reporting very bad white van man

[ScarlettAlexandra]

aibu for thinking there should be an easy way to report bad abusive drivers to the police easily.

yesterday i was badly cut up an swore at by a white van man, i then by coincidence followed him to our local garage to get petrol. as he was getting petrol i said i would have been more patient (and was going to let him in anyway) with him if he had not sworn at me especially with two little ones with me. he then swore and shouted sonething along the lines if learn to drive f this f that. i got my petrol in tears and was really shook by this behaviour.

i called the police when i got home still in tears and because i didnt take reg (i was too upset) they didnt want to know. aibu to think they should have acted considering the garage would have had cctv?

You didn't have his reg. What did you want the police to do? If they go to the filling station and get the CCTV it's going to show you approaching HIM and having a go at him...

I understand why you are upset. It has shaken you up. You shouldn't expect to be shouted at in an aggressive way.
Try and relax now. Wine and chocolate tonight?!

a chat is not having a go at someone. i was smiling when i spoke, i wasnt after he had finished.

i dont drink but choccy sounds good.

Doesn't matter. What the CCTV will show is you approaching him and I guarantee he'll say you were having a go at him

i will everlong

Another thread where I wonder what planet I have wandered on to. R..... for telling another driver not to swear and be aggressive and then being intimidated when he continued??
Shudders.

I'm not surprised you were upset op, he sounds like a nasty piece of work.

Ignore people having a go on here, some folk just like to stir. Do something nice for yourself tonight.

Yep Vicky me too. He's the one in there wrong, full stop.

Erm - why? We still haven't established what the OP did initially to make him swear at her.

And then she was the one who approached him to confront him about it at the garage!

He may or may not have been in the wrong to cut the OP up. Hard to say if it was a busy road and by the OP's admission she's not that confident and has come from somewhere quieter.

But honestly to approach someone in a petrol station after the event - you would have to be seriously feeling the ragees to do that.

I curse/swear/beep my horn/gesticulate if someone has cut me up.

I have never ever approached them at a filling station to berate them after the event.

We still haven't established what the OP did initially to make him swear at her

Dear god, the op did nothing to make him swear at her - he decided to react in an aggressive way to something - either real or perceived - that the op did or did not do. That kind of response immediately loses him the argument, it is no way to behave on the road, and I am shocked at the number of posters here who admit to behaving in the same way. Drive your own drive, everyone makes mistakes occasionally, luckily they usually do not end in an accident. No-one has been appointed the road vigilante.

I didn't say it was acceptable, for him to swear, but I doubt very much that it was unprovoked. That is all that I am trying to establish here.

Mablemurple-i agree. I can't see why he would have felt agrieved towards the OP? Perhaps she could clear that up? I am wondering whether there was a gap in the lane he wanted to be in and she suddenlyput her foot down and zoomed forward into it after he had started his manoevre.