Thought I'd put this on here as a vent!
Set the scene... in my wife's car (S-Max), just been to Tesco to do the shopping, around 13:30 today.
Sets off happy as you like and goes to join the motorway (in this the A1 Western Bypass). Accelerated down the slip road up to about 60 - cars in front mean I can't accelerate more, and looking at the traffic on the A1, it wasn't going more than 60 anyway.
Indicator on, checks my mirrors and looks over my shoulder. Noted a silver Mondeo a couple of car lengths behind. Keeping up wqith traffic in the outside lane, I was half way onto the motorway, noticed in my mirror said Mondeo accelerating hard and moving towards the centre of the two motorway lanes at around my rear quarter. Too late to swerve back on the slip road and he can't go into the outside lane as it's full of (by this point slower-than-him) traffic.
Queue light flashing and associated gestures. I put my hand up to say "really, did you not look at the traffic conditions and my indicator. And the on ramp with cars joining". He was about two inches from my bumper and I knew I had to brake for the (now slowing more) traffic in front of me. Obviously he was that close that he must of wet his pants when he saw my brake lights as the front of his car dived a la emergency brakes style.....
Slowing for traffic was obviously a bad idea however as he found the narrowest of gaps to pull into the outside lane and do same said gestures to my side window along with "pull over I'm going to kill you" type hand signals. I just let him get in front as I thought screw this... I have shopping to deliver. I wanted to be off the next junction anyway, so just let him rant and thought I'd just pull off at the last moment and wave good by.... when I did so he crossed the hatchings in front of me to do the same. As he was now past the point of no return I pulled back onto the motorway thinking "thank god for that"...... but sure enough a couple of miles up the road as I turn off at the next exit to go home..... guess who's behind me shouting and screaming. He must have come back onto the motorway and god knows how he got through the traffic to catch up as there's two sets of traffic lights to get through on the roundabout!
I turned off onto the A19 and at the next roundabout lights he pulled alongside (in the lane to turn left, wound his window down and invited me wind my window down - associated frothing of the mouth and swearing included.. (I declined and set off at the green light) He followed me down the A19 (tried going slow and fast) to my turn off and thank god turned back round the way he came on a small roundabout near my house. I was really struggling on what to do - no police stations near, typically not a police car in sight, he looked way bigger and certainly more angry than I was.
I only got half the reg - AK06 - a late model silver Mondeo something or other,
Moral of the story? Don't know if there is one apart from keep clear of an angry looking guy in a Mondeo.
Also, what should you do? I guess it could escalate to a 999 situation quite quick but didn't really think it was an "emergency" (although I guess I felt in danger)?
Set the scene... in my wife's car (S-Max), just been to Tesco to do the shopping, around 13:30 today.
Sets off happy as you like and goes to join the motorway (in this the A1 Western Bypass). Accelerated down the slip road up to about 60 - cars in front mean I can't accelerate more, and looking at the traffic on the A1, it wasn't going more than 60 anyway.
Indicator on, checks my mirrors and looks over my shoulder. Noted a silver Mondeo a couple of car lengths behind. Keeping up wqith traffic in the outside lane, I was half way onto the motorway, noticed in my mirror said Mondeo accelerating hard and moving towards the centre of the two motorway lanes at around my rear quarter. Too late to swerve back on the slip road and he can't go into the outside lane as it's full of (by this point slower-than-him) traffic.
Queue light flashing and associated gestures. I put my hand up to say "really, did you not look at the traffic conditions and my indicator. And the on ramp with cars joining". He was about two inches from my bumper and I knew I had to brake for the (now slowing more) traffic in front of me. Obviously he was that close that he must of wet his pants when he saw my brake lights as the front of his car dived a la emergency brakes style.....
Slowing for traffic was obviously a bad idea however as he found the narrowest of gaps to pull into the outside lane and do same said gestures to my side window along with "pull over I'm going to kill you" type hand signals. I just let him get in front as I thought screw this... I have shopping to deliver. I wanted to be off the next junction anyway, so just let him rant and thought I'd just pull off at the last moment and wave good by.... when I did so he crossed the hatchings in front of me to do the same. As he was now past the point of no return I pulled back onto the motorway thinking "thank god for that"...... but sure enough a couple of miles up the road as I turn off at the next exit to go home..... guess who's behind me shouting and screaming. He must have come back onto the motorway and god knows how he got through the traffic to catch up as there's two sets of traffic lights to get through on the roundabout!
I turned off onto the A19 and at the next roundabout lights he pulled alongside (in the lane to turn left, wound his window down and invited me wind my window down - associated frothing of the mouth and swearing included.. (I declined and set off at the green light) He followed me down the A19 (tried going slow and fast) to my turn off and thank god turned back round the way he came on a small roundabout near my house. I was really struggling on what to do - no police stations near, typically not a police car in sight, he looked way bigger and certainly more angry than I was.
I only got half the reg - AK06 - a late model silver Mondeo something or other,
Moral of the story? Don't know if there is one apart from keep clear of an angry looking guy in a Mondeo.
Also, what should you do? I guess it could escalate to a 999 situation quite quick but didn't really think it was an "emergency" (although I guess I felt in danger)?
not tonight matey - I am washing my hair!
