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Driving question
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So today I was driving along, waiting at lights where after the lights two lanes merge to one, I'm in right hand lane.
Lights change and the car I'm next to goes off slowly, but so do I because I'm in a laid back mood and figure I'll merge behind him. However, the car behind him played the 'don't allow him in!' game where to avoid a collision I was forced into the oncoming lane of traffic.
Obviously braked, beeped, merged in behind him, he didn't even pay any notice. I wonder if there are any ways to actually report driving like this. I can't be sure but since we were merging, if there was a collision (his bonnet was stuck on my rear wheel not allowing me space) it would be his fault presumably?
I'm all happy to accept blame if it was my fault, but I've merged at plenty of these junctions before and never had someone force me onto the other side of the road before. My alternative course of action of course would be to predict he would ignore standard merging etiquette and just slap on the indicator and wait in the junction.
Lights change and the car I'm next to goes off slowly, but so do I because I'm in a laid back mood and figure I'll merge behind him. However, the car behind him played the 'don't allow him in!' game where to avoid a collision I was forced into the oncoming lane of traffic.
Obviously braked, beeped, merged in behind him, he didn't even pay any notice. I wonder if there are any ways to actually report driving like this. I can't be sure but since we were merging, if there was a collision (his bonnet was stuck on my rear wheel not allowing me space) it would be his fault presumably?
I'm all happy to accept blame if it was my fault, but I've merged at plenty of these junctions before and never had someone force me onto the other side of the road before. My alternative course of action of course would be to predict he would ignore standard merging etiquette and just slap on the indicator and wait in the junction.
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He's a cock, look out for that in future, let it go.
I find driving a Land Rover Defender 90 prevents most of these "misunderstandings"...
It is annoying that dangerous driving is pretty much unpunished unless something comes of it.
One left, one right, is how I would have done that. Even if I thought you were being cheeky I personally wouldn't force dangerous situations. Some people really think 30secs is worth more than someone else safety. Or perhaps don't think at all beyond their ego.
Turns out that if you're driving a battered old shed the tiny-dicked sex offenders in Audis aren't so interested in cutting you up.
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I wouldn't have minded so much if he was aggressive and undertook me completely, but it seems his intention was to prevent me from, merging altogether by matching my speed (I started slowing by going off gas, to allow him to pass and he slowed as well to keep in the passive 'fuckyou' position off my rear quadrant, which forced me to break sharply when the lane narrowed )
I think if I was more decisive and gave it some revs and said "I'm merging and if you don't move you're going to get hit" but I generally drive quite defensively. There are plenty of junctions I aware of where bad overtakes / undertakes occur but this is just your run of the mill two lanes to one (its actually a single road that goes into two lanes for about four sets of traffic lights, and then back into one)
Some people are very possesive of their spots in merge lanes. It's quite odd. Driving life is much easier if you don't care about that sort of thing.
Sadly, I don't think there's any way to report shit driving.