Hello, I am new here (have been a lurker for many years, I am unsure if I am posting to the correct place)
I'm in need of advice and support to help calm my nerves
This morning I was driving along one of the main roads, everything was fine and then suddenly a man appeared out of nowhere to get into his car (this road is very busy)
I did not hit him, I drove around him.
I looked into my rear view mirror to see the man gesturing and shouting towards my car.
I kept driving down the road only to see him follow me a fair distance. Stupidly, I parked at a local supermarket knowing he was following me, but I was more than happy to resolve whatever the issue was
He blocked me in, got out his car, came upto to my window and started screaming at me, saying I was so close to hitting him (I am now panicking incase I was too close to him while trying to avoid him) accusing me of being a drunk driver. I was not able to get a word out because he kept shouting at me, but I did apologise....although I'm not quite sure if I did anything wrong, it all happened so fast and I always stick to speed limits and be careful especially when there are pedestrians.
While screaming at me he, said he was on the phone to the police, which I was happy with because I was hoping that would descalate and resolve the incident.
A minute or so passes, he's still screaming at me, everyone is staring (I remain in my car) he put his phone through my window and said he is recording me and he has it all on video, he was getting more aggressive, this point I begin to really panic and call my partner who was going to come and meet me, once the man was aware I was on the phone to my partner, he says he can't get through to the police right now and got back into his car. I asked him to wait just so as we can resolve the issue, but he drove off.
He let me know its all on video and my concern is if he uploads footage of me, my face ect onto social media. Out of everything, that gives me great anxiety, the thought of a video of me being uploaded to social media.
What should I do ?
I was more than happy to speak to him, the police and happy to own up to anything that I done wrong, there is no footage of the incident where he said I nearly hit him, only of me in my car when he put his phone through my car window to film me.
I did not call my partner to try to intimidate him, I called my partner because I started to shake as he was becoming more verbally aggressive. I should have called the police there and then, but I didn't.
I'm now scrolling through social media to see if he had uploaded any videos or photos.