"You can't hit anyone when you're stopped". Reminds me of when a neighbour reversed into my legally parked car. His insurance company actually asked me "why do you hold our customer responsible?" ..... 😂
Listening to the Auto Alex podcast today and similar story on there, 18 months ago a friend was sleep in the house when the car got smashed into. Insurance company want them to prove they wasn't at the wheel when they was sleeping. How can you prove that? haha
My parked car was written off by a teenager in a stolen car years ago (as were a number of others). I was assured by my insurance that the car owner's insurance company would cover it. Needless to say, they didn't, so even though it wasn't my fault, I lost my no claims bonus and my insurance premiums increased substantially for the next five years or so 😕
I have a driving lesson soon and I always watch your videos beforehand. Every lesson I now have your voice in my head and I can't tell you the difference it makes. Thank you so much!
Same here - just had my first lesson last Wednesday and some of the phrases are constantly in my head (e.g. 'Have they seen me?'). Even when I'm in the passenger seat too. Looking far ahead and anticipation that you've taught so well was demonstrated too 👍🏻😊
Go out into some narrow country lanes in the middle of nowhere and you will see a few give way lines the full width of the narrow two way road. Somewhat unusual in a built up area. Good video!
There's one literally 2 mins down the lane from the village I've lived in for over 40 years and I'd never even noticed, or to be honest even considered that two broken lines all the way across the junction had any significance. It is probably marked that way because the road narrows. Every day is a school day as they say.
Ok Ashley thanks thats new to me even after 49 years on the road. As they say you learn something new every day.😊 Shall be looking out for these now on 😊
You see those full-width double broken lines in the countryside, particularly where an angled junction has had another little road put in to make turning easier. The type that often have a little grass triangle in the middle. I've seen people drive past and make the really difficult turn into the 'main' road.
Those markings give me pause to look for 'no entry' signs that I might have missed, but I didn't appreciate the no-one has priority message they convey - to be honest, I always prepare to give way to those already on the road into which I'm turning. Maybe it's living where narrow lanes (and large agricultural vehicles) are the norm. This sometimes upsets drivers behind, but I don't see why I should barge into a difficult situation to compensate for their lack of attention.
I've been driving for 60 years and I did not appreciate that interpretation of those road markings. Thanks for the lesson, Ashley. PS. Other videos have reminded me of things I have forgotten about.
Nice video from the "only on Ashley Neal" drawer, and a really useful obscure learning point. I paused it to check Streetview and the entry you passed is a hairpin turn which would probably catch many drivers out; anyone making it would need to practically stop to observe what's coming, as the view won't be clear until very late. The verbalised holding back from 1:18 is a great bonus, since I've had arguments with people who argue that the moment any driver or cyclist passing parked vehicles on their side of the road sees an oncoming vehicle, they should be looking for any gap to dive into and give way. The gap you reached at 1:35 would be easily big enough for these nitpickers, according to whom you'd be entitled or even duty-bound to proceed, taking your priority and forcing the van driver essentially to parallel park - all they need, with an 80-150-drop round. On a half mile-long street, that's fair enough and crucially, serves best flow - like what you did by just waiting. Cheers.
Just had this on a road near me. First time travelling to a friends house but was double white as in the video so i drove past it as was unsure. It was a narrow road and no signs for no entry. Decided to turn around slowly drive in. Glad this video was brought up to explain the situation.
Looking at the parked cars can help. If the locals all face one way, it may be a one-way road. One car facing the other way could just be one driver who doesn't care, but if several face the other way, it is usually safe to assume a two-way road. There are however, instances where it is always easier to travel one way, so seeing all cars facing one way may cause concern if you are travelling against the 'flow'.
Classic case of learning something new every day. I did notice the lack of no-entry signs, but I would never have guessed that meant it was two-way. I've always got the sat nav going when I'm driving somewhere is don't know, so its stopped thinking about stuff like this, not good that.
