Ever been chased by a crazed road rage driver?
Discussion
snowy slopes said:
I think a lot of it boils down to the fact that by not letting them past,or calling their driving rubbish, is an affront to their manhood/masculinity and hence why they act like complete f
king loons.
In their eyes you're dis-respecting them. Same basic reason black kids stab each other.king loons. It's also worth bearing in mind that 1 in 5 people suffer mental illness at some point in their lives so there's every chance you'll meet a few of them on the road during your driving career. You really just want to keep away from such people.
OllieWinchester said:
OP, your story didn't take place in the Twickenham area did it?
I had an 'incident' once in that area where a fully fledged psychopath in a battered Mk2 Golf took umbrage at me shaking my head at his truly atrocious driving. What followed was approximately half an hour of him locking up all four wheels of his car in front of me trying to get me to stop, him driving over kerbs in order to try and get in front of me, and him parking his car across all lanes of traffic on a roundabout on the A316 and getting out to try and stop me. After having enough of this I phoned the police and started giving them a running commentary. They advised I pull into a petrol station to and hope he went away which seemed to work. This was until I pulled out of the forecourt with some trepidation about 5 minutes later only to find him standing in the road with the most crazed look on his face I have ever seen, waving a brick. We had a small face off with me stationary, holding up the traffic behind me, and him gesticulating wildly. In the end (I don't know why either) I just dropped the clutch and raced straight at him. He leapt out of the way at the last minute and the brick which was intended for my windscreen ended up leaving a sizeable dent in the side of my van.
Genuinely shaking with fear for a while after that. He wasn't a big bloke, but I've never seen someones face so distorted with rage over something so trivial. Went to press charges and it turns out that this wasn't the first time he had done something like this. Unfortunately the police expected me to keep coming up to Twickenham to sign stuff etc,(Over an hour each way) so he just got a caution in the end.
No, it didn't. It occurred in Bournemouth. Sorry to hear about your experienceI had an 'incident' once in that area where a fully fledged psychopath in a battered Mk2 Golf took umbrage at me shaking my head at his truly atrocious driving. What followed was approximately half an hour of him locking up all four wheels of his car in front of me trying to get me to stop, him driving over kerbs in order to try and get in front of me, and him parking his car across all lanes of traffic on a roundabout on the A316 and getting out to try and stop me. After having enough of this I phoned the police and started giving them a running commentary. They advised I pull into a petrol station to and hope he went away which seemed to work. This was until I pulled out of the forecourt with some trepidation about 5 minutes later only to find him standing in the road with the most crazed look on his face I have ever seen, waving a brick. We had a small face off with me stationary, holding up the traffic behind me, and him gesticulating wildly. In the end (I don't know why either) I just dropped the clutch and raced straight at him. He leapt out of the way at the last minute and the brick which was intended for my windscreen ended up leaving a sizeable dent in the side of my van.
Genuinely shaking with fear for a while after that. He wasn't a big bloke, but I've never seen someones face so distorted with rage over something so trivial. Went to press charges and it turns out that this wasn't the first time he had done something like this. Unfortunately the police expected me to keep coming up to Twickenham to sign stuff etc,(Over an hour each way) so he just got a caution in the end.
I had a bout of road rage myself a few years ago, while driving home with the better half and my 6 month old daughter, i noticed a car right on my tail, driving on a 40mph road he then decided to overtake me on white hatch markings, van coming the other way so he had to force his way into the gap in front of me causing me to brake very hard, i gave a blast on my horn to which i get the middle finger sign off him. followed him to darras hall where he pulled in. i must admit i was raging when i got out the car, his excuse was, he was in a hurry! if the wife wasnt in the car, i would have snapped both of his middle fingers
Dick_Phallus said:
belleair302 said:
A friend was driving back into Manchester (Hyde) where he was studying medicine and undertook a somewhat sad looking E36. Words were swapped at the lights...my friend is English but his family is from Lahore Pakistan and before that Persia. At the next set of lights the driver of the E36 makes gestures and decides to insult my friends family and background. At the next set of lights my friend pulls up, climbs out of the car 6'7...22 stone and knocks out the driver of the BMW! removes the keys and drops them down the main drain.
