PLEASE- READ what I posted The reason I diddn't have opertunity to pass was because this personDELIBERATELYadjusted their speed to be right alongside the two cars in the left two lanes. This left me nowhere to goIt was apsolutely clear they saw the car aproaching and decided for whatever warped reason they had to slow that vehicle down.
kazbanz,
Jan 6, 10:15pm
WELL what a lot to do about nothing. Mrs Kaz was driven home at lunch time ish. Yes there are issues but they decided to let her keep baking the bun for a bit longer yet. If there is a next time I told her I'm taking her in on the Gsxr1000
jmma,
Jan 6, 10:20pm
Now you got the right idea kaz Goodluck to you and family (o:
romulan7,
Jan 6, 10:41pm
Well you have no idea about that do you!You heard of Emergency Response Driver Training!You dont get to run redlights and drive flat out without being certified competant to do so and even then their are rules and regulations you must follow to exercise safety to you and your crew as well as to other members of the public.
Yes people block emergency vehicles without realising it and panic when approached from behind and the drivers are trained how to deal and watch for the behaviour.No point getting to a job if you are going to crash on your way risking more life.
You think thats a crock then go speak to someone who deals with emergencies.
romulan7,
Jan 6, 10:48pm
For this I do feel for you mate and yes the deliberate action was uncalled for.No not an easy choice for you to make in the circumstances but as long as you remember that your safety and think about the consequences of what your actions might seem to other people you will get passed these clowns.
Yes I have been there and been pulled in for my actions and it made me think enough to realise that some approaches simply dont work.Having someone sat beside you to point out and snap you out of that adrenalin rush is priceless to have and not a luxury you get when its a loved one concerned.
romulan7,
Jan 6, 10:49pm
My brother did that on a ZZR1100 the best way through peak hour traffic with a woman about to drop.
gabbysnana,
Jan 6, 10:53pm
Somewhere in the road code the blocking car is in the wrong- flashing headlights and hazards etc. And the "game" the front car was doing is called "a roling block", its a game to piss off someone.
kazbanz,
Jan 6, 10:57pm
Hey look romulanlets put this in a bit of prospective ok. 1) the speed involved is legal motorway speed in australia so we aren't talking idiot speed 2) the speed involved was in arguably the safest place barring a ractrack to do so being the "fast" lane of a quiet motorway.-incidently the motorway here has a BIG dividing barrier so the danger is the traffic you are catching up with not oncoming traffic. 3) the driver concerned has been trained to drive at genuinely high speed(double to triple the road speeed limit)and has done so competatively for many years.-In fairness on the racetrack on bikes in cars and karts.-I apreciate there is a world of difference but it argues competence to a level arguably higher than an average road user. 4) the vehicle concerned had just passed a compliance inspection so was as safe/roadworthy as its possible for a road car to be. So I feel the danger was not any greater than normal road use danger
peja,
Jan 6, 11:00pm
Anyone that "block semergency vehicles without realising it" or even worse "panics when approached from behind" is clearly unfit to be driving and should have their vehicle and licence removed from them. The same should apply to those with the mindset that the OP is complaining of. I regard the right hand lane on any motorway or multilane road as an overtaking and emergency vehicle lane and only use it for overtaking. As soon as I have passed whatever I'm overtaking (and it'd have to be fairly slow) I get out of the fast lane quick smart.
This needs to be rammed home to all road users, by means of plain clothes cars and large tickets if necessary. Not targeting you romulan by the way, I dont think you'dblock someone deliberately but there are people out there dumb enough to
tonyrockyhorror,
Jan 6, 11:10pm
I completely agree with everything in this post except the last sentence.
johnf_456,
Jan 6, 11:24pm
Heck is the rain making people crazy or something, its a new year. All the best kazbanz to you and hopefully your sons behave when mum is not around.
But really its not worth having a slinging match over people. But then again its the whole speed debate which of course is a senstive topic.
