On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:09:37AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:00:03PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > It's a requirement in the UK Highway Code. While Paul decries it on
> > safety grounds, the rationale is in fact that going around the other
> > vehicle like this is safer because you can see oncoming traffic at all
> > times, instead of having to nose out with the car turning across you
> > blocking your view.
>
> Actually, it's not usually the car coming at you that's blocking the
> view of where you're going, it's the cornerpost next to the windshield...
Recent updates of the Highway Code allow both alternatives; they point
out that offside-to-offside ("tangle") turning is safer for the reason
Colin gives, but allow the driver to judge which method to use
depending on the particular circumstances. There is a little diagram
of each method; that for nearside-to-nearside illustrates the danger
by including a cyclist coming up the inside of one of the turning
vehicles, whom the driver of the other vehicle cannot see.
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