Road Rage!!!

[Beavis]

.... FFM then as well :-)
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Dude FFM ....................nice

[SueEllen]

I'm quite happy to drive slowly on a country road, in fact if someone in front is a bit slow it means nobody can blame ME for holding things up

Don't like motorway driving though.

Unfortunately if the a**hole behind you is unobservant they will tailgate you as they can't see the HGV in front of the line of traffic or unaware of the dual carriageway a mile ahead.

[Mich the Tester]

Unfortunately if the a**hole behind you is driving an Audi they will tailgate you as they can't see the HGV in front of the line of traffic or unaware of the dual carriageway a mile ahead.

ftfy

[Ticktock]

I'm a very considerate driver in my A6, I'll have you know.

[Mich the Tester]

I'm a very considerate driver in my A6, I'll have you know.

Yes, you do keep saying that while you're 20 cm behind my rear bumper.

[Ticktock]

Yes, you do keep saying that while you're 20 cm behind my rear bumper.

Are you the car in front of me that I couldn't get past whilst trying to overtake a line of cars all at once as I'm obviously much more important than them? I could hear the echoes of my horn and was nearly dazzled by the reflection of my high beams.

[Mich the Tester]

Are you the car in front of me that I couldn't get past whilst trying to overtake a line of cars all at once as I'm obviously much more important than them? I could hear the echoes of my horn and was nearly dazzled by the reflection of my high beams.

Maybe, but then I usually just let people go and then pass them again when the motorway's a bit quieter.

[Bellona]

Driving into work this morning I had 3-4 cars in front of me and the front car was driving slowly.

It was a national speed limit road. I never said I was speeding.

At the risk of a beating I'm with sasguru on this one.

I cannot in anyway condone the actions of the front car in your scenario, utterly dangerous, but I do find your " I am a good driver, the other driver was reckless" tone a bit rich.

I was in an accident a few years back when an impatient driver in a 4X4 decided to overtake 4 cars ( I was second car in queue). Suddenly, something came the other way, he tried to pull back into the line and clipped me hard enough to take me off the road, and the car that was 4 shunted car 3.

I say impatient because there was no other reason for the manoeuvre:

Was he late/have an emergency? - no

Were we going dangerously slow? - No, I don't think so, we were at 65ish on a longish stretch of national speed limit road and were amazed when he tried to overtake the whole line of us

Rather than gain an extra 5 minutes, he lost an hour while we waited for police, ambulances, etc. ( although he seemed to think I should be grateful that he stopped! ).

You haven't said how fast the other cars were going, or why you felt you had to overtake 4 cars. The key word in the sentence National Speed Limit is the word LIMIT - unless they were all driving dangerously slowly, I can't see any reason for the manoeuvre other than impatience.

If you had started with "Driving into work this morning I had 3-4 cars in front of me that weren't going as fast as I wanted to so I decided to push the limit and blast past them, and the prick in the car at the front of the queue was pissed of at my impatience and..........."

Maybe the overwhelming support from other posters may have been a bit different.

Is impatient driving as bad as dangerous driving - IMO yes.

[sasguru]

At the risk of a beating I'm with sasguru on this one.

I cannot in anyway condone the actions of the front car in your scenario, utterly dangerous, but I do find your " I am a good driver, the other driver was reckless" tone a bit rich.

I was in an accident a few years back when an impatient driver in a 4X4 decided to overtake 4 cars ( I was second car in queue). Suddenly, something came the other way, he tried to pull back into the line and clipped me hard enough to take me off the road, and the car that was 4 shunted car 3.

I say impatient because there was no other reason for the manoeuvre:

Was he late/have an emergency? - no

Were we going dangerously slow? - No, I don't think so, we were at 65ish on a longish stretch of national speed limit road and were amazed when he tried to overtake the whole line of us

Rather than gain an extra 5 minutes, he lost an hour while we waited for police, ambulances, etc. ( although he seemed to think I should be grateful that he stopped! ).

You haven't said how fast the other cars were going, or why you felt you had to overtake 4 cars. The key word in the sentence National Speed Limit is the word LIMIT - unless they were all driving dangerously slowly, I can't see any reason for the manoeuvre other than impatience.

If you had started with "Driving into work this morning I had 3-4 cars in front of me that weren't going as fast as I wanted to so I decided to push the limit and blast past them, and the prick in the car at the front of the queue was pissed of at my impatience and..........."

Maybe the overwhelming support from other posters may have been a bit different.

Is impatient driving as bad as dangerous driving - IMO yes.

Quite. Well said.

[oracleslave]

Suddenly, something came the other way,

What's to say in Badger's case he wouldn't have been able to deal with this without affecting the other cars?