To still be upset about this dreadful driver?

[Netcurtainnelly]

Mr net Curtain and I were driving down a country road on Friday and realised we were being tailgated.
I looked round and the driver was featuring us to go faster. We did not as we were already driving to the speed of the road

We just ignored him and carried on. Next thing he or someone behind him starts blasting the horn furiously obviously trying to get us to go faster
We did not eventually the driver turned off

It really unnerved me and made me nervous. I can't believe that people are prepared to cause a crash on a road just because they want you to hurry up.

Has this happened to anyone else? have experienced tailgaters before but never someone blasting their horn etc. So dangerous.

I just flip my rear view mirror so I can’t see them!

It’s awful behaviour from the driver behind you.

As pp’s have said the best course of action is to pull over as soon as it’s safe to do so and let them pass.

That said (though it does not excuse their actions) I am working on an assumption you were traveling at an appropriate speed.

That’s not necessarily the speed limit (as the saying goes it’s a limit not a target) and road conditions are always an important factor.

However if (for example) you were not a sufficiently competent driver to be doing over 30mph in a 60mph limit on clear roads, in good conditions - like the person I experienced today whilst visiting my father - I’d suggest you consider your ability to drive safely.

(Note: I did not tailgate, just overtook when safe to do so).

It may be frustrating driving behind people who are driving very slowly (if that is the case here) but it doesn’t justify acting in a dangerous intimidating manner.

To be honest someone driving very slowly says to me they aren’t very confident diving so I leave an even bigger gap than normal!

Bet it was a BMW or Audi. And a man.

I live very rurally and i do find it frustrating when someone drives 30 - 35 along a road with clear road marking or brakes to very slow and breaks for every corner on a single track road but there is room for 2 cars to pass. However I know the road ahead because I do daily. However if you were not being overly slow then it sounds like a horrible situation. As others say just pull over, if you feel you are driving to the roads and conditions.

Yes get over it OP it’s a non-issue really

I usually pull over when that happens.

Yanbu. Some people are just arseholes, probably been in loads of crashes.

The hot weather seems to bring out the aggressive morons !!

The only road into our village has a bridge over a river, and is single track. People coming out of the village and uphill have priority, people coming down the hill have to wait at the give way sign.

Except on Saturday about 6pm I was on my way out, heading across the river.There was a black audi coming the other way, I pulled into the priority lane as I was supposed to and the guy in the audi accelerated straight at me. 😧

I nearly put the car in the river getting out of his way in time.

I think he's the local drug dealer and I'd usually give him a wide berth but I didn't recognise the number plate until it was too late. I live in hope he'll hit a tree, and do us all a favour.

My DP drives like this. And I can’t say anything to him or he gets really cross.
He will frequently drive at 34 mph in a 60 and cannot understand why people are tailgating him.
OTOH he got a ticket for doing 24 in a 20, because he is unaware and gets distracted.

This is always my response when overtaken by impatient and aggressive drivers. “ Take a deep breath Doctor, you know their life is in your hands. Wanker.”

National speed limit just means they haven't specifically graded the road. It doesn't mean that's a safe speed for it. There's loads of single track blind bend roads near us which are absolutely not safe to drive at 60, and I am not usually a slow driver.

Same, multiple blind bends, blind summits and concealed entrances, tractors likely to emerge at any point also livestock…. People don’t seem to realise that the white sign with black line just means the roads not actually been assessed as fit for 60mph!

I'm curious, at what speed on a country road do you consider it ok to start aggressively honking?

Obviously too slow is not OK but I don't think it's ever OK to get angry or try and intimdate people either. There's plenty of country roads around here where you would be mad to do 60, you'd almost certainly cause an accident

A dual carriageway wide enough for 1 car?!

What?

It's a default limit on country roads, it doesn't mean it's safe to drive at 60!

I would assume someone getting that upset about the speed you were driving was for a good reason. Perhaps they were dealing with an emergency. Anyway the best thing to do in such situations is pull over and let them pass as soon as you can. You dont keep ambling along with them getting more and more upset behind you. That could lead to road rage or unsafe passing - all much worse than just letting people pass. Will help you not to ruminate for days on end after the fact too.

No it doesn’t. Tail gating is horrible

OP said she was driving at the speed limit.

The passenger should record them and send the footage to the police. Before anyone says they won't do anything, in this area at least, they seem to take dangerous driving quite seriously.

Tesla Twats do that a lot around here. There’s a dual carriageway with a 40mp limit which has lots of traffic lights and feeder lanes to turn across it so you have to move over to the right when you need to cross. God forbid you do the speed limit in that lane, they get right up the arse of your car, gesticulating wildly for you to hurry up.

Just ignore the pointless fuckface OP, he’s really not worth giving a second thought to.

No she didn't, she said "the speed of the road" which isn't the same thing.

Count yourself lucky @Netcurtainnelly

i had the guy in front of me, stopping suddenly and going into reverse, forcing me to go into reverse for good 2 mins on a country road (result of road rage between him and another guy in front of him)

That day, I thought that was the end

always avoid confrontation and let them go

By ‘ the speed of the road,’ - meaningless in the circs..- I had assumed she meant the speed limit.

And? I get tailgated regularly
one is a 40mph road that people seem to think is a 60 and get really angry when you won’t go over 40mph
the other is a 30mph
the common factor is I won’t break the speed limit! My job relies on it and if I get a driving conviction I have to report it. So I use cruise control