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[Martin_1962]

Droitwich bypass, going north, passed a lorry set the car up foir the long bend at 80mph Focus up my bum rather quickly, since I am in a corner AND coming up to a slip road I stay in lane two as I don't like lane changes on bends. The Focus ends up so close to my rear end I cannot see the front or most of the bonnet.

SO I BRAKED

Now with RWD you can get away with this

Focus still kept up bum until I returned to lane one after the junction.

At the next roundabout I was a few seconds behind it - not miles, I was doing 80 he was doing no more than 90

I am not allowed to race with my wife in the car as I would have been doing 90 not 80 anyway

[Martin_1962]

Knob went off in different direction, I dropped off a DVD I had sold.

Then rejoined A38 and headed north, passed a lorry before the dual carriageway, a slow car passed the lorry and cut it up - lorry flashing, then another car came past and the cutter upper solded down to a crawl trapping another car as the road narrowed, I was the next car in front watching in my rear view mirror. Since cutter upper was wide another couldn't pass them and had to squash into a very tight gap - nos 2 and 3

A few non signallers finished off the drive

[Markie]

sounds like you have had a day of it Martin  :-/

[Martin_1962]

Just a bit - and about a mile before the tailgater we were stuck behind a broken down Saab which has dumped its coolant

[JamesV6CDX]

Someone I know from college, got caught "persistently tailgaiting" by the police the other day.
They did him for it too.

£30 fine, and a telling off.

For something which is highly endangering to human life.

If you ask me he should have got a 3 year ban, a £5000 fine and a month in the cells.

If this sort of harsh punishment was regularly dished out for tailgaiters, people wouldn't do it, and the roads would be a much safer and enjoyable place.

But you know the british legal system. It sucks more than Paris Hilton.

It's a shame some tossers ruin the whole driving experience for those of us who are considerate on the roads.

[Martin_1962]

It was not the tail gating it was the 3 or 4 feet gap!

I was on a bend, I was not going to lane change until back on the straight.

If you know it the most southerly corner on the dual carriageway section of Droiwich bypass

[JamesV6CDX]

I know the one matey, I'm only 30 odd miles from you, you know

[Martin_1962]

I know the one matey, I'm only 30 odd miles from you, you know

A deceptive bend - worse coming from the north as it tightens up - a good example of a crash a front driver corner.

Are you still after a newer car then?

You were considering gas - is that for the next car?

[Big Rod]

[size=8]Maybe you should've been in lane 1 in the first place Martin!![/size]

[Martin_1962]

[size=8]Maybe you should've been in lane 1 in the first place Martin!![/size]

I was already in lane two - because I was passing a lorry in lane one and accelerating still - and I wasn't going to change lanes back as I think it was safer to stay in lane rather than change direction when I had set it up, as above I was also passing a slip road, and I was making sure I wasn't going to get stuffed by traffic joining.

Do you change lane to lane at speed on a tightish corner?

If you are already going quite fast do you carry out manouvers that eat into your safety?

Total distance of this was about 1/10" mile.

And the Focus turned off at the next roundabout into a housing estate.

[JamesV6CDX]

[size=8]Maybe you should've been in lane 1 in the first place Martin!![/size]

Utter balls. Sorry mate, but there is no excuse for tailgaters.

I agree some people do ask for it by poor driving habilts, however there is still no excuse for driving that dangerously.

I feel very strongly about it.

[Del Boy]

Definatly if someone pulls out in front of you and u have 2 break really hard u are gonna get hit up the a**e they really pee me off  

[Martin_1962]

[size=8]Maybe you should've been in lane 1 in the first place Martin!![/size]

Utter balls. Sorry mate, but there is no excuse for tailgaters.

I agree some people do ask for it by poor driving habilts, however there is still no excuse for driving that dangerously.

I feel very strongly about it.

You know this corner - I think you can understand why I didn't change back - also I don't think the lorry driver would want cutting up!