Road rage on the motorway.

[Ihateknowingthis]

Just been subjected to a road rage experience.

I signalled to move over to the left on a motorway, I'd checked all mirrors and over my shoulder as per normal.
Suddenly saw a vehicle and served back to original lane... all ok.
Or so I thought, the other driver pulled over to a layby. I wasnt sure why.
Ten minutes later he appeared overtaking me. He gestured at me with his middle finger, then sat in front of me and slowed down.... then he gestured with his middle finger again out of his driving window and started waving for me to pull over to the hard shoulder, this went on for 5 minutes. I decided not to overtake in case he tried to block me, and luckily he got fed up and sped off.

My question is... should I report him?

No point in reporting him - he behaved like a prat, but no accident occurred so the police won't be interested.

Out of interest, when you say you saw another car and swerved back out, where was the other car? And when you swerved back into the other lane did you swerve into the path of his car? It's not clear from your OP.

I understood the suddenly appearing car was the angry driver, presumably 'undertaking' in the inside lane.

He was driving dangerously and breaking the hard shoulder rule, OP, though I'm also unsure the police would bother. You could report it anyway, especially if you have his registration and - even better - dashcam footage.

It sounds like you made an inadvertently dangerous manoeuvre- and he completely overreacted. Honestly that’s driving, nothing happened and you shouldn’t give it another thought, certainly not reporting

If you’re swerving, that sounds dangerous. Where was his car?

I’d only bother reporting if I had dash cam footage.

I had similar with a motorbike once. After heavy rain, a literal river was running across the motorway: totally unexpected, and impossible to anticipate or avoid. As I went through it, a motorbike was alongside me on my right - nothing I could have done about it. The rider was then gesturing furiously, overtook and sat close in front of me, in a suicidal position. I played him at his own game and dropped right back, taking care not to overtake him until he was well in the distance. Yes, I know, motorbikes are vulnerable, but I certainly did not expect a river on a motorway, and slamming on my brakes on a busy motorway would have been a bad idea.

Sounds like she swerved to avoid hitting him. She was manoeuvring into the left lane, realised she’d have a collision with the angry man’s car and swerved back into the lane she’s in.

Some people are just really angry idiots. I doubt the police will do anything unless you have dash cam footage.

What do you think happened OP? Was he undertaking quickly? Sat in your blind spot? Your observations not as great as you thought?

I spend a lot of time of the motorway and think a lot of people ‘look’ in mirrors and over shoulders but don’t properly. Far too many people just pull out and you need to take evasive action around them.

He sounds unhinged. Were you in the middle lane, trying to get into the left hand ‘slow’ lane?

Im guessing you were and he was the dick undertaking - using the left lane illegally in the busy traffic trying to get ahead.

Report if you have dashcam otherwise no point with no other witnesses.

Similar to this...I think he came from the sliproad across white lines and into the inside lane very fast.