Rear-end shunt claim in dipute!

Vegas33139

Strider590 wrote: »

It'll be his fault... However i'd like to know what you did to annoy him? And no im sorry, I do not believe your story!

People don't just get irrate for no reason and all too often these days people like to annoy other on our roads (passive aggressive driving).
They drive too slowly, wait for someone to get annoyed, then they start slamming on the brakes (assuming wrongly that it won't affect their own insurance) or weaving about the road, in my 10+ years of driving I have only ever seen TWO people pull over to allow another car through!! and one of those was me!

Just this morning a chap pulled out in front of me on a 50mph road and instead of accelerating he repeatedly slammed on his brakes and gave me hand gestures!!
He's very lucky I used my brakes, because I do infact have an in car video camera! I would love to have seen the look on his face when he found out after a collision!

It's becoming very common these days, so maybe the other driver had a video camera?

So in short, im calling bu11sh1t on your story until proven otherwise! I do NOT believe your entirely innocent in this at all......
As for the injuries, I suspect that's rubbish too...... We all know it. Parasites the lot of em.....

You've been driving for 10+years! How very quaint:rotfl:


You're right, poeple do not get irate for no reason - there's always a reason. But for you to presume I'm the reason is astonishingly ignorant.


I suspect you after a reaction from me - sorry. Not going to happen my friend.

As for the rest of your story could you explain to me how you're so sure of all the facts? This should be fascinating.:D

Hammyman

Vegas33139 wrote: »

You've been driving for 10+years! How very quaint:rotfl:


You're right, poeple do not get irate for no reason - there's always a reason. But for you to presume I'm the reason is astonishingly ignorant.

I've driven just short of 2 million miles - if you passed your test at 17 you would need to drive 12000 miles per year until you were over 160 years old just to catch up if I stopped driving for the rest of my life and I'm still doing 20k a year. For you to presume you were not the reason is astonishingly ignorant.

warehouse

Strider590 wrote: »

I drive at the speed limits, I drive to the road conditions and I can count on one had the number of times ive had trouble with impatient drivers in over 10 years driving.

You must live in a very quiet part of the country. At least 2 times per week I'll have impatient drivers on my bumper and I'll be doing the speed limit, and i mean right on my bumper. If I were to brake sudenly they WOULD hit me, 100% certain.

As for the O.P., if anyone hits you from behind it's their fault and you will get recompense eventually, but it will be a LONG wait.

Strider590

Vegas33139 wrote: »

I suspect you after a reaction from me - sorry. Not going to happen my friend.

Huh?

Vegas33139 wrote: »

As for the rest of your story could you explain to me how you're so sure of all the facts? This should be fascinating.:D

Meh?


I post video clips on Youtube on near enough a weekly basis, showing just the type of driving I have described. Too many people taking their ego's onto British roads......

Im also royally sick of people trying to enforce their own version of the highway code onto the rest of us.

From experience, if someone is tailgating your probably driving too slow or you just SMIDSY'd (sorry mate I didn't see you) them.
Sensible solution = speed up to the speed limit or let them pass.
UK driver solution = slam on the brakes and hinder them still further.

The occasional nutter is out there, but it always takes something to set them off.

Now it could be that someone else got this guy wound up and you just got handed a guy with a very short fuse, but no matter how short that fuse, it still needs to be lit.

There are places in the UK where annoying a driver could wind up with a gun being pulled on you..... Nobody seems to grasp this concept.

Gordon_Hose

Some people are just angry drivers, who, when faced with someone doing the speed limit, think they can bully their way past because they want to go 20mph above the posted limit.

Doesn't mean the guy in front did anything wrong.

Even if the driver in front is doing 10mph less than the posted limit, it doesn't give anyone the right to bully their way past, driving dangerously and putting peoples lives at risk. Any normal, sane person would drive at a suitable distance and wait for a spot to pass safely.

The is no excuse for tailgating someone. Ever.

samba

Vegas33139 wrote: »

... I signalled my intention and then quickly pulled in and hand gestured for him to pass me. As I checked my near-side mirror before quickly pulling into the kerbside, I heard a screech of brakes and this guy ran into the back of me ...

Any advice would be very welcome.

If someone was tailgating me like that I would not do anything quickly. I would indicate my intention to pull in and then keep going at the same speed whilst checking my mirror waiting for the driver behind to acknowledge by slowing down and backing off so that I could safely brake and pull in to let him past. If he hit you while you were checking your mirror, then you must have started braking already - so you signalled, but before checking your mirror to see that the other driver has seen your signal, you begin your manoeuvre.

tbourner

There's just not enough detail to make a call either way.

What road were you on initially? What roundabout? What road did the accident occur? When on that road did you indicate? Begin braking? Come to a stop?

Also, most importantly, what did the police say at the scene? I assume after the accident you both stopped and exchanged details? Was the guy still 'aggressive' and 'mouthing obscenities' when both out of the cars? He must have stated you stopped too quick or something so the police should have been called, what did they say?

Lum

It can happen completely unprovoked. I remember getting it off some guy in a bright red diesel Audi A4

I'd seen him coming for a while, I was doing 70 in the outside lane with both other lanes full and this guy is up the chuff of the car two cars behind me weaving, flashing, gesticulating and eventually bullies them over, rinse and repeat for the car behind me who pulls into a gap that I personally thought was a bit small for the speeds involved, at which point he starts doing the same thing to me, but I can't move over because now it's nose to tail lorries to my left.

He very nearly drove into the back of me come the next random traffic jam, fortunately I thought this might happen, left a bigger gap in front and when the jam happened, braked hard, then eased off before he hit me, using up the extra space I'd left in front to stop without incident.

The OP may simply have not noticed the Range Rover driver acting like a tw@ for the last few miles.

Quentin

tbourner wrote: »

He must have stated you stopped too quick or something so the police should have been called, what did they say?

The police don't routinely come out to an incident like this! It's a civil matter, not a police matter.

kizkiz

Some people really are just just idiots.
I've had a few occassions when doing 120mph in outside lane of motorway and had some idiot right up my chuff trying to get past!!!
Of course, he got a shock when i pulled over and he drove past a car full of coppers in uniform and got pulled over sharpish . lol
Shame unmarked cars don't have rear lights these days. Tailgating a police car on a call really does take some doing!