close enough?

[Grahamm]

Interesting stuff,  I have often wondered how it would have panned out if I had followed the IAM's line with my near miss with the tipper lorry.

As I commented on that post, you should have been able to stop in the distance that you could see was clear. Perhaps I should have added that, on a single carriageway road. you need to *double* that distance because you're sharing your stopping distance with that of the on-coming vehicle, so you have to allow space for them to come to a halt too.