Have you ever been a victim of road rage while driving?

[Fckitdriveon]

PW555 said:

thatjagbloke said:

My one and only ( so far ) incidence of road rage happened several years ago when I was delivering signs to a customer. This was in the summer, in Cornwall so the roads were busy. I pulled off a roundabout into a 30mph speed limit road so drove at that speed only to then have a van suddenly fill up my rear view mirror. Despite oncoming traffic he then attempted an overtake but couldn't get past so had to pull in behind me again. This carried on for the next 5 miles with him continually pulling out then dropping back until I indicated and pulled into the yard of my customer. White van man then pulled in behind me, leaped out of his ( signwritten ) van and threatened to " fking kill me " he was literally frothing at the mouth.
I just calmly stood there while he delivered his tirade, then said I'm sure your employers would like to hear about this shall I phone them ? He then realised he was in danger of loosing his job, so turned around and stomped off back to his van and drove off.
I didn't phone his employer, perhaps I should have done ?

On the flip side, I'm General Manager of a Scaffolding Business, and of course we have a small fleet of liveried vehicles, I must get maybe 8 or 9 calls a year in regards to our guys road antics, some justifiable and others no so (Like having to park in Loading Areas etc causing havoc, it cant be helped, we have the LA's permission and we have a job of work to do, they are the most common moans) but on the justifiable occasions when I get them in for a bking I always have to remind them they are basically driving a mobile advertising hoarding! Some learn, others don't...The ones that don't, tend not to last very long with us!

Reminds me of a time I made such a complaint.

Construction van , shoots up inside of slow moving traffic cuts in and runs through a zebra crossing bustling with school kids. How he didn’t kill/hit anyone was blind luck.

I was so incensed I managed to get the company name and gave them a ring with his details, manager was very apologetic and indicated the fellow had form for driving poorly.

I hope they sacked him frankly, I m glad didn’t get the opportunity to catch up with Him myself as I wasnt in the talking mood by that point.

There are levels of dickish driving I m sure we re all guilty of it at points but some things aren’t tolerable.

[dibblecorse]

jamei303 said:

Rule number one of successful road raging is never get out of your vehicle.

Unless they do first ... seated is not a great position to defend yourself .......

[dibblecorse]

TooMany2cvs said:

J4CKO said:

Douglas Quaid said:

How do you ‘loose’ a job?

By being a pedantic tit ?

It's not a spelling mistake. It's simply the wrong word - like bought and brought. It's plain ignorance and carelessness.

Thats so ironic on a thread like this ..... bet you love giving it the 'coffee beans' until the other driver pulls up next to you at which point you lock the doors and stare straight ahead ?

Any errors in my grammar or syntax there ?? As not having a PhD surely puts me at a disadvantage to someone as superior as you ...!!!

[TooMany2cvs]

dibblecorse said:

TooMany2cvs said:

J4CKO said:

Douglas Quaid said:

How do you ‘loose’ a job?

By being a pedantic tit ?

It's not a spelling mistake. It's simply the wrong word - like bought and brought. It's plain ignorance and carelessness.

Thats so ironic on a thread like this ..... bet you love giving it the 'coffee beans' until the other driver pulls up next to you at which point you lock the doors and stare straight ahead ?

Any errors in my grammar or syntax there ?? As not having a PhD surely puts me at a disadvantage to someone as superior as you ...!!!

Getting all irate even when you're in the wrong...? Yes, that seems to be fairly consistent with the majority of road-ragers.

[dibblecorse]

TooMany2cvs said:

dibblecorse said:

TooMany2cvs said:

J4CKO said:

Douglas Quaid said:

How do you ‘loose’ a job?

By being a pedantic tit ?

It's not a spelling mistake. It's simply the wrong word - like bought and brought. It's plain ignorance and carelessness.

Thats so ironic on a thread like this ..... bet you love giving it the 'coffee beans' until the other driver pulls up next to you at which point you lock the doors and stare straight ahead ?

