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Old 01-13-25 | 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by spclark
99.9% of the vehicles passing me tend to move well to my left as they pass. The 20% who move into the oncoming traffic lane give me the heebies when they're entirely over the double yellow with no possible way to tell if there's something coming up over the hill in front of us both but in that lane.
On a rural road, when someone wants to move left to pass me and it is not clear whether oncoming traffic, I will block him if possible. If a vehicle comes from the oncoming direction, the driver passing me has to make a choice: Kill me or be killed. I don't want him to face that decision.
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