Stupid things a learner driver does!

Stupid things overtaking drivers do?

Mightn't Pass Him. It's what you're thinking as you're driving on the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic.

mph - mighty prick here

When taking my ex-wife out driving, she would stop on blind corners to 'have a think. How we didn't get clattered is beyond me

I've seen a learner stopping at the second set of lights at a junction, they can turn but the light is red for the drivers going straight

Taking the OP at their word they must have been speeding as 75mph is 120km/h.

So the only way he wasn't speeding was if he was on a motorway and if that was the case then he wouldn't be overtaking into oncoming traffic

What were they driving? Just he jumped from 60-odd km/h up to 120km/h before you could get past, so pretty quick, especially for a fully packed car.

How do you know the front seat passenger was an experienced full licence holder? Maybe none of his passengers had a licencea and he was being extra cheeky and driving unaccompanied.

Also if you reported it to the Gardaí, you'd effectively be admitting to speeding so open to prosecution yourself.

I'm sure the other driver would say they were driving at a safe speed while driving on twisty country roads and sped up when it was safe to do so and then some maniac came flying by trying to overtake well over the speed limit, with no camera it's easy for either side to paint the other as a villian.

Riiiiight.

But they said they then went to 120km/h which means unless they were on a motorway they were speeding! It's there in black and white.

"That was until I went to over take the little **** and I was bombing it on the right side of the road doing 75mph, with a oncoming vehicle flashing me"

OP never stayed what speed the other car went to.

You overtake it it is safe to do so, there's nothing in legislation that allows you to exceed the speed limit to do so.

As said above, an experienced driver should have backed out of the scenario if as painted by OP but then again the OP never stated what speed the other driver went to, only that he himself was 'bombing it'.

Maybe OP could furnish some more details? Like the limit on the road?

But just in case there is doubt:

19 Overtaking

19.—(1) A driver shall not overtake (or attempt to overtake) if to do so would endanger, or cause inconvenience to, any other person.

(2) A driver shall not overtake (or attempt to overtake) unless he can clearly see a portion of the roadway which—

(a) is free from approaching traffic, pedestrians and any obstruction, and

(b) is sufficiently long and wide to permit the overtaking to be completed without danger or inconvenience to other traffic or pedestrians.

Of course you are, best of luck speedy 😉

Some of the responses here, honestly.

It has to be people being fools for the sake of it, has to be. The situation was completely understandable for the OP to complain about.

N'ah hate the bus.

Real drivers up North, yeah, sure, I'm sure Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes and McLaren are all fighting to sign ya up

I’ve said it before but it’s worth stating again, those driving BMW, or Audis, with the German font on the reg are, almost, always utter prats.