Thats disgusting behaviour.

[fai17]

^^^^^^^^^^^ i like your style John ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Wise words from a even wiser man[Y]

[sti pretender]

Well said John couldn't agree more, another good tip is smile nicely at them when your behind them at the next set of lights you never know it may make them realise that for all their haste they never real gained that much.

[thefastone]

that always make me giggle, when you see someone being a muppet about getting past you dangerously, and speeding off into the sunset, only for you to meet them at EVERY SET OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS for miles....  []

just a little something to make you feel that little bit better about yourself... 

Oh and John, Yeah, its something for that to be probably the first time someone has mentioned something with so much sense, yet, it prolly never came to anyones minds before now, (mine included...)  [Y][H]
 

[darryl_martin]

I've had quite of few of these people tailgate me in the past. By far the most effective method I have found which works 100% of the time is:

At the earliest available opportunity, pull over and let them pass you. It is not your job to try and educate them in the errors of their ways, and doing so will only make them more angry and more likely to commit an act of road rage, either to you, or someone else further along who holds them up.

Typically it costs you no more than about 5 - 10 seconds, which is nothing on an average jounrey time of 30 minutes+, and the rest of your jounrey will be with significantly reduced stress levels.

It means you can then drive without worrying about what the idiot behind is going to do, and concentrate 100% on what's in front of you and not behind. The car/van which has just passed you, in most cases, won't get to their destination any faster, and with you sitting behind them they hopefully soon realise this. It's far easier to avoid an accident (and the insurance/police hassles that go with it) if you can watch from behind, than if there's someone 2 feet from your rear bumper and driving aggressively.

My wife (not the fastest of drivers when the kids are in the car), used to get people tailgaiting her as she sat at the speed limit on single A roads, but yet when the road got twisty, she would pull away from some of them without trying!. This seemed to infuriate the tailgaiters even more, so I advised her just to make it easy for them to overtake, or pull in and let them pass. End result is much less stress all round, with virtually zero impact on journey times.

It's much better to be 30 seconds late getting home in the evening by letting someone like this past, than to waste hours dealing with the hassle of an insurance claim and/or the police with a road rage incident.

John

Totall agree mate. It's a surprisingly good feeling to pull over and just let them past, must do it more often.

I have a 10-12 mile motorway trip to work, rush hour so lucky to be doing 50, and you get people swerving in and out, and then when you come off the motorway they're sitting in front of you lol. Difference is they're probably stressed. Sounds daft but I just sit in the slow lane, I get people from work overtakng me who (when they get out of their cars at the same time as me in the car park....) seem surprised I was "going slowly". Well we got here at the same time, tell me, who was going faster??? lol[]