Encounted my first case of road rage

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Wiating at a junction and a nob in a nova comes within a inch of my back bumper and starts giving me loads of hand signals (even though there is traffic coming) when I eventually get to pull out he drops back. Problem solved, me thinks. Then when I come to turn right at a crossroad he goes ****ing nuts starts hand signalling, flashing etc (I had let someone out as they were there all as I went the way up the road) so I gave him a hand signal back. BIG MISTAKE!!! he chased me down the road nearly crashing into my car and flashing and trying to force me off the road!! So I put my hand out to apolisge and he turns arond and ****s off.

Really upset my girlfriend that i was so aggresive and he chased us (she is still shook up)

Lesson learnt, wont do it again.

Still angry he was behaving like that, though.
 
Jeez Matt, you've had it all in the space of a month or 2
 
Matt, should have got his number plate detils and reported it to the police straight away. Idiots like that shouldn't be aloud to drive.
 
Jo said:
Matt, should have got his number plate detils and reported it to the police straight away. Idiots like that shouldn't be aloud to drive.
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Was to busy thinking about other things tbh. Will do in future. Now i know how to handle teh situation (well better, anyway)
 
Understandable Matt :) Hope you have both calmed down.
 
His mummy had probably shouted him in for tea.. The best bet is ignore the ******s in the first place.

Funnily enough since i've had the 4x4 no-one seems to bother me. The only 'near' thing was a Merc
Sprinter van who was intent on pulling in/shoving his way in front of me, I just let the bull bars leave
a nice mark down his rear three-quarter panel. I was surprised he didnt stop as it was a newish van too ... :shrug:
 
a nice steady 25mph in a 30, with hard breaking tends to get them off your bumper:thumbs:
 
Been in similar situation a few time Matt, it does happen. I always say I wont rise to the bait and sometimes manage not too but somehow my middle finger managed to find its way in front of the rear view mirror only too easily. Road rage is all a part of driving these days it seems :(
 
Jimmy_Lemon said:
Been in similar situation a few time Matt, it does happen. I always say I wont rise to the bait and sometimes manage not too but somehow my middle finger managed to find its way in front of the rear view mirror only too easily. Road rage is all a part of driving these days it seems :(
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Yeah, it is shocking :( I didnt give him the finger. I kinda waved at him. But indecently :lol:

I wouldnt mind if he had a reason (apart from being a bell-end)
 
They never have a reason (in your/my opinion). It is just numptiness of the highest order :p

My fav was a bloke who was incensed I didn't pull out to let him out of a slip lane (which he was trying to undertake me on but was in a rust bucket so couldn't, and I couldn't be arsed to get off the cruise control to get ahead or slow down). He followed me for a few miles down some dual carriageway and then came along side trying to get me to open my window or slow down. I scratched the side of my head with my middle finger and just ignored him. He gave up after a few more miles and 'sped' off. Proper tit!
 
Jimmy_Lemon said:
They never have a reason (in your/my opinion). It is just numptiness of the highest order :p

My fav was a bloke who was incensed I didn't pull out to let him out of a slip lane (which he was trying to undertake me on but was in a rust bucket so couldn't, and I couldn't be arsed to get off the cruise control to get ahead or slow down). He followed me for a few miles down some dual carriageway and then came along side trying to get me to open my window or slow down. I scratched the side of my head with my middle finger and just ignored him. He gave up after a few more miles and 'sped' off. Proper tit!
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:lol:

I posted this on Pistonheads as well. Just copied and pasted it from here :loll:

Some guy was saying that he came across a guy in a merc on the motorway who took his seatbelt off and started to punch the steering wheel, asking for a fight.

AT 80 MPH :lol::lol:
 
Rob_W said:
Funnily enough since i've had the 4x4 no-one seems to bother me. The only 'near' thing was a Merc
Sprinter van who was intent on pulling in/shoving his way in front of me, I just let the bull bars leave
a nice mark down his rear three-quarter panel. I was surprised he didnt stop as it was a newish van too ... :shrug:
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Read rule 168 of the Highway code.

Matt, I'm sorry to hear you have had this experience, I know it can be quite shocking sometimes.

I was very young when I first came across road rage. I was in traffic moving forward after the lights had changed when a guy came roaring up the long layby to my left and then slammed the brakes on as he ran out of road. I continued, rather confused, to turn left at the lights and stopped at the next lot of shops to go to the post office when this guy screeches to a halt besides me and starts screaming that I cut him up. I offered to take him back to the junction to show him he was using a layby not a filter lane but he declined.

A tip for the future, don't react, because that puts you in the wrong, like the chap above with the 4x4, but do take the registration number and then you can decide if you want to report it later. To get a reg number write it on the windscreen with your finger, then breathe on the screen later to reveal the number.
 
