Chris
True!! I wonder when PIAA are going to do a 120w torch

 

Only been road-raged against three times, and two of those was by women.
The worst was on the M4/M25 the M4 west to M25 south junction - two lanes into one before it joins the M25. Friday night, lots of traffic going nowhere fast. I'd let three cars filter from the other lane ('cos I'm nice) and thought that was enough. This 40ish woman in a G-reg Volvo 240 thought it wasn't an got really pushy. I didn't want to risk the side of my pride and joy, so let her in and gave her a flash of my PIAA's. Next thing I know, she's out of the car at my window giving it large and smacks my side mirror. I ignore her as she's obviously having a bad day, push my mirror back out and give her a few "nutter" signs. So we go along the M25, but both come off at the same exit. It's a two-lane slip road so I floor it to overtake her. Oh no, she's not having any of that and swerves across in front of me. Somewhat taken aback, I give her some more "nutter" signs. Having backed off for a moment, we both leave the rounadabout at the same exit. Again, I try to accelerate past her, she swerves once again and brakes hard, getting it completely out of shape. Fortunatley scooby brakes are better than Volvo brakes and I didn't pough into the back of her despite having been gunning it. At this point I realise what I'm dealing with and just poodle along, keeping a safe distance behind.
What nutter needs a gun/knife when you can drive like that?....

 

Not exactly a road rage incident, but I overtook someone on the way back from Cambridge the other night, and as I pulled in front he gives it full mainbeam headlights (and not a flash, either). I've now got floodlights behind me and I'm still on dipped and can't see a thing. What makes these people do this?

 

I don't know - had the same thing on the way to work last week. Some geezer in a Rover 600 got upset when I overtook him - long straight, no junctions, good visibility. He just didn't like it when I blasted past him.
Beats me....

 

Ive also overtaken people on a safe streach of road just to have them blast their main beam at me...why??? Some peoples minds work in VERY strange ways. Did you know that over 25% of the population will suffer from mental illness at some point in their lives? Maybe thats why theres so many idiots on the roads!!!

bren

 

Bizarrely, this was a Rover as well. 200/400 estate.

 

The worst case of Road rage I've had was this summer.

I was riding to work on my cbr600, It's about 06:45 I get to the top of Bishopsgate where the road is one way and it's about 4 or 5 lanes wide. I spot a gap on the left of this G reg Micra so a pull out and go for the gap, unfortunately a lorry pulls out and blocks the exit so I'm stuck. Next thing I know this Micra on my right is squeezing me, I look at HER and she's losing it giving me the v's the bird the to55er sign. She then swerves and bumps me over. Luckily the lorry's moved so I GTF out of there quick. The lights are red I stop, this Nutter Psycho BIATCH rolls into my back tyre and bumps me again she then jumps out of her car comes running at me hair and arms everywhere so I get off and being a bit of a rugby player side step her, grab her keys out of the ignition and chuck them on the pavement. She's not happy but is more worried about her keys than me so I get back on the bike hack off down Bishopsgate and flag down the first copper I see. I let them know what's been going on and we wait for her. 5mins later she appears so they stop her, her door opens and she goes for me again what a complete nutter. Any way she got away with a caution but I also got cautioned for taking her keys.

You gotta be careful out there, she told the old bill that the reason she went for me was that I didn't indicate when I went for the gap????? Hello so not indicating is punishable by DEATH

 

Heres another irrational incident:

I was tootling along at 40mph (in my Astra) and was approaching a T junction with a road joining my road from the left. A woman arrived at the T junction along this other road indicating to turn right. She started rolling out slowly and I put my foot over the brake just in case. She just kept going!!! Instead of stopping for the oncoming traffic (i.e. me) she kept rolling out across my lane slowly but shurely. I slammed on and locked up a couple of wheels to try to avoid ploughing into the side of her. My Astra stopped 10 ft short of her drivers door and a cloud of tyre rubber enveloped the car as I sat in the middle of the road disbelieving at what this woman had done. Whilst I was sliding towards her the woman contiunued to pull out, at no point did she stop!!!!! She then proceded to give me a load of verbal as she drove past me!!!! UNBELIEVABLE I just sat there stunned Good job my car had stalled or Id have spun it round and chased her down the road.

