely the idea is to drive acording to the conditions of the road.. so on a free flowing motorway where all cars are doing 70, 40mph is not in keeping. Whereas, if the trafffice is slowing down, due to an incident, or debris on the road for example, whizzing past at 40 mph is dangerous..
That's obvious.
The context was a driver doing 40 in the middle lane of a free flowing motorway.
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JMLanders
That's been done a few times an' all. I bet you snico could tell a few tales about that.
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imamartian
so the answer is that the person driving at 40mph is driving unsafely. however, if you can't cope with a car doing 40mph on the motorway, you're driving without due care and attention... after all, a wheelbarrow lost of a flatbed does quite a bit less than 40mph!
Which is what I said, so I agree......the rest is completely irrelevant.
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Mickymoody
If you quoted me properly. you will see that I stated that the signs are located at military installations for minimum speed limit. Not on motorways.
I also stated, but was misquoted that driving too slowly could be construed as obstruction, or dangerous driving.
please don't post 'half' quotes, then ignore the rest.
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is this what you were looking for?
One factor that is seldom mentioned is road quality.
Surely everyone has noticed that on some roads, driving in the lefthand lane is a noisy affair because of the additional wear and tear caused by the lorry traffic. Try driving those lanes in something sporty, and a bit of extra vibration in a Mondeo is scaled up to a lot of banging and skittishness in something like an Elise.
On some motorways, I would need to keep to 40 or 50 to drive in lane 1. But, on those same roads I can do 70 mph with no such drama in the other lanes. Possibly more, although I won't test that theory as I couldn't possibly break the speed limit, it's such a heinous crime.
If I WERE to have committed such an act, I expect that I would have noticed that people driving at 60-70mph on the motorway seem to be the most accommodating to those driving at significantly greater speeds as they seem to spot you approach and won't just pull in front of you without looking. People driving at a slower speed don't generally end up past lane 2 so don't cause much bother, but people doing 100mph are a real danger as they seem to assume nothing is going faster than them and will pull out in front of you or just sit there at 100 in the outside lane even though the other 2 or 3 lanes are empty for the next few miles.
Surely everyone has noticed that on some roads, driving in the lefthand lane is a noisy affair because of the additional wear and tear caused by the lorry traffic. Try driving those lanes in something sporty, and a bit of extra vibration in a Mondeo is scaled up to a lot of banging and skittishness in something like an Elise.
On some motorways, I would need to keep to 40 or 50 to drive in lane 1. But, on those same roads I can do 70 mph with no such drama in the other lanes. Possibly more, although I won't test that theory as I couldn't possibly break the speed limit, it's such a heinous crime.
If I WERE to have committed such an act, I expect that I would have noticed that people driving at 60-70mph on the motorway seem to be the most accommodating to those driving at significantly greater speeds as they seem to spot you approach and won't just pull in front of you without looking. People driving at a slower speed don't generally end up past lane 2 so don't cause much bother, but people doing 100mph are a real danger as they seem to assume nothing is going faster than them and will pull out in front of you or just sit there at 100 in the outside lane even though the other 2 or 3 lanes are empty for the next few miles.
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