Any errors in my grammar or syntax there ?? As not having a PhD surely puts me at a disadvantage to someone as superior as you ...!!!

Getting all irate even when you're in the wrong...? Yes, that seems to be fairly consistent with the majority of road-ragers.

No ones irate here but you keep racking up that post count ......

[ManOpener]

I've only ever had one incident where someone got out of a car, and to be honest it was my fault.

The road in question was a weird offset 5-way star junction with traffic controls on all five entrances. I was new to the area and didn't know that two of those five were on the same cycle, which meant I ended up turning across a chef in a Renault Clio. I know he was a chef as he pulled up behind me at another set of lights, got out (resplendent in black and white checked trousers and started shouting at me. Thankfully the lights then changed green and I was able to speed off leaving him looking like a prize plum stood next to his car whilst everyone else honked at him to get back in.

I had a fairly unpleasant instance where a rusty Transit cut me up by changing lanes at a roundabout without indicating, took umbrage to my honking him, and aggressively followed me (weaving, flashing and speeding up behind me to a very close distance) for a good 10 minutes. Thankfully I was quite early into my journey and he got bored after a while and went.

Edited by ManOpener on Tuesday 24th April 14:00

[Cold]

dibblecorse said:

jamei303 said:

Rule number one of successful road raging is never get out of your vehicle.

Unless they do first ... seated is not a great position to defend yourself .......

It's quite an advantageous place to be if considering driving away.

[ds666]

Waiting for a couple of minutes to turn right across a dual carriage way today just after a set of lights . Despite the junction having "keep clear" written across it ( why do you even need to do that ) , car stops right across the junction , about 20 feet behind the car in front . I shake my head as no-one waiting to turn right can do so . He puts his heavily tinted front window down, mouths something and then spits at my car before driving off , wearing no seat belt with a child standing on the front passenger seat .

New one on me .

Lovely chap .

[TooMany2cvs]

ds666 said:

Despite the junction having "keep clear" written across it ( why do you even need to do that ) , car stops right across the junction

...and that's why. Because there's a lot of hard-of-thinking people around.

[Zetec-S]

TooMany2cvs said:

ds666 said:

Despite the junction having "keep clear" written across it ( why do you even need to do that ) , car stops right across the junction

...and that's why. Because there's a lot of hard-of-thinking people around.

Trouble is they can't read.

[mr alan]

tinnitusjosh said:

TooMany2cvs said:

J4CKO said:

Douglas Quaid said:

How do you ‘loose’ a job?

By being a pedantic tit ?

It's not a spelling mistake. It's simply the wrong word - like bought and brought. It's plain ignorance and carelessness.

It IS a spelling mistake, albeit one that has inadvertently created a different word.

Lots of spelling police on here. It’s very important you know. Esp on a small phone screen when using predictive text to get it right ............. or maybe it isn’t. Far too much time on a lot of people hands

[bigdom]

TooMany2cvs said:

bigdom said:

It wasn’t, although that’s the story portrayed to the general public.

Can you tell us what really happened? Or would you have to kill us afterwards?

I used to live in the area, and frequent a few establishments with many colourful characters. Evidently the deceased was friendly with the police.

[Dewi-asl8m]

I've had a couple of minor run ins in my 20 years of driving but the most memorable was when some T*** in a 3 series got angry when he couldn't overtake me on a single carriageway at the 60 limit. He pulled up next to me once we got to the dual and suggested in a not very friendly manor that I pulled over to the hard shoulder. I had my mother sat in the car at the time and he had a young girl sat in his passenger seat. Having refused to pull over he decided to follow me for a few miles stuck to my bumper until he got bored.
The best part is when I went in to work the Monday after the same BMW was parked in one of our allocated spaces (It had a really distinctive number plate) I walked through the door and guess who was in my office. He was standing there wearing the same pin stripe suit. I am roughly 6ft 2 and 17 stone and this guy looked like he hadn't grown since he started high school. Turns out he was one of our sales managers.

