"sorry officer, i was pushed....."

[yorkshirelad3]

travelling round a loverly 5 exit round about near goole i was heading for exit 5. Some prick on the inside of me (the lane for exit 1,2 and so on) decided he wanted the one we were just passing, and as his rear passenger door leveled with my right hand he suddenly started to move over to the left, so i dive out of the way and by the time i come to my senses im on the bloody slip road to the M62! (not a big problem i here you say, but im a CBT rider and not allowed)

furious that this nobber has pushed me into an illegal position and that its 5miles to the m18 junction and a further 6 down there to the nearest junction off the motorway i set off on my travels, sticking in the left hand lane and sitting at 55 along with the trucks.

Half a mile away from J5 of the m18 and the blue lights are flashing behind me! B*stard!

I pull over and the officer begins his speech on what the F*ck am i doing on the motorway!

I explained but it seemed very far fetched as far as he was concerned, he escorted me off the motorway and asked me to pull over at a safe location in throne just off the motorway.

he got me say in the car and was explaining the highway code to me and making me feel very thick indeed! This annoyed me as i was there by mistake, then he cracks the scariest words of my riding life!

possible 6 month ban!!

Noooooooo!

I explained over and over, he understood that the roundabout was a strange one and that people get caught out, but this was no excuse!

The real fear was coming now, but then it all changed, He agreed to put the problem down to lack of experience and admitted he didnt really want the paper work for what seemed to be a mistake.

Fweeew, i thanked him and got on my merry way!

The yorkshire lad rides for another day!

[White Noise]

unfortionate situation, glad the officer saw sence!
you oviously came across very appologetic and generally not an arse
how come you didn't pull over on the slip road and wheel the bike back to the roundabout
WN
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[Josh|RD125LC]

Lucky lad, although it is fustrating when they don't believe what your saying. Good that you got away with it though, but must have been scary going down that motorway expecting a copper to appear.
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[mrchips]

Lucky, but if I were you I know I would have pulled over on the slip road and got back onto the roundabout.
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[Mister James]

You got away with it, both with the police and avoiding any actual problems on the motorway, that's the main thing!

I can understand frustration at your version of events not being believed straight away, but one wonders how many times the PC has stopped genuine piss-takers who have come up with similar excuses.
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[yorkshirelad3]

the motorway itself didnt bother me, iv travelled at speed on the sheffield parkway (3 lanes wide at 1 point) and also the A64 to scarb, (where i was travelling back from), i travel at what i feel safe and if they wanna go faster, they have 2 lanes in which to pass me!

As for wheeling the bike back up the slip road, i was fuming inside the lid and therefore missed the chance, before i knew it i was 3 miles down the road!!!

[TOM M]

what bike was this on??
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[yorkshirelad3]

my hyosung comet gt125

looks like a 400, i rekon that if the bike hadnt got 2 big L plates hanging off it he wouldnt have stopped me, i was full leathers and the such and looked a reasonable rider. But you have to show L plates so i do!

https://www.moto-station.com/uploads/700_normal.jpg

[yorkshirelad3]

[Josh|RD125LC]

Yeah the L plates are annoying. Does look like a bigger bike.

Just think yourself sunshine that PC Plod didn't follow anything up.


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[yorkshirelad3]

the 6month ban scared me rigid, thats from car and bike! and will have to reapply for my provis and retake my CBT all at my own cost becuase some numpty pushed me onto the motorway, but my aim now is pass the test, then ride the motorway if i wanna and no one can stop me, i still think i will take the old road into scarb, its nicer!

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[BenBray]

It's understanable they wanted to drag you in and ban you for 6 months, put yourself in their shoes 'sorry mate, but you'll never believe this.. I was pushed'.

Glad you got away with it and nothing happened beyond 'naughty boy! this is the highway code ...'

Nice looking bike, how fast does it go? [I'm sure you've tried top speed ]

[yambabe]

Still trying to get my head round your description of what happened here? So he was on the inside of you, and he moved to the left, ie away from you to take his exit, which came up before your exit? Why did you need to "dive" out the way if he was moving away from you, and how did he "push" you?

Sorry if I'm being thick, I really can't see how you did this unless you were going round the roundabout the wrong way!
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[mchaggis]

I can only imagine that when he says inside, he means the inside of the corner rather than inside lane? Hence the other driver pulled across him from his right, forcing him left onto the sliproad.
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[yambabe]

But he says the guy was on the inside lane for exits 1&2, which sounds like his left!

Unless you were in the wrong lane yorkshirelad?
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[kawakid]

I nearly made the mistake of going on the motorway so many times,
I had even signalled once and about to join the slip road.

Its was natural as I have had a car license since I was 17 (now 33).

Saying that since passing my bike test, I can honestly say I hate motorways when on the bike.

Too many cars, trucks etc, if you fall off on an "A" road you stand a chance.

Plus my mirrors be come useless at about 60...
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[yambabe]

But the car wasn't on his right, it was on the "inside" of him, ie left.......!

Unless of course the guy was on the inside and didn't turn off at the exit his lane led to, in which case he would continue round on the inside of yorkshirelad and stop him from moving left himself to get to his exit?

Is that what happened?
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[yambabe]

Erm yeah....thanks...... I think.......

FFS yorkshirelad put us out of our misery here, draw us a picture or something!
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[zephyrgirl]

Do you reckon that there would have been trouble if you had pulled over at the first SOS phone & told the chaps at the control centre you were forced onto the motorway and you require a police escort to get you off safely?

Under the circumstances I'd say that I'd have probably done just that.

At least it would look like you had made some effort to get yourself off while trying to keep within the law.

The only thing that would make me hesitate in this plan, would be that you would be exposed to high speed traffic hurlting past you until the rescue party arrived.
(as I was on the hard shoulder of the M4 last Thursday, except there was no rescue party & I carried out running repairs by myself!)

I'm glad you got off the motorway OK, and the police were lenient in their approach.
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[superstacker]

I may have been tempted to use the hard shoulder at a very low speed, therefore not trying to deceive anybody. Then the police would have seen that you knew already you wernt supposed to be there.