Game over!
Never happened. Game over!
Is that not how the story goes?
I had an incident about 3-4 years ago at night on a b road. It was my first car so an old 1.0 l corsa. Me and another car came across a car doing 40mph. The next straight road we both went past him. The other driver must have gone a little quicker because i don't remember seeing him again. Anyway 30 seconds later the car i've just over taken is an inch or two off my bumper and has his full beams on. So we're both doing around 60 now. After about 4 miles we come off the nsl road and enter my village. On this road there is around 4 traffic calming measures. The guy goes past me but slams his brakes on and stops so he blocks anyones way through. He jumps out and holds my door shut and starts shouting at me that i'm an idiot and he's got his pregnant girlfriend in the car. I told him that he was the dhead that was being dangerous and asked him what his problem is. His next move is to grab my keys from the ignition and walk off. At this point i bolt after him but as he throws them back at me and runs backs to his car.
head that was being dangerous and asked him what his problem is. His next move is to grab my keys from the ignition and walk off. At this point i bolt after him but as he throws them back at me and runs backs to his car. RossB_eg4 said:
Dick_Phallus said:
belleair302 said:
A friend was driving back into Manchester (Hyde) where he was studying medicine and undertook a somewhat sad looking E36. Words were swapped at the lights...my friend is English but his family is from Lahore Pakistan and before that Persia. At the next set of lights the driver of the E36 makes gestures and decides to insult my friends family and background. At the next set of lights my friend pulls up, climbs out of the car 6'7...22 stone and knocks out the driver of the BMW! removes the keys and drops them down the main drain.
Game over!
Never happened. Game over!
Is that not how the story goes?
Seems more people than I thought have had this happen!
My two- First was in a cul-de-sac where a mate lived. I was a 21Turbo and it sounded great down the enclosed road so I gave it a little boot for some exhaust-pop and DV action. I stop to let a KA past me due to a parked car on the left, and this guy in a green KA pulls along side and starts ranting about my little event calling me all sorts of names so I wound the window down and without saying a word flipped him the bird and grinned.
The guy went bright purple and got out his car and virtually dived through my open window trying to attack me. Probably mid-40's, average height and build. I never even took my belt off, just tried to trap his extremities in the window but not before taking one on the chin. His wife looked on from the KA with a resigned 'oh god not again' look.
Reported it to the police who promptly did NOTHING cos his wife backed up his denial of the event and there were no other witnesses.
Second- I was in a short stretch of dual carraigeway coming into Minworth nr Birmingham, overtaking slow traffic and this prelude is *right* up my arse flashing like mad. Arrogant tosser. So I stayed in the outside lane, we were already over the speed limit too. He skips to the inside and tries to undertake, which I detest, so (I know I shouldnt) I jinked to the left. Not much, but enough. The guy panicked and locked up before realising I was just warning him off. However, Here's me chuckling to myself when he overtakes on a blind corner of a now single lane road and tries to pull me up. I outbrake him and overtake, he repeats and nearly stopped me this time, I had to reverse and pull around by which time he's out of his car coming for me. Granted, when I passed him the thump with the wing mirror wasnt necessary but the THUD was immensely satisfying. He chases me again and is hanging out his window screaming and waving, and then starts throwing his LUNCH at me
I had an orange and a banana bounce off my bonnet. In the end I just jinked off an exit which he couldnt make before carrying on to work. The fruit thing still makes me laugh now.
Saying that though, he was a black dude and fairly hefty. I was probably a few seconds from a bloody good kicking!
My two- First was in a cul-de-sac where a mate lived. I was a 21Turbo and it sounded great down the enclosed road so I gave it a little boot for some exhaust-pop and DV action. I stop to let a KA past me due to a parked car on the left, and this guy in a green KA pulls along side and starts ranting about my little event calling me all sorts of names so I wound the window down and without saying a word flipped him the bird and grinned.
The guy went bright purple and got out his car and virtually dived through my open window trying to attack me. Probably mid-40's, average height and build. I never even took my belt off, just tried to trap his extremities in the window but not before taking one on the chin. His wife looked on from the KA with a resigned 'oh god not again' look.
