Aggressive Driving

aardvaak

This afternoon I witnessed some extremely aggressive driving.
I was pulling out of a property onto a mainish straight road - I look both ways and again then I proceeded to pull out - a young women in a sporty car came out of nowhere so she must of been travelling at speed.
She then proceeded to flash lights and bib the horn repeatable and proceeded about a foot from my bumper. for about two miles.
I got worried she was going to follow me home so I turned off and travelled about the countryside in the opposite direction to my home she still followed me so at a junction I stopped and locked the doors after a few minutes she drove off.

What could she of been in such a hurry for and why so aggressive?

Silver-Surfer_2

aardvaak wrote: »

This afternoon I witnessed some extremely aggressive driving.
I was pulling out of a property onto a mainish straight road - I look both ways and again then I proceeded to pull out - a young women in a sporty car came out of nowhere so she must of been travelling at speed.
She then proceeded to flash lights and bib the horn repeatable and proceeded about a foot from my bumper. for about two miles.
I got worried she was going to follow me home so I turned off and travelled about the countryside in the opposite direction to my home she still followed me so at a junction I stopped and locked the doors after a few minutes she drove off.

What could she of been in such a hurry for and why so aggressive?

Who knows, you're failure to look before pulling out probably wound her up. I take it you're an older lady and that's why you were so worried?

prosaver

that happened to my mate. he stopped and waited till the aggressive driver came to his car window, then he drove off, at speed. He said it took ages to get rid of him, he had to go down back alleys and all that...
ha ha

aardvaak

Silver-Surfer wrote: »

Who knows, you're failure to look before pulling out probably wound her up. I take it you're an older lady and that's why you were so worried?

I am a middle aged gent and I didn't just pull out I checked several times.
What ever happened you would of thought if she was a normal sane person she might of flashed once to show her annoyance that someone had the liberty to use her road (but she was travelling at speed) then back off

Perhaps this she an example of someone being let out on a bank holiday thinking they can do as they please

GwylimT

Our exit is on a bend, so the furthest you can see is 14m each way (yes, we have measured it), we often get people giving certain signs when we pull out. Yet they think its acceptable to drive fast enough to make the thirty sign flash.

There will always be aggressive drivers I'm afraid.

Johno100

aardvaak wrote: »

This afternoon I witnessed some extremely aggressive driving.
I was pulling out of a property onto a mainish straight road - I look both ways and again then I proceeded to pull out - a young women in a sporty car came out of nowhere so she must of been travelling at speed.
She then proceeded to flash lights and bib the horn repeatable and proceeded about a foot from my bumper. for about two miles.
I got worried she was going to follow me home so I turned off and travelled about the countryside in the opposite direction to my home she still followed me so at a junction I stopped and locked the doors after a few minutes she drove off.

What could she of been in such a hurry for and why so aggressive?

Young lady following you home! The stuff of dreams for some of us.:D

lister

aardvaak wrote: »

I was pulling out of a property onto a mainish straight road - I look both ways and again then I proceeded to pull out - a young women in a sporty car came out of nowhere so she must of been travelling at speed.

Not that it in any way condones her actions, but almost invariably when you hear 'came from nowhere', 'must have been travelling at speed', what it really means is 'looked but failed to see'.

If it was a straight road, how far can you see in each direction? 60mph for example is 26m per second (5 or 6 car lengths). I would expect when pulling out from a give way situation to be looking each way no less than once every 2-3 seconds (so third party travels 10-15 car lengths) and you get quicker with reducing view.

I can't be certain, I wasn't there, but a pound says it was primarily the OPs fault (and I am not a betting man)

Talc1234

lister wrote: »

I can't be certain, I wasn't there, but a pound says it was primarily the OPs fault (and I am not a betting man)

OP's fault it may be, but that is no excuse for the road rage exhibited by the other driver

aardvaak

lister wrote: »

Not that it in any way condones her actions, but almost invariably when you hear 'came from nowhere', 'must have been travelling at speed', what it really means is 'looked but failed to see'.

If it was a straight road, how far can you see in each direction? 60mph for example is 26m per second (5 or 6 car lengths). I would expect when pulling out from a give way situation to be looking each way no less than once every 2-3 seconds (so third party travels 10-15 car lengths) and you get quicker with reducing view.

I can't be certain, I wasn't there, but a pound says it was primarily the OPs fault (and I am not a betting man)

You are wrong in your assumptions it was in town an a 30MPH limit - I did check several times and no one was there.
Is it a female can not be at fault ha ha - she was very aggessive

aardvaak

Johno100 wrote: »

Young lady following you home! The stuff of dreams for some of us.:D

You wish you could of had this !!!!

Johno100

aardvaak wrote: »

You wish you could of had this !!!!

And in English please.