Merging Wars

[Escy]

When you've got 2 lanes that merge into 1. I'm sure we've all been in the situation where you won't let someone in or someone won't let you in. Anyone have an interesting tales when there is a battle of wits? Anyone ever just had a crash for the sake of principle?

[Escy]

Geekman said:

I get this all the time and I just force my way in, haven't crashed so far.

I had one where I forced my way in (everyone was merging one after the other and this guy wouldn't let me when it was my turn) and I did have a crash. Rule of thumb usually is don't mess with someone driving a banger (I was). It was a strange situation, after we collided at around 5mph, he braked, I went ahead, my mirror housing broke off. I don't know what was going through his mind, he was obviously having a rage to want to force me onto the wrong side of the road. He then drove like nothing happened, no flashing lights, didn't gesture for me to pull over, didn't beep, didn't even give me the finger. It was strange, all I can think is that he thought i'd come off worse as part of my car fell off. He was driving a new shape Yaris, probably worth around 8k at the time. He turned off the road 5 minutes later and I saw his car in my mirror, the whole side of it was damaged. I bet he was gutted when he saw.

I did regret it when it happened, thought he'd report a hit and run or something. Never heard anything and it was 2 years ago.