Re: Overtaking at pedestrian crossings
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 7:59 pm
Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:... and I assume you tell your associates not to overtake in the zigzag area? (otherwise it would imply that you think there's a different law for bikers - which I'm sure you don't)
No we discuss the issue and that it is NOT ilegal to overtake/filter in the zigzags.
The solution in all cases is not to pass the last vehicle before the crossing, moving or stationary, unless the last stationary one is stationary due to a queue in front of it across the crossing. And in the later case to only do so very carefully.
I think you may have misunderstood my original comment (although I'd agree it is poorly worded). The point I was making is that the last car before the crossing is usually the one controlling the speed of all behind it, NOT that you can overtake it. If you do as I say in the paragraph above you can still pass the queue up to the last vehicle. This means you must be going faster than the queue.
The reason filtering in zigzags comes up so often is that most people think you can't based on the HWC wording.