Is this a good driving courtesy when I'm on the road driving or is too dangerous?
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Is this a good driving courtesy when I'm on the road driving or is too dangerous?
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When I drive sometimes I slow down or stop to let a car on the other side of the road cross onto my side of the road to complete their left hand turn. I do it as a courtesy when I know I have there is a long line of cars behind me so that driver doesn’t have to sit there forever waiting to make his turn. And also, when I let someone through, technically I help keep traffic running smoothly on the other side of the road. Me stopping for 2 seconds is better than a car on the other side of the road sitting there for 2 minutes holding up traffic behind him. I refrain from doing this when I know it might cause cars behind me to rear end each other because my stop could "unexpected" to the cars behind me. However, I only do this as a courtesy because I know what its like to be stuck waiting to cross onto the other side of the road to turn left. I’m wondering if I’m doing the right thing or if I should stop doing this altogether if it might too dangerous. Some cars behind me might not expect me to slow down or stop, but It’s no different than me slowing down or stopping for a car that is front of me that wants to turn…which the cars behind me might not know there is a car in front of me that's going to be holding up traffic, therefore I don’t’ think it’s a problem of what I’m doing, but I’m wondering what u all think about it.
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Rapid Fire
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You are clearly full of the milk of human kindness. Unfortunately your actions could get someone seriously injured or killed. Stopping with the right of way and a line of cars behind you is begging for an accident.
Case in point - there was an accident here a few years back where two person died. A bus driver did what you propose. A vehicle behind the bus passed said bus and caused the car turning left up onto the pedestrian sidewalk hitting a group of people in the process. One gentleman died from blunt force trauma and a lady died as a result of striking her head on the sidewalk.
Our defensive driving course instucts us to never do what you propose in heavy traffic. And if traffic is that heavy the other driver should turn right, go around the block and cross at a traffic signal rather than hold up traffic in their lane. |
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Danny
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Hi, Whilst it is courteous to let someone in/out/turn across you, you should be careful not to signal that the way is clear, if there are two lanes or more, someone may come up the side of you and hit the car that thought it was clear to turn. this would legally be the other drivers fault for not checking, put you would have caused the accident.
I would also consider if you are causing an obstruction by doing this too.
if you are in slow moving traffic and you allow someone to cross by not moving off yourself, that shouldn't cause a problem, however if you are driving along a 30mph with a row of traffic behind you and you slam on the brakes to let someone out, you could end up being shunted.
In short, decide if it is appropriate to stop, and allow the other driver to make the decision to turn rather than flashing your lights or gesturing them across.
courtesy on the road is a good thing, if people were always courteous and made allowances for each other, the roads would be a lot friendlier place.
Hope that helps
Danny |
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UCANTCME
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Too dangerous and by doing this you are assuming the position of a traffic controller and if anything would happen you would be responsible for the accident and or worse.
This was explained to me many years ago by a police officer.. |
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Ryan R
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What you are doing is highly dangerous. Tough luck for the guy who has to wait to make his turn. That's the way life is.
One of these days when you stop to allow someone to make a left-hand turn, a vehicle is going to pass you on the right and clock the poor fool who tries to make that turn.
We have right-of-way laws for a reason. This is one of them. |
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