Terry T:
war1974:
no wonder the public think driver are stupid! so you sit at 40mph as feel that is safe for the conditions but then when some knob comes by at 56 decide the safest action is to follow him at 100 yards?
He was way in front of me. Probably more than 100 yards but it’s difficult to judge distances without a yardstick. And I could still see his fog light clearly. Had anything happened ahead I’d have had ample time to stop.
Plus, by following the fog light I knew the road ahead was clear. The road was more or less empty and driving on my own I didn’t have a clue what was ahead of me.
war1974:
in an artic if he ploughed into something you aint stopping which is possibly what causes so many accidents.
I hate this I attitude of I have led high bright lights so will driver at stupid speeds, sorry terry but I was always taught on the old attitude of I would rather be 10 mins late in this life rather than 15 mins early in the next.
Terry T:
I disagree. Given the reduced visibility, had an artic been lying on its side across all 3 lanes with no lights on, even at 40mph I’d have struggled to stop. If you go any slower you then become a problem to the people behind doing silly speeds. I’d have been more than happy for everyone to just sit at 30mph, I wasn’t in any hurry. This is the problem with fog, too many people with different ideas on what to do.
I just sat well back from the vehicle in front and let him take all the risks. Even If he’d come to an instant stop by hitting the back of some multiple pile up I’d got plenty stopping distance to slow down.
Terry, don’t matter which way you try to excuse it, you should have stayed with your original plan, 40mph or so. Drive your road, not follow someone else into chaos 
He was taking all the risks, but the moment you chose to tail him at whatever distance, you then joined whole heartedly into the risk taking behaviour.
At 40 mph you’d increase your chances off stopping in a safe distance vastly over doing 56mph, for a kick off you’d travel less distance in the time(split seconds) you’d thought about what was happening in front off you, so your braking/evasive actions would start further away from the obstruction. The braking effort needed to lose 40mph must be less than that required to lose 56mph which can only mean you’d come to halt sooner 
If the other truck had come to an instant halt in a pile up, the driver may well not have used his brakes, which would mean you’d travel nearer to the incident before you started to react, I base this on the fact that you were using his fog lights as your marker. If as you say you’d have had plenty off time to react to such an incident, then maybe it was only a light mist, and not really foggy at all
Commendable as it is too worry about what the idiot fraternity are doing behind you, to be honest I’d worry more whats ahead and let them do as they will. If some truck or other motor ploughs into you from behind, because your doing a suitable speed for the conditions, then who’s going to be in the ■■■■ or dead, not you. You may well come out with cuts an bruises, but your chances off survival are almost 100%, if you plough into the back off another wagon, or a family car or bus, then someones probably going to die, you in the first scenario others with the other 2 
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Do yourself a favour go with your gut
