Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:As she came past, she looked to her left and noticed me. She gave me a pitying look and shook her head disapprovingly...
Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:As I arrived at the r/a, so did a lady in a small Peugeot from the exit opposite (4 o'clock on the map), indicating right. We both stopped, then I decided I would be the one to be assertive and go first. I set off, and started driving round the r/a.
Horse wrote:It's a possibility - slim, I admit - that she genuinely didn't see you.
If your approach put you on a 'constant bearing' line of approach, you would not have moved across her field of view.
That means that her only 'view' (as in 'attention getting') of you would have been 'looming' ie gradually increasing in size.
Then, as you slowed and stopped you ceased to be a problem to worry about, so she was more concerned with the fourth (also sloping?) approach direction - where 'surprise' was likely, unlike the nice 'advanced driver' who'd [apparently] stopped.
No excuse, etc. - but a possible reason or contributing factor.
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