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Rear-end shunt claim in dipute!
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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!
That's nothing....
I was doing 168mph over near Leicester and the guy behind was right on my !!!!!!! Couldn't really make out his face though due to my mirrors shaking about, but he looked like the Stig from BBC Topgear...
I managed to stop him overtaking me though, I lost him exiting Gerard's
“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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The police don't routinely come out to an incident like this! It's a civil matter, not a police matter.
They should come out if there's an injury or a dispute over blame. There were both in this case according to the OP.Trev. Having an out-of-money experience!
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A large % of drivers get into denial mode after an accident/incident. They think they are good drivers and ask themselves: "I'm a good driver how can this have happened?" or "I've been driving for x years and never had an accident." So they tell their Insurers that they don't think they are to blame and worm and squirm afterwards.
And for some drivers the fact that they drive a nice car on HP/PCP, mortgage, credit cards etc mean that they've had to accept a large excess to cover their cars and again when faced with a £500 compulsory excess and a £250 voluntary excess mean that again they worm and squirm their way out of blame.The man without a signature.0 -
The police don't routinely come out to an incident like this! It's a civil matter, not a police matter.They should come out if there's an injury or a dispute over blame. There were both in this case according to the OP.
Police have to attend any accident where somebody is injured, but if nobody calls them, then they are not psychic0 -
Anyone can look like the stig with one of THESEStrider590 wrote: »That's nothing....
I was doing 168mph over near Leicester and the guy behind was right on my !!!!!!! Couldn't really make out his face though due to my mirrors shaking about, but he looked like the Stig from BBC Topgear...
I managed to stop him overtaking me though, I lost him exiting Gerard's0 -
Police have to attend any accident where somebody is injured, but if nobody calls them, then they are not psychic
Exactly my point, I'm trying to get more info from the OP, why weren't the police there? If he was injured and the other bloke was angry and aggressive why didn't he phone them? If they were there what did they say?Trev. Having an out-of-money experience!
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Strider590 wrote: »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.
Too slow for THEM perhaps! Just this morning I was travelling in lane 2 of the M8, lane 1 was nose to tail but moving. I was in the region of 70MPH(not going to incriminate myself here) yet I still had a Deutsche Marque up my backside. He was within feet, not yards, of my bumper. I could neither go any faster nor pull into lane 1 because of traffic. What do you suggest was I to do?
After a while I pulled into a suitable gap in lane 1 that allowed Twatty McTwat face to pass and start harassing his next victim but not before he volleyed (mouthed) abuse as he passed, I just laugh it off but some people can be intimidated by such behaviour, and whether it's aggravated or not, there is NO place for intimidating behaviour on our roads, especially the 'fast' ones!
Exactly, this applies to all drivers, that driver up front going 1MPH too slow for your liking could be 'William Foster', the character played by Michael Douglas in 'Falling Down'. Just because you can driver suicidally close to another car doesn't make you hard, it just makes you dangerous!Strider590 wrote: »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.0 -
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?
Somewhere near Plymouth, one would assume.“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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The police don't routinely come out to an incident like this! It's a civil matter, not a police matter.
It's more than civil.They should come out if there's an injury or a dispute over blame. There were both in this case according to the OP.
Not for a dispute over blame. That's for the insurance companies to fight over.Police have to attend any accident where somebody is injured, but if nobody calls them, then they are not psychic
Not to mention the allegation of dangerous driving, which is a recordable crime is it not?;)0 -
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