when driving on a motorway?

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if you are in the overtaking lane doing the legal speed limit and someone comes behind you speeding. you pull into the slow lane and they drive on and kill someone. can you get charged with aiding and abetting a murder?
as you have allowed them to pass which aided them in killing another road user whether intentional or not

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

When you have overtaken someone quite legally as you describe, you should first check your mirror, signal and then return to the slower lane when it's safe to do so and not before.

The fact that someone comes speeding up behind you should not affect the speed or the manner you return to the slower lane and what they go on to do afterwards is not of your concern whatsoever whether your driving in Ireland or anywhere else in Europe.

sanctimonious · Answer

When you're in the outside lane, you should be travelling faster than the traffic in the two lanes to your left. If this isn't the case, get out of there fast.

Breaking the speed limit isn't a major crime. Lane hogging, however, is also in the highway code - and that isn't taken lightly by other drivers at all. Put simply, if you don't abide by this, you're a pillock and you're throttling the road's capacity.

As for you're little story, I've got no idea what you're on about, but in the same vein you could say if you let someone walk past you and they kill someone it's your fault. You're not the police, so stop trying to police the roads.

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