Revenge of the tailgated!

Innys

martinisaprick wrote: »

what makes you any better than the tailgater if you behave like that on the roads,you are just as likely to cause an accident as he was.you were aware of the hazard you faced .i.e. the car behind being to close .He wasnt and as a result of your actions he could have lost control of his car and mounted the pavement perhaps injuring or even killing himself,his passengers or a pedestrian in the process.Would it have been so funny then.
Best way to deal with someone who is to close is carry on ,be aware of what they are doing and were they are and concentrate on the road ahead and if they are making you uncomfortable or nervous at the first available opportunity move over or pull over and let them past.
Roads are not playgrounds for you and others to wage petty wars against each other,you are no better than he.

I can't say I agree with this.

My view is I am going somewhere and I have estimate a time to get there. Why should I have to pull over and let a tailgater past, thereby jeapordising my chances of getting to my destination on time? True, the tailgater may have an emergency and be in a hurry, but so could I.

So my policy is I will not let you past - if you can, overtake. 9 times out of 10 they cannot overtake because their car (and, more usually, van) is so weedy/underpowered that the only way they can get past is for me to stop.

I do have a fast car myself and I suspect that jealousy may play a part. The tailgater is trying to show that even in his heap he can travel faster than me. I don't have anything to prove and don't care if they pass me - it's their problem.

As for the issue about causing an accident, if the tailgater wasn't behaving so recklessly, there wouldn't be an accident. If one subscribes to the view that the victim may cause an accident by refusing to slow down, we would never get to where we are going on time.....and I'm not prepared to do that

It boils down to this. I pay car tax, insurance, fuel duty and heaven knows what else for the privelidge of driving on the road. So, I have just as much right to drive at the speed I want as anyone else. If a tailgater doesn't like it, too bad.

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

joyfull wrote: »

Behave like what?
I simply avoided a pothole & noticed his inability to do so because HE was driving dangerously.
There was nowhere to pull over. Believe me, I spend my life pulling over & letting these people pass.
As a result of MY ACTIONS cause an accident? Oh please....

You knew the pothole was there and left it until the last possible moment to avoid it, deliberately, so that the following vehicle would hit it.

Another idiot.

Innys

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers! wrote: »

You knew the pothole was there and left it until the last possible moment to avoid it, deliberately, so that the following vehicle would hit it.

Another idiot.

While I don't condone what the OP did, the fact is if the tailgater had not been......erm.....tailgating, there would have been no issue.

Similarly, if the OP had, in fact, only seen the pothole at the last minute and swerved to avoid it, it wouldn't have mattered if the tailgater had maintained a sensible distance.

The OP clearly used this tactic to get the tailgater to back off and it worked. You could argue "two wrongs don't make a right", but I suspect very few people in the world believe in that, almost utopian, principle.

anewman

Tailgaters are an instant source of easy money. Slam on the brakes and you get yourself a new car. Just remember to put in the insurance claim for whiplash for 5 people.

sdavi3680

My favourite thing to do to tailgaters is to slow down and indicate left so they know to overtake me, what they don't know is there is fast moving truck coming the other way. Oh how I laugh hard when I see Mr Tailgater have a head on collision and his his car go up in flames!

DirectDebacle

anewman wrote: »

Tailgaters are an instant source of easy money. Slam on the brakes and you get yourself a new car. Just remember to put in the insurance claim for whiplash for 5 people.

Help! I'm an idiot!

Idiotic advice from a self-confessed idiot.

DirectDebacle

sdavi3680 wrote: »

My favourite thing to do to tailgaters is to slow down and indicate left so they know to overtake me, what they don't know is there is fast moving truck coming the other way. Oh how I laugh hard when I see Mr Tailgater have a head on collision and his his car go up in flames!

Really? I can imagine you and the innocent lorry drivers widow having a good chuckle too.

anewman

DirectDebacle wrote: »

Idiotic advice from a self-confessed idiot.

I think the point was if you're following too close to be able to stop when needed (i.e. if the car in front needs to brake hard for whatever reason) then it's your own fault. This is why there is the concept of stopping distances and keeping a good distance from the vehicle in front.

Usual advice for when being tailgated is to drop back from the traffic in front to allow yourself more time to brake slowly, to try help prevent being rear-ended by the mentally !!!!!! idiot behind you.

Only an idiot who thinks it's ok to tailgate would say it was idiotic advice

warehouse

anewman wrote: »

Usual advice for when being tailgated is to drop back from the traffic in front to allow yourself more time to brake slowly, to try help prevent being rear-ended by the mentally !!!!!! idiot behind you.

Bingo. Even more so if the kids are in the car with me. I'll slow down enough for the situation to be safe, and the positive of that is mr tailgater will usually overtake.

Eric_Pisch

how to 100% stop tailgating


1) use your mirrors

2) PULL THE !!!! OVER :mad:

The worst drivers on the road are the lane 2 and lane 3 road hogs who refuse to pull over