I love your videos, watch every single one, never miss one, i even watch older ones again to keep up to date and i can 100% tell my driving has changed watching since 2017 when i found your channel
A while back I nearly went down a road like this which did turn out to be one-way (not my way!). It was originally two-way, and I'd used it a few times before. However, since it was changed to one way, the giveway markings were a bit of a mess, and more importantly the no-entry signs were set so far back that you couldn't see them until you were right by the road. There was also a lack on no-turn signs on the main road. I only realised when i started to turn in and an on-coming car was flashing vigourously (with his lights!) at me. I'm not sure if they've improved the signage since, but it was easy to miss.
Thanks for explaining that! I have an example right outside my home, at the exit from a one-way street. There are two No Entry signs close to the junction, but one set back a lot further than the other, which is often not seen from the junction 🫨. One thing not mentioned in the video is the sign on the right-hand side of the road (2:30), which was facing away from you - also confirming 2-way traffic😉
I just so happen to live on a two-way street with a double broken give-way line at the end that I have to turn into every time I go home, so I always find it interesting seeing when other people are confused by the concept
I'd have gone straight past that road end thinking it was no entry. On balance that may be the safest thing to do given how narrow the street is. If it was exit only, as well as No Entry signs, I guess there would also be advance signs for No Left Turn (in Ash's direction of travel on the main road) and No Right Turn on the opposite approach.
Yeah, while it may not "legally" be one-way, it's effectively designed to be one imo, with how it's laid out and how sharp the turn would've been. Add to that how frequently signs are either missing or incorrect...
Thank you for another piece of really useful content. I've been watching your content for over a year and its refreshing to see that your channel had not deviated from its primary purpose of educating us road users. Keep up the good work! 👍
We have a minor road that joins a major road at around 45deg. There is a small connector strip that has double broken lines and this connector road.strip is only used for traffic, where to use the minor road would need a hairpin turn. It is therefore obvious that the left turn into the minor road is allowed over the 'give way' lines. I have noticed that occurs surprising frequently in our County.
Throw in some Godcake (green/grass island) junctions with similar paint and add a painted Give Way triangle and watch how people get very confused about whether they are allowed to enter. They can enter, but it's not always a good idea. Out in the sticks there's loads of these.
I remember a "Yellow Pages" advert from the 1980s. A father buys his son a new bike which he'd saved up for with a "razor sharp" saddle. In the closing scene the young boy starts to ride his new bike up a side street and I noticed the whole entrance to the street had hazard lines. I thought he was going up a one way street the wrong way! but my dad pointed out that, that doesn't always mean its a one way.The width of the road might not be wide enough to have such markings on just the one side so for practical reasons they may span the whole entrance/exit of the side road.
Because of how narrow the road is the double broken white line across the full width of the road is saying to vehicles in both directions nobody has priority, that makes complete sense as if there was a single broken white line it gives you the priority to turn in so because it’s not a single broken white line it’s saying to you that you don’t have priority and due to the narrowness of the road you have to give way, thank you so much Ashley mate, I learn so much from you! 🙃 There’s a very strange junction just down the road here from where I live, there’s a double broken white line across the full width of the road but it’s definitely two-way and as are no no-entry signs and there are no one-way signs and there’s a right turn box to sit and wait in if you’re turning right from the main road into the side road, the road is at a very odd angle, the double broken white lines literally go from north to south and in the middle there is a little section of 2 chevron road markings bordered by solid white lines, as per Highway Code rule 130, you must not enter the area except for in an emergency, they’ve put down the wrong road markings though, chevrons mean that traffic will be passing both sides of the markings going in the same direction, as it’s two-way there should be hatched markings, hatched markings means that traffic will be passing both sides of the markings going in opposing directions.
Well that explains something A nearby housing estate had its surface redone and new lines put down just before Covid. A couple of the side roads went from having the usual enter/exit lines to having a continuous double broken line right the way across. But as you say, it had no signage to say no entrance.
My nan used to live down a lane with double dashed lines. It was extremely narrow with poor visibility. Thankfully, despite the number of times I went there, I never met anyone coming the other way!
learned something new today. Thanks Ashley I don't think my instructor pointed that out to me all those years ago [well not that long it was only 2012]
There's an example of that between Richmond Road and Gordon Road (north side) in Cardiff. I thought it was OK since, as you say, no no-entry signs are present. Although it's quite hard to tell it's a double white line as it doesn't appear to have been repainted for decades - at least if it is like it appears on google maps street view!
