I was driving home from the motorway roundabout through the airport tunnels to Wilmslow.
This guy at the motorway roundabout in a jeep undertakes, honks horn, headlights on full beam, so I stop to let the loon overtake. He stays behind me in clear road rage.
As he refuses to overtake and insists on sitting on my bumper I go nice and slow, around mid 30’s up to the tunnel.
When we get to the tunnel, jeep guy overtakes and slow down to around 20, goading me into overtaking.
I stay well back, another driver sees the conflict and gets between myself and jeep, which diffused things. As an advanced motorist I know you deal with road rage by sitting back and not doing speed. Perfectly happy with my textbook response.
End of problem.
Until I got home – 10 minutes after arriving the police are at the door, making out I was causing road rage. The third driver who stuck his oar in called the police just giving them both reg numbers, police come round accusing me of making the jeep guy angry. Which is tosh as you only make yourself angry.
There was more speculation from this PC and dumb PCSO with him than a company audit. Said something about road rage in 2009 on his PDA but he could not tell me about it. It is actually because I saw a road rage incident on the motorway (a truck crashed into a woman in her car shunting to the crash barrier – I phoned it in to get her an ambulance). Could not think about this on the spot, which did not help PC’s attitude.
Respect for the police is now rock bottom.
This guy at the motorway roundabout in a jeep undertakes, honks horn, headlights on full beam, so I stop to let the loon overtake. He stays behind me in clear road rage.
As he refuses to overtake and insists on sitting on my bumper I go nice and slow, around mid 30’s up to the tunnel.
When we get to the tunnel, jeep guy overtakes and slow down to around 20, goading me into overtaking.
I stay well back, another driver sees the conflict and gets between myself and jeep, which diffused things. As an advanced motorist I know you deal with road rage by sitting back and not doing speed. Perfectly happy with my textbook response.
End of problem.
Until I got home – 10 minutes after arriving the police are at the door, making out I was causing road rage. The third driver who stuck his oar in called the police just giving them both reg numbers, police come round accusing me of making the jeep guy angry. Which is tosh as you only make yourself angry.
There was more speculation from this PC and dumb PCSO with him than a company audit. Said something about road rage in 2009 on his PDA but he could not tell me about it. It is actually because I saw a road rage incident on the motorway (a truck crashed into a woman in her car shunting to the crash barrier – I phoned it in to get her an ambulance). Could not think about this on the spot, which did not help PC’s attitude.
Respect for the police is now rock bottom.
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