Soldato
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Should have called his bluff and ploughed into the back of him 
(NB - not a serious suggestion
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(NB - not a serious suggestion
)Road rage lunatic...
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So you were driving without due care and attention? I would prob also be annoyed with you.....
Yes he did, if a car overtakes you and pulls in so close it warrants attention from the driver to watch his distance, beeping of a horn was valid.
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heres a good read from another board
Wow! Sitting here having a massive adrenelin comedown...
Just had the most frightening road rage incident I`ve ever experienced.
Was travelling down the motorway earlier, and there was a black RS6 in the middle lane doing about 60 with nothing to his left.
I went to overtake, but there was another Audi bombing down the fast lane, so I was baulked with no option but to brake hard or undertake the RS6.
A quick flash of the lights to get him to move into the correct lane (as I normally do with middle lane hoggers), and his reaction was to jump on the brakes!! []
I now only had the option of undertaking, and as I went passed and gave him a look, his passenger came me the finger. I returned the compliment with the w*nker sign.
Nothing unusual there. Normal day to day stuff...
He stayed behind me for around 6 miles, but when I came off at my junction, and he followed, I realised he wasn`t for letting it go.
Came right up behind me beeping his horn, clearly not happy. Confirmed, when he shouted `Your a ******* dead man...` out his window.
Now, I`m on my guard big time, thinking of the best escape route, which isn`t easy given the layout of the junction.
I had to smoke off sharpish, and imagine my dismay, when faced with a tail back, and nowhere to go...
Heartrate was really up by now, and he had me trapped, but rather than block me from behind, he (thankfully) came alongside, and the pair of them jumped out.
These guys weren`t messing around either...there`s only a couple of types of people who drive black high-powered Audis, and these guys weren`t reps...
With him leaving me an escape route to the rear, I managed to back up, and perform an half-arsed J-turn, and make good my escape.
I ended up have to go in the opposite direction to what I had too, but at least I had gotten away. Or so I thought...
As I turned a corner a bit further down the road, here comes the Audi sideways behind me. Intent clear...
He then proceeded to chase me for quite some distance (about 6-7 miles). I ended up jumping several red lights, and dangerously overtaking a few people, but by now, I was pretty ******* scared, I don`t mind admitting, and was pretty much hoping I`d get spotted by a passing police officer.
Every time I thought I`d lost him, he would reappear in the distance. I eventually managed to lose him in a housing estate by making several last minute turns, my only aim; getting to the police station a couple of miles away.
I gave several pedestrians a fright, and nearly ran into the back of a Jag, when the toasted brakes gave up. I wish I could go back and apologise...
When I was finally sure I`d gotten away, I headed for home, but as I came out of a side street, he passed by! Luckily he had no option to turn round due to traffic, and I made it to the police station without seeing him again.
Not having had time to remember his reg, the police said there was very little they could actually do. Pretty much what I expected them to say, but at least if they get reports of someone driving like an idiot, they`ll know who it was and why.
I can only thank my lucky stars, that I wasn`t in the Polo (very distinctive), and I was actually driving a non-descript 1.3 Nissan Micra... [:s]
Lesson well, and truely learnt;
Watch exactly who it is you are remonstrating with...there are some ******* nutters out there... [8(]
Was queuing at a junction a while ago, about 4 cars in front of me positioned to turn right and the road was plenty wide enough for me to nip through on the left (I wanted to turn left, and there was lots of traffic so they weren't going anywhere).
Big fat bloke in front of me beeps and gets out his van and walks up to me spitting on my car, swearing etc. Then realises I have 3 passengers all over 6' and thinks the better of it I did lock my doors though... Really can't be dealing with people looking for a fight.
Big fat bloke in front of me beeps and gets out his van and walks up to me spitting on my car, swearing etc. Then realises I have 3 passengers all over 6' and thinks the better of it
I did lock my doors though... Really can't be dealing with people looking for a fight.Last case of RR I had directed at me was in a multi storey car park after a Ice Hockey game in Nottingham.
