Tailgating and Road Rage

Colmustard

RustyNut wrote: »

There is so much wrong with this but it boils down to this.

Gob****e 1 meets Gob****e 2 almost resulting in a crash.

Yeah and on a motorway so they can spread the love around and bring carnage to other more responsible and innocent drivers.

The stuff that motorway pile ups are made of.

anncoates

marshbaboon wrote: »

My brother has the most incredible solution to tailgating. He slows down. Doesn't matter if he has somewhere important to be, he'll drive as slow as he can get away with, and feed on their tears of rage.

He's as much a moron as the tailgater. He'll just provoke the person behind to do something even more stupid.

Boils my piss to get tailgated when I'm stuck behind a slow driver though but in most cases, I just try and get away from them as soon I can and hope they end up overturned in a ditch sooner or later.

Colmustard

I said up the thread I rarely get tailgated and reading down the thread I realise why. I don't feel it is an affront and I just move over and let them by. They are probably in a hurry when I am not.

Years ago I realised that no matter how fast you drive and pass other cars, you just meet them again at the traffic lights and the most time you will save on an average journey by speeding is little more then 5 minutes.

So just relax and be late in peace.

Lollers

Colmustard wrote: »

I said up the thread I rarely get tailgated and reading down the thread I realise why. I don't feel it is an affront and I just move over and let them by. They are probably in a hurry when I am not.

Years ago I realised that no matter how fast you drive and pass other cars, you just meet them again at the traffic lights and the most time you will save on an average journey by speeding is little more then 5 minutes.

So just relax and be late in peace.

I'm talking about tailgaters when you are doing a high enough speed, let's say on a country road with lots of curves and there is nowhere to pull in. I'm not paranoid as you called me earlier, nor do I feel it's a affont to my driving skills, when someone wants to pass me out. I think tailgaters like these, will seriously injure or kill someone one day.

Cantona's Collars

Trevor Kent wrote: »

Tailgaters dont bother me too much actually. I only get tailgated when Im caught behind a slow car. I usually stay well back from the car in front of me and benifit from the clearer view, and when the coast is clear.....whoosh im gone.

What does bother me is:
Lack of moterway/Dual-carriageway know-how. Take the N7 for instance. Everyone loves the middle lane, nobody drives in the left lane. It might as well be a 2 lane road. So when im driving in the left lane doing the speed limit, and catch up on someone going slower in the middle lane, technically, to avoid "undertaking" illegaly, I have to cross two lanes of traffic to overtake and cross back over 2 lanes again to the left lane. Does my nut.

Im sure ill think of more.

You can actually pass someone when you are in the left lane if the traffic to your right is moving slowly & causing an obstruction.I see this every time I drive to Wexford town,cars move into the outside lane & stay there @ 60kph even though the limit changes to 100kph at the start of the climbing lane.
I end up passing on the inside & glare at the morons sauntering along in the 'overtaking lane'.

Had one moron tailgate me & eventually started blowing the horn at me the other evening despite the fact I was driving through a town with 5 cars in front of me.:mad:

Colmustard

Lollers wrote: »

I'm talking about tailgaters when you are doing a high enough speed, let's say on a country road with lots of curves and there is nowhere to pull in. I'm not paranoid as you called me earlier, nor do I feel it's a affont to my driving skills, when someone wants to pass me out. I think tailgaters like these, will seriously injure or kill someone one day.

I do drive on country roads and I still will slow down move closer to the curb and let them by. They may kill someone and there is nothing I can do to change their hormones, so I just try and make it as safe as possible for them to overtake me.

That is the responsible thing to do.

Lollers

Colmustard wrote: »

I do drive on country roads and I still will slow down move closer to the curb and let them by. They may kill someone and there is nothing I can do to change their hormones, so I just try and make it as safe as possible for them to overtake me.

That is the responsible thing to do.

Yes, but I said there was nowhere to pull into, unless you are counting a ditch. And not tailgating in those circumstances is the responsible thing to do.

Shenshen

Lollers wrote: »

I'm tailgated at least once a day. Gotten worse since the recession, nobody let's me out of a space, and no one waves thanks when I let them out. Stories from your travels ?

I've no problems with people letting me out, but I do know what you mean about being tailgated.
I'm on a provisional, so I'm going the speed limit, at maximum 10km/h above it very occasionally.
The amount of road rage I appear to incurr in others is frankly disturbing. Tailgating is one thing, but people will regularly insist on overtaking me when I'm doing 80 going down fairly narrow country lanes. At one point, someone overtook and nearly ran head-on into a car that came round the bend ahead. He pulled in in of me, I ended up nearly driving into the ditch.
After that, I got out of the car, told my husband to drive home. I refused to get behind the wheel for about a year after that.