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Just give your windows an extra long clean with the washer jets. One of mine points up slightly which helps with tailgaters.
 
I normally have my friend in my car, who is a big guy. So if anybody is intent on giving us grief, i just pull over and he gets out. They then promptly drive off :lol:
 
Matt, I commute Wirral to Manchester Every day.....Sadly I see something going on Every Day!!!

I've given up on the Nescafe been shaking gesture and the middle finger. It doesn't achieve anything.

Get yourself down to Oulton Park tomorrow and snap away!
 
I wouldn`t fancy chasing Matt`s corsa!

Who knows what`d fall off and damage my car.........;):D
 
Don't worry about it Matt, the guy was clearly jealous of your corsa, I mean he has to make do with a nova.

Either that or he fancies your girlfriend, and was trying to impress her.:D
 
Brocks said:
Matt, I commute Wirral to Manchester Every day.....Sadly I see something going on Every Day!!!

I've given up on the Nescafe been shaking gesture and the middle finger. It doesn't achieve anything.

Get yourself down to Oulton Park tomorrow and snap away!
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Where abouts on the Wirral are you from?
 
Brocks said:
Matt, I commute Wirral to Manchester Every day.....Sadly I see something going on Every Day!!!

I've given up on the Nescafe been shaking gesture and the middle finger. It doesn't achieve anything.

Get yourself down to Oulton Park tomorrow and snap away!
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hull is just full of idiots that cause so many problems you will learn to deal with it i just pull over and wait for them they always drive past me once i get out of the car for some reason lol i suppose my skin head and stocky build has something to do with it lol but it is bad our way average speed limit around out arear is 20 down side streets to them its more like 70
 
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Matt Sayle said:
So your suggesting my girlfirend getting sereverly injured is OK?? I dont wanna start a bitch fight but come on...........
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Oh come on yourself, you know he was joking.

As for the numpties behind, I find it helps to stop the car, get out and go beat the crap out of them**, surprisingly few come back for more ;)


** or was that a dream??
 
Next time this happens just do what i do.

Get out of the car, walk to the boot and take out my baseball bat. Cheeky ****ers soon shut up then!
 
I had a similar thing happen to me, stopped at a junction waiting for a car to go past, and some big guy came up behind me in a land rover, flashing his lights and giving me hand gestures, so i gave him the finger... watched him then take off his seatbelt and open his door, now he was a big guy and im a small person, so it was time to just floor it, i got away by the time he got back in his car....
 
I drive quite allot, and a big brute of a lorry driver once told me, don't be drawn, just look at them and blow them a kiss, not tried it, but he says it takes the heat out of the situation
 
On the M40 once and was getting a load of abuse from a guy on a motorbike who was trying to squeeze past, but no room between me and the HGV in the middle lane. When he finally screamed through giving the Nescafe wave, I was well frustrated, cos he still undertook. A laughed five minutes later when he was on the hard shoulder getting a good telling off from the bobbies...... what goes around.....
 
some guy did that to my mates rangey hit him up the arse, and well my mates rangey isn't quite 'factory spec' he made his bumpers from pipe from a scrapped brewery. It took the guys cylinder head off. Which ended up through the center console :D doubt he'll do it again.
 
had one of those a while ago in Nottingham.
except i was driving 26 tonnes of lorry.
evidently, i didnt pull out of a junction quick enough, so joker was flashing lights and honking horn.
pull out of the junction , and he came tear arsing up behind me, just as blind gentleman pulled out in front of me.
i stood on the brakes.
joker hit my rear under run bar.
oh dear. shame.
he got out of his car, fff ing and cursing as pc plod pulled up.
he'd been behind him for two or three mins.
driving without due care and attention.
oh dear.
i broke a fog light lens.
he totaled the front of his car.:lol::lol::lol:
 
i bet you were too upset over the foglight to laugh!!
 
inaneredstripe said:
i broke a fog light lens.
he totaled the front of his car.:lol::lol::lol:
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I achieved the same result with a fiat X1/9. I was driving it in the rain on my way home and stopped at a roundabout. The X1/9 has toy windscreen wipers and a tiny screen so I was struggling to see when I could safely join the traffic.

The guy behind me in a Yugo decided that there was a space so accelerated forwards, but I was still there trying to see out the side window. Apparently he felt watching the other traffic was a better indication of when it was safe to go than looking at the vehicle in front.

The X1/9 had the deep bumpers needed for the American market, the Yugo just managed to bend the fog lamp bracket on the Fiat but completely stove in the front of the Yugo.

It reminded me of what had happened to a mate at Uni in the same situation.

He was driving his boss's E Type for the first time and came up to a junction. A guy in a souped up Ford Anglia was behind him. When the lights changed my mate was still trying to master the gear box when the Anglia ran up the sloping back of the E type and obscured the view through the rear window!
 
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