The usual queue of traffic exiting the car park had wound its way upto the 3rd level. I was in the car with 3 friends having a chat about the game and waiting for the traffic to exit the car park. Then I spotted a guy trying to reverse out of his spot, not waiting for a gap. My car was level with the back of his car so there was no room for him let alone enough to swing into to enable him to turn back into the waiting traffic. Plus I couldn't move back to give him more room so beeped to let him know he was inches away from my bumper and ultimately to say if you let me go there's enough room to move out. Anyway he continued to pull out, do a fowards/backwards shuffle to get the angle to jion the waiting traffic.
The whole time he never once made eye contact with me. This is where it gets really silly.
There's a young lad in the back seat, say around 14. This lad is shouting abuse at me and giving me ever hand sign under the sun. He was shouting that loudly I could hear him through closed windows (Both cars) After a few minutes we'd moved around 2 car lenghts all the while watching this young thug shout and jesture etc. I'd had enough now so I jestured that he should shut his mouth, without giving any abuse back. He cotinued so I started to wind my window down so I could shout to the driver and ask him to mute the kid. Before my window had fully opened the driver, a fat, sweaty slob looking gentleman had 'jumped' out of his car and was heading for me shouting "What's your ******* problem" while waiving his armss around.. I kept my cool and replied "The child in the back seat is giving me abuse......." In a flash he says "That's OK then" jumps back in his car.
Now I'm not sure if he was expecting me to say "No problem mate" and back down making him look all Alpha but after his rant he calmed down and I never saw the kid in the back move again.
The kind of parent he is and what his wonderful son will turn out like having a father like that was the main topic of conversation on the way home.
Maybe he was just annoyed that his team lost lol.
The usual queue of traffic exiting the car park had wound its way upto the 3rd level. I was in the car with 3 friends having a chat about the game and waiting for the traffic to exit the car park. Then I spotted a guy trying to reverse out of his spot, not waiting for a gap. My car was level with the back of his car so there was no room for him let alone enough to swing into to enable him to turn back into the waiting traffic. Plus I couldn't move back to give him more room so beeped to let him know he was inches away from my bumper and ultimately to say if you let me go there's enough room to move out. Anyway he continued to pull out, do a fowards/backwards shuffle to get the angle to jion the waiting traffic.
The whole time he never once made eye contact with me. This is where it gets really silly.
There's a young lad in the back seat, say around 14. This lad is shouting abuse at me and giving me ever hand sign under the sun. He was shouting that loudly I could hear him through closed windows (Both cars) After a few minutes we'd moved around 2 car lenghts all the while watching this young thug shout and jesture etc. I'd had enough now so I jestured that he should shut his mouth, without giving any abuse back. He cotinued so I started to wind my window down so I could shout to the driver and ask him to mute the kid. Before my window had fully opened the driver, a fat, sweaty slob looking gentleman had 'jumped' out of his car and was heading for me shouting "What's your ******* problem" while waiving his armss around.. I kept my cool and replied "The child in the back seat is giving me abuse......." In a flash he says "That's OK then" jumps back in his car.
Now I'm not sure if he was expecting me to say "No problem mate" and back down making him look all Alpha but after his rant he calmed down and I never saw the kid in the back move again.
The kind of parent he is and what his wonderful son will turn out like having a father like that was the main topic of conversation on the way home.
Maybe he was just annoyed that his team lost lol.
Maybe i should keep a keyboard in my car just incase? the big decision is...Logitech or Microsoft?
A screwdriver is better.
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Some people are just mental and its always the idiotic drivers who get away with what they are doing or cause more harm to the innocent person they hit.
last time i remember road rage as from me because a guy thought that round-a-bout lanes dont matter.
Two lane round-a-bout me on inside him on out, we enter it as there is no traffic comming and he sweeps straight accross infront of me to the inside of the roundabout. I beaped and slammed on, he swerved back cms before hitting me. As i drove past him i gave him a use your ******* eyes sign, he looked terrified.
Two lane round-a-bout me on inside him on out, we enter it as there is no traffic comming and he sweeps straight accross infront of me to the inside of the roundabout. I beaped and slammed on, he swerved back cms before hitting me. As i drove past him i gave him a use your ******* eyes sign, he looked terrified.