Lollers

Shenshen wrote: »

I've no problems with people letting me out, but I do know what you mean about being tailgated.
I'm on a provisional, so I'm going the speed limit, at maximum 10km/h above it very occasionally.
The amount of road rage I appear to incurr in others is frankly disturbing. Tailgating is one thing, but people will regularly insist on overtaking me when I'm doing 80 going down fairly narrow country lanes. At one point, someone overtook and nearly ran head-on into a car that came round the bend ahead. He pulled in in of me, I ended up nearly driving into the ditch.
After that, I got out of the car, told my husband to drive home. I refused to get behind the wheel for about a year after that.

Good for you for getting back behind the wheel again. Try not to let bad drivers and bullying behaviour get to you

Jason Todd

There are some morons on the road alright. It's definitely gotten worse during the recession, and worse again this Summer. (I have no facts to back that up) I hate being tailgated, particularly if I'm going 80-85kmh in an 80kmh, like how much faster do you want to go dcikhead?!

podgemonster

My pet peeve is 2 lanes at a red light, one for straight on or left which turns into a bus lane, one for straight on or right.

I settle behind car on right lane if they're not indicating right. When the lights go green then they decide to throw in their indicators to turn right and stops now awaiting the traffic on the right to clear. Bástard!

Diapason

podgemonster wrote: »

My pet peeve is 2 lanes at a red light, one for straight on or left which turns into a bus lane, one for straight on or right.

I settle behind car on right lane if they're not indicating right. When the lights go green then they decide to throw in their indicators to turn right and stops now awaiting the traffic on the right to clear. Bástard!

Oh that grinds my gears down to a buffed shine. You should be legally entitled to take a sledgehammer and get mediaeval on their asses.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Paddy@CIRL wrote: »

I don't understand why some people can't grasp the simple idea of if someone wants to go faster than you, just let them by. If they're driving recklessly let them be someone else's problem. If you can't control your emotions behind the wheel, you shouldn't be driving IMO.

I think the main issue is when you are in the overtaking lane and there is nowhere to go, yet somebody is driving up your back side getting you to drive faster. They should be patient. I know I am when the car in front has nowhere to go, how can I expect him/her to match my speed?

I find it annoying for somebody to stick to the overtaking lane and refusing to budge. Driving up their arse is probably not the best idea either.

--Kaiser--

To be honest, I don't get too angry on the road anymore. Drivers, in general, are awful, so I don't expect anyone to drive at an appropriate speed, be aware of what's going on around them, indicate properly (or at all), take the correct lane etc...

In fact, my driving motto is: 'Everyone on the road is trying to kill you'

Shenshen

I've readt through the thread a little now, and I've got one general question:

Why do people assume that tailgating only happens on 4-lane roads and motorways? Where is that idea coming from that everybody always has the option to move aside and let other people pass them by?
I've never been tailgated on a road with a hard shoulder I can use to let people pass, nor on any motorways. I would use the right lanes on those only to overtake seriously slower traffic.

I get tailgated usually on minor roads and lanes where you sometimes are lucky to fit one car, let alone pull over to let someone pass you. Do most people here live right next to one motorway exit, and work right next to another?

Pulling over is a reasonably valid suggestion, as I have seen people in the right lane driving well below the speed limit, with no traffic whatsoever on the left. But to assume that this is the only time tailgating would occur, and to suggest people being bullied by other drives that it's their fault for obeying the speed limit seems... well. I just remembered that this is AH, so just ignore this post.

Wicklowrider

Don't ever hold up another driver deliberately.
For all you know they are on call emergency services responding to a call out.

If you believe you have experienced frustration in traffic, try and imagine on call fire crew driving their own car to the station, responding to a life and death situation. I was responding one night to a call out when a genius took it upon himself to hold me up until lights changed. Bet he felt self satisfied, important and fulfilled ( BTW - I WASN'T EVEN SPEEDING). A mile away a house was blazing and someone's daughter was still in it. Every on call emergency responder could tell you stories like this.

It is the gardai who are tasked with speed enforcement not you or I.

Rant and sermon over .......

Chuck Stone

I hate tailgaters.

Drives me ****ing nuts. Got into an altercation on the side of the road a few months back because of it.

I've been in two write-offs because of people not paying attention behind me. Neither my fault in any way before someone starts.

I can feel my blood pressure rise thinking about tailgaters which is weird because it takes quite a lot to get a rise out of me.

