Tailgated at the 40 speed limit

radderfire said:
The incident was an aggressive driving act by White Van Man. As soon as he was behind me I could immediately sense he was going to be trouble. I could tell he was in a hurry. In between the 40 zones, my efforts to appease his frustration by accelerating as quickly to 60 as I could were probably misinterpreted by him as me playing a game. Admittedly, because my car is quite high powered, he did keep falling back in my mirrors, and due to the nature of the road and frequent 40 zones, he kept getting left behind. With some people you just can't win. In future I will accelerate out of the 40 more gently and try and let them get past and out of my life as soon as possible.

Rgds
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Ahh right, no wonder you **** him off.

You should have let him pass you on the 60 limit if possible. If he wants to go at 50mph or whatever in a 40mph - let him; it's his licence.

But yeah no one likes being tailgated. I think it's at the top of the British motorists list as their number one hate.
 
Must be a sunday thing, had similar while I was out and about. Some chump in a Saab 93 sitting nice and close to me along A11, loads of opportunities to overtake but instead he chose to sit on my backside headlights ablaze. I do on occasions get narked off and give it some toe as the limit goes up, its childish but most of the time people get the idea and back off abit.
 
[TW]Fox;13868494 said:
People with inaccurate speedos driving at a GPS 35mph on 40mph dual carriageways in the outside lane thinking they are doing 40 annoy me.
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What else do drivers have to go on if they don't have a GPS unit in their car?:confused:
 
It always seems to be women who like to be glued to my arse. My brake light is very sensitive so I just rest my foot on the pedal for a bit which usually works. I mean wouldn't hanging back and waiting for an overtaking opportunity be the half sensible thing to do?

I've noticed that when I slow down to turn left into a side road while indicating, the car behind will not slow down but will speed up and then overtake me on the other side of the road as I pull into the side road. I'm no perfect driver but some people are pure morons.
 
Hequn said:
While I totally agree, I really hate when people pull into the outer most lane as I've clearly been driving up towards where they are at a faster speed and they overtake someone 1mph faster than said person in the inner lane. Drives me insane.
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... yes, they should never pull out if they can see you approaching.

However, what about when a driver has not pulled out in front of you, but is overtaking at the speed limit, do you still get angry then?

Rgds
 
[TW]Fox;13868494 said:
People with inaccurate speedos driving at a GPS 35mph on 40mph dual carriageways in the outside lane thinking they are doing 40 annoy me.
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You'll find that most speedos will report 40mph when your really doing a GPS reported speed of 35mph due to the +10% over-read tolerance allowed by law.
 
radderfire said:
... yes, they should never pull out if they can see you approaching.

However, what about when a driver has not pulled out in front of you, but is overtaking at the speed limit, do you still get angry then?

Rgds
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Nope. I do get angry if they do that, then don't move back in to the lane after the manoeuvre to let me past if I'm clearly travelling at a faster speed. For an example to match your statement, if someone has moved into the outside lane to pass someone at 70mph, does so, but then remains in the outside lane doing this speed whilst people behind are clearly wishing to go at a higher speed and there is a clear area to move back into the inner lane, but doesn't do so. That is annoying.
 
I had this last night. Tailgated for about 2 miles in a 40mph by a barry boy 206 with massive wheels and exhaust. As soon as we got to a dual carrage way I let him go to overtake then floored it in 2nd... by the time I was up to 70mph he was a dot in the mirror.

Moral of this story, race them.
 
Yes, I am not disputing that they should move back over and get out your way.

However, on occasion I have been overtaking in the outside lane at 70mph, when the car in the inside lane is doing 60-65mph, and people have come up behind me and flashed me. It is being flashed when driving to the rules of the road that I object to, as this is just plain wrong. I will always move out of the way as soon as I can, but I should be allowed to overtake a car if I am travelling at the speed limit, providing no-one was behind me when I started the manouevre. People do not have the right to attempt to bully me to go faster than is legally allowed, and that is what winds me up. I won't attempt to overtake if the speed difference is marginal.

Rgds
 
radderfire said:
Yes, I am not disputing that they should move back over and get out your way.

However, on occasion I have been overtaking in the outside lane at 70mph, when the car in the inside lane is doing 60-65mph, and people have come up behind me and flashed me. It is being flashed when driving to the rules of the road that I object to, as this is just plain wrong. I will always move out of the way as soon as I can, but I should be allowed to overtake a car if I am travelling at the speed limit, providing no-one was behind me when I started the manouevre. People do not have the right to attempt to bully me to go faster than is legally allowed, and that is what winds me up. I won't attempt to overtake if the speed difference is marginal.

Rgds
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Yep, I agree with you, driving like that is fine in my eyes, unfortunately there are a lot of people on the road that don't quite understand how a road with more than one lane works.
 
hittman said:
What else do drivers have to go on if they don't have a GPS unit in their car?:confused:
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Nothing, but they could at least move out of the way when a faster car comes up behind them. Perhaps they could, I dunno, sit in the inside lane where they should be in the first place.
 
Dappy said:
You'll find that most speedos will report 40mph when your really doing a GPS reported speed of 35mph due to the +10% over-read tolerance allowed by law.
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As you say, it is a 10% "tolerance" allowed by law. However, I suspect that you will find that when your speedo indicates 77mph, you are actually doing more than 70mph.

I have recently tested this on four different cars, using two GPSs and a Sat-Nav - in my experience, you should allow for a real-world tolerance of 7%.

Vehicle construction and use regulations require a vehicle speedometer accuracy to be in the range of -0->+10%. The implications are that it must never under-read - for obvious reasons - but may over-read. As the cost of manufacturing a speedometer with -0% error would be very costly they all over-read by a few percent without exception. Even if speed is measured correctly the display may not be accurate, so a speedometer error is allowed. Because of this, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) have an official formula for calculating a speeding offence. It allows a leeway of 10% plus 2mph. In reality, most speed traps are triggered at higher speeds than this because if they were set bang-on those guidelines, the sheer amount of paperwork generated would overrun the police speeding departments. - http://www.speed-trap.co.uk/Accused_Home/Rules_useage/The_Law.htm
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Mileage, as they say, may vary ;)
 
Hxc said:
I hate this. Constantly pushed to do more than the speed limit in 30s and 40s round here. Bad on the dual carriageway as well, get tailgated overtaking... I don't want to do 85 like you, sorry.
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85 Is excessive, but it does annoy me when people don't use the power of there engines. There's a dual cartridge way that I use regularly and I'm constantly right behind someone doing 60mph in the fast lane, with no one in the left lane.
 
I had no idea about this inaccurate speedo thing. I thought they had to be spot-on accurate by law and this was one of the things checked in an MOT?
 
This last Friday and Saturday I clocked two women driving while holding a phone to thier ear. And yesterday evening on the a500 another mobiler driving a silver Astra or similar made to go by on my right side, and whilst alongside was pulling back into my lane. By the time he was parallel his or her car was at least 2 feet over the line and about a foot off my door. I mean such that although I held my line he was inches from my rf bumper. All with three passengers aboard.

I wouldn't normally bother but this was exeptional, so I returned the favour right away. Then duly got all the flashes, etc. Prize ***** right there.

As for tailgating, yup, they do it here all the time, and I mean ALL the time. I soooo wish I had a rear facing cam.
 
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