Have you been the recipient of Road Rage?
 

I was on the receiving end of it today.

Going though a road I let a car cross to turn right, off the main road, into a side road. I was going fairly slowly due to traffic so saw no reason why not. Anyway, a van behind beeped and obviously came quite close to hitting the back of my car. I guess he was going quite nippy and hadn't expected me to stop.

Anyway slightly further down as we came to a junction he pulled up alongside and starting hurling a lot of abuse. I was quite surprised by the viciousness of it. After shouting come incomprehensible words, I could only make out some swear words, references to my personal appearance, the recommendation that I learn to drive, more words beginning with f, and all sorts of hand gestures. I was ignoring him so couldn't catch a lot of it. Then he drove off while gesturing some more.

First time It happened and although I have heard of it, and see it third hand, I was surprised quite how nasty and personal he was. Still not entirely clear what I did because I was driving very slowly when I stopped anyway.

How many times have others experienced it?

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All the time, it's quite a shock sometimes as the reactions from the angry motorist are unproportional to the event.

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Someone pulled up next to me while I was posting some books back at the post box the other day.

All I know was he was in a small blue car - but as soon as he pulled up he wound down the window and let rip into me about how disgusted he was (in very foul language some of which even I'd not heard before) that the road he wanted to take was closed.

I just said I was sorry to hear that - he wound up his window and drove off up the road.

Very random.

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Firstly ,i would congratulate you on being aware of traffic in front of you enough to leave space for other traffic to cross so many people don't do that which leads to congestion

secondly ,yes that has happened to me loads of times especially at juntions which have slow moving traffic in front and i leave room for other cars to enter the flow of traffic

It does amaze me how blinkered some drivers can be ,they see nothing past a few feet in front and show no awareness of what is happening around them ,i know that driving instructors will tell you to "claim your road space "but some drivers take it to a whole new level

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Try driving a large vehicle for a living, you get used to the idiots.
my son has a great saying:
Welcome to planet earth... population...ME

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I had a gun waved at me through a window by a mad woman in a 4x4 :erm:

Needless to say I drove straight to a police station and gave them the details, nothing further ever came of it.

I go out of my way to not get involved in anything these days although you still get the odd maniac and I was even threatened by another lunatic woman in the asda car park who was heavily pregnant around Christmas, her mother was in the passenger seat laughing! Honestly, there are some right cranks about :mad:

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absolutely SB

Kenneth Noye springs to mind ,i watched a documentary last night on the crime channel about him ,you just don't know when things will get realy bad

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My ex-hubs used to kick off at the wheel on a daily basis, I'm sure it would only have been a matter of time before someone gave him a serious hiding. It worked quite well for him actually, as I was always the one to drive because of it :dozey:

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I've had it happen to me, in much the same situation as you Damien.

There isn't, unfortunately, alot that can be done about other drivers behaviour...

I just do as you do, and ignore it. The worst one I had was a cyclist... I overtook him (leaving about 10 feet between me and him) and at the next junction he was calling me all sorts of foul words...the only reason I could comprehend, was that he didn't like cars passing him...so rather random :dozey:

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I just blow them a kiss, they love that :D

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If its a man and hold my little finger up and wiggle it insinuating he's got a little widgey :D

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I just visualise them wrapped round a lamp post..Makes them very easy to ignore.

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I've been pelted with coins from the window of a car while out on my bike. The only reason I could think of was that me going 20 mph in a narrow lane wasn't fast enough for him. That's despite the fact that he deliberately followed me into a side street while using his horn copiously...

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I admit I get annoyed by drivers who have no concept of lanes, generally weaving between them and often driving between each lane, right on top of the white lines. This happens a lot in Leicester and often by non-whites. I mentioned this to a traffic cop once and he said it's often because they learned to drive in countries where there aren't many lanes and where the emphasis is on "getting there by any means necessary".

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Aren't there times when you wish you were a policeman?

I had some idiot coming up behind, undertaking and the like. I got to a line of traffic and proceeded to overtake at the speed limit with him behind for quite some time. When clear I pulled over and he pulled along side and before speeding off made a rude comment on me holding him up.

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I love the drivers who drive the wrong way round car parks and give you filthy looks for not getting out of their way.

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I was driving down a straight narrow road with a solid line of parked cars to my right. A car entered from the far end despite seeing me heading his way. Nowhere for me to pull over, nowhere for him to pull over, so we ended up nose to nose. I just folded my arms and waited for him to reverse to let me pass.

5 minutes of his horn honking was followed by him leaving his vehicle and banging on my car's bonnet. Little did he know that the car that had pulled up behind me contained a policeman.....

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That's what really gets me about road rage. Often, the offender gets annoyed for being held up, and they then spend considerable time pointing that out to you. So apparently they weren't in such a rush after all...

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Yes, apparently the concept of "there are parked cars obstructing my side of the road so I'll give way" seems to have dropped out of fashion.

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Seconded :mad: that does wind me up a bit, as people seem to "forget" the highway code as soon as their driving test is done!

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If nobody is around I usually get my shotgun out the boot and shoot them.

otherwise I get out and ask what the problem was, because now there's another problem :)

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I was pulling out of a car park few weeks ago and as someone was turning in to the car park this gave me the chance to pull out but the white van man decided to overtake the car turning in to the car park, lets say he nearly hit me and a few choice words came from both of our mouths, he mouthed off at me and he was in the wrong, I hate white van men, think they own the road.

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The ONLY Way to deal with it! :D

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Road Rage, thy name is Gary.....;)

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Thy name is Gary too :)

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erm........

No.