Had my first road rage encounter today

Outcast said:
Sometimes that's deliberate !
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I couldn't help but think that. She was in the car with a man and after I slammed my breaks on they sat there for about 30 seconds. It was a bit bizarre, she hadn't stalled - her engine was running. I gave her quite a long, accusing stare as I overtook her on the NSL after the roundabout exit.

It's a difficult one because although it would undeniably have been my fault, it is **** poor driving from her and it's these scenarios that create conflict of interest with insurance claims and complete drama at the site of an accident. I would have gone absolutely crazy and let my emotions overrule the simple fact that it would have been my fault. Shame when elderly/women are driving cars there's not something that illuminates on the back to warn everyone else of the increased risk. /Rant.
 
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I had someone rage at me yesterday because his car wasn't fast enough to get in front of me as he was coming off a slip road to join the motorway.

It's not my fault you own a slow car, nor is my fault you don't know that I've got right of way and don't have to do a thing to let you get off the slip road.

I did laugh mind, he was furious.
 
KiNgPiN83 said:
Since I got my Impreza I've come to discover a lot of people don't like being overtaken. The worst in my experience have been van drivers and old people. They seem to hate my car for some reason?!
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I've noticed this as well, used to overtake people no problem in a Civic without any grief at all, now got a sports car and I get vans trying to scare me by pulling into the middle of the road as I go past and as you say old people that flash their lights at you when you overtake them because their doing 40. I can only think it's the noise of the exhaust makes them think you're a boy racer.

Funniest road rage I've seen was someone stopping at a roundabout and the guy behind not paying attention but manages to stop. He gets out and goes to the car in front and starts jesticulating and shouting like a prat, after about 20seconds of the guy leaning over the bonnet and shouting at him through the windscreen the driver just turns his washers on. :D
 
Barks said:
I had an incident of my own road rage today: Female driving.

It would have been entirely and utterly my fault but it is so typical of women having a complete lack of awareness/judgement and inadvertently causing accidents.

At a large roundabout going over a dual carriageway with plenty of visibility, queue of traffic, slowly filtering on. Get to being behind the car in front and naturally look right. Completely empty, look back in front and the car begins to gently move forward, look right again and begin to edge forward, then a car emerges which is about 10 seconds away and the driver in front yanks her breaks on. I would have driven into the back of her if my passenger hadn't have screamed 'stop.' Second time I have experienced this but I've had a few friends who have driven straight into the back of female drivers in exactly the same situation.

So yes it would have been my fault but it's so typical!!!
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This has been me, as the car in front. I made an attempt to get on to a big roundabout but a car was coming round so fast I'd never have made it without causing an accident, so I didn't go. It's a roundabout under a flyover, so there is a slip road on and off the motorway so cars are still at speed hitting the junction because the right side is wide open and visible. One second after the car passed I got a hit from behind, I lent out my window and looked at the car behind then put my hazards on and pulled over, I got out my car and while I was doing that the car drives past me and drives off. So I checked my car over and there was no damage, my bumper absorbed all the impact. No idea the condition of the other car since he/she jacked off.

As it happens, I was on that flyover when the incident happened that I made this thread about.
 
Barks said:
I had an incident of my own road rage today: Female driving.

It would have been entirely and utterly my fault but it is so typical of women having a complete lack of awareness/judgement and inadvertently causing accidents.

At a large roundabout going over a dual carriageway with plenty of visibility, queue of traffic, slowly filtering on. Get to being behind the car in front and naturally look right. Completely empty, look back in front and the car begins to gently move forward, look right again and begin to edge forward, then a car emerges which is about 10 seconds away and the driver in front yanks her breaks on. I would have driven into the back of her if my passenger hadn't have screamed 'stop.' Second time I have experienced this but I've had a few friends who have driven straight into the back of female drivers in exactly the same situation.

So yes it would have been my fault but it's so typical!!!
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This EXACT thing happened to me but unfortunately I had no passenger so gently bumped into the car in front. Its the only 'accident' i've ever had, and it happened a week before insurance renewal so when the silly bint claimed through insurance despite the fact there was no damage I lost a couple of years no claims. :mad:
 
86JR said:
Should have stand and banged ;)

I bet you didn't do MSMM though. I should say around 75% of the drivers I see on the roads these days do mirror maneuver signal. Most of them don't even look, as said up there, people seem to think signalling gives them right of way no matter what is coming. Another reason not to bother with a performance car anymore, you can be 2 cars into your home run and someone will just pull straight out on you. But as long as they signal, it's ok occifer!
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Stand and bang is such a moronic term. Please try and keep that **** in GD.
 
