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CF driving behind me

21 replies

brizzledrizzle · 01/02/2019 20:08

I was driving on a road in the snow (for locals, the road up to the CSB towards Bristol), in the front was a small van with a trailer who was going all over the place too fast for the conditions. Behind was a person in an old small car driving far too close and trying to intimidate me into speeding up, I was driving slower than usual due to conditions) and had about 4 car lengths between me and the trailer (more than I'd usually have due to road conditions). The van in front braked as he approached a small queue .

I slowed down and the CF behind me put his lights on full beam and set his horn going because he nearly drove into the back of me and proceeded to drive behind me with lights flashing on full beam and intermittently sounding his horn for the next half mile before he turned off.

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wigglypiggly · 01/02/2019 20:10

Twat. Did you get his reg number .

gamerchick · 01/02/2019 20:11

He was a knob and you did all the right things. I was extra careful today and thankfully all but one person was being equally as careful.

Pity you didn't have a rear dash cam and stick him on SM for being a twat.

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brizzledrizzle · 01/02/2019 20:12

Sadly not. Annoyingly my dash cam was in the glove box.

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BobTheDuvet · 01/02/2019 20:17

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Didntwanttochangemyname · 01/02/2019 20:18

You say you were driving according to the conditions - what kind of road, and what speed were you doing?

InSightMars · 01/02/2019 20:23

You did all the right things it sounds like OP, the only thing I’d have done differently is pull over if possible and let the tailgating twat pass, not to gratify him but just to not put myself at risk of being rear-ended.

MsVestibule · 01/02/2019 20:23

didntwant it doesn't really matter what kind of road it was or what speed she was doing. I've driven behind irritatingly slow drivers before (OP, not saying you were one!) in perfect driving conditions, but I wouldn't dream of driving like the driver behind the OP. You just leave adequate braking distance and tut a lot.

Mousetolioness · 01/02/2019 20:25

It's speed would have been governed by the speed of the driver in front. Shame she had to worry not only about the vehicle in front but the moronic saddo behind her.

Anonanonanariston · 01/02/2019 20:26

What a knob. Is it the road past ashton court/leigh woods? People always go too fast down there.

Mousetolioness · 01/02/2019 20:27

Not It's - OP's. - Apologies OP, ruddy phone deciding for itself what it thinks I meant.

Mousetolioness · 01/02/2019 20:28

Have assumed OP is female!!

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brizzledrizzle · 01/02/2019 20:32

Is it the road past ashton court/leigh woods? People always go too fast down there.

Don't they just, plenty of idiots up there.

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whatacrapusername2306 · 01/02/2019 20:32

I swear this has become more of an issue in recent years. I have had numerous occasions where rear driver is up my arse for no reason at all. Had a delightful man behind me at a junction last week. I was in front waiting to turn left, him behind wanting to go right. There was no way he could get along side me. He was getting closer and closer til he mounted the pavement to turn. As he passed, he was giving me all the hand signals. I just laughed, you go right ahead and fuck your wheels up, I couldn’t care less.

adaline · 01/02/2019 20:48

I hate this.

I had someone do it to me recently - on a windy steep downhill section of a country road - nobody goes much above 30mph due to the sharp corners and narrow twists.

I'm behind about three other vehicles and someone zooms up behind me at about 60 and has to slam on his breaks. He then proceeds to beep and flash at me to speed up (no idea where he wants me to go) and then overtakes me into the path of an oncoming vehicle - luckily I'd slowed down as he then swerved back in front of me to avoid a crash! Did the same thing to the next two cars then got stuck behind a bus turning left in town.

I drove past him to turn right and just waved as I went 😂

combatbarbie · 01/02/2019 21:14

I had this year's ago in rural Scotland, pissed me off so much I pulled the car over into the middle of the road......rural and could see road ahead..... got out and asked what his problem was! He wouldn't even open his window and stayed well back for the duration. Some folk are just dicks! Did enjoy just touching my brakes sometimes to keep him on his toes

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brizzledrizzle · 01/02/2019 21:19

Did enjoy just touching my brakes sometimes to keep him on his toes

It's particularly satisfying if you happen to glimpse their face in the rear view mirror when that happens :-)

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Ariela · 01/02/2019 21:43

Urgh, I had this on the way to work, there is a particularly steep hill often with cars parked on it then a bend before the top - cars steam down cutting the corner onto your side of the road as you go up, so at any minute you might have to slap on the anchors, combined with the fact that it's in shade and yet cops all the snow it's opften very slippy, I dread sliding back down one day yet people drive up behind you within 3ft of your rear.

FranklinTheCat · 01/02/2019 21:54

What do you do when people insist on doing this? Somebody did this to me on the motorway a few weeks ago; I'm relatively new to motorway driving but was matching my speed to the conditions and traffic around me, was pretty much doing 70. I swear I think he was trying to watch my kid's tablet, he was so close. Couldn't have been a metre from the back bumpers. Could have pulled out to overtake no problem. Ridiculously aggressive driving.

What do you do, apart from moving back to the left if on a motorway?

Lifeofsmiley · 01/02/2019 22:06

franklin , if you can move back to the left then move back to the left. I hope you weren’t middle lane hogging.

FranklinTheCat · 01/02/2019 22:16

I was not! I should have added "if you're not in the left hand lane".

InSightMars · 02/02/2019 02:43

I’ve written about this before on here but it bears retelling.

I have no regrets about the tailgater who rolled his pickup right into a tangle of car wreck parts in the exit lane off the freeway (I live in the USA) one time. I saw the obstruction around the curve in the middle of the lane leading to the off-ramp in plenty of time to move over to the other lane and avoid it. Dickwad riding my arse didn't. Maybe that was because he was too fucking busy trying to intimidate me into speeding up and too close to my back bumper to see what was in the road ahead. I changed lanes and he hit the gas to zoom through thinking he’d ‘won’ or somesuch. No I’m not a bit sorry, in fact I may have laughed as I saw him pull over to the shoulder in my rear view mirror. Hope the damage to the underneath of his pickup wasn't minor.

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