Is this a case of road trolling?

[captainaverage]

NSL dual carriageway, lorry moves to lane 2 and overtakes a slow Peugeot going no more than 50mph, Peugeot speeds up where now the lorry doesn't have enough oomph to go any faster and can't move back into lane 1 because they're both side by side. This carries on for a few minutes until lorry finally signals and kind of forcefully moves left a bit. At this point slow red Peugeot slows down to let the lorry in.

Not the first time I have seen this happen and it's happened to me to where I have come across a driver going 60 mph, I move out to over take at 70 mph, the other driver goes from 60 to 70 mph too.

Are these road trolls? Or do these people really not realise what they're doing and how it's affecting the road users around them?

[captainaverage]

If people don't like being passed then why don't they go faster? Sometimes when I have overtaken someone slowing down they overtake me multiple times then slow down again. I don't understand the mentality.

Another thing I have seen happen is a whole queue of cars going slow so I start thinking maybe there is an event up ahead. A few minutes later, there is actually an event but on the opposite side of the road (dual carriageway/motorway with central reservation in the middle). Do people really slow down to look at the accident on the other side?!

Edited by captainaverage on Saturday 18th February 14:53

[captainaverage]

TooMany2cvs said:

Will it? Unlikely. The Pug driver's just woken up and realised there's a wagon passing them.

B'sides, the wagon doesn't need to drop that far back to pull in.

~16 m of articulated lorry, pug speeds up but maintains position near the rear wheels of the lorry. Yes maybe it does need to drop a fair bit back.

[captainaverage]

Blakewater said:

We take pride in our driving so it's hard to understand the mindset of someone who gets behind the wheel of a car and moves it down the road with a load of other people doing the same thing in close proximity but never really puts any great mental capacity into the process, despite how badly wrong it could go. That's how a lot of people we share the roads with are and that's why road safety messages have to be so basic. People can't be persuaded to really think deeply about good driving so they have to be physically forced to minimise how much damage they do by being made to slow down and stop a lot.

I get not everyone is a car enthusiast and most use their car to go from A to B but I just don't understand that mindset of not even caring how you get from A to B. Mindless drivers are annoying.