Reported it to the police who promptly did NOTHING cos his wife backed up his denial of the event and there were no other witnesses.
Second- I was in a short stretch of dual carraigeway coming into Minworth nr Birmingham, overtaking slow traffic and this prelude is *right* up my arse flashing like mad. Arrogant tosser. So I stayed in the outside lane, we were already over the speed limit too. He skips to the inside and tries to undertake, which I detest, so (I know I shouldnt) I jinked to the left. Not much, but enough. The guy panicked and locked up before realising I was just warning him off. However, Here's me chuckling to myself when he overtakes on a blind corner of a now single lane road and tries to pull me up. I outbrake him and overtake, he repeats and nearly stopped me this time, I had to reverse and pull around by which time he's out of his car coming for me. Granted, when I passed him the thump with the wing mirror wasnt necessary but the THUD was immensely satisfying. He chases me again and is hanging out his window screaming and waving, and then starts throwing his LUNCH at me
I had an orange and a banana bounce off my bonnet. In the end I just jinked off an exit which he couldnt make before carrying on to work. The fruit thing still makes me laugh now.Saying that though, he was a black dude and fairly hefty. I was probably a few seconds from a bloody good kicking!
To all the "men" whinging in this thread -
As mr T says:
and stand up to bullies. Otherwise they will keep doing it if all you can do is run away with tail between your legs and complain on the net later
.
Most of them are cowards and will back down as soon as confronted.
As mr T says:
and stand up to bullies. Otherwise they will keep doing it if all you can do is run away with tail between your legs and complain on the net later
.Most of them are cowards and will back down as soon as confronted.
Edited by rottie102 on Saturday 26th June 10:33
Soon after I passed my test I gave my best mate and mum (to pay) a lift to Sainsburys to buy some meat for a BBQ. Upon leaving I was on the road within the car park heading towards the exit, when I came across another car reversing out of their space, however, he was not happy with his first reverse so he pulled back into the space. At this point I proceeded to drive behind his car and as I was moving behind his car he started to reverse quite quickly out of his space, so I accelerated hard so he did not hit me.
At the end of the road there is a mini roundabout where you turn left to get onto the main road, and I pulled up to this and gave way to a car from my right, but before I could pull away the car I drove behind drives down my right, and parks across the roundabout. This old chap jumps out and storms up to my window absolutely livid, so I put the window down and he starts ranting and challenges me to get out the car, so I just put the window up on him. My mum at this point gets out the passengers side and shouts an apology to him, and we drive off so nothing too serious.
I am not sure what he was hoping to achieve by challenging my to a fight, as he was shorter than me and I am not tall. However, I had my mate in the back who is bloody huge - luckily he did not take it any further, a bit worrying though.
At the end of the road there is a mini roundabout where you turn left to get onto the main road, and I pulled up to this and gave way to a car from my right, but before I could pull away the car I drove behind drives down my right, and parks across the roundabout. This old chap jumps out and storms up to my window absolutely livid, so I put the window down and he starts ranting and challenges me to get out the car, so I just put the window up on him. My mum at this point gets out the passengers side and shouts an apology to him, and we drive off so nothing too serious.
I am not sure what he was hoping to achieve by challenging my to a fight, as he was shorter than me and I am not tall. However, I had my mate in the back who is bloody huge - luckily he did not take it any further, a bit worrying though.
DaveL485 said:
Second- I was in a short stretch of dual carraigeway coming into Minworth nr Birmingham, overtaking slow traffic and this prelude is *right* up my arse flashing like mad. Arrogant tosser. So I stayed in the outside lane, we were already over the speed limit too. He skips to the inside and tries to undertake, which I detest, so (I know I shouldnt) I jinked to the left. Not much, but enough. The guy panicked and locked up before realising I was just warning him off. However, Here's me chuckling to myself when he overtakes on a blind corner of a now single lane road and tries to pull me up. I outbrake him and overtake, he repeats and nearly stopped me this time, I had to reverse and pull around by which time he's out of his car coming for me. Granted, when I passed him the thump with the wing mirror wasnt necessary but the THUD was immensely satisfying. He chases me again and is hanging out his window screaming and waving, and then starts throwing his LUNCH at me I had an orange and a banana bounce off my bonnet. In the end I just jinked off an exit which he couldnt make before carrying on to work. The fruit thing still makes me laugh now.
