Game of chicken between cars and 44T

Yesterday on the M3 near Southampton I saw a car playing silly buggers with an Artic , basically trying to impede its progress by brake checking and pulling into its lane to stop it being overtaken.
Does this happen a lot? Do cars really not know how difficult it is to see out of a truck (The car was coming from the trucks nearside and parking it under the windscreen)
Or who will come out worse in a collision?

Care in the community has a lot to answer for, you’d to be in need of help to do this.
Ask any copper what the results are of such a conflict and he’ll immediatly reply there’s only one winner.

It’s rare here thankfully but if what is posted on youtube is true it appears to be a regular thing in the good old USA, often resulting in stoved in rear ends of cars, sometimes they get spun out violently.

Juddian:
stoved in rear ends of cars

There is…

Nothing more satisfying than this on Ytube.

Glass everywhere, panel-work dented/destroyed, culprit humiliated and I’m sat in a comfy chair at home watching it all unfold with a cold beer in my hand.

It’s probably satisfying when you have a smashed car at the side of the road and you point out to the driver that they’ll be catching the bus tomorrow, after the long walk home, while you’re going to be picked up by the company and all the while you’re getting paid, then you’re driving the car home you have left in the carpark

stu675:
Does this happen a lot? Do cars really not know how difficult it is to see out of a truck

A lot? Depends on the definition of “a lot”, but I’ve certainly experienced this kind of embuggerance numerous times. A similar variation is the driver who had been held up my you (for legitimate reasons) who performs a dangerous overtake then brake checks you to show his frustration, partly at being held up and partly because he has a miniscule “manhood”.

They don’t care about what we can see, nor how fast we can stop, it’s just the vehicular equivalent of stamping their little foot, like the driver who, when you’re indicating to move over in traffic, immediately accelerates to eliminate the gap you’re going for. :unamused:

There was far less of this 30 or 40 years ago.

try driving up the m11/a1 at night you will see all sorts of things on almost a nightly basis especialy if there is roadworks

lost count of the amount of cars that sit at 45 in the inside lane then speed up to 56 when you go to overtake them and slow back down soon as you pull in behind them. even if another driver slows down infront of them so they have to let you past i have seen several over take only to do it again.

yourhavingalarf:

Juddian:
stoved in rear ends of cars

There is…

Nothing more satisfying than this on Ytube.

Glass everywhere, panel-work dented/destroyed, culprit humiliated and I’m sat in a comfy chair at home watching it all unfold with a cold beer in my hand.

I agree. Caravans in distress is my personal favourite.

Its a daily occurrence…

People are either ignorant or too stupid, at the danger they are putting themselves in!!!

Anyone here managed to send a car into the cones going down to one lane? I still haven’t managed it yet.

md1987:
Anyone here managed to send a car into the cones going down to one lane? I still haven’t managed it yet.

Yes. M4 when it only went just past Heathrow. 3.30 am Cones bringing it down to one lane, MGB came from nowhere (no lights) and swerved in front of me. Ended up somersaulting the cones. never worked out that he wasn’t badly injured, let alone killed.

I had a situation not so long ago. M6 south going past J7. I was being overtaken and a van came down the slip road at about 40mph. I had nowhere to go so I did actually start braking to let him in front of me but he bottled it and slammed on. He couldn’t dive to the left as a car was undertaking him. I watched in my left mirror and he nearly got squashed between my trailer and the car undertaking him.

Well, he wasn’t going to stand for that. He caught up to me quite quickly, proving he had much more acceleration than he bothered using on the slip road. He overtook my cab by a few feet then gently slowed down and sat at the side of my trailer waiting until we got to the M5 merge where he assumed I’d want to pull out. I’d slowed right down by this point due to vehicles in front and he slowed down with me even though his lane was clear. I just sat there and did nothing while he wasted his time. I’m paid by the hour and can only thank these people for boosting my income.

Anyway, off we trot towards J9 and he’s still glued to the side of me. Waiting for his big chance to screw me over when I need to pull out. I started indicating left, went right to the end of the off slip at J9 and dived down the slip road at the last minute, even though I didn’t need to get off. I looked over to him as I moved over and his passenger looked over to me. They’d not looked until now. I waved and smiled at him and he gestured at me to suggest I was a word not fit for reprint on this site.

His chance to do me over was gone and I can only imagine how angry that made him. I earned a few extra pennies seeing as we’re paid by the minute so it was all good.

Bearing in mind if it looks, flies and quacks like a crash for cash scam it probably is.Increasingly seeing loads of different clearly staged scenarios.Often involving trying to create side swipe situations by speed matching at entry slips and even worse baiting drivers onto an overtake which these scumbags then try to deliberately foil by accelerating.

you was going north not south… :wink:

md1987:
Anyone here managed to send a car into the cones going down to one lane? I still haven’t managed it yet.

But of a tag team effort, car comes hooning past me, tried to do the RM artic in front as well. Got about level with the catwalk then had to bail out. BMW Emergency braking flashers on and cones everywhere. Box office seat view :laughing: :laughing: Was at the new roundabout on the A30 by Basingstoke golf club. On diversion because the A34 was shut.

Fuzrat:

md1987:
Anyone here managed to send a car into the cones going down to one lane? I still haven’t managed it yet.

But of a tag team effort, car comes hooning past me, tried to do the RM artic in front as well. Got about level with the catwalk then had to bail out. BMW Emergency braking flashers on and cones everywhere. Box office seat view :laughing: :laughing: Was at the new roundabout on the A30 by Basingstoke golf club. On diversion because the A34 was shut.

Nice one, like you say great view from your seat too lol

m.a.n rules:
you was going north not south… :wink:

Don’t know if I’m coming or going :astonished:

md1987:
Anyone here managed to send a car into the cones going down to one lane? I still haven’t managed it yet.

No but I once forced a car to stay on the M6 at Spaghetti when he tried some absolutely ridiculous late manoeuvre to get off :smiley:

I wasn’t gonna help him with it and no one behind did either. I can only imagine his face when he got to J5 and there’s no off ramp :smiley:

maybe play with them a bit but ■■■■ letting it get to the point of any collision

sometimes it’s obvious but determining if it’s ignorance or arrogance isn’t always clear cut

the obvious ones that are trying to stop you from lane changing etc…let them, often you’ll end up no worse off than if they just let you over

Terry T:
I once forced a car to stay on the M6 at Spaghetti when he tried some absolutely ridiculous late manoeuvre to get off :smiley:

I wasn’t gonna help him with it and no one behind did either. I can only imagine his face when he got to J5 and there’s no off ramp :smiley:

Likewise at the A1south /M18 junction the car ended up staying on the A1, and it’s 7.5 miles to the next junction at Blyth and 7.5 miles back

md1987:
Anyone here managed to send a car into the cones going down to one lane? I still haven’t managed it yet.

My most memorable, and satisfying, effort was a fully blinged up pallet network style hooligan, who tried to beat me into the roadworks, I think on the M6, one evening. He was struggling to get past me and obviously didn’t have enough speed to get past before the cones. Desperate to get into the sizable gap in front of me (:mrgreen: ), he started fl ashing his numerous spotlights. Seeing him pulling smoke to avoid running into the cones did make me smile.

I’d like to take this opportunity to sincerely apologize for my childish, and out of character, behaviour on that occasion.