Why is it that some car drivers don't know what their mirrors are for?
Long stretch of dead straight and level road on my way home from work yesterday. 60 mph limit, small van with trailor doing around 40 with 2 cars behind and good gaps between them all.
So I think, right I'll overtake, so I
a) wait until there is suffient space to overtake at least the 2 cars first, or all 3.
b) check my right mirror,
c) pop on my right indicator, do a quick blindspot check,
d) open the throttle
e) move out
So why why why did the first car move out to overtake also, but just as I was going to overtake him, which resulted in a some braking, extensive swearing and light flashing and then being stuck behind van for next 8 miles?
I wouldn't have minded, I'd already being following this lot for a mile, mile and half possibily, and this car driver obviously had no idea I was there at all.
That made me irritated.