"mrjolly" wrote in message
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"K" wrote in message
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:03:57 +0100, "Stimpy"
wrote:



But what if your exit road is clear when you go into the box, but
gets
blocked by oncoming cars turning left and then witing in a queue?
:-)

I don't think the Highway Code provides advice as to best course of
action to take under that particular set of circumstances. A recent
posting established exactly what the Code does advise...


Yes - just read that. But it doesn't (as you say) cover that
eventuality :-) The reason I said it was because exactly that
scenario happend to me on Sunday.

In this case, oncoming traffic should consider your place taken in the
queue
already.
i.e. The person turning left into the last slot should leave that space
for
you.

Usually traffic is moving slowly when this happens, so its just a matter
of
hoping that the last person to turn left is aware of this fact.
Fat chance with the drivers around my area.

What usually happens is that when you (the right-turner) see that the gap on
the right is big enough to take your car, you start to accelerate. As you
are doing so, the left-turning car nips in ahead of you. This leaves you
stranded in the box, not in a nice neat facing-ahead-but-about-to-turn-right
position but immediately behind the car that's nipped in ahead of you,
blocking the road for any other oncoming traffic :-( [So easy to draw a
diagram; so hard to describe in words!]