As I said, 25%......

bren

 

How easily people get annoyed when you overtake them (or attempt to) was brought home to me the other week when I was out driving with my wife and son in her Ford Focus 1.6

We'd been following a Toyota Camry for about eight miles along A roads - with him doing an average of 40-45mph. There hadn't been any opportunity to overtake so I'd sat a safe distance behind him. I was feeling very mellow so I didn't even stick close to him and hope to speed him up. I was just enjoying the drive.

Anyway, we come out of a corner onto a lovely 1 mile straight - at the end of which I can see a car just coming around the corner. So, indicating, I pull out and begin to overtake.

Whereupon, Mr. Toyota driver gets extremely annoyed and also begins to accelerate. I am doing 65-70 and so's he. I'm alongside him and the traffic ahead is now nearer. If he'd stayed the same speed I'd have been past him by now.

I continue to accelerate and so does he. The back of the Focus is level with his bonnet and we are doing 80mph. The traffic is getting closer.

Finally I get past, up to about 90mph. The traffic has closed to 50-70 yards and I get flashed by the oncoming drivers. The car I overtook also flashes me and gestures. Then stays on my bumper for the rest of the straight. Then, when we reach something resembling a corner, he's back down to 45mph again.

It made my blood boil to think some idiot would deliberately speed up and try to stop me overtaking when for eight miles he'd been happy to drive 15-20mph below the speed limit...

[This message has been edited by Oz (edited 04 December 2000).]

 

Does no one here carry a mobile phone, if someone jumped out of their car threatening me the first thing I would do would to be phone the police with a note of their registration. You have reminded me I have been meaning to buy a cheap camera to keep in the car just in case something like that happens.
Someone damaging my car and getting let off by the police with a caution, even if it was just the wing mirror would not be happening, I would do everything I could to get them taken to court over it.
Are those in charge of the law trying to say that it is safer to go around threatening people, and worse, than to be doing more than the speed limit on an open stretch of road?

Rant Over, must go and calm down, can you get bbs rage?

 

I was riding my (ex) Zx6r along a straight road ( approx 40 MPH in a 60 zone)when a young lady in a Renault Clio decided that pulling out of a side road was an appropriate move. I smacked into her drivers door about 30 MPH, destroying the bike and causing some serious pain in my nads and two broken arms at the same time. I was lying in the middle of the road wondering if I was going to get squished by a bus or something while she climbed out the passenger door, ran round the car and started screaming "What the hell do you think you where doing? Are you trying to kill someone?"
She continued to give me verbal until the police arrived. I was crapping myself as I couldn't move, so they had to drag her away still screaming to the cop shop.
When her injuries claim came to court it eventually transpired that she has suffered from serious mental problems since having her car hijacked a couple of years previously, and the final outcome was that the judge ordered that she would have her licence revoked if she didn't enlist herself on some sort of nutter rehabilitation program.

So now you know. It isn't just the big blokes you should avoid.

p.s. A word of advice for all you bikes. Don't try and fend off a t-bone collision using your arms. It doesn't work...

 

p.p.s I forgot to mention that I got a scooby and a YZF R1 from the claim. Who says our justice system doesn't work...

 

There seems to be a lot of women out there who completely lose their marbles behind the wheel. I would have thought that women would be scared that a bloke might attack them back, but no they just seem to fly into combat at the smallest provocation, and when tehy seem to be in the wrong!!

 

Mungo .... and there are a lot of men who lose their marbles out there on the road ... as this thread only goes to show

Anyway don't know what you lot have got to worry about ... I have to suffer a double whammy .... people for some reason don't like being a) overtaken by a Scoob and b) even less by a Scoob being driven by a woman.

As for the road rage element ... I didn't take up karate for nothing

 

I don't know about anyone else, but reading these replies makes me realise how lucky I have been not to have a serious road rage incident. Scary stuff.

Chris

 

Must be an english thing but still makes me p!ss.
If you push in, in a que, most people would give you a funny look but say **** all, but stick em behind a wheel in the safety of their car and a similar scenario would have em writing out an OIU to the swear box.