Over taking in a 30

[Fairies attack]

Is it acceptable to overtake in a 30?

Eg,

Say someone is slowing down to a stop, before turning off a main road onto a side street, that you have to position your vehicle out to the RHS of your lane, it is just your normal road no overtaking lanes or centre divide, just 2 lanes and a side street.

Can you legally over take that person?

I know this is a bit of a vague question but it will lead on to something else.

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Legally you can overtake them, however if you got taken out by them whilst you were overtaking, given they had signaled etc. You'd get raped (and rightly so) by their insurers.
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[Raffles]

I reckon that a manoeuvre that is basically overtaking on a junction is a big no-no irrespective of the road speed limit. This is my belief but I could be wrong.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[J0Al1]

I thought it was illegal to overtake any vehicle whilst they are performing an manoeuvre (ie change of direction)

[felicity]

You can overtake in this situation. The Highway Code says DO NOT do it, but it's not illegal.

However, why would you? You significantly increase your risk of an accident (by overtaking past a hazard), to save 5 seconds on your journey time.

[Rogerborg]

Can you really not Google "highway code overtaking"?

[Raffles]

Out of interest, is the vehicle in your hypothetical scenario about to turn left or is it about to turn right?
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[angryjonny]

To answer the original question, yes it is acceptable to overtake in a 30 zone. Say you're following someone doing 20 and there are no other hazards then as long as you can get past safely without exceeding the limit you're fine.

Throw in other obstacles like junctions and zebra crossings and traffic-harming measures and pedestrianised shopping areas etc and you're on a hiding to nothing should the inevitable crash occur though.