gunhand,
Jan 6, 11:47pm
Im not going to knock you for wanting to get your wife to hospital ASAP as I feel it is a natural reaction at a stressfull time. WIthout knowing all details of your wifes conditon at the time it is hard to comment at all but there are a few conditions that minutes can be the difference to life or death of both mother and child. These conditons are useually painfully obvioues when they happen. You have a few children so your wife is not inexperinced in giving birth and would not have paniced for nothing I wouldnt think. Most new mothers tend to panic at the slightest abnormality and thats fine. Again without knowing just what has happened it seems you made a call to 111 and they said 10mins. So you loaded a heavily pregnant woman into a car(an act in itself at times) in extreme pain and headed down a one way motorway to hospital where you were held up. 10 mins seems like forever when in a situation like this but waiting for the ambulance in this case would have been the better call. They are in a major city therefore have Advance Paramedics intensive car Paramedics and also can have doctors on board at times, even the slightly less level of Paramedic and upskilled Paramedics will be very use to this kind of call and can and do save lives all the time. Im not sure how much motorway you had but being one way you couldnt even meet the Ambulance on route which has been done for country people to shorten the time for intervention. But it sounds like you would have to have one chase you if it turned out that life threatning. I take it though you may live close to a hospital that made you make that call to make a run for it. But if it was such a dire sitiuation and your wife actually died on route in your car (it can happen even in an Ambulance) you would have had no back up, no drugs, no defib and would have had to drag your wife out of the car and do CPR on the side of the road. This isnt a dig or critisim of you at all but advice for others as well. Wait for and Ambulance, they know what there doing especially big city ones. Glad all things turned out well for you both. And as we all know speeding in reallity unless you get a clear run saves very little time in the end as you have found. You may (or may not) have found if you had waited your wife would have been givin pain relief and that reduces stress immediatly for mother therefore less stress on the unborn child. And an Ambulance is a far better enviorment for a heavily pregant woman. This is only based on what I have read and may well be other circumstances that made your call to run seem like a good idea at the time. And out of interest what did the 111 operator tell you to do!
pieman33h,
Jan 7, 4:19pm
mate never mind the knockers and the criticism - its human nature to try and help those we love in the best way we know how - and if it means a fast trip to hospital then so be it! the only mistake you made was to assume that the average auckland driver acknowledges that the shiny things on the side of the car actually are there to be used!
xs1100,
Jan 7, 4:29pm
so for 4 ks there was never a opportunity to pull into the middle lane overtake and then pull back into the fast lane.after stating you are a experienced racing driver and you still cant look ahead.1 of the first things i was made to do
topseycat,
Jan 7, 4:34pm
Yeah the road code says keep left at all times unless passing. There is then no official fast lane on a Motorway. We should always keep left unless passing
tonyrockyhorror,
Jan 7, 4:53pm
Looks like romulan7 spazed out. ROFLMAO
kazbanz,
Jan 7, 5:08pm
OHH for gosh sakes do I have to spell it out in REALLY simpleterms. ! Its a 3 lane highway.---You get that bit ! I'm in the inside "fast" lane. there are two cars side by side in the "slower" two lanes up ahead In the fast lanein front of me is a car that may have been doing 100km/h butDELIBERATELY SLOWED as he pulled alongside the slower moving cars in the left lanes to completely block the motorway. Do you get it now. -3 lanes-3 cars SO -what do you propose -I ram the car in front! -drive in the bus lane!
There is no issue with the two cars in the two left lanes -they simply carried on doing what they had being doing and eventually the person in the far left lane indicated and pulled off the motorway.
tonyrockyhorror,
Jan 7, 5:12pm
Presuming you mean the right lane. that's actually the OUTSIDE lane. It's not relative to the extremities of the roadway being in the inside of the roadway - each direction is its own road.
xs1100,
Jan 7, 5:26pm
so for 4 ks they all kept close enough for you to not overtake them and you didnt see any of this happening for the preceding 2ks whilst heading towards them.tuis i think.
kazbanz,
Jan 7, 5:27pm
Yea --the RIGHT lane -awrite! -lane nearest the median barrier -the fast lane. -the overtaking lane-- ahh need coffee
pge,
Jan 7, 5:53pm
Better make that an"Iced Coffee", kaz, .
Maybe, with all the confusion around, re, "inside, outside", refer to them as "nearside" and "offside"-- nearside = side of the car nearest to the kerb: offside = driver's side
Incidentally, I was always taught inside = nearside outside = offside
Next time !YES -- use the buslane--you wouldn't be in it for long enough to be pinged.
Any complaints, let the Feds sort it out.
Hope Mrs Kaz is OK.
eagles9999,
Jan 7, 9:54pm
Lots of very valid points in there. +1
johnf_456,
Jan 7, 10:18pm
Could not be said any better.
kazbanz,
Jan 7, 11:28pm
Gunhand--Point taken.The logic was- At least 10 minutes for ambo. or 20 minutes drive to hospital. BUT that really wasn't the point of the thread. -that being that some clown took it apon himself to block another vehicle from proceding because they were going faster than he was. -for whatever his reason was. What if I was a doctor racing to deal with a patient that needed me. A firey racing to a scene. Why deliberately go out of your way to be a pratt
marcos1,
Jan 7, 11:38pm
To the person who has hijacked johnboys account.
You post nothing like him.please desist.
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