"You can't hit anyone when you're stopped" reminds me of an occasion in teh Lake District where someone came down on a single track road even though they had a passing place by them and claimed I had hit them. When the BMW driver claimed I had hit them, I asked how I could have managed that since I had my parking brake on. I got myself as far to the left as possible beyond the point where parking sensors were telling me I was going to crash and burn and my wing mirror was literally mm from a solid wall and then put my parking brake on. The guy's mother in law also got out and screamed at me. They were goading me to get out of the car, but I stayed where I was, and they drive off. They also tried to put a claim in. A very small part of my then Mercedes E class saloon had the tiniest amount of paint taken from it, but they had put a line down the side of their car. All because they thought they were too precious to wait in the passing place they were right by. They continued to claim that I had hit them - but I was stationary. Stationary objects don't hit anything.
There's a minimum road width to have a split giveaway road marking, I believe 4.5m but can't quite recall, otherwise having a double give way is preferred (least from Devon county council highways design guide)
It's when the overall width of the road is less than 5.5m. The give way line can't be shorter than 2.75m, so less than 5.5m width needs a give way line across the full width. Traffic Signs Manual - Chapter 3 - Regulatory Signs paragraph 3.2.3
Yep everyone's already said it but I'll add an extra comment for you; I assumed those road markings implied no entry too, I'm not sure how much use I'll get out of it but I can certainly say I've learned something haha.
If you come up Woodford Rd (with Watford Junction train station on your right, it's a one way road, too, with lots of Harry Potter fans waiting to board a bus), there's a give way at the end, but, the weird thing is, people coming from Clarendon Rd also have a give way. It's not a roundabout, though, it's just a weird junction.
Many drivers and even many driving instructors think that if there are double broken give way lines across the entire width of the road that it means one-way or exit only, I also thought it meant one-way or exit only until I was corrected by Conquer Driving’s video, I even corrected driving instructor Zondo driving, it’s a very common misconception but it’s actually pretty simple, you just have to remember that a road is designed to be two-way, if a road is one-way there will be a no-entry sign or a one-way sign or no- entry written on the road or one-way written on the road with arrows, many of these two-way roads with the double broken give way lines across the full width of it are very narrow, just remember Highway Code rule 102, always give way if it can help to avoid an accident.
One road marking anomaly I've seen here in the UK and I saw it again today on the way to my mum's funeral. Road junctions with a Stop sign and yet double dashed Give Way markings instead of the single solid "Stop" line.
One of my ex pupils told me about coming up a road and the business owners at the top coming down and shouting at her instructor that the road was one way. The section of the road she was on is 2 way, but further down it turns into a one way, so her instructor was correct, but how long had the people been running a business on a 2 way road, believing it to be one way? "You can't hit anyone if you've stopped." On narrow roads I point this out fairly regularly, but slightly different wording.
1:16 now I don't think you have priority at all in this situation. The van had begun passing the parked vehicles before you had turned into the road. At this point, it's just a narrow section of road and the white van was there first.
I've crossed swords not only with people who would argue that he does have priority, but one who says it's incumbent on the user with priority to assess the gaps in the parked cars ahead of the van, and go ahead and take it if he judges that the van could fit into one. Some of them just wanted to berate a cyclist, but some were deadly serious. As if there are not enough daily challenges in road use. I realised that even if they were technically correct, I didn't care - there's no way I'm barging into that space and bringing both or all of us to a standstill.
It's just being phrased based on the way a learner is taught it. You should be given priority if the parked vehicles are on the other side, but you obviously hang back and let anyone who's committed finish.
@@ChrisBrown-px1oy I had one of those "they're on my side of the road so I'll just drive head on!" drivers a while back. The gap they spent a great deal of time gesturing me to use was maybe big enough to shuffle a fiesta in to. Definitely not big enough for the longest Transit they make along with a trailer. The bus stop the other driver past ~15m in front of me, plenty big enough....
