Hypothetical Question - Speeding in middle lane?

[Barker-CBR 600]

Having done a stupid amount of motorway miles recently (zzzzz) i was wandering the other day while i was pootling along at 85, which is illegal technically but people were overtaking me in the fast lane.

If you are in the process of being pulled over (flashy blue lights behind you as you prepare to put on your best 'sorry' face) and someone else speeds past clearly speeding is the police officer obliged to try and stop that person or is it personal choice or are they not supposed to abandon the process of pulling you over?

Heard stories of bikers being pulled in the middle lane with cars overtaking in the fast lane, usually unmarked police cars since people arent stupid enough to bomb it past a marked traffic car.

Anyone know the official line on this?

Anyone had it happen?
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[T.C]

A number of points to cover.

Firstly, there is no such thing as the fast lane, there is the nearside or driving lane and then there are two overtaking lanes.

If you are sat in the middle lane and you are not overtaking another vehicle and there is little chance of you overtaking another vehicle, you leave yourself opento being reported for driving without reasonable consideration for other road users (a subsection of the careless driving offence) as well as the excess speed.

If other vehicles travel past going quicker than you are doing, it is at the discretion of the officer stopping you as to whether he lets you go or goes after the other vehicle.

There has never been any set precedents as to who must and must not be pulled over, and there are certainly no standing orders in my old force to that affect, it is entirely down to individual choice.

Had you been sat in lane 1 showing good lane discipline travelling at 85, the chances are they would not even have bothered with you. I certainly used to let bikes off at up to 90 showing good lane discipline, especially if they travelled in lane 1, then came out to lane 2 or even lane 3 and then returned to lane 1 when it was safe to do so.

any vehicle sat in lane 2 at that speed was fair game for a tug.

The crew might even have been playing a game of vehicle snooker (depending on the colour of your bike) and it just happened that your colour was next on the scorecard.
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Vehicle snooker... that had me laughing! I am so going to get a white bike, they'll never want to get me!

Just to check T.C, wasnt actually pulled was thinking about what would happen in the event!!

And as for lane discpline, nothing pisses me off more than the M6 toll middle laners... come on... indicate left... you can do it...
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Mine is silver as well, does that mean I won't get pulled whilst out on it then?

Pisses me off when people hog 2nd or 3rd lanes when they are overtaking nothing
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My bikes red so im buggered.

Anyway.

I dont think they 'should' pull you because your 'just keeping the traffic moving'.

If im on a 30mph road and theres cars infront doing 40mph, im going to keep up with them to keep the cars behind me from moaning, if you get me? Whereas my grandad would be doing 28mph all the way

Its a tricky question.
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[mistergixer]

Music to my ears!
I spend a lot of time going up and down the M1 in my car for work, i'm fed up of having to move from the inside lane right the way to the outside lane, and then back to the inside lane again - just to overtake someone who doesn't understand how motorways work!

There is talk of dedicating one of the lanes of my local stretch of M1 to HOV (high occupancy vehicles) only - i read today that around 50% of the traffic occupies the outside lane, and only around 15% use the inside lane (the majority of which is HGV etc).
I firmly believe that motorway use should be part of the driving/riding test, perhaps with better education the traffic would be a lot more free flowing and there would be a few less accidents - come on ffs, how do you crash on a motorway? It's the simplest form of driving; all the traffic going the same way (except for the M4 in Wales ), all junctions on the left etc etc. If you cause a crash on a motorway it's generally for one of 2 reasons: insufficient distance from the car in front or poor observation during lane changes.
Twats.
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Nice one T.C, you've made my day.

I always sit behind a lane hogger for about 30 secs, perhaps do a little weave so my lights definitely catch their mirrors, then if they still insist on staying in the lane dive up the inside, rejoin their lane and flash my left indicator a couple of times.

Always felt a bit guilty of undertaking as I too thought I could get done for it.

It is annoying when in a car though and there's two outer lanes doing 50 mph and nothing in the left lane for literally a mile. Worst is when lane hoggers flash at you when you come back into their lane, even though you're at least 20 mph faster than them and they wouldn't of overtaken anything for like another 5 mins anyway. Makes my blood boil when they have a go, even though it's obvious that their driving is shite!

This adds fuel to my belief that before being allowed to drive on a motorway, you should have to take a further test. After all, L plates ain't allowed on the motorway and some people just don't have the natural intelligence to work out good motorway etiquette.

I've heard that lane discipline is much better on the continent. Why is this ? Can we not use the same solution of education in the UK?
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