Your bad driving encounters

This was a few months back now and to be fair it actually rattled me quite a bit and I preferred to forget about this one.

I went out for a drive one Saturday evening in the I-Pace, just a fun drive, not the drive it like I stole it fun, but the just driving on country B roads for driving sake fun. A Skoda Yeti started tail gating me despite me doing 50 mph in an NSL road. Now before anyone tries the "you should be doing 60", this was a proper twisty coast road and in the turns this Yeti was slowing right down and falling quite a bit back. Then in the few longer straights they would accelerate back to 60 and catch me up again. There were a few occasions they could have overtook but for some reason they preferred to sit behind me and tailgate.

Eventually they decided they would overtake on a fairly dangerous part of the road, or at least I thought they were overtaking. Instead they pulled out as if to overtake but sat at 50mph off my right rear quarter in the other oncoming lane. So I slowed down to 40 to let them get past me and they also slowed down and still sat there in the wrong lane not overtaking. It was a very surreal feeling, like watching some very odd behavior that just leaves you aghast at the stupidity of some people.

After a few seconds I noticed the telltale beams of light of an oncoming car approaching around a blind bend. With this Yeti in the Yeti still sitting just off my drivers side and not overtaking. Sensing a major head-on I slammed the brakes to allow the Yeti to get in to the correct lane ahead of me, but they decided to also brake hard, meaning I had to accelerate again to get out of their way and they just about pulled in behind me, narrowly missing the head-on crash.

Now they are flashing lights at me like I did something wrong and still tailgating. Eventually we come to a dual carriageway and they still sat behind me at which point I to slowed down to about 20mph, hoping they would go past. Instead they just sat behind me flashing lights and tailgating. I ended up accelerating up to 70ish with them eventually speeding to catch up and begin tailgating again. At the next roundabout I indicated left but at the last second I did a hard right 180 round the roundabout leaving them zero reaction time to do the same move. I speed off in the opposite direction genuinely perplexed at the behaviour of some people, just wondering what their thought processes were to do that.

I was wondering was I wrong to brake when the incoming traffic showed, but we were almost side by side at that point. Maybe they thought I broke on purpose to put them in danger but if that were true why didn’t they overtake safely when I slowed to let them in.

Just totally odd and the kind of scenario you read about some person hospitalised or even killed over some road rage attack by an angry moron.
 
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ICDP said:
This was a few months back now and to be fair it actually rattled me quite a bit and I preferred to forget about this one.

I went out for a drive one Saturday evening in the I-Pace, just a fun drive, not the drive it like I stole it fun, but the just driving on country B roads for driving sake fun. A Skoda Yeti started tail gating me despite me doing 50 mph in an NSL road. Now before anyone tries the "you should be doing 60", this was a proper twisty coast road and in the turns this Yeti was slowing right down and falling quite a bit back. Then in the few longer straights they would accelerate back to 60 and catch me up again. There were a few occasions they could have overtook but for some reason they preferred to sit behind me and tailgate.

Eventually they decided they would overtake on a fairly dangerous part of the road, or at least I thought they were overtaking. Instead they pulled out as if to overtake but sat at 50mph off my right rear quarter in the other oncoming lane. So I slowed down to 40 to let them get past me and they also slowed down and still sat there in the wrong lane not overtaking. It was a very surreal feeling, like watching some very odd behavior that just leaves you aghast at the stupidity of some people.

After a few seconds I noticed the telltale beams of light of an oncoming car approaching around a blind bend. With this Yeti in the Yeti still sitting just off my drivers side and not overtaking. Sensing a major head-on I slammed the brakes to allow the Yeti to get in to the correct lane ahead of me, but they decided to also brake hard, meaning I had to accelerate again to get out of their way and they just about pulled in behind me, narrowly missing the head-on crash.

Now they are flashing lights at me like I did something wrong and still tailgating. Eventually we come to a dual carriageway and they still sat behind me at which point I to slowed down to about 20mph, hoping they would go past. Instead they just sat behind me flashing lights and tailgating. I ended up accelerating up to 70ish with them eventually speeding to catch up and begin tailgating again. At the next roundabout I indicated left but at the last second I did a hard right 180 round the roundabout leaving them zero reaction time to do the same move. I speed off in the opposite direction genuinely perplexed at the behaviour of some people, just wondering what their thought processes were to do that.

I was wondering was I wrong to brake when the incoming traffic showed, but we were almost side by side at that point. Maybe they thought I broke on purpose to put them in danger but if that were true why didn’t they overtake safely when I slowed to let them in.

Just totally odd and the kind of scenario you read about some person hospitalised or even killed over some road rage attack by an angry moron.
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Hindsight is great and obviously nobody l else on this forum was there, but I don't think I'd brake tbh. Hopefully they would have seen the lights too. Also an obligatory if you'd been doing 60 it wouldn't have been a problem :p . Just treat other motorists as morons and 99 times out of 100 you'll be right.
I did see someone this morning go all the way around a roundabout in the 1st lane, cutting over the lanes in the wrong way (I.e. outer to inner), don't know if they were lost.
 
