Has anyone else had a problem like this?
A couple of days ago, I left work from our private drive to turn right into the major road. Done it literally thousands of times before.
About 50 yards on my left is a gatso, to catch the rear of drivers coming from my left. The roiad was fairly busy, and I was looking for a decent ish gap on the left, having decided that, in 2 seconds' time, I would have approx 5 - 6 seconds clearance on the right. Next thing I know the poxy gatso flashes. It was perhaps four seconds before I regained enough retina desaturation to trust myself to reassess the situation. I missed the gap I was hoping to take needless to say.
I guess this could have been worse had I already been committed to pulling out and not then been able to judge properly the amount of right lock to not have a head-on and nor mount the opposite pavement.
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