Saying that though, he was a black dude and fairly hefty. I was probably a few seconds from a bloody good kicking
Hmmmm. Am I the only one to think you come across as a bit t I had an orange and a banana bounce off my bonnet. In the end I just jinked off an exit which he couldnt make before carrying on to work. The fruit thing still makes me laugh now.Saying that though, he was a black dude and fairly hefty. I was probably a few seconds from a bloody good kicking
tful behind the wheel..?? So the other guy has anger mgt problems but why the fk didn't you just pull over and let the bellend pass ffs..??i know a guy who is one of these road rage nutters, hes about 5'6 slim build, in every day life hes a very placid, quiet and quite funny chap.
he was a proper petrol head too having had a few different cars and bikes when he was younger.
he was very protective of his vehicles, you didnt get in his car with mud on your shoes or slam his doors, this would mean toys flung far and wide!
but woe betide any motorist who did something that he deemed dangerous to him, he used to punch countless peoples wing mirrors off when on his motorbike, chase people down and start screaming at them! he once ripped out someones partly opened window after cornering them in a cul de sac!
i think the worst one that i heard about was when he was on his push bike and someone upset him, he ripped the guys aerial off and scratched every panel on his car with it!
he did not keep these a secret almost bragging about them to us!
quite a few of his friends fell out with him for a while when he lost his temper with them in the car and drove it flat out through the city centre!
i think he has calmed down now, as i think hes realised what a massive over reaction he was having!
he is also a transvestite, proves it takes all sorts!
he was a proper petrol head too having had a few different cars and bikes when he was younger.
he was very protective of his vehicles, you didnt get in his car with mud on your shoes or slam his doors, this would mean toys flung far and wide!
but woe betide any motorist who did something that he deemed dangerous to him, he used to punch countless peoples wing mirrors off when on his motorbike, chase people down and start screaming at them! he once ripped out someones partly opened window after cornering them in a cul de sac!
i think the worst one that i heard about was when he was on his push bike and someone upset him, he ripped the guys aerial off and scratched every panel on his car with it!
he did not keep these a secret almost bragging about them to us!
quite a few of his friends fell out with him for a while when he lost his temper with them in the car and drove it flat out through the city centre!
i think he has calmed down now, as i think hes realised what a massive over reaction he was having!
he is also a transvestite, proves it takes all sorts!
I was undertaken by a 306 while in a Berlingo Van while passing a lorry, he only just made it in front of me thanks to me stabing the brakes. I gave him the obligatory headlights flash to which he replied with a five knuckle shuffle out of the window.
Anyway, the dual carridgeway goes down to one lane (A64, near the Jinnah if anyone knows it) and thanks to a BMW (could have been any marque, but as I don't recall BMW seems most fitting :P) trying to cut in too late and nobody letting him in, we sailed passed on the inside. My downfall is I couldn't resist a little wave. Was only after I realised that he was quite a big chap and would probably make a Range Rover look like a pedal cart!
Ended up about 9 cars in front of him then I notice he's overtaking the traffic, forcing oncoming traffic to get out of his way. I think he just wants to be in front of me to prove a point, so I tuck myself in waiting for the overtake but he gets behind me and sits on my ass, shouting out the window for me to pull over.
I end up taking a few turns to avoid getting stuck again in the stop start traffic and begin heading for a busy shopping centre where he eventually stops, reverses into a farm junction and speeds off in the other direction.
I've learnt my lesson really, just let other drivers get on with it. You don't know who's carrying a knife or a gun these days.
Anyway, the dual carridgeway goes down to one lane (A64, near the Jinnah if anyone knows it) and thanks to a BMW (could have been any marque, but as I don't recall BMW seems most fitting :P) trying to cut in too late and nobody letting him in, we sailed passed on the inside. My downfall is I couldn't resist a little wave. Was only after I realised that he was quite a big chap and would probably make a Range Rover look like a pedal cart!
Ended up about 9 cars in front of him then I notice he's overtaking the traffic, forcing oncoming traffic to get out of his way. I think he just wants to be in front of me to prove a point, so I tuck myself in waiting for the overtake but he gets behind me and sits on my ass, shouting out the window for me to pull over.
