Phew!!she almost crashed my VW

[Miacant]

She was cat's whisker away from crashing my beloved 8v on Friday. And you know why? Because this **** French**** saxo  cut right in front of me.

I was just about 50 yards to a roundabout slowing down from 70mph in the outside lane of a dual carriage road. She indicated just as I was about to go past her and instantly cut in front. Had to slam on the brakes veering car towards barriers as her car
was just inches away from crashing into the passenger side of my car and into the barriers. I hooted, flashed and made hand gestures.  She didn?t even show any remorse and that really pissed me off. I was shocked and was steaming with anger . I couldn?t help but tailgate slowly as we came off the roundabout onto another dual carriage road, both cars in the outside lane.

Btw it?s a Y Reg. thingy with a big exhaust. Anyway she realised I was pissed off and tailgating so she put her foot down as if to say ?come and get me if you can you old banger?  I got into 4 gear, hit 4000rpm and was right behind her bumper she tried stepping up speed but I was still behind and she decided to make way and got into the inside lane. Still fuming with rage I stuck my fingers up at her as I went by.

Got home really upset. I may be speeding but was doing it safely. I came close to being involved in an accident because of this stupid saxo driver. What would have been your reaction under the circumstances?

Beware of these french cars, they think they are top dogs.

[Overseer]

actually yes.

about a month ago i was out on a test drive in my old polo with the people who eventually bought it. i wasnt driving.. the dad of the fam was.

coming down a dual carriageway back towards town theres a slip road onto the dual carriageway that comes from our local adsa. we were in the right hand lane. this girl in a black saxo came flying out of this slip road, and crossed straight over into our path... nutter... we couldn't believe it!

quite a lot of early 20s ish girls around here have VTRs and drive em like nutters.

had a girl in some focus giving me hassle yesterday on the same stretch... out ran her though  

[Blue MK2]

I get dirty looks by saxo racers so im loving it

[jte]

What a *&$*.

When stuff like that happens i try really hard to stay calm and just back off and let them get on with driving like an idiot.  You know they will crash sooner or later.  It's just the poor innocent person who's pride and joy the write off that you feel sorry for.

But it's so hard to stay calm sometimes.  And when some fool in a crap car like that does it all you feel like doing is screaming past them with your fingers stuck to the window.

More annoying than these people are people (often old) who do stupid things and have no idea they have just cut you up or done something totally ridiculous.  Usually at roundabouts.

[Overseer]

yeah it depends..

i had a similar thing the day i picked my car  up where some f**kwit in a 1.6 focus (again..) cut me up coming of a roundabout on the way home.. i'd been driving for 1.5 hrs and was nearly home.. had to nuke the bugga when i got the chance.

i'm normally pretty chilled though..

on a similar note, i do see a lot of women on mobiles still these days, whereas the number of men i see has dropped apart from the odd rep really.

[vixteris]

i only get wound up with other drivers if there blocking me in. Like taxis waiting for there passengers just stop in the middle of a road and hoot, that really winds me up.

I rarely use the horn though unless its to let a good looking guy know he's gorgeous, or to say hello to a mate.  

If someone cuts me up I see it as a test of my driving skill and I like getting out of trouble - would be a very differnet story if we actually crashed tho  

[Speedydub]

yesterday, a bloke in a merc was tailgating me (on the same stretch of road i got pulled by the cops last week). Obvoiusly, to be safe, I drove slightly below the speed limit.  

Tailgaters are what I hate the most, worse since I got rear ended by a bird in a corsa last year

[Miacant]

actually yes.
 this girl in a black saxo came flying out of this slip road, and crossed straight over into our path... nutter... we couldn't believe it!

quite a lot of early 20s ish girls around here have VTRs and drive em like nutter

Overseer, thats the exact despriction of the car colour and girl maybe in her mid 20's. I just couldn't believe it at the time.

[Miacant]

Normally I try and stay cool. But this incident was very serious and I was really angry. I wouldn't have reacted any further if she had signalled to say she was sorry.

She didn't give a toss about what happened and that really got me fuming with anger.

[AdamB]

You can always judge when someone is about to do something stupid (i.e. Carve you up on the roundabout, etc) so I will just let the car get as close as I feel it safely can, then jump on the horn. It gives the other driver a huge fright, but rest assured they wont be so blind to other cars in the future, and realise there are other people driving around in their little world!!