How should you react if someone is tailgating me?

[MrB1obby]

Stop in the road doing a handbrake turn so your car is now perpendicular to it. Take out the shotgun, has to be a pump action, nothing else will do. Then shoot his car until you have ran out of ammo. If he dies, he's too close. Get in car, wheelspin off in a cool manner.



If you're too much of a big puff to do that,

BOF said:

Roadru77er said:

Increase your distance from car in front (to allow for their lack of safety gap) when the car in front brakes show your brake lights and slow gradually to allow for their ignorance.

When safe allow them to pass.

THIS...

BOF

Do this.

[mikebradford]

i usuall, wait for traffic island
get just past as i stop, so he cant then go round me,
jump out to have a word
usually see them s**t themselves,
have to usually explain through the window that they need to back the f**k off
usually just drive aware steadily seeing there car gradually dissapear in the rear view mirror

this is right up their with people whom dont understand bus lanes have aa sign saying what times they are in use, and as such should move over and use them

[BertBert]

mikebradford said:

this is right up their with people whom dont understand bus lanes have aa sign saying what times they are in use, and as such should move over and use them

And all the other people that aren't as good as me. Do you have a goatee? COmpany director?

[hedgefinder]

hammer the brakes as hard as possible forcing him to rear end you,
call the police tell them an animal jumped out in front of you forcing you to brake and the car that was far too close behind you ran into you....then claim massive injuries settlement. job done..

Edited by hedgefinder on Sunday 17th February 17:03

Edited by hedgefinder on Sunday 17th February 17:03

[slippery]

mikebradford said:

Stuff.

I know this is highly unlikely as you are obviously as hard as nails, but do you not ever wonder what might happen if you try that with someone who's even tougher than you?

[R0G]

Extend forward gap - A LOT - keep to a speed that you can control both you and them until the opportunity arises for you to assist them in getting passed safely

CONTROL =
YOU speed and forward gap
THEM rear gap

[7mike]

.....or just flick M&Ms out of the sunroof

[ez64]

Rear fog lights on at the same time you floor it, the ultimate gap creator

Even though it's 99% due to bad driving by the other driver and not an emergency you should always treat it as such as pull/move over to allow them to pass. Think of what your stopping distance is like in a 30 with someone shunting you at the same time.

[davepoth]

R0G said:

Extend forward gap - A LOT - keep to a speed that you can control both you and them until the opportunity arises for you to assist them in getting passed safely

CONTROL =
YOU speed and forward gap
THEM rear gap

I once got down to walking pace with this technique - the guy behind kept getting closer, I kept getting slower. Good job I wasn't in a rush, but the other guy clearly was.

[Hungrymc]

You have to be carefull with slowing down order to increase the gap to the car in front. Although it seems sensible advice (and I believe is the official instruction). If you're being tailgates by a nutter, its likely they will think you're being a smart a*se and trying to hold them up.

If they're driving close / badly enough to make you uncomfortable, get out of the way (lap a roundabout, pull off the road, move in a lane).

[Crippo]

What constitutes tailgating? Obviously preparing an overtake might seem like tailgating to some people.
I say this because as far as I am concerned I never tailgate. However I have had soem idiots flash their brake lights at me whilst I am lining up for an overtake.

[R0G]

Crippo said:

What constitutes tailgating? Obviously preparing an overtake might seem like tailgating to some people.
I say this because as far as I am concerned I never tailgate. However I have had soem idiots flash their brake lights at me whilst I am lining up for an overtake.

If on a SC then closing up to about 1 second behind just prior to a possible overtake is accepted but there is absolutely no need to be closer than 2 seconds on any other type of road

[ScoobyChris]

Hungrymc said:

You have to be carefull with slowing down order to increase the gap to the car in front. Although it seems sensible advice (and I believe is the official instruction). If you're being tailgates by a nutter, its likely they will think you're being a smart a*se and trying to hold them up.

If they're driving close / badly enough to make you uncomfortable, get out of the way (lap a roundabout, pull off the road, move in a lane).

This is my preference too - drive your own drive and get them past at the first suitable opportunity. Slowing down will just antagonise them further and the situation has the potential to then escalate out of control very quickly which doesn't sound a particularly desirable outcome.

Chris

[Roadru77er]

Hungrymc said:

You have to be carefull with slowing down order to increase the gap to the car in front. Although it seems sensible advice (and I believe is the official instruction). If you're being tailgates by a nutter, its likely they will think you're being a smart a*se and trying to hold them up.

If they're driving close / badly enough to make you uncomfortable, get out of the way (lap a roundabout, pull off the road, move in a lane).

When increasing the gap to the car in front do so subtly so they don't notice. If you don't increase your gap they may well rear end you before your quest to find a suitable place to allow them to pass is complete.

Edited by Roadru77er on Tuesday 19th February 17:10

[Hungrymc]

Roadru77er said:

If you don't increase your gap they may well rear end you before your quest to find a suitable place to allow them to pass is complete.

Edited by Roadru77er on Tuesday 19th February 17:10

I understand your point. I'd normally try and drive with a safe gap to car infront anyway, but I guess if you need to adjust speed to retain this then fair enough. We've all seen some shocking things happen on the road and unfortunatly, there are a group of aggressive (drunk / high / just stupid) people who take everything as an afront to their masculinity or their right to drive as they see fit. All I'm suggesting is that people drive bearing in mind they may well be being tailgated by a psychopath.... Don't give them any excuse.

[simoid]

mikebradford said:

this is right up their with people whom dont understand bus lanes have aa sign saying what times they are in use, and as such should move over and use them

Nonsense.

That would clog up the PH Expressway/No Stupid People Lane

[jaf01uk]

Drift into the muck at the side of the road and sand blast their windscreen usually works Seriously though, as everyone else has said...
Gary

[Four Litre]

I usually just flash the hazards for about three seconds, 99.9% of the time this seems to bring them to their senses and they pull back.

[simoid]

jaf01uk said:

Drift into the muck at the side of the road and sand blast their windscreen usually works Seriously though, as everyone else has said...
Gary

Then they might sue

[Snowboy]

Depends..
If I am in slow car and they seem to want to overtake, I'll raise my hand so they see it.
They normally back off.
On the next straight section I'll slow down so they can get past.
Everyone is happy.

If they are tailgating me and I'm already stuck behind traffic I'll use my hazards to ask them to back off.