Legal car weapon (a must for parts of glasgow), if you hold it one way it 'locks' into a straight club with the way the hinge works.
I have a shiney yellow one.
OP - Well done for being so composed, I'd have rattled the rear end of his ***** motor off road and went all sparta on his ass. (
)Completely agree, people get brave when they're in their car and do things they never would if somebody barged into them in the street.
Plenty of idiots about and stress makes it worse. Queens drive is a horrible road at the best of times. Do they still have the thing where they have 3 straight ahead lanes at the lights but only two lanes for most of the road, basically encouraging traffic light drag racing as the L3 people try to out accelerate the people in L2 to pull across before the bollards.
Anyway mine, I was in the middle of a 37 point turn on a road barely two car lengths wide, a road that runs parallel to a main road and is constructed mainly of potholes and patches. You know the sort.
Some pillock in a nondescript saloon car of some sort comes hurtling down this crappy road at way above the speed limit, hauls on the anchors nearly driving into the side of me, then gets out, pulls my door open and grabs me at the throat and starts yelling at me for reversing out without looking (there were no driveways at this point on this road) and how he's just injured his newborn baby by having to slam on.
Then his wife gets out and punches him in the face, calls him an f-ing moron and apologises to me.
Good job she did as I too had one of those handbrake locks and was feeling around trying to find it (and failing miserably)
What I don't get is why, if you're so concerned about a newborn baby, would you go hurtling down such a substandard road when there is a perfectly good main road that's only a few hundred yards further.
Anyway mine, I was in the middle of a 37 point turn on a road barely two car lengths wide, a road that runs parallel to a main road and is constructed mainly of potholes and patches. You know the sort.
Some pillock in a nondescript saloon car of some sort comes hurtling down this crappy road at way above the speed limit, hauls on the anchors nearly driving into the side of me, then gets out, pulls my door open and grabs me at the throat and starts yelling at me for reversing out without looking (there were no driveways at this point on this road) and how he's just injured his newborn baby by having to slam on.
Then his wife gets out and punches him in the face, calls him an f-ing moron and apologises to me.
Good job she did as I too had one of those handbrake locks and was feeling around trying to find it (and failing miserably)
What I don't get is why, if you're so concerned about a newborn baby, would you go hurtling down such a substandard road when there is a perfectly good main road that's only a few hundred yards further.
He quite clearly didn't do b) and how wise is it to sound your horn at someone in category a)?
Neither warrants the use of the horn, if they genuinely haven't seen you, you have to assume that they are an awful driver, and as such sounding the horn may have an adverse affect (they might slam on their brakes...) - bad drivers are unpredictable, so don't make them MORE unpredictable by frightening them. If on the other hand they are a genuine psychopath then all you are doing is antagonising them further, again not a smart thing to do.
Not after he'd already done it. You normally warn people before they're about to do something, not after. And in this case the guy pulling in close and coming up close behind and overtaking without leaving enough space was definitely being aggressive rather than careless.
If you can't see the difference between "careless" and "aggressive" then I suggest you just keep off the horn altogether unless you want to end up on the other end of another road rage incident.
Well thanks for the replies.
It was quite a shock this morning and has stayed with me for a large part of the day, but I've logged in a few times through the day and reading similar stories has made me chuckle.
The DVLA need to issue that guy a straitjacket, I'm sure if he carries on like that it will only be so long before somebody gives him a good hiding.
I guess in the future I'll be more careful where and when I use my horn, but I still think that its use was perfectly justified.
It was quite a shock this morning and has stayed with me for a large part of the day, but I've logged in a few times through the day and reading similar stories has made me chuckle.
The DVLA need to issue that guy a straitjacket, I'm sure if he carries on like that it will only be so long before somebody gives him a good hiding.
I guess in the future I'll be more careful where and when I use my horn, but I still think that its use was perfectly justified.
This afternoon!!
After reading this thread I had a similar moron encounter.
Sitting in front of the cross road traffic lights just outside my uni, which have two lanes, one for those wishing to turn left, and another for those wishing to turn right or continue straight along. I was sitting quite happily in the correct lane, just out a lecture, about to go to work.