Fucking pricks.

ScumLord

Tailgating is a waste of time, if you want to overtake it's best to be a few car lengths back so you can see clearly what's coming and then build up a bit of speed so you complete the over take as quickly as possible. Tailgaters annoy me because I can see them weaving in and out trying to see around the car/truck in front and then when they get the chance to over take it takes them absolutely ages to get up enough speed to complete the overtake.

donalg1

Trevor Kent wrote: »

Tailgaters dont bother me too much actually. I only get tailgated when Im caught behind a slow car. I usually stay well back from the car in front of me and benifit from the clearer view, and when the coast is clear.....whoosh im gone.

What does bother me is:
Lack of moterway/Dual-carriageway know-how. Take the N7 for instance. Everyone loves the middle lane, nobody drives in the left lane. It might as well be a 2 lane road. So when im driving in the left lane doing the speed limit, and catch up on someone going slower in the middle lane, technically, to avoid "undertaking" illegaly, I have to cross two lanes of traffic to overtake and cross back over 2 lanes again to the left lane. Does my nut.

Racing line Roundabout users. You know, the ones who are, lets say going straight (taking the secont exit) on a 2 lane road/roundabout, and start off in the left lane. Your going right (taking 3rd exit) so are in the right lane. You take off at the same time when the roundabout is clear but Michael Schumacher needs to take the racing line so crosses over into your lane, cutting you off and before you can shout "Nein" the bugger cuts back over to his lane, heads off straight (probably with no indicator) and about his merry way.

That brings me onto the next one, indicator-aphobics. All I want is to knowwhere your going at a particular time so I can carry on about my buisness. If its a roundabout, show me where your going so I dont have to stop unnecessarily. If your in front of me, and want to turn left, a warning of some sort would be nice.

1 speeders.......you know the car you have been following for 5 miles on a single carriageway doing 60kph, soon as you hit a town with a 50kph limit, they carry on doing 60kph. Complete lack of awareness.

And last "for now" is the manic overtaker who will risk life and limb to get that one car length closer to the top of a line of cars. Squeezing his way into a space you left between you and the car in front. Only for you to overtake him in traffic again.

Im sure ill think of more.

Get out of my head please. I have the exact same issues as these, the indicators that dont seem to work, the roundabout cutter acrossers, and especially those that have no understanding of the speed limit.

On Monday and again on Tuesday I saw a car (different ones) overtake on continuous white line and then through a filter lane turning off the road, and this was in a long line of traffic both times so the drivers of the two cars ended up 10 yards further down the road. Absolutely pointless.

The road I take home has an 80kph speed limit which drops to 50kph for half a mile, it is shocking the amount of cars that do 60kph the whole way along this road oblivious to either speed limit. Really gets on my tits.

I am even annoyed thinking about it now, get off the road or learn to drive ffs.

RustyNut

Wicklowrider wrote: »

Don't ever hold up another driver deliberately.
For all you know they are on call emergency services responding to a call out.

If you believe you have experienced frustration in traffic, try and imagine on call fire crew driving their own car to the station, responding to a life and death situation. I was responding one night to a call out when a genius took it upon himself to hold me up until lights changed. Bet he felt self satisfied, important and fulfilled ( BTW - I WASN'T EVEN SPEEDING). A mile away a house was blazing and someone's daughter was still in it. Every on call emergency responder could tell you stories like this.

It is the gardai who are tasked with speed enforcement not you or I.

Rant and sermon over .......

Still get pangs of guilt over this but I learned my lesson.

Was In the 80's and I was driving a truck along SCR passing royal hospital in kilmainham heading towards Rialto. I see in the mirror a car ripping up behind me and then trying to bully his way passed me. I decide I'm not going to be bullied by this d1ck head just because I was driving slower yoke than him and who the fcuk did he think he was anyway.
Knew it wasn't the law because they only seemed to drive Hillman avengers at the time so I kept this car behind me and slowed him down as much as possible thinking to myself I'll teach this gobsh1te a lesson and was having fun keeping this car behind me untill we got to the lights at dolphins barn which were red and so I stopped.
Gobsh1te (or so I thought at the time) pulls out from behind me and drives up my outside and as he gets up beside me and stops to see if he can go the red light I see the cause of his hurry. The wife ( I presume ) is in the reclined passenger seat with her feet on the dash skirt pulled up and obviously in labor, I could see blood and goo. They proceeded through the red and headed towards the coomb.
I now know who was the d1ckhead and wont be that d1ckhead again.
If someone appears to be in a mad hurry just let them on you never know what's going on in their life.