Barks said:
I had an incident of my own road rage today: Female driving.

It would have been entirely and utterly my fault but it is so typical of women having a complete lack of awareness/judgement and inadvertently causing accidents.

At a large roundabout going over a dual carriageway with plenty of visibility, queue of traffic, slowly filtering on. Get to being behind the car in front and naturally look right. Completely empty, look back in front and the car begins to gently move forward, look right again and begin to edge forward, then a car emerges which is about 10 seconds away and the driver in front yanks her breaks on. I would have driven into the back of her if my passenger hadn't have screamed 'stop.' Second time I have experienced this but I've had a few friends who have driven straight into the back of female drivers in exactly the same situation.

So yes it would have been my fault but it's so typical!!!
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I've had someone go into the back of me in this situation - it is easy to do to be fair. I've also been rear-ended twice at traffic lights by morons who assumed I'd floor it when it turned amber and weren't prepared for me to actually stop - idiots.
 
atpbx said:
I had someone rage at me yesterday because his car wasn't fast enough to get in front of me as he was coming off a slip road to join the motorway.

It's not my fault you own a slow car, nor is my fault you don't know that I've got right of way and don't have to do a thing to let you get off the slip road.

I did laugh mind, he was furious.
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Could you have moved over to let him in or was there too much traffic in the outside lane?
 
mjt said:
Could you have moved over to let him in or was there too much traffic in the outside lane?
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Shouldnt matter unless the m-way is very busy and the inside lane is full of traffic.

A lot of people seem to not know how to use a slip road for a m-way. It is there to allow you to get up to the speed of the traffic already on the motorway so that you can merge properly. Too many people dawdle along them then get annoyed when they find they have ran out of road and cant get in.

You are meant to be looking for a space in the traffic, get up the speed and merge in, NOT expect everyone else to change their speed to let you in.


As I said, if the traffic is busy then this is different but most of the time people just cant use slip roads properly.



The other one is when the slip is busy e.g. traffic controlled entrance to the top of the slip resulting in a fair few cars coming down at once. They then all bunch together instead of leaving a gap between themselves to allow the traffic to merge in a "zip style" merging pattern with the m-way traffic.


I don't bother moving over or "flashing" people in anymore unless traffic is busy. Selfish? You can call it that but its no more selfish and inconsiderate than the situation they people put themselves in to begin with.
 
mjt said:
Could you have moved over to let him in or was there too much traffic in the outside lane?
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I have two rules when it comes to people joining from slip roads:

1. Are they indicating? If they don't have the decency to indicate then I don't have the decency to move out or adjust my speed to allow you to join.

2. Have they made any effort to join the road correctly (ie merge in between cars already on the road they wish to join)? If not then I also won't move out or adjust my speed.

If you do either of the above then I'll gladly assist your effort in joining the road, otherwise you can get stuffed as you're the kind of driver we need less of on the roads.
 
While I see where you're coming from and I also get irritated by people not reading the road ahead and planning to merge in correctly; I'd still say that if there isn't too much traffic that you should move across. Just because they're in the wrong doesn't mean that you shouldn't take the morally superior position and still do the right thing.

Being courteous and driving a little more defensively (e.g., less likely to have someone merge into the side of you as they panic at the end of the slip road) seems like the sensible thing to do.
 
PeterNem said:
While I see where you're coming from and I also get irritated by people not reading the road ahead and planning to merge in correctly; I'd still say that if there isn't too much traffic that you should move across. Just because they're in the wrong doesn't mean that you shouldn't take the morally superior position and still do the right thing.

Being courteous and driving a little more defensively (e.g., less likely to have someone merge into the side of you as they panic at the end of the slip road) seems like the sensible thing to do.
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Speaking as a "White Van" driver of some 400,000 miles experience!

If I am in L1 approaching an On-Slip...

If it is "Clear" I will move over to L2 to leave L1 clear in good time so that joining traffic will have unrestricted access.

If (for whatever reason) I cannot do this, I will ease off the gas and match speed with any joining traffic such that those ahead of me can merge ahead of me and those astern of me can do so accordingly.

To wilfully close on on-slip traffic and "Close the door" on them at the point where they are clearly "Running out of road" is wreckless driving and should deserve prosecution IMO!

Those who move from L2 into L1 as they approach on-slips (And this is a not uncommon occurrence) should receive permabans :mad: :mad:!
 
Orionaut said:
To wilfully close on on-slip traffic and "Close the door" on them at the point where they are clearly "Running out of road" is wreckless driving and should deserve prosecution IMO!
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Almost every time this misspelling crops up there's so much irony in the air I can't restrain a snigger :D
 
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