Originally Posted by
Chris516
At first, I would agree that it wasn't smart to pass on the right. But considering the driver's menacing behavior, I think the would have been left-hooked by the driver. In addition to the behavior the driver was already displaying.
Yeah, he probably would have left-hooked him; the folks in the van wanted trouble. In this case, staying behind was the right thing to do. But passing on the right, between moving traffic and parked vehicles. . . pretty much always asking for trouble, unless there's
lots of room and the traffic cannot turn right.
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