Tailgating should be made a criminal offence

Idiophreak

martinthebandit wrote: »

Yes it is a fail, and for good reason.

Sorry, what's the "good" reason?

stugib

Gordon_Hose wrote: »

I think he's saying that if you get tailgated that YOU need to look at YOUR own driving to prevent it.

:rotfl:

I think it's a fair point. I drive at limit, or just above (m/ways I'd do 80) but can't think of more than a handful of occasions in 18 years of driving when I've been tailgated.

Yes, no-one needs to tailgate, but if the OP is finding it's happening often then their own driving style is probably contributing to it.

Skinto_7

One thing i find much more annoying than tailgating is people who sit in the overtaking lanes whilst not overtaking!!!

Skinto_7 (neither a tailgater or a boy racer)

supermanjo

My theory on 3 lanes have always been...

Left: 60+
Middle: 70+
Right: 80+

I usually stick in the middle lane @ 70, it saves me from having to cut in and out every time I want to overtake. On occasion when I'm taking it easy or simply tired, I move over on the left lane, stick the cruise control on at 62 and relax.

4am in the morning joining the M25, the right lane is always empty, along with the rest of the motorway, so I go down it comfortably @ 90-100.

I hate tailgating and have never done it, I simply overtake.

Gordon_Hose

stugib wrote: »

I think it's a fair point. I drive at limit, or just above (m/ways I'd do 80) but can't think of more than a handful of occasions in 18 years of driving when I've been tailgated.

Yes, no-one needs to tailgate, but if the OP is finding it's happening often then their own driving style is probably contributing to it.

No, not by any stretch of the imagination.

To say that someone else's driving style forces people to tailgate is utter tosh.

I'm sorry, but you can't blame tailgating on anybody but the driver doing the tailgating. Nobody forces anyone to tailgate, regardless of driving style.

You could be doing 85mph there would still be some !!!!!!! with a small winky wanting to bully his way past.

slyracoon

It is frustrating when your stuck behind a slower moving vehicle in good conditions, I always leave a gap though and overtake when safe to do so.

I rarely get tailgated on NSL roads because I'll generally be making good progress at a decent speed for the conditions.

I do find that I'm tailgated most often in 30mph zones, it seems so many people have a disregard for them and want to continue along at 40mph everywhere, its normally the same people doing 40mph in the NSL sections as well.

Sometimes if i'm tailgated in a 30 zone I'll just stop in the road, slowly, safely and signalling my intention so they can pass, 90% of the time they're so close or so stupid that they don't notice my indication and come to stop inches behind and then realise they are so close they don't have room to pull around me and have to reverse up and go around! :T

slyracoon

supermanjo wrote: »

My theory on 3 lanes have always been...

Left: 60+
Middle: 70+
Right: 80+

I usually stick in the middle lane @ 70, it saves me from having to cut in and out every time I want to overtake. On occasion when I'm taking it easy or simply tired, I move over on the left lane, stick the cruise control on at 62 and relax.

4am in the morning joining the M25, the right lane is always empty, along with the rest of the motorway, so I go down it comfortably @ 90-100.

I hate tailgating and have never done it, I simply overtake.

You should not be on the road.

martinthebandit

passatrider wrote: »

What you are saying then in short here is you condone tailgating then?

Good grief..

......... and good grief to you too.

Care to show any post of mine that supports tailgating?

Fortunately you cannot, yet I can point to several posts on here from you that supports bad inconsiderate driving.

Gordon_Hose

You're banging on about bad and inconsiderate driving, yet you fail to accept that it isn't other people that should be adjusting their driving style to prevent them from being tailgated. To me that says you're OK with people tailgating because everyone else should be going fast enough to prevent it.

Tailgaters should be adjusting their driving, not the other way around.

martinthebandit

Gordon_Hose wrote: »

Well, I didn't go anywhere near an NSL dual carriageway on my driving test. I passed in 1996.

It still doesn't give anyone the go ahead to tailgate me.

I don't know why you think someone doing 60mph on a motorway should adjust their own driving to prevent being tailgated. It's a ridiculous suggestion.

Doing 60mph on the motorway isn't illegal. Tailgating is. Go figure.

I believe I said that if you are being tailgated it would not hurt to examine your own driving to see if you are doing something to contribute to that behavior, again I can see nothing untoward about that suggestion.

If you are needlessly going at 10 mph below the speed limit then you are contributing to the frustration felt by drivers around you.

Some drivers react to that frustration by doing the wrong thing occasionally stupid and dangerous things and I do not in any way condone that.

While driving needlessly slowly may not be dangerous it is discourteous and annoying to other road users and I do not condone that either.