blinkbelle
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I just ensure I leave no space between me and the car in front...
Usually when I see an asshole trying this type of manouvre-trying to overtake and pull in front of you I just ensure I leave no space between me and the car in front...and then they either have the choice of hitting the oncoming car or pulling back in behind me....blowing the horn while all this is going on tends to alert other drivers and they usually start blowing too....
This is what causes accidents do you ever think of the innocent driver comming in the opposite direction put yourself in his position how would like it? The same thing happened to me comming from Killarney years ago some fool behind decided to overtake me as there was a car comming in the opposite direction I had to slam on my brakes to leave him overtake to prevent an accident I was traveling behind him for some distance he must have got a fright because he stopped overtaking cars that was until he recovered about half an hour after he overtook a car on a bend. You must make allowances for these bad drivers.Usually when I see an asshole trying this type of manouvre-trying to overtake and pull in front of you I just ensure I leave no space between me and the car in front...and then they either have the choice of hitting the oncoming car or pulling back in behind me....blowing the horn while all this is going on tends to alert other drivers and they usually start blowing too....
This is what causes accidents do you ever think of the innocent driver comming in the opposite direction put yourself in his position how would like it?
... I leave no space between me and the car in front.......
I also don't get the point of this. If you are not willing to overtake, why prevent someone else from doing it, and by tailgating??? I slow down and leave a gap so they can use the space and thus get away. Last thing I want to do is have them sitting behind me for a few miles.
Had a incident tonight in heavy city traffic. Some muppet in a 4x4 almost caused an accident accelerating to close a gap in from of him. Just to stop me pulling into an easy gap in another lane. As the traffic was queued in his lane anyway, all he achieved was defending that 8ft of space for about 30 secs. I'd already moved past him in another lane by then.
Why people can be nice and let people ahead of them I have no idea. It makes no difference to your journey time.
It depends though...I'm always considerate when it comes to letting the deserving in. But make a point of not letting people who deliberately stay in the wrong lane to gain ground and then try and get back in ahead of those who've bothered to be in the right lane!
You've no way of knowing why they are in the wrong lane. Could be mistake, could be unfamilar with the junction, could be anything. So it makes sense to force them to stop and hold up and entire lane (the one they are in) in order to prevent them from merging in turn in your lane. I don't see the point.
Its got to the point now where no one lets anyone go ahead, so people just force their way in, otherwise you could sit for 5 mins with your indicator, for someone to let you in.
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