Road rage.. who gets it?

Road rage as in get out the car and beat the other driver to death with a crowbar - no

Road rage as in shout at stupid people doing stupid things - yes

But its a very wierd thing. My dad got squashed between the back of his car and the front of a fellow taxi drivers because the fellow driver thought it would be a larf. My dad naturally grabbed the guy by the collar and told him to ****** ***** ******. the following day he was arrested for a racially motivated assault as the fellow driver was a morocan! Didnt stick tho, the police just 'have' to follow these things up, something about fair rights which means they have to follow any racist case against a minority to be seen to not be discriminating.

Sorry, this isnt a race thread.

Road rage, yea, i get it, but its confined to my car and verbal
 
Last edited:
richolmes72 said:
There is NEVER an excuse for physical violence apart from in self-defence. Retaliation for even the most dangerous driving should NOT become physical. If you want to get angry in your car then fair enough.
Click to expand...
I agree.

About 3 years ago some guy thought I cut him up at a roundabout. In reality, he was in the wrong lane and tried to overtake everyone and then nip in front. Unfortunately, I was going faster than him from the start, so it failed and he had to filter at the last minute.

A little further ahead we entered traffic at a standstill. His mistake was making himself so obvious - he tried to completely block my car from moving with his. I nipped the windows up and locked the doors (central locking). He came up to my car having just boiled over and tried to punch my window in. Punch punch punch, but he was having no luck. After every punch (he was really trying) I was sitting there thinking "what an idiot" as his fist recoiled, and I could see in his not-so-angry face that his hand was hurting pretty badly. He gave up, told me he was "gonna get me" and got back in his car. He went in front of me and then started trying to push his way through the traffic ahead.

I later found where he lived and reported it to the police. I didn't expect nor really want anything to come of what he tried to do to me, but if this guy tries and succeeds at anything like this in the future, he'll have a record of it.

To this day I always lock my doors. I have the car set now to lock the doors as soon as I drive above 10mph, so as soon as I leave my house they are locked.

If that guy had broken in to my car I didn't know what I'd have done. I thought about it, and worked out that the best thing to do is run them over. No matter how strong they are a car is going to overpower them. If someone is going to physically attack me then I feel I have the right to retaliate with my car :)
Foxtrot26 said:
he was lucky that it was just fists, if i had been a tad less angry i may have thought about taking the wheel brace out the boot.
Click to expand...
That's so dangerous for you, though. What if you're starting on someone who's got a gun in their coat? If you start smashing their car in and he shoots you square between the eyes it won't matter whether your family had a "near miss" today, as you'll be dead.

If you were walking towards me and you had a wheel brace in your hands, two thoughts would be going through my head: run him over now, or run him over when he hits the car. That would be the toss-up, but you would be getting run over. I've never run someone over before and so you'd be the test subject of how much force it takes to disable someone. I just think that's all so not worth it for everyone involved...

I started this topic as yesterday someone very angrily stormed over to my car at set of traffic lights after following me for miles. I was ready to reverse over him sideways as he stood next to my driver's door, but instead the lights went green and I just drove off too fast for him to keep up. I had very few choices to guarantee my safety, one of which was potentially lethal, all because he he has anger problems. It just seems ridiculous!
 
Last edited:
Was on the A406 going to Barking in the fast lane doing about 55 when this guy in a BMW pulls in from my left without indicating doing about 70 then drops allll the way down to about 30mph as a 'safety' camera was approaching (in a 50 btw) was'nt gradual, literally dropped anchors as he panicked and it was at a point where he was still diagonal(?) from overtaking me! he almost lost it as the car swerved around a bit. Traffic slowed to a grind a ways down and he was in front of me still. I was so mad i got out and banged on his window a few times but he did'nt let it down, prolly cause i was foaming at the mouth :D Just got back in my slocus and calmed down. and no PMkeates, it was'nt me :p
 
PMKeates said:
I agree.
-If you were walking towards me and you had a wheel brace in your hands, two thoughts would be going through my head: run him over now, or run him over when he hits the car -!
Click to expand...



unless your front and back wheels can turn 90 degrees you may struggle to run someone over thats at your side window :)

and guns under their coats ffs this is Glasgow not some whacked out US ghetto, cosh or a blade maybe :)


i'm surprised at your reasoned response, i was expecting a MPOWAH foot down up to 155mph type reply :) well done
 
I do get annoyed at peoples stupidity while I'm driving but it is usually dealt with by making a few sarcastic comments and shaking my head in disbelief - doesn't do much other than make me feel a bit better. There is no point me getting too riled by it though, as long as I get where I need to go safely then it's all good.
 
