Pulling out onto main road with poor line of sight?

[Mscott4]

There's a road I often travel on that's small country lane onto an NSL B road that has terrible visibility of the NSL road due to the hedgerows bordering the road. When turning right this means you have to pull halfway onto the road in order to see far enough left, down the far lane of the road. However, the poor visibility from the right means you could easily get stranded in the middle of the road if it turns out theres a lot of traffic coming from the left. Queuing traffic behind means the gap you just left in the side road is now probably occupied by the next car in line.

What is the best approach to this kind of junction? Peep and creep is a bit difficult as sometimes it feels like once you have the view you're past the point of no return. I have been slightly caught out a few times by cars appearing suddenly causing me to just mash it and hope for the best.

[bluezedd]

It's much better to peep and creep and get stuck in the middle of the road, rather than pulling straight out and potentially hitting someone. You might get a dashcam sort with a point to prove, but fk em. Much better than causing an accident.

[M4cruiser]

Another tip for this junction is lower the windows and listen (with radio/cd off of course).

Even electric cars make tyre noise if they're going fast-ish.

[Solocle]

M4cruiser said:

Another tip for this junction is lower the windows and listen (with radio/cd off of course).

Even electric cars make tyre noise if they're going fast-ish.

Useful in addition to observations, but hedges can quite easily muffle tyre noise, and, in extreme cases (steep hill), a fast moving bicycle would catch you out if you tried to judge by sound alone. Definitely needs to peep&creep.

[Mags43]

I know a junction like this in Norfolk. Some councils have a page on their web site where you can report overgrown hedgerows and they will come out and cut it back. It's worked a couple of times for me.