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[Shelby]

Just thought I would share an 'incident' that happened to me yesterday leaving work.

Left work at 4pm in Lincoln in my little runaround (not the Omega) ready for the usual, casual drive home (20 miles).  The route I take has a dual carriageway section about 5 minutes away from work which starts after a roundabout.  I approached the roundabout in the right lane (dual carriageway is to the right) and read to accelerate to overtake a truck maybe 20 meters ahead of me.  As I exited the roundabout I had a Saxo right up my rear, so close I could only see the very top of his headlights. 

I hate tailgaters so as you do, gave him a quick flash of the breaklights and indicated my displeasure via a fairly universal hand signal  .  As we passed the car that was a little way behind the truck the guy behind shoots into the inside lane and boots his little spaxo to try and undertake me.  Now, I am in the outside lane, still accelerating in my little 1.2, he gets along side me and is rapidly running out of space due to a large truck in front, he drifts slightly toward me, I suspect another attempted intimidation to get me to slow down, but I just keep going to overtake the truck (not even reached 70mph yet, this all happened pretty quick).

However, rathe than realising he doesn't have the acceleration or space to perform the manoeuvre he has started, he just pulls out on me anyway, clipping my NSF wing with his OSR wing ... idiot.

He did pull into a layby right infront of the truck, but I couldn't get into it and to be honest, wouldn't be comfortable stopping to speak to someone who was road raging anyway and will be even more pee'd off now.  So continued on, took is reg, make, model etc, got home and phoned it in to the Police.  Have to go to a station today to do a collision report and show all my docs.

If he hadn't hit me I probably would of just shrugged it off, sworn a bit at him being a total prat but as contact was made the stakes are raised.

[hercules]

people that that only understand one language and i would of taught him a few more via the art of knuckle translation

[cem_devecioglu]

roads are full of psychopats driving a wide range of vehicles like suvs, trucks,minis and sport models.. so there is no way of beating them completely and to be safe unless you have a big budget to buy a monster suv with a gigantic engine and lots of fuel..
 
best method is to pull to the right (or left depends on country) and let go.. (whispering do what I say not what I do )

[Auto Addict]

I just let pratts go, defensive driving is much better than competitive driving, leaves you less stressed.

[Shelby]

roads are full of psychopats driving a wide range of vehicles like suvs, trucks,minis and sport models.. so there is no way of beating them completely and to be safe unless you have a big budget to buy a monster suv with a gigantic engine and lots of fuel..
 
best method is to pull to the right (or left depends on country) and let go.. (whispering do what I say not what I do )

I just let pratts go, defensive driving is much better than competitive driving, leaves you less stressed.

99% of the time that is what I would have done, the only reason I didn't pull over between the car and truck was that there was a lot of traffic and I would of been stuck behind it  , I would of needed to brake a little to get in behind the truck and it would of been about 10-15 second wait for me to get past it and pull in. 

Just totally caught me out, I see many morons on the road but this one took the biscuit.  Anyone with 2 or more braincells to rub together would of known that manoeuvre wasn't easily achievable, certainly not in a Saxo!

C'est la vie at the end of the day. No serious damage (bit of a scrap and its a cheap runaround anyway) and nobody hurt which is the main thing.  I have reported it to the police, so thats my bit done, not that I expect anything to actually come of it and I wouldn't be told if it did.

[Shelby]

Here is an interesting one, any thoughts?

Obviously I need to produce all the relevant docs (insurance, MOT etc) at a police station and fill out a collision report.  Now, we have only had the car a week and my wife hadn't printed out the insurance docs as they were emailed to her.  I printed them out this morning only to notice it had the wrong car details (correct reg), said it was a Ford Escort automatic rather an a manual Fiesta!

Now, we have updated the docs today so it is now correct, but the re-issued certificate of insurance has todays date etc on it, and the previous certificate had the wrong car details ..... oopsy!

How is that going to look when I present them, technically I suppose it wasn't insured at the time of the 'accident' yesterday!  That will teach me to let her sort out the insurance for her own car.

[hercules]

does the new document state insurance start date as today or when she took it out cos hopefully they will take it as the date that you printed off the document for the said producer

[SIR Philbutt]

So which one did you think he thought he was, Hamilton or Massa 

[Vamps]

I just let pratts go, defensive driving is much better than competitive driving, leaves you less stressed.[/highlight]

I tend to agree, mostly.......

[Shelby]

does the new document state insurance start date as today or when she took it out cos hopefully they will take it as the date that you printed off the document for the said producer

They were alright about it in the end, I took the old and new docs.  I had forgotten that I was technically driving on my Omega insurance anyway as I am not named on my wifes policy / car because putting me on her insurance puts the price up because I am a bit younger than her!  Whereas putting her on my insurance brings the cost of mine down .... go figure, you would like to think it didn't make much difference as I have just passed 39 and she is just over 40.

[Bionic]

By giving the registration number to the insurers they would have entered ibtoi their database and it would have told them the full details of that car. It is not her fault, or yours that the documents had the incorrect details on it. The only explanation could be is that before you bought it the previous owner had done the conversion and not infromed the insurance company or the DVLA of the change.
 
No time for wally's like that! Its a pity the truck did not wipe him out and take the idiot of the roads permanently. Would he have argued with a near 2 ton mig.... probably yes because his head would have been full of god knows what and he drove a mobile 15cwt matchbox macho ( not) SAXO! 
Hope the coppers do him but that I suppose would be expecting too much. He might just get a letter though.

[Martin_1962]

Had a slow van 40 to 45 at most a few days ago, pulled out to overtake, I pulled back in doing 70 with a van right up my bum.

Right road rage self-abuser.

[Shelby]

By giving the registration number to the insurers they would have entered ibtoi their database and it would have told them the full details of that car. It is not her fault, or yours that the documents had the incorrect details on it. The only explanation could be is that before you bought it the previous owner had done the conversion and not infromed the insurance company or the DVLA of the change.
 
No time for wally's like that! Its a pity the truck did not wipe him out and take the idiot of the roads permanently. Would he have argued with a near 2 ton mig.... probably yes because his head would have been full of god knows what and he drove a mobile 15cwt matchbox macho ( not) SAXO! 
Hope the coppers do him but that I suppose would be expecting too much. He might just get a letter though.

If i was in my mig, even though its only a lowly 2.0l 4 pot, he wouldn't of had the opportunity as I would of been able to easily 'close the door' infront of him, the 1.25l Fiesta doesn't have much oompf

When I took my docs in they said they had done a check on the vehicle reg and come up with nothing!  I gave them the make, model and minimum of the first 4 digits of the reg (wasn't 100% sure of the last 3).  I seriously doubt anything will come of it to be honest.  I cleaned the car up this weekend and there is very little visible damage, a couple small scratches and a patch about the size of a 1p peice where all the colour has come off the plastic bumper.  The plastic insert inside the wheel arch has a chunk broken off it, again a minor issue.  It was more of an annoyance than anything else, it is only a £500 run around but for its price and age its a pretty tidy little car.