Driving one - who was U?

[ToChangeorNotToChange]

I'll start this by clarifying that I'm a fairly new driver (about 6 months in), so genuinely don't know if I made a bit of a whoops or if I came across a colossal arse this morning.

Driving home from the school run, live quite close to a city centre. The last stretch of road is very bendy, highly residential, has a city hospital and a large secondary school next to each other/end of my route. It has two zebra crossings, one on a bend at the top of a small hill. 'Slow' signs everywhere, teenagers walking in big herds, so many bikes and scooters randomly coming to the side of the road at times. One 4 way junction with a lot of cars going every direction during the traffic rush. Obviously 30 miles an hour at best.

This morning I was quite easily hitting 30 on the lower stretch when noticed an SUV tailgating and trying to overtake. We were approaching a bend/hill with traffic coming down the other direction. I maintained speed but obviously had to drop when approaching the zebra crossing - there's no other way of judging if there are kids trying to cross otherwise and some don't bother looking. They continued to tailgate as all traffic slowed near the hospital/next zebra crossing, one sudden break and my small hatchback was in danger of being squished. Pulled into my estate, had to break before making a turn, they followed flashing their lights continuously and undertook before speeding off.

I know this route like the back of my hand, but as I said a fairly new driver. Had my toddler in the back and 9 months pregnant, felt so sick at the worry I'd have to break and cause an accident. I'm generally not an unconfident driver, but this has thrown me. I know AIBU loves to judge a bit of rubbish driving - so did I deserve to be given a bit of a scare or did I just come across an arse who thinks their day is more important than anyone else's?

@ToChangeorNotToChange

Thank you everyone. Feels almost trivial now, but first time I've been in a tailgate situation like this, just had such a fear for the kids (outside and inside my car!). Cant even ask the husband for reassurance as he's one of the awful terrible non-drivers .

My dad was a driving instructor and one of his key pieces of advice was to never let the person behind you drive your car for you. They aren't sitting where you are, they can't see what you can see, you don't even know if they've passed their test so don't substitute their judgement for your own.

His other key piece of advice (driving related) was never park in a space you have to reverse out of.

He had many other pearls of wisdom but these two have been the most helpful to me.

@VeganVeal

Where does it say it was a man? Its just been assumed, a bit like all women drivers cant park!

True, the past couple of days I've had women in SUVs tailgating me, who then got to enjoy the scenery at 15mph (I'm not usually in a rush so have plenty time to crawl along the road if they insist). 😂

You weren't in the wrong, OP, sounds like he or she was impatient and not a particularly good or conscientious driver.