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Drivers speeding up when you try and overtake them!!!

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SharpTooth · 20/09/2025 15:50

I’ve just had to do a 5 hour drive today on various motorways and dual carriageways. I’ve been driving for almost 30 years. Never had a speeding ticket and haven’t had an accident for 25 years and I do consider myself generally a safe driver.

Recently I’ve noticed that so many cars start speeding up when you try and overtake them. So you’ll be driving along in the left lane at say 70. You are approaching a car who is driving slower. You indicate and pull to the right to go around then and as you get parallel to them they speed up. This happened at least 4 times over the 5 hour drive. The last time I got up to 78mph and they were still matching my speed. At this point I slowed down and pulled back in behind them. Whereby they then also slowed down and now we’re both going at 65! The next time I tried to overtake they “let” me and stayed at 65. Is it deliberate? I’ve looked at the drivers each time and they are a range of ages and sex etc. It’s not like it’s boy racers who don’t like being overtaken by a middle aged woman in a Honda Jazz! The one who matched me to 78mph was a similar aged woman in a Fiesta!

I just find this is happening more and more. I can’t work out if it’s deliberate or more than people “use” others cars to work out how fast to drive. So like they see you going faster and think oh I’m going quite slowly I’ll speed up a bit! Not actually realising they are trapping you in the right hand lane because unless you are willing to speed to 80+ you can’t get past them!

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BallerinaRadio · 20/09/2025 15:53

Just the overall standard of driving is appalling at the minute. You get the reckless dangerous drivers who don't give a shit and then the clueless drivers who seem to drive with their head in the clouds and have no idea what's going on. I don't know which is worse.

JackGrealishsCalves · 20/09/2025 15:54

I get this all the time, have to go over 80 to get past them, then amazingly they fallback once I am past them.
It is nice though when they do it and I can see there is a car just ahead of them in the middle lane, makes them look stupid

JackGrealishsCalves · 20/09/2025 15:56

BallerinaRadio · 20/09/2025 15:53

Just the overall standard of driving is appalling at the minute. You get the reckless dangerous drivers who don't give a shit and then the clueless drivers who seem to drive with their head in the clouds and have no idea what's going on. I don't know which is worse.

I see more and more drivers going from the middle lane and cutting across to come off at the last minute.
So bloody dangerous just to save 30 seconds 😡

Imlyingandthatsthetruth · 20/09/2025 15:58

Just more brain-dead driving. The only explanation I have is that they realise they aren't driving at the speed limit so speed up like lemmings because they have a frame of reference (you). Once you're passed they drop back into Dreamworld. Or they're just arseholes.

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