I end up taking a few turns to avoid getting stuck again in the stop start traffic and begin heading for a busy shopping centre where he eventually stops, reverses into a farm junction and speeds off in the other direction.
I've learnt my lesson really, just let other drivers get on with it. You don't know who's carrying a knife or a gun these days.
Had a crazed nutter with a baseball bat roll off the roof of a friends vauxhall viva estate years ago.
Will try to post up why later when I get time as the story of how it happened is a bit long winded. The problems all started inside a skating rink by these idiots, which ended up with their XR3i smashed to bits, them smashing into few cars in their rage and a very slightly dented viva estate.
Needless to say at the time we were frightened for our lives and to this day the memories are as vivid now as it was then.
Will try to post up why later when I get time as the story of how it happened is a bit long winded. The problems all started inside a skating rink by these idiots, which ended up with their XR3i smashed to bits, them smashing into few cars in their rage and a very slightly dented viva estate.
Needless to say at the time we were frightened for our lives and to this day the memories are as vivid now as it was then.
Have just had an `incident` this morning.
Travelling up a hill, 2 lanes that eventually merge into 1 about half a mile later. I pulled out and overtook a couple of cars, with one left to overtake, which was currently being overtaken by a stbox freelander (plenty of room/time etc to complete the overtakes as I expected said freelander to pull in once he had overtaken). Anyway, this freelander driving mouth breather, presumably noticing me approaching at a decent rate of knots behind him, decided to slow and stay in L2, purposefully forcing me to remain side by side with the car I was overtaking.
With the lane merge now approaching, I gave a couple of short `toots` on the horn (to let him know I'm there), he slowly pulled in, glaring at me as I went past. I noticed he seemed to be the chavvy type (top off, car in a state etc).
Anyway, thinking nothing more of it, I heared him honking his horn, driving up my arse and leaning out of the window, effing, blinding, arm waving etc. I gave a shrug/hands up `whats the matter` motion, and he then proceeded to throw a bottle of something towards my car, which missed and gave me some satisfaction. We had slowed due to traffic at this point so I left plenty of room in front in case he jumped out, so I could drive away.
This got the adrenaline going and I took a different route than planned and we went our seperate ways.
The thing is, if he had jumped out, I don't know what I would've done. If he had thrown something like a brick and it had hit my car I would definitely be out of my car and probably gone for maximum damage to him/his car.
Just shook me up slightly that he was so irate over a simple overtake.
Maybe it's because he didn't like the fact one of his peers (agewise) was driving something worth ten times his car and he was jealous, I don't know.
Travelling up a hill, 2 lanes that eventually merge into 1 about half a mile later. I pulled out and overtook a couple of cars, with one left to overtake, which was currently being overtaken by a s
tbox freelander (plenty of room/time etc to complete the overtakes as I expected said freelander to pull in once he had overtaken). Anyway, this freelander driving mouth breather, presumably noticing me approaching at a decent rate of knots behind him, decided to slow and stay in L2, purposefully forcing me to remain side by side with the car I was overtaking.With the lane merge now approaching, I gave a couple of short `toots` on the horn (to let him know I'm there), he slowly pulled in, glaring at me as I went past. I noticed he seemed to be the chavvy type (top off, car in a state etc).
Anyway, thinking nothing more of it, I heared him honking his horn, driving up my arse and leaning out of the window, effing, blinding, arm waving etc. I gave a shrug/hands up `whats the matter` motion, and he then proceeded to throw a bottle of something towards my car, which missed and gave me some satisfaction. We had slowed due to traffic at this point so I left plenty of room in front in case he jumped out, so I could drive away.
This got the adrenaline going and I took a different route than planned and we went our seperate ways.
The thing is, if he had jumped out, I don't know what I would've done. If he had thrown something like a brick and it had hit my car I would definitely be out of my car and probably gone for maximum damage to him/his car.
Just shook me up slightly that he was so irate over a simple overtake.
Maybe it's because he didn't like the fact one of his peers (agewise) was driving something worth ten times his car and he was jealous, I don't know.
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