PMKeates said:
If that guy had broken in to my car I didn't know what I'd have done.
Click to expand...

you would have ended up with a face full of glass.
happened to my mum many years ago in a 306..

can't remember exactly what happened, but some dude got angry, jumped out and smashed in her window

only upon seeing her with a face full of glass did he realise he had made a mistake, and apaprently was very apologetic :rolleyes:
not sure what happened next tho, but this was in the days before everyone had a mobile..
 
I went for my first drive today in my first car, not sure what i did wrong but i could see the guy behind me huffing and puffing at me, dont think i was going fast enough.

It was before the nat speed limit signs, i was around 30, then hit 60 when i passed the signs.

Maybe i was going to slow or something, dunno :o
 
I haven't ever got out of my car to have a go at someone (had a truck driver come up to my window once though years ago - I just let him scream and curse at me then he left it) but I have experienced road rage in the sense of yelling at other drivers, flashing my lights or beeping my horn

It's not clever and I really shouldn't rise to it but unfortunately, to my regret, I have

The most recent case I've experienced (and the worst) was with a Volvo S60 on the way to work a few weeks ago. There had been an accident on the dual carriageway which I take to work (the A299 if anyone knows it) so we were all merging into one lane to pass the accident.

I was in the right hand lane with said Volvo behind me. I let a few cars go in front (but I was still moving with the rest of the traffic) and the guy in the Volvo just blasted his horn. I looked in my rear view mirror and he was having a real go at me - hand gestures the lot. I ignored it but he beeped his horn a second time and came up really close behind me flashing his lights. We couldn't move (due to the traffic) so I really couldn't see what his problem was

He kept like that as we went past the accident (the police at the scene did nothing!). Just after the accident when both lanes were open I pulled over to let him go. He came along side me and proceeded to continue to yell. I'm afraid at this point I lost it. I just couldn't see what his problem was and I'd had enough.

I pulled in behind him and ended up chasing him down the A299. After a few minutes I came to my senses and backed right off - why was I chasing such an idiot and endangering my life (and the other people's lives on the road)?

I'm not proud of it but unfortunately I saw red
 
Last edited:
Can you call a chav in a 1.2 Corsa liking the smell of your behind 'road-rage'?
I'm sure most of these chavy racers are bum bandits :D

Guess I shouldn't drive a chav car myself and the stigma isn't fair.
 
Never felt the need to get out of the car or anything but have had quite a few WTF are you playing at moments, accompanied by various hand gestures and head shaking.

However I have been a passenger in the works van having it's door kicked in where a red faced bloke was trying his best to rip my work colleagues head off and it was (mostly) the other guys fault.
He wanted the right hand lane at a set of traffic lights, so did we... we were in front. He used the chevrons to get onto our right hand side then wondered why we cut him off as the road markings blended him out of the equation. LOL
He took a MAJOR dislike to that. :D
 
Last edited:
I remember last year sitting in the queue for the tolls on the Forth Road Bridge when our car was rear ended by a Rover 216.

Luckily there was hardly any speed involved at all and I'd left plenty of space between me and car in front. I calmed down really quickly when this hulk (the dude was HUGE) climbed out of the Rover !

He approached me looking like he was ready to burst into tears saying "I only passed my test yesterday - am really sorry - I was getting my money for the tolls"

Couldn't really get angry after that :p
 
My road rage consists mostly of "Erm ok..." and "That's different..."

Give a little, get a little is my view. If someone makes an error I don't go out of my way to "show them up" or make their situation worse. If they've chosen the wrong lane or something and no one else seems to let them out then I probably will.
 
FishThrower said:
im not surprised that he got frustrated with you, people overtaking "one car" at a time by pushing through the pack is rude and arrogant, dangerous also if ifs a B road. always amazes me why people do this as they dont progress that far down the pack.

Still though, he sounds like a NO SWEARING from speeding up, but from hes point of view, he thought you were a arrogant muppet :)
Click to expand...

he backed WELL off and left a huge gap, and i regularily overtake 4-5 cars on this particular road....its quite steep up hill and some cars really do struggle with it......to create a massive gap and then wonder why the hell someone has leap frogged you is stupid!

Also rude an arrogant that they are making progress because you either dont want to or have a car incapable of doing so? What a load of crock tbh, if i overtake 1 at a time ill eventually get to the front and have clear road, it's quite a long stretch and i can save literally 10-15 minutes off of my journey home by a bit of overtaking.

Fair enough if id tried to overtake into a gap that WASNT there, but to close a perfectly good overtaking gap whilst someone is using it?!!! Daft.
 
If somebody pulls out on me or does something stupid i generally wave my arms a bit and say "wtf you idiot". I'd never get out of the car and do anything though. At most i'd just shout swear words at them. I never understand people that get so annoyed they feel they have to stop, get out and start a fight.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom