Advice Please!
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This has been bugging me for the last couple of days...
On my usual route home, one of the roads that I use always has parked cars on the opposite side of the road - it also has a left to right bend at the top of a very shallow hill. It is a residential road with houses set well back from the road with a pavement and grass.
When approaching the parked cars I needed to give way to another driver as they were already passing the parked cars on their side of the road, when they had cleared the parked cars another vehicle had stopped to give way - they were positioned where the road starts to bend.
When I approached the car that was giving way to me and rounded the bend I found an articulated lorry trying to negociate more parked cars and other vehicles queuing behind the lorry, some taking up my side of the road due to other parked cars.
Other vehicles had followed me so I had no way of reversing back the way I came and because of the articulated lorry's position, it would have needed to swing out to where I was currently positioned on the road.
I could not go forward due to the reduced width of the road and I could not go backwards due to the vehicles behind me.
My solution was to mount the pavement and travel far enough along the pavement so the lorry could manoeuver out of the position he was in to clear the problem.
There was a person putting out their bin around 30 feet in front of my finish position so I did proceed slowly and with caution.
So.......was this the correct thing to do?
Over to you guys...............................
Regards
Matthew
On my usual route home, one of the roads that I use always has parked cars on the opposite side of the road - it also has a left to right bend at the top of a very shallow hill. It is a residential road with houses set well back from the road with a pavement and grass.
When approaching the parked cars I needed to give way to another driver as they were already passing the parked cars on their side of the road, when they had cleared the parked cars another vehicle had stopped to give way - they were positioned where the road starts to bend.
When I approached the car that was giving way to me and rounded the bend I found an articulated lorry trying to negociate more parked cars and other vehicles queuing behind the lorry, some taking up my side of the road due to other parked cars.
Other vehicles had followed me so I had no way of reversing back the way I came and because of the articulated lorry's position, it would have needed to swing out to where I was currently positioned on the road.
I could not go forward due to the reduced width of the road and I could not go backwards due to the vehicles behind me.
My solution was to mount the pavement and travel far enough along the pavement so the lorry could manoeuver out of the position he was in to clear the problem.
There was a person putting out their bin around 30 feet in front of my finish position so I did proceed slowly and with caution.
So.......was this the correct thing to do?
Over to you guys...............................
Regards
Matthew