TheChizler

zerks wrote: »

You can actually pass someone when you are in the left lane if the traffic to your right is moving slowly & causing an obstruction.

That's only when in lanes of traffic, it's generally not accepted that someone going slower than you constitutes traffic. You could argue that any situation with more than one car is traffic, but the intent of the law is that it's only acceptable when coming to some obstacle ahead.

GerM

Fuinseog wrote: »

I was driving a country road at night which was unfamiliar to me. there were plenty of curves and dangerous bends so I was taking it handy. the speed limit was 100km and I was driving at 70km and a car was tailgating me with his full lights on which dazzled me if I looked in the rear view mirror. first time I experienced that. next time I will drive slower and turn on my hazards.

The Ring of Kerry is 100kmph. For those that haven't driven it, here's an example (and certainly not the worst): http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/52/65/526502_95a9044b.jpg

It's ludicrous that there are multiple roads in this country where it is deemed acceptable to drive at these speeds. People who are not familiar with them will creep up close to those speeds ignorant that there may be a sharp bend up ahead. To compound the issues, a chunk of that road is cliff side as well as the fact that the clouds come right down onto the road in places, reducing visibility significantly.

geneyuss

eth0 wrote: »

XC90... Horrible yoke, almost as much as a Gobsh1temobile as the Q7

oh no,,,i drive an S40,,,trust me,,any Volvo is a horrible looking,drive,or reliability ball off ****,,,although,,,,i do love it,,,its still better than most piece's of crap out there

geneyuss

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I hate tailgaters.

Drives me ****ing nuts. Got into an altercation on the side of the road a few months back because of it.

I've been in two write-offs because of people not paying attention behind me. Neither my fault in any way before someone starts.

I can feel my blood pressure rise thinking about tailgaters which is weird because it takes quite a lot to get a rise out of me.

Fucking pricks.

ive driven over 2.5 million miles and have never even had a bang ona bumper in several different jobs in cars,/vans/lorrys,,maybe your just unlucky.or maybe you just cant drive??

Party Supply Van

geneyuss wrote: »

ive driven over 2.5 million miles and have never even had a bang ona bumper in several different jobs in cars,/vans/lorrys,,maybe your just unlucky.or maybe you just cant drive??

Thats a bit of a silly statement. many people get rear ended, nothing to do with their driving skills.

dirtyden

geneyuss wrote: »

ive driven over 2.5 million miles and have never even had a bang ona bumper in several different jobs in cars,/vans/lorrys,,maybe your just unlucky.or maybe you just cant drive??

2.5 million miles!!!! ~100'000 miles a years for 25 years!!!!!!!!!

Thats some serious driving. Was it mainly trucks, long distance stuff? I guess doing long trips it does not take long to clock the miles up. i am lucky to get 15000 miles up in a year.

On the thread topic I always find it sort of weird, road rage. I got delayed at a roundabout for about 1 minute last sunday by someone just dawdling. I was burning up inside over a minute, and nothing usually bothers me. I was only getting the paper. There is something about driving that makes a lot of normally reasonable people impatient.

dan dan

Best tactic is speed up a bit and when they are on your tail, Simply turn on your lights.
The tailgater drives on your lights at all times. They have no time to decide if its brake lights or side lights. Your red lights come on and stay on. He brakes hard,by instinct.

geneyuss

the "mods " will close this,,,cause it just got interesting

geneyuss

Party Supply Van wrote: »

Thats a bit of a silly statement. many people get rear ended, nothing to do with their driving skills.

i was referring to another poster,,, and how is it silly,,,the fact ive never had somebody crash into the back of me has nothing to do with driving skills ? idiotic statement,,
ive had many a driver almost rear-end me and have took evasive action, learn how to drive, its not just passing a silly test ya know

geneyuss

dirtyden wrote: »

2.5 million miles!!!! ~100'000 miles a years for 25 years!!!!!!!!!

Thats some serious driving. Was it mainly trucks, long distance stuff? I guess doing long trips it does not take long to clock the miles up. i am lucky to get 15000 miles up in a year.

On the thread topic I always find it sort of weird, road rage. I got delayed at a roundabout for about 1 minute last sunday by someone just dawdling. I was burning up inside over a minute, and nothing usually bothers me. I was only getting the paper. There is something about driving that makes a lot of normally reasonable people impatient.

who said 25 years???? it could have been 55??? another typical boards narcissist,,, i do not suffer from road rage, nor do i need someone one this poxy site telling me how to drive,,,,read the bloody thread and stop putting words in my mouth