Ok thats a reasonable commentary. True he may have been mistaken however my argument here is that I very much doubt the scenario that there was too much traffic for her to move left on that section of the M25 at that time of day. It's not impossible obviously but I feel very unlikely.

As to the why didn't she go round him? I have seen this sort of stupid road rage before and seen a similar situation and the person being brake tested tends to slam on anchors and not change lane. I don't know why not but it is what seems to happen almost like a panic reaction.

As to why she didnt slam into him when he braked she was most likely paying attention forward but not back. A large proportion of people seem to think there is only cars in front of them. They have no consideration of traffic from their sides or rear.

I have had more people than I care to remember pull out on me as if I wasn't even there when approaching to their right. I have had people try to pull right into the same piece of road I am occupying right next to them.

I am frankly astonished that I have yet to actually get hit.

I would judge around 80% of people behind the wheel of cars in this country incompetent and unsafe and unworthy of having a license hence my view of her driving. There was at best a 20% chance she did not provoke him. Odds are stacked against her in my books.

Crumbs I have even had a trafpol car pull out on me without looking from the hard shoulder forcing me to emergency brake as I couldn't move left and I was within the speed limit.

I treat every other vehicle on the roads as an accident waiting to happen and involve me. Its like a horrid paranoid nightmare that never ends.

Sadly B: Hence why I am presently actively looking for a job and in fact country move.

A shame since the roads are pretty damn decent all told. We are too far down the road now to change anything although the shift to truly dense is happening worryingly fast of late.

Story reads like it was just another backward, low functioning, Eastern European mong driving like a tt and acting all third world.

J9 to J20 are riddled with them in their clapped out German wagons.

My nextdoor neighbours moved to Spain full of talk about this country being finished and were back within a year. Someone I used to work with didn't last there more than a couple of years and came back because the schools and the healthcare weren't good enough. Plus, as much as they like you as tourists spending money there for a couple of weeks and then going home, if you move there you suddenly become the hated immigrants taking local people's jobs and forming ghettos and doing everything we complain about Eastern European and Asian people doing. As for driving, there are idiots everywhere but Britain is relatively good by a long shot. A few ditherers in overtaking lanes are more annoying than anything else but the balls out risk taking people routinely take in some countries, and the violence that ensues over every little disagreement, are truly terrifying. Beware of thinking the grass is greener on the other side because it rarely is.

I have to admit it is quite tricky part of the reason I have toyed with getting a convertible instead.

You do realise that people are capable of acting without provocation?

I've seen it on a number of occasions. And because I've experienced it (happening to other people, not me), by your rationale it's safe to assume she didn't do anything to provoke him?!

Of course it's not safe (to use your term) to assume anything - she may well have played a part in the issue, she may not have done. To presume she did because you've seen other people drive like idiots is just daft.

Clearly I judge myself to be in the 20% of whom I would say 15% like myself are average drivers and 5% good/excellent.

Criteria is the ability to drive courteously and safely. The ability to drive the road without running into other moving or stationary objects.

I judge myself to be somewhere in the top 20% on the grounds that I have managed to drive 400k miles without causing an accident or getting my license endorsed.

It's extremely one-sided. It's about as one-sided as it gets.
One driver brake tested another on a highly dangerous road, then attacked their car. The other driver didn't.

400k miles is an awful lot of sheer luck!

Oh this is going to be good. Please explain how its possible to hit something and it not be your fault.

I am not "lucky" not to have been caught speeding. It is using observation that has stopped me getting a ticket. Do you think I drive everywhere below the speed limit? I do most of my driving on motorways and DC and am rarely below the speed limit if it can be helped.

I regularly come across mobile speed camera vans but amazingly because I am looking ahead I see them long before they get the opportunity to see or ping me.