Is this the right call from the Appeal Court?

[Grahamm]

[quote author=Grahamm link=topic=3054.msg24254#msg24254 date=1337285412]If the width of the lorry means it has to straddle the white line, there's nothing that the driver can do about it unless he wants to run *off* the road, he simply has no option

He does have an option... he stops. What if an identical sized lorry had been coming the opposite way? Would that lorry be in the wrong for being close to the lines? Would the offending lorry have barrelled ahead regardless then?[/quote]

The thing is, we simply don't have enough information, eg we don't even know if it was a left or a right-hander.

The article linked to below says "They pointed out that Mr Whiteford had accepted he was riding too close to the right of the lane, when the  correct line for a motorcycle taking a corner was closer to the middle", however *who* says that's correct?

We don't know whether there was a clear line of sight across the bend or if there were hedges or anything else which could have obscured the view.

Without all this information it's really impossible to say who should have done what.