This road is my road!!

[brucemillar]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecutory_delusion

Well thank goodness you posted that gem. That helps me understand it all now. It's a delusion. I imagined it. Silly me.

 

[Giantvanman]

It's down to a lack or drop in concentration. And ego.

Very common to see cars 'pogoing' along the motorway as their speed varies significantly with their concentration level and common to see cars in an empty lane slow as they reach a slower vehicle in the lane to their left, crawl past and accelerate post overtake.

Also very common for drivers to sit near the rear three quarter and for some to become aggressive when they perceive the car they are overtaking (in their mind) moves out "in front of ME and into MY lane."

Not a great combination, lack of concentration and ego exceeding abilities by a considerable margin........the modern world we live in.

I find indicating very early often makes them look for why I might want to move out and if that doesn't work, a quick burst, indicate, move out and depending what the gonk is doing, either return to previous speed or hold the higher speed until after the overtake, all WELL ahead and before the slower vehicle becomes an issue for me.

I would not, however, continue with a vehicle sitting on my rear three quarter for that many miles; I'd either accelerate well ahead and then slow or slow until he was ahead. Why? Because some people are just deliberately intent on causing distress and harm and I don't want them anywhere near me.

 

[Deleted member 113659]

I find indicating very early often makes them look for why I might want to move out and if that doesn't work, a quick burst, indicate, move out and depending what the gonk is doing, either return to previous speed or hold the higher speed until after the overtake, all WELL ahead and before the slower vehicle becomes an issue for me.

 

[ash59fifty-uk]

If I'm in this situation and I've indicated at a period which wouldn't even warrant indication so early, and they persist the course in the middle lane causing me to brake then it really ***** me off

This happens once a day at least, so like a child I'll then speed up and overtake said idiot, and match his/her speed... Awaiting the next middle lane idiot infront of them, leaving them to feel my pain and brake. And I'll do so and slow right down so they have to brake

Eye for an eye!

 

[400ixl]

If I'm in this situation and I've indicated at a period which wouldn't even warrant indication so early, and they persist the course in the middle lane causing me to brake then it really ***** me off

This happens once a day at least, so like a child I'll then speed up and overtake said idiot, and match his/her speed... Awaiting the next middle lane idiot infront of them, leaving them to feel my pain and brake. And I'll do so and slow right down so they have to brake

Eye for an eye!

I can certainly confess to that on more than a few occasions

 

[Deleted member 113659]

I assume that CC is a modern luxury that the Highway Code does not acknowledge?

Surely it's up to every driver to adjust their speed accordingly to the flow of traffic?

As an example most HGV's have CC nowadays. I can't imagine those drivers making the same argument.

 

[T5R+]

OP, what colour is the "unmarked police BM estate sat at 70mph in L1".

If the Golf driver knew it was a private car/family then he was a moosive "insert appropriate expletive" - as could only have been goading you.

I drive 30K a year, mostly on a mixture of motorways in my car(s) and despair at the fall in standards/roadcraft. From yo-yo speeders through to lane hogs to indicate-and-move out plus sit in blindspot merchants, no idea what goes through these drivers minds.

Hindsight is great, perhaps next time either drop and hold 60 or move up a few mph. As someone who drives 60K/PA, sure that you more than experienced to chalk this up.

 

[Dryce]

I did consider this as a factor. There is a massive hostility to BMW (drivers) I can't honestly say that they are worse or better than any others I see on the roads.

When I had a BMW I felt there were more interactions where other drivers were deliberately uncooperative or even provocative.

 

[brucemillar]

OP, what colour is the "unmarked police BM estate sat at 70mph in L1".

If the Golf driver knew it was a private car/family then he was a moosive "insert appropriate expletive" - as could only have been goading you.

I drive 30K a year, mostly on a mixture of motorways in my car(s) and despair at the fall in standards/roadcraft. From yo-yo speeders through to lane hogs to indicate-and-move out plus sit in blindspot merchants, no idea what goes through these drivers minds.

Hindsight is great, perhaps next time either drop and hold 60 or move up a few mph. As someone who drives 60K/PA, sure that you more than experienced to chalk this up.

This car is on very clear Private Plates. So he would have known it was a private car.

 

[Peter103]

That section of motorway, from M20 /M26 junction, to the Godstone junction on M25 is the longest stretch of motorway in the UK between junctions. 18 miles. Not a lot of people know that!

 

[brucemillar]

All

Please read my first post again:

"He stays in my blind spot pulling alongside then dropping back in a cyclical motion from this point until 1 mile before the M25, a distance of about 19 miles!!."

