Watch as driver leaves it till the last second to merge at motorway roadworks

THIS is the moment a motorist leaves it till the last moment to merge at motorway roadworks – but his driving has left people divided.

Dash cam footage shows the car driving down a motorway before spotting a 800-yard marker warning that the outside lane is closed ahead.

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TikTok user @jobbertok shared the video with the caption: “Roadworks merging lanes at lane closure.”

The driver continues past the 200-yard marker warning of roadworks, and as cones start to appear, he moves up behind a white car in the left-hand lane.

He explained: “The classic roadworks congestion situation where everybody moves over too early, causing unnecessarily long lines of traffic instead of using all available road space and merging in turn.

“If they wanted the lane closed at this point, they would have closed it at this point, and the sign tells you when the lane will close.

“And does not mean move over now by using all available road space. It reduced the risk of those long lines of traffic blocking slip roads and junctions behind.

“You shouldn’t change lanes unnecessarily and move over randomly. Merging at the lane closure allows for the uniform process of merging at the closure where it’s expected to happen.”

The video has gone viral on social media with more than 15,200 views and 59 comments.

But people have been left divided after watching the video.

One said: “Nothing p**** me off more than seeing this.”

Another said: “This would work if people in the UK knew how to merge, but they don’t so if you do this nobody’s going to let you in, causing you to have to sit there.”

A third pointed out: “The issue is if you use the lane that’s about to be closed, then the drivers in the lane next to you won’t let you turn in.”

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