To think that since the police introduced fines for tailgating...

[Geckos48]

... Less and less people are prepared to do it?

I have noticed no difference, especially on my way to work. Gits are still right up close

I didn't know that fines HAD been introduced for tailgating and certainly would never have guessed!

how are they caught though?

and where I live its worse than ever btw.

cant exactly take car number down when you read it backwards through rear view mirror!

Have they?

It seems to me now its darker and driving conditions are getting more dangerous, and all the cyclists come out to play with those horrid flashy lights drivers are getting even closer.

Today I had to let someone past and the other day someone was so close to me I was only able to go at half speed limit and she was flashing me and waving me with her hands. I saw a police car, drove past and stopped and he was not in the slighest bit interested.

I am having driving lessons and i have been tail gated numerous times. Especially by white van men.
It's really scary and putting me off

Oh, maybe it's just helped me then!

they do it less on my journey to work on the A1

I've noticed no difference at all.

I haven't noticed any difference either

It seems slightly better, but arseholes will be arseholes whether there is a fine or not. The thought of consequences does not occur to their tiny enraged brains. So the really bad ones still do it, but I've noticed a little bit of a decrease in ones that are only a bit aggressive.

There was a nobhead today in front of me driving inches from the car in front, and having his right indicator on deliberately (he switched it on after a minute or so) in the outside lane of the M3. It was busy, and the outside lane was doing 80-85mph fairly consistently and going faster than the other lanes. There was also a constant queue of cars in front of the car he was tailgating, and in all the other lanes too, so there was absolutely nowhere for him or indeed the car he was tailgating to go. That kind of insanity is never going to respond to fines.

Is the car behind you tailgating when they are so close you can't even see their headlights? I get this all the time :(

Yes tickingboxes, I have had this. Just makes me slow down though!

Yes, I wave my hands at them in the rearview mirror, which has a 50% success rate of getting them to slow down!

If they ignore me I slow down.

I'm a bit confused as to how cyclist's choice of lights makes arseholes more likely to tailgate

nope - was almost hit by an artic on the M42 on Tuesday - in heavy traffic - driving right up my arse

I wish. Too many fuckwits still on my tail, because they don't like me going at about 2mph below the speed limit on a road that has a lot of blackspots.

may they all drive into trees.

I've not noticed any difference. Just as many idiots as there always has been.

How many accident would be avoided if people simply left a big gap in front?

Can I put a handwritten sign in the back of my car telling people to back off? Is it legal?

Gobbo that's what I was wondering too, a sign like 'if you can read this you're too damn close!!!' or words to that effect!

I want one of those little message signs in the back

Thank You

Back Off

Etc.

I've had tailgaiters up my backside in the left lane on the M25. Can't even see their number plate they are so close.

I either pop the hazard lights on for a couple of flashes or ignore them. Concentrate on what's in front

The car which had been driving behind me safely and sensibly for 10 minutes got tailgated horribly close, by a HGV when we went into a ftunnel today. We were all already going at the speed limit.

(I nipped into the overtaking lane as the car behind was getting forced ever closer to me and he sped up and undertook me. As did the lorry)

HGVs are not meant to use the overtaking lane in that tunnel I think.

Though why the HGV driver would observe that rule and think it was any less dangerous to tailgate and undertake is anyone's guess.

Police permanently stationed at one end of the tunnel, never at the other.

Ah, the M3, DH's least favourite road.

Renowned for being full of arse holes.

I didn't know tail gating was on the polices fine list, either.