To think that tailgating is a fool's game?

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Especially when the driver that you are tailgating is displaying 'L' plates. I have a good mind to phone the company of the white van woman and complain. DS was driving within the speed limit and conditions, we were on a single carriageway road in a national speed limit zone, he was doing 60mph but I couldn't even see the front bumper of the van because it was so far up his arse, poor lad. is it only me that gives learner drivers a bit more space and some leeway as I am aware they may well feel very nervous and hassled if I sit too close to them?

I saw the same thing yesterday and it really irritated me! I was behind a porsche which was behind a learner driver. We were moving rather slowly and I was wondering what the hold up was. Then I saw the Porsche driver making all sorts of hand gestures and shaking his head irately and noticed it was a learner driver in front who he was tailgating. First opportunity he had, he overtook learner driver on a bend with cars parked on the other side of the road! I wanted to flash the Porsche (with my lights!) but then thought the learner driver may think I was flashing him so didn't!!! It made me really angry.

Yes it can be irritating being stuck behind a learner but they have to learn somewhere and we have all been there! Don't bloody intimidate them!

Best thing was when we got to the temporary traffic lights and Mr idiot in the Porsche was sat in front of Mr learner driver. A lot of bloody use that was!!!

tailgaters are arsingholes.

no time to read thread at the moment but YANBU

I HATE TAILGATERS WITH A PASSION

"I flick my hazard lights on briefly, to make them aware that I am there."
You;re driving a farm vehicle! In normal visibility if they need your lights on then they shouldn't be on the road. OK they shouldn't anyway. If I had my way they'd all be shot. And I find the worst offenders are post office vans

ok slight overreaction, ignore the shooting

I get this all the time, I generally slow down to at least 20 just to piss them off.

My DH goes slower when people tailgate. not stupidly slow but "Sunday driving" slow. I shouldn't read this thread, I am learning to drive again soon!

I always drop my speed when there's a haemorrhoid on my backside. If they're going to go into the back of me they can do so slowly.

Agree Katie, especially annoying when you can't go any faster anyway.

I hate drivers who do this. Irritating arseholes.

Also hate people who drive too fast down country lanes that are single track. It is only safe at 20 ffs, courier vans are particularly bad at this.

when people do this to me i always slow down ,if you are going to hit me because of your appalling driving skills ,you are going to hit me doing the speed i choose ,ie 20 miles an hour If you back off and give me the courtesy i deserve ,then i will continue at a more acceptable pace . I remember the poor rep who tailgated me on the m1 ,who then undertook me to get past ,because i wouldnt do more than 50 in a 50 zone (with cameras ) who i noticed getting pulled by the nice men in blue in my rear mirror

Put your hazards on!!

My Dad is a lovely bloke usually but I have discovered that he is also the most wankerish tailgater I have ever seen!

I don't drive but have been learning the theory recently so have been paying attention on the road for a change. He followed a Mini displaying L plates in his Landrover Freelander bumper to bumper the other day despite there being no traffic at all behind him

I was frantically pulling the sun-visor down and slouching in my seat to avoid being seen with such a tosser.

Stealth the 'to make them aware that I am there' comment is slightly tongue-in-cheek - my beast weighs nearly 2 tonnes, if the can't see that they shouldn't be driving .

I think some folk tailgate absent-mindedly, flicking on hazards just nudges them to think about their driving - of course it doesn't work on the idiots.

It wouldn't surprise me if they needed the lights on as well, they are idiots and should be shot. Sorry I missed the sarcasm, was all worked up!
(did you notice? )

sorry can i just ask, if you are being tailgaited why dont you just pull into the other lane. I just cant ever be bothered playing games to be honest (presuming there are two lanes of course...)

I never get near a learner driver, as much for my sake as for theirs!! Honestly, there is NO need to make them more bloody nervous.

Tailgaters get the 'tapping the brake' and slowing down to exactly the speed limit and generally being as annoying as possible...

However, around here, mostly it's tits doing 20mph in the 40mph zone farking day dreaming that get me wound up. Nice cars, no L plates etc just twatting around.... arghhhh the least they can do is pull over into one of the 'gaps' on the long, long country road if they want to drive like that, so the rest of us can get to school on time.

Humphrey - yep, we get those too (maniacs on one lane roads) there is one road I avoid unless the main road (LOL, barely 2 way) is closed, it's one lane, narrow and lots of blind corners - they treat it like a race track, I crawl down it and they get a right shock faced with a large 4x4 and frowning driver!! If I didn't crawl we'd have an accident everytime we used that road.... nightmare.

I usually get tailgated on the way to work - one lane all the way apart from a small stretc.

"sorry can i just ask, if you are being tailgaited why dont you just pull into the other lane. I just cant ever be bothered playing games to be honest (presuming there are two lanes of course...)"

you are presuming wrong in all these instances, ickletickle - nobody is playing games, just being harassed by fuckwits

I am definitely not playing games. I had someone go into the back of me when DS was 5 weeks old, it was the scariest time so far I think, and now I do everything I can to avoid it. I even pulled over once to let the tailgater behnd me past and was rewarded with an angry hoot of his horn.
I'll say it again - IDIOT

Ickletickle-If he'd 'pulled into teh otehr lane' he'd have been in the field. There was no other lane. It was a 60mph national speed limit and therefore a single carriageway road.

Anyway. He was a very clever boy today he passed his theory test. I'm just waiting for the DSA site to start taking payments so I can book his practical as his instructor says he's almost ready (six week wait here).