[G13NVL]

Seems the car makes a difference to people’s behaviour towards you. Mrs drives an Astra vxr been in it many times with her driving issue free, she had to use her mums smart car for a few days driving it the same as the Astra suddenly getting people driving right up behind, trying to get past all the time like they like to bully the ‘smaller’ cars.
Also my mums a driving instructor and says soon as the sign goes on the roof other peoples driving instantly changes and everyone needs to get infront of the ‘leaner’.
My current car though is a bit ‘gangster/drug dealer’ spec black with black windows and I get zero problems with other drivers.

[Fckitdriveon]

G13NVL said:

Seems the car makes a difference to people’s behaviour towards you. Mrs drives an Astra vxr been in it many times with her driving issue free, she had to use her mums smart car for a few days driving it the same as the Astra suddenly getting people driving right up behind, trying to get past all the time like they like to bully the ‘smaller’ cars.
Also my mums a driving instructor and says soon as the sign goes on the roof other peoples driving instantly changes and everyone needs to get infront of the ‘leaner’.
My current car though is a bit ‘gangster/drug dealer’ spec black with black windows and I get zero problems with other drivers.

That’s my experience also albeit in a different context , a years ago I had one of The first few r35s and made the error of taking it visit my parents down sunny south and I lost count of the amount of boy racers trying to race me and zoom past me in their Saxos. Take it as a Compliment I suppose

Now I drive a drug dealer spec car , I never get any issues , but no one ever lets me out at junctions though. : (

[Kuji]

bhstewie said:

Google Kenneth Noye.

Someone always rolls this name out on these threads, as if something so unusual that itvmade headline news over 20 years ago, is in fact very common practice.

Is it as common as we are being led to believe, or statistically the likelihood actually the opposite?

Does anyone on here actually know someone who was stabbed due to a road rage incident?

/serious question.

[bitchstewie]

Kuji said:

bhstewie said:

Google Kenneth Noye.

Someone always rolls this name out on these threads, as if something so unusual that itvmade headline news over 20 years ago, is in fact very common practice.

Is it as common as we are being led to believe, or statistically the likelihood actually the opposite?

Does anyone on here actually know someone who was stabbed due to a road rage incident?

/serious question.

Oh don't get me wrong I think it's very unlikely.

I'm certainly not suggesting you're likely to get stabbed if you get out of your car, but I also think that you have to be a bit of a tool to get out of your car in the first place simply because of someone's bad driving.

[courty]

Sometimes road rage has no provocation whatsoever...this fella didn't live to tell the tale...travelling at 70ish in lane three of the M4 he overtook somebody doing 50ish in lane two and paid for it with his life.

His "mistake" was that he tried to outrun the abuser instead of slowing down..?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-43716912

[nonsequitur]

Max_Torque said:

ST Ford said:

i was following the arrows on the floor so there is no need to indicate.

Really....... ;-)

Yes definitely indicate regardless of filters, road markings or signs .As you have experienced, other drivers expect it, but most don't react as your guy did. And of course it is considerate driving and alerts ALL other road users of your intentions. Including pedestrians who are unpredictable.

[rambo19]

robinessex said:

We have a notorious junction near me, M25 J28. Despite 6 signs telling you which lane to get into, 80% think they can drive where they like. Keep to the rules though, and you’re sure to be ‘road raged' by an idiot who needs to visit Specsavers. The bus driver who recently pushed me into the wrong lane, and then gave me the 2 finger salute wasn’t so clever when I waited at the bus turnaround station, and confronted him. Taking his PSV license number had him stting himself I bet. I’m thinking of buy a £100 shed, fit massive front and rear bumpers, and spend all day driving around this roundabout, not giving way to ‘drive where I want to’ drivers.

Brook street?
I used to drive the 498 that uses that r/a.
Constant rows with people in the wrong lane.