@@user-mv5zt8qd9l now that is the misconception, that the mere presence of parked vehicles on the 'other side' means you should have priority. There isn't a side in this scenario, effectively the parked cars create a narrow section of road, just like a single track lane in the countryside. The Highway Code says you should give way _before_ overtaking an obstruction on your side of the road. Once you have begun that manoeuvre and are established in the road narrowing, you no longer need to give way. Effectively, nobody has priority, just like a single track road.
Careful giving advice about speed bumps meaning two way road. Many one way streets will have traffic calming bumps, especially close to junctions or along heavily residential streets to help keep pedestrians safe 👍 As for the give way line, don’t think I have ever seen than on a two way road. Usually I see the broken edge of carriageway lines and it is then left to the drivers to work out who is yielding to who
The bit about the speed bumps (it's clearest @ 4:31) is that they have the triangular warning marks (diagram 1062 in the traffic signs regulations) _only_ on the approach side facing traffic. So if you look there are two triangles, each on the nearside from the view of traffic approaching from both directions. If it were one way the triangles would only face traffic from one direction, not both.
1:16 Nobody ever has priority according to the highway code - see page 42: “The rules in The Highway Code do not give you the right of way in any circumstance, but they advise you when you should give way to others. Always give way if it can help to avoid an incident.” Which is what you did. The only time you are given priority is where you see a blue sign at a pinch point, saying you have priority over oncoming vehicles.
Even that's not a given 😂 Yesterday I had an ice cream van come through one of those "traffic calming" narrows, even though I had priority. I had to pull over to get out of his way. Guess nothing stops the ice cream getting through on a hot day. 😅 Driver did give me a "Hands up if you need lessons" wave. I'd have preferred a free ice cream! 😊
When you stopped at 2:29 there was a sign facing traffic entering the street from the one ahead. I had hoped you would get a view of that sign from the rear camera. What was actually written on the sign?
Nice video, the only negative was you said when you turned left @ 1:18 into the video that you have priority over the oncoming vehicle as there were parked cars on the right hand side. This is incorrect. There is no given priority in this scenario. This is about courteous driving and helping flow of traffic. There is NO given right of way or priority here.
One thing that's made me think a street is one way: It's when cars on both sides are parked facing in one direction. Made me doubt myself until I finally see a car parked the opposite way!
Omg I never knew that... Funny you should say that though as I was I north wales other week following sat nav and it was asking me to turn into the 2 give ways lines,I did then say the road signs facing me further down the road... What do singles lines right across the road mean then? I always think why wouldn't it be a normal give way marking... very confusing sometimes
"You can't hit anyone when you're stopped". I have often heard people say this statement but I've never actually heard anyone talk about the legalities of it. It makes sense when you think about it but it would be interesting to hear about it from the likes of blackbelt barrister! Is it really a matter of "I am not moving therefore I am impossible to blame?"
I was parking yesterday in a one way street and a driver came the wrong way and parked in front of me, so i said, hey, this is one way. The reply, "so what"
@@cactusbase3088 no, here in Birmingham, there's a two way road which is very narrow as well, no signs implying one way, but a single broken line at one end. For the most part people just treat it as normal
1:28… you have priority ‘ONLY’ if it’s clear… just as you say if someone is already coming through then you must hold back. Otherwise you are the one who is causing the obstruction.👍🙂
I'm quite confused about the interpretation of the single/double broken white lines. If it's OK for a driver to go in over the double broken white lines, why is 'cutting the corner on a right turn' a serious / dangerous driving fault? I even had a girl failed her driving test as the arrow in the turning box pointing towards over double broken white lines (nearside to nearside was encouraged in a junction suited better to offside to offside). Following the arrow over the double broken white lines resulted in a test fail, even though no vehicle was coming out.
Is cutting the corner (automatically) a major fault? I passed my driving test with three minors, two of them being a junction where I indicated late and cut the corner a bit...
When I enter a one way street I usually think " I may know it's a one way street,You may know it's a one way street but does the idiot coming the other way know it's a one way street?
I got confused by this narrow country lane some time ago, even though the satnav kept telling me it's ok to go through 51.45556; -0.85046 - at least the nsl sign must've been a giveaway