He did not sit alongside me for nineteen miles and I clearly stated that. He kept dropping back. Then slowly reeling me in again. I did not spend nineteen miles watching him or even thinking about him. He was there at the start and there at the finish. There was only one other vehicle and that was the one I was catching rapidly to overtake. He would have seen me closing that gap for several minutes. So would you not have thought he would either speed up and get past (he is sat in the outside lane) or slow down and gesture to me to overtake. Why take the most awkward decision? Keep in mind he was NOT maintaining a constant speed here hence his back & forth driving.

Why do people feel it is somehow my problem that somebody else chooses to drive like this? I was not in the wrong, was not aggressive, and made no gestures or signals apart from signalling my intent to overtake in plenty of time for the Golf to make a decision. Something that happens everyday on every journey where the car behind will make the move and nobody bats an eye (as is correct)

Had I written this ad said I blasted off into the distance. We would have chorus saying you should not have sped up or broken the speed limit. I did slow down, it was that or crash!!! This prompted my friend to also slow down.

He wanted to have an incident and was the aggressor here.

Like I say, I wish I had not posted. I simply wanted to highlight how taking a pleasant drive, when I was interrupted by somebody intent on causing a crash. My actions avoided the crash.

 

[400ixl]

You appear to be reading far more into peoples posts. Most feel that the driver was being an idiot, end of.

Most of the discussion is then just general "what someone could / would do" type hypothesis discussion, not trying to tell you what you did wrong as you seem to feel it is.

Its a general debate, not anti you at all.

 

[Deleted member 37751]

Funnily enough, I was chased down the (single carriage) A19 today by an E39 530d for about five/six miles, he was so close at times that I couldn't see his headlights on more than one occasion, all the while I stuck to the speed limit and even slowed down and beckoned him to overtake me on a clear, straight stretch of road but he chose to drive behind me as though I was towing him. Other times he'd be the best part of 100 yards away!

When we arrived at a traffic lights, he pulled up alongside me so I put my window down and asked him what his ****ing problem was, he looked all sheepish and just said sorry, he didn't realise that his actions could be construed as being aggressive (well, words to that effect).

Just goes to show you have to try to not take these things personal, most of these plant plots don't even realise they're infecting the rest of the world with their blatant ****ery.

 

[flowrider]

All

Please read my first post again:

"He stays in my blind spot pulling alongside then dropping back in a cyclical motion from this point until 1 mile before the M25, a distance of about 19 miles!!."

He did not sit alongside me for nineteen miles and I clearly stated that. He kept dropping back. Then slowly reeling me in again. I did not spend nineteen miles watching him or even thinking about him. He was there at the start and there at the finish. There was only one other vehicle and that was the one I was catching rapidly to overtake. He would have seen me closing that gap for several minutes. So would you not have thought he would either speed up and get past (he is sat in the outside lane) or slow down and gesture to me to overtake. Why take the most awkward decision? Keep in mind he was NOT maintaining a constant speed here hence his back & forth driving.

Why do people feel it is somehow my problem that somebody else chooses to drive like this? I was not in the wrong, was not aggressive, and made no gestures or signals apart from signalling my intent to overtake in plenty of time for the Golf to make a decision. Something that happens everyday on every journey where the car behind will make the move and nobody bats an eye (as is correct)

Had I written this ad said I blasted off into the distance. We would have chorus saying you should not have sped up or broken the speed limit. I did slow down, it was that or crash!!! This prompted my friend to also slow down.

He wanted to have an incident and was the aggressor here.

Like I say, I wish I had not posted. I simply wanted to highlight how taking a pleasant drive, when I was interrupted by somebody intent on causing a crash. My actions avoided the crash.

If i were you i would give up.

 

[texterted]

I've had similar encounters with these cretins. One followed me closer than my bumper paint for 15 miles down unlit country roads, in the rain, with dense mist patches.

I stopped at a junction, exited my car and went to his window. I asked him to "please keep a safe distance". He said "I'm sorry but I can't see well in the dark and you drive so well".

I didn't know whether to punch him or kiss him.... but he wasn't in a golf.

 

[grober]

Maybe its the same syndrome that makes people park right up close to your car when the rest of the car park is empty?

 

[WDB124066]

Ok, he may have been a nutter & I would probably have felt like sorting him too, but any chance he's trying to save a bit of money, some of those smooth legged cyclists really are on dope Bruce.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0LJB2_Iuuo

 

[sc3992]

That section of motorway, from M20 /M26 junction, to the Godstone junction on M25 is the longest stretch of motorway in the UK between junctions. 18 miles. Not a lot of people know that!

You need to get out more.........

 

[219]

This car is on very clear Private Plates. So he would have known it was a private car.

Not arguing that point , but we have a number of Fire Service vehicles on cherished plates , which have been in the service since issue and are a 'legacy' which have remained .

 

[brucemillar]

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