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ICDP said:
Just totally odd and the kind of scenario you read about some person hospitalised or even killed over some road rage attack by an angry moron.
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Yeah especially the bits where you made his problem your problem by slamming on your brakes hard and reducing speed to 20mph.
 
@IDCP - yes, that’s an odd one. If someone is really aggressively tailgating me I find somewhere to pull in and let them past. 9 times out of 10 I end up right behind them for quite a distance.
 
theone8181 said:
Hindsight is great and obviously nobody l else on this forum was there, but I don't think I'd brake tbh. Hopefully they would have seen the lights too. Also an obligatory if you'd been doing 60 it wouldn't have been a problem :p . Just treat other motorists as morons and 99 times out of 100 you'll be right.
I did see someone this morning go all the way around a roundabout in the 1st lane, cutting over the lanes in the wrong way (I.e. outer to inner), don't know if they were lost.
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The problem was they pulled out as if to overtake and I slowed gradually to 40ish to give them more room. Yet they also slowed and were clearly not intent on an overtake but were just being daft. So when the lights from the oncoming vehicle appeared I broke hard to make room and avoid being caught up in an accident.

I know you joked when you said it, but if I don’t want to do 60 in an NSL unlit twisty unfamiliar country B road that’s my call. I won’t be doing 60 in a road twisty coast road just because you tailgate me. I don’t mean you you, just you in general :)
 
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Only time I've ever been obviously tailgated like that I just pulled into a bus stop* and jumped straight out of the car. I'm not some hardman by any means but pretty much every aggressive ding dong on the road becomes a whiney little toe rag when not wrapped in over a ton of metal.

As predicted they just sped past into the distance.

*I may have strategically chosen a bus stop where plenty of people were around in case they were a psycho.
 
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Not really ‘bad driving’ as such but is there a reason why tons of cars would break down on a motorway on the same day? The cold weather? I seriously just saw about 5 or 6 along a 12 mile stretch.

I took my car out for a run to charge the battery because the alarm went off when I got in to go to the supermarket.
 
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ICDP said:
The problem was they pulled out as if to overtake and I slowed gradually to 40ish to give them more room. Yet they also slowed and were clearly not intent on an overtake but were just being daft. So when the lights from the oncoming vehicle appeared I broke hard to make room and avoid being caught up in an accident.

I know you joked when you said it, but if I don’t want to do 60 in an NSL unlit twisty unfamiliar country B road that’s my call. I won’t be doing 60 in a road twisty coast road just because you tailgate me. I don’t mean you you, just you in general :)
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I get what you mean, some of the roads say nsl but are basically 1.5 cars wide. It's always easier for the car not at the front to go quick imo as they don't need to anticipate like the front car does.
 
theone8181 said:
I get what you mean, some of the roads say nsl but are basically 1.5 cars wide. It's always easier for the car not at the front to go quick imo as they don't need to anticipate like the front car does.
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Apologies at this point it was a good part of a two lane B road and overtaking was doable but not ideal. The issue with me doing 60 wasn’t the narrow road, but the very short sections with very tight turns that could facilitate getting up to 60 safely. We were at one of the few genuinely good overtaking points and they moved in to the oncoming lane sitting at my rear 3/4 but not overtaking. This wasn’t a “can’t” overtake but a “won’t” overtake. I have no idea what they were trying to do as I had slowed to 40 to ease their overtake. At this point we were almost at a tight right handed turn ahead and the telltale light beams appeared indicating a coming car.

I could not accelerate as the upcoming turn was too tight for much faster speed. So with them at my right rear quarter I took the best action I felt appropriate and broke hard to let this muppet in the Yeti get out of the oncoming traffic. But the Yeti driver also broke hard and I stopped braking. This all happened over a few seconds.

I should clarify that this Yeti driver could easily have overtaken with plenty of time had they competed the overtake instead of sitting at my rear 3/4 and matching my speed.
 
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Jonnycoupe said:
Both :D

Nah just the other driver, loads of chances to overtake Yeti didnt.
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lol, I thought you were replying to yourself until I hit “show ignored content”. Nothing to see there, I have that individual ignored as a pointless troll.

Their cringeworthy replies to my posts seems to validate my opinion. I post about a near miss head-on collision where people could have died and they respond with a PMSL emoji…
 
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I was at a supermarket (not my work - a competitor as had a click n collect order to pick up). About to park up and the woman in the SUV who was parked in the space in front of me wasn't looking where she was going as driving off and fortunately, the bay to my left was vacant, so swung in there.

Plus saw another taxi who thought the lane directions don't apply to them...
 
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