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.

She hasn’t mentioned speed. If she was going at the limit OP would’ve mentioned it- it makes her story stronger.

saying she was going at a speed suitable for the road is open to interpretation. It is very ambiguous

No you didn't. If 40 was an appropriate speed for the conditions at that point in time you wouldn't fail.

You failed for being unable to read the road and for being over-cautious - indicating an inability to deal with traffic.

So @Netcurtainnelly , why aren't you answering the questions? How fast were you going? And could you have pulled over and let him pass?
Also were you driving in the middle of the road, this preventing him from over-taking ?

No……. But I have been caught behind people who I can only presume have never seen a cow before driving at 15 pointing at the ‘wildlife’ like they’re on safari. So whilst I disagree with his ‘style’, I could understand his attitude if OP was too driving very slow! The farmers around me despair at hay making time😂

The speed of the road means the speed limit written for the road.

It is clear in the OP:
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

It seems there are people very sympathetic to the tailgaters on this thread determined Netcurtain must have been going too slowly.

Exactly, I missed the sign and thought I'd go at 40 as better than going at 50 if it had been a 40. And it was right for me to fail for 'not making progress' (which is was it was recorded as).

As the OP hasn't commented on her speed it's impossible to say if she was unable to deal with the road and the conditions or not.

Don't ever come to Scotland in the summer. Crawl through Glencoe at 10 mph while tourists gawp at the scenery rather than pulling into a car park and gawping to their heart's delight. Also have experience the frustration of following someone who brakes every time a car passes them.

Just. Pull. Over.

What an idiotic response. There are thousands of arseholes on the road, one of which is clearly you.

I’m miffed at all these country roads you can pull over on. Most I travel down (and I live rurally) only have occasional pulling in places as 2 cars can’t pass.

otherwise you’d be driving into the hedge

And I bet it was an Audi driver. Whenever there’s a twat driving up my ass, urging me to go faster despite my going at the limit, it’s always an Audi.

OP said they were doing the speed for the road. So the other driver essentially wanted them to break the law to accommodate him.

She said she was 'driving to the speed of the road'. That is not the same as what is allowed (which would be 60mph), which is why many people are asking what speed she was driving.

Depends. On. Whether. There’s. A. Passing. Place.

there are two sides here and I’d say all three road users are in the wrong.

The fact that two of them were frustrated with you suggests that you were not driving to the conditions of the road. The fact you’re still worrying about it now suggests you are a nervous driver. Nervous drivers typically don’t drive to the conditions of the road - they drive to conditions they can handle. This makes them a danger. Get extra lessons as a top up if this is the case.

that doesn’t excuse what they did. There is never a need to threaten other road users but I have been known to flash people as if to say what the fuck are you doing? This would be when they’re driving super slow when safe to go faster, clearly on their phone or middle lane hogging. Legally if you’re in the way/causing an obstruction, you must pull over. That’s why tractors do.

I always drive at the speed limit or the safe speed for that road. Typically they only differ on small country lanes. If someone wants me to go faster, I’m 100% going slower. I had someone tailgating me and flashing as I overtook a vehicle in lane 3, we were in lane 4. I’m not sure where he wanted me to go as there was a car to the left. People are just really stupid and as there are less police, driving standards get much worse.

Well what do you interpret as driving to the speed of the road. She either means they were at the speed limit or they were driving appropriate to the road conditions. Either way, if that’s the case, honking for them to speed up is inappropriate. I live near some very narrow winding country lanes. The speed limit is 60mph. The reality is that people who actually drive at that speed on those don’t last very long before there’s an accident.

Also, they may have been together and tag teamed you. Rather than you annoying two people separately. I’d just ignore them anyway.

They are more important than you, didn't you know 😂

Memory has just popped into my head.

Got to be at least twenty five years ago when the local paper was still going. There was a letter from a gentleman who was complaining about how so many people use their horn "these days". That all he heard when he was driving was people beeping their horns and why couldnt they just slow down.

Not suggesting that the OP is a bad driver, but it just made me laugh when I remembered!

Can we stop with this "ooh, it's terrible, all these country roads with 60mph speed limit, shouldn't be allowed" crap? Let's get the responsibility back on drivers to bloody drive properly and be taught the skills to do so. Around here we're getting 40 limits slapped on roads that have always been NSL. Why? Because there have been three fatal accidents... in ten years.

Whether OP was driving "too slow" for the road is unjudgeable, but the car behind tailgating and being aggressive wasn't going to cause the accident, was she?

I live down a lane that is national limits, you’d die if you drove at 60.

It was two days ago and pretty much a non event so yabu for still being bothered by it.

What? A road wide enough for one car with passing places dotted along wouldn't be a dual carriageway.

We all have different perceptions, that is the point. If OP comes back and says she was driving at 15mph (assuming not while adding someone on a single track road) because that is what she felt the road allowed then that is unsafe.

I would also like to say that I seem to be the only really good driver on the road. Half the drivers come flying up behind me, driving far too fast, and the other half dawdle along in front of me and get in my way!

(I suppose I'd better say that this is a joke...)

I had similar before but in a 20mph road.
I was doing 20mph and a guy behind me was tailgating me and beeping.
I continued doing 20mph.
He then starts shouting and swearing out of the window so I slowed to 15mph.
It's a long, straight road and nothing was coming from the opposite direction. If he wanted to overtake, he could.
By the end of that road, I was a 'fucking slag'.

Very bizarre behaviour.