Lexus ISwhatever, is sitting just behind me in the LHL, as the lights go green he tries to undertake me, and aggressively manoeuvre his way in front of me.
People do this all the time at that junction, as there are cars parked in the LHL, they KNOW they are there, they always are, but the continue to use it and undertake people.
So I am maintaining the same speed to the car infront, there is no viable way for this clown to squeeze in, but he is still trying to swerve into my lane. By this point there are cars directly infront and he is forced to apply the brakes and squeeze in behind me.
The gesturing starts, I ignore it, I generally don't rise to that.
He begins tooting his horn at me, flashing the lights, the usual.
Opens his window and starts screaming abuse at me, still gesticulating.
The worst of it is his young son is sitting in the passenger seat, seemingly embarrassed at this idiots behaviour.
He follows me for the next mile or so, till I turn off, he makes to follow me, but doesn't.
Leaving me seething.
I'm soo tempted to go out and buy something like a steering lock.
I'd never use it, but seeing someone jump out the car with that in their hand would put the ***** up the fool.
ARGH.
After reading this thread I had a similar moron encounter.
Sitting in front of the cross road traffic lights just outside my uni, which have two lanes, one for those wishing to turn left, and another for those wishing to turn right or continue straight along. I was sitting quite happily in the correct lane, just out a lecture, about to go to work.
Lexus ISwhatever, is sitting just behind me in the LHL, as the lights go green he tries to undertake me, and aggressively manoeuvre his way in front of me.
People do this all the time at that junction, as there are cars parked in the LHL, they KNOW they are there, they always are, but the continue to use it and undertake people.
So I am maintaining the same speed to the car infront, there is no viable way for this clown to squeeze in, but he is still trying to swerve into my lane. By this point there are cars directly infront and he is forced to apply the brakes and squeeze in behind me.
The gesturing starts, I ignore it, I generally don't rise to that.
He begins tooting his horn at me, flashing the lights, the usual.
Opens his window and starts screaming abuse at me, still gesticulating.
The worst of it is his young son is sitting in the passenger seat, seemingly embarrassed at this idiots behaviour.
He follows me for the next mile or so, till I turn off, he makes to follow me, but doesn't.
Leaving me seething.
I'm soo tempted to go out and buy something like a steering lock.
I'd never use it, but seeing someone jump out the car with that in their hand would put the ***** up the fool.
ARGH.
Not really as bad as some stories on here, but was heading back late one night with 3 passengers in the car up the M6, get to some other hatchback doing the usual 'nothing in the left lane for the next mile but i'm going to stay in the middle lane anyway'
One or two cars in the outside lane so I thought I'd flash him quickly once so he could move over, which he did, only to put his lights on full beam when I pull in front of him after overtaking. He turned them off when I pulled in to some services.
I drive a 1.1 Saxo btw, people find this an excuse to treat me however they like. I find it funny when I know the roads better they do and they get held up for whatever reason.
One or two cars in the outside lane so I thought I'd flash him quickly once so he could move over, which he did, only to put his lights on full beam when I pull in front of him after overtaking. He turned them off when I pulled in to some services.
I drive a 1.1 Saxo btw, people find this an excuse to treat me however they like. I find it funny when I know the roads better they do and they get held up for whatever reason.
Had a guy in a big fancy Merc try to do this to me in central London, only he was merging from the right because his lane ended in a bollard and traffic island. I was holding my ground staying right in the centre of my lane because this guy was in a very clearly marked right turn lane.
He starts trying to tap my mirror with his as an intimidation measure, so I pressed the button to fold my mirrors in, looked over at the guy in time to see him let go of the wheel and start gesticulating with both hands and start yelling, looked like a big fat 2 year old having a temper tantrum. I move left a little because he's clearly no longer in control of the car.
Then he drove into the bollard.
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I know.. I was recounting a similar experience where someone cut me up and then reversed into me in rage when I beeped at him, albeit he was on a straight road, I was on the exit of a roundabout..Sounds almost identical to the OP's story.. However the difference was I ashamedly got out and raged back at the idiot..
You should have gone to specsavers
Sorry, my mistake
How was I? I was beside him when the car was reversing, what should I do? Slam my brakes on so he can avoid the reversing car?