Watch moment learner driver uses controversial trick to beat long traffic jam – but who’s in the wrong?
THIS is the moment a learner driver used a controversial trick to beat a long traffic jam – but can you tell who’s in the wrong?
Young driver Tegan managed to glide past a 600-yard queue in moments using the handy hack.
Driving instructor James Simpkins posted a clip of the move to his YouTube channel to explain how she did it.
While out on a lesson, the pair turned onto a busy main road only to be confronted with a lengthy tailback.
The two-lane road was being delayed by roadworks a few hundred yards away, which had narrowed it down to just the right-hand lane.
In preparation for the merge, almost all of the other motorists had pulled over so that they were in the outside lane at the point of the closure.
This left Tegan space to cruise along the inside lane at 30mph, passing dozens of stationary cars on her way.
To the untrained eye, this might look like undertaking, which is illegal and can attract a £100 fine and three points on your licence.
However, as James explained, it was not only legal but exactly what Tegan was meant to do.
As part of the roadworks causing the jam, workers had helpfully put up large red road signs telling drivers to “use both lanes while queuing”.
This is often done in the event of lane closures in order to ease congestion and encourage proper merging.
When the closure is reached, drivers should then merge in turn to keep the traffic flowing.
Clearly though, many didn’t recognise this and decided instead to get over into the right-hand lane early, creating a tailback.
They then seemed hostile to those skipping by on the inside then trying to merge once they reached the works, despite that being exactly what they were instructed to do by the road signs.
This is, perhaps, unsurprising as a study by dealership chain Dick Lovett found that 69% of Brits don’t know the rules about merging in turn.
But James was very much on Tegan’s side, saying he was “baffled” by how many road users couldn’t work out what to do.
And social media was quick to back them up.
One commenter wrote: “Brits are so polite they queue even when they don’t need to.”
Another added: “It’s the queue mentality.”
It comes after the UK’s second-largest car brand had to shut down one of its factories when a dangerous substance was discovered on the site.