Anyone not like being overtaken?

Nearly crashed into a bloke in a people carrier coming the other way over taking a cyclist on a blind bend yesterday... Smart move!

I had a strange experience recently actually - small white van appears behind me on the country B roads on the commute to work and tailgates me for about 5 mins. I am already doing ~10mph over the limit (50 in a 40, I know I know) so really don't see the need for him to be so close. Anyway he goes to overtake, roars past me and then promptly slows down to 40 and is braking heavily at every corner! I just don't understand some people...
 
I would rather people overtake than sit 2 inches from my bumper.

As long as it is not a blatantly dangerous overtake I don't mind.
 
drew64 said:
i dont mind being overtaken on dual carriageways etc, but otherwise it really winds me up, as 99% of the time i end up pulling up behind them and a junction etc. so i normally just clap half heartedly as i pull up behind them
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But the thing is often you dont know the road or the driver who has overtaken you doesn't know the road.

Consider this example.

Someone is following 3 cars travelling at 5mph under the speed limit. Now, to overtake all 3 probably requires shattering the speed limit to do it safely. So instead you take it easy and take one car at a time when the opportunity presents itself. Obviously you'd do your silly little sarcastic clap when you get overtaken by somebody who slots in behind the car in front of you, but with each car he safely overtakes, he's closer to getting all 3. Or you'll have a clap when you pull up behind him at the lights - but when he was behind you, it was safe to overtake and he went for it how was he to know there would be traffic lights 2 miles down the road anyway?

Often if you see an overtake position and its safe you should take it because you dont know when the next opportunity is. I've sometimes not bothered to overtake somebody slower because I knew there was a junction or some lights half a mile away anyway and then ended up stuck behind them for 10 miles or more afterwards..
 
scott212 said:
Not overtaking but another rant. Does anyone get annoyed when people cut the queues at roundabouts, they go into the wrong approach lane and then proceed to cut up the people who were in the correct lane on the actual roundabout. Last time this happened we all refused to let the person in and they had to go back round the roundabout and approach in the correct lane. Some people are ME ME ME.
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It's actually a pretty useful tactic - if you've got a reasonably quick car and there are two lanes onto the roundabout you can usually nail it off the line and slot in in front of the car that was beside you without that car needing to adjust his speed or course - ie, it doesn't affect them in the slightest and you cut down on queue time.

Obviously you are a git if you cause the other car to need to change speed or course - if you can't get in without affecting them then bad luck, bad judgement call, back round the entire roundabout you go.
 
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Firestar_3x said:
Perhaps he was trying to prove a point about him already doing 50 in a 40 which the guy behind wasn't happy about?
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Possibly however increasing your speed and performing a potentially dangerous maneuver (which an overtake is) to protest about his speed is irony overload.

Also my comment was a general comment and not related to any previous post. :)
 
[TW]Fox;14594828 said:
It's actually a pretty useful tactic - if you've got a reasonably quick car and there are two lanes onto the roundabout you can usually nail it off the line and slot in in front of the car that was beside you without that car needing to adjust his speed of course - ie, it doesn't affect them in the slightest and you cut down on queue time.

Obviously you are a git if you cause the other car to need to change speed or course - if you can't get in without affecting them then bad luck, bad judgement call, back round the entire roundabout you go.
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Totally agree, also a good tactic for traffic lights where 2 lanes go into 1. :)
 
therandom said:
I'm slightly confused as to why a bit more isn't being done!

There are clear paint marks from the angry man's car on my brother's rear bumper and on the side of the car as well.

My brother reported the incident, the angry man clearly did not.

So independent witness or not - its quite clear who was in the wrong!
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To you, maybe, but not to the police. Assuming that they track the other guy down, all they have is two conflicting stories, evidence which will probably back both, and the fact the one guy didn't report. And he will just say that he wasn't aware that a collision had taken place. The CPS won't prosecute because they won't have enough evidence, so the police are wasting they're time if they take it any further.

No matter how clear-cut it looks to you, so an outsider arriving after the event it's a lot more ambiguous.


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therandom said:
I appreciate it's not clear cut.

But at the least, I would imagine both cars have evidence that they collided which each other. (Assuming he hasn't had the damaged repaired already)

It would be a struggle to explain the damage on the rear bumper and on the side of the car with a different story.

Perhaps I'm being a bit too CSI with my assumption that they could match the paintwork or something! :D

I'm sure the police are doing as much as they can. Just having a bit of a rant really!
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Paintwork matching just tells you that the two vehicles collided, not how and why. One obvious explanation he could give: the other car swerved in front of him (hence the damage on the side), straightened, then did an emergency stop (hence the damage on the back bumper).


If you've ever been in the position of arriving after an event has finshed, and tried to sort out what happened from conflicting reports, then you'll realise that it's often all but impossible to figure. This is why insurance companies so often setle 50:50 if there are no witnesses.


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i overtook someone last night (doing 30 in a 60), as i compleated my overtake another cars lights came around the corner about 1000yards up the road.

1: he stuck his full beam on
2: guy i overtook stuck his full beam on
3: i joined in on the fun.

sigh...
 
therandom said:
I'm sure the police are doing as much as they can. Just having a bit of a rant really!
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Just lack of concrete evidence plain and simple, which sucks but thats sadly the way things go these days. Glad it was just a bit of car silliness and it didnt descend into worse.

I'm used to being overtaken though, what with driving a 1.4 Skoda estate with the old 8 valve engine for ages :(
Had a few cases of overtaking much faster, newer, shinier car and the driver then being obviously irked and tailgating me for a while, I usually just slow down until they overtake me back and drive away.... it annoys them :p

My Merc's a bit of an improvement though, much better acceleration in the 20-60Mph band. :)
 
re: overtaking

anyone remember that tale of the pistonheads integra driver that ended up inside for 6 months?

that was because he did some "bad" overtakes and upset a few gayers. thats why im so wary about how i drive. i can overtake this and that but i try to be courteous cos you never know when youre going to fall off or get it wrong and their bad word against you could really sink you

i keep a distance before i make the move (im not a tailgating gayer anyway) and will make sure there is plenty of space and in many cases flash the hazard lights once im past if they moved over to make space etc
 
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