Has anyone been the victim of road rage at night?

Question

If so, what happened?

Answer 1

Yes, i was driving the speed limit, in the snow i might add, so i should have been goin slower, i had a person tailgating me that came outta no where, then they passed me!!! but thats not all, they slowed way down, i was about 2 carlengths back, and they spiked theyre brakes, i hit mine, my car went diaganol, then they started goin cuz they must have saw me almost wreck, then i straitened out and when i got to the light i called their license plate number in...i will tolerate ppl driving fast in normal conditions, but not driving fast then slowing to wreck someone in the snow!!!!

Answer 2

Yeah, just the other night, actually, some to55er started an altercation coming out of a leisure park at night - the missus was driving. Anyhow, she got a bit hacked off with his verbals and hand signals and accelerated hard to race up behind him along the road. He stopped his car and got out, making like he was the Terminator or something, so I jumped out, eyeballed him, gave him a gobfull of choice profanities and gave him the option of F*cking off or getting it. He looked so scared that it was hard keeping a straight face. Still, if it stops him doing it again....

He actually just gave up and went away without a fight, the big pu55y. Ha ha! (Although I am a big lad and I do have over a decade of martial arts training behind me - but he didn't know that)

Answer 3

yes, day and night, frequently, as a proffesional driver I seem to be a loony magnet, and this is the month when they come out of the woodwork.
Christmas brings out the worst in the impatient fringe, more people on the road, first month of summer, (Australia.)
pressure on at work to have everything finnished by the 24th, and more catching up with friends to share a drink or 2.

Luckily the size of my vehicle, and when they get close they realise Im not exactly small, tends to make them back down,
they also quickly realise that I have radio communications with the police, and may have a weapon in my cab.

My suggestions for protecting yourself in this situation are:

Keep a pen and paper handy to write down their rego, make and model of vehicle.
Keep a charged mobile phone at hand, even without credit you can call an emergency number.
Make sure they can see you using the phone, police will often keep you on the line.
remain calm, they are looking for a reaction, if they don't get one, they start to wonder why, usually believing that you may have a hidden asset.
Dont play the blame game, refuse to speak to them, at the most tell them the police are on the way and will sort it out.

it's all bluff, I dont carry any weapon, I weigh 99 kilos and stand 5'10", yet my my 55 kilo, 5' wife often picks a playfight just to show the kids that she can beat me up, in 23 years i've never managed to beat her.

Answer 4

Only the other day, I was driving a very large truck and slowly accelerating away from traffic lights towards a narrowing road section.

The boy racer in a Subaru thought he could nip past, and might even have managed it but for the fact that his friend was having so much fun shouting abuse at me; just for being there.

The driver....obviously trying to impress, threw the car in front of my truck within inches, but not before totally misjudging it and swiping his rear end into the front wheel of the truck.

I felt a litle jolt, but he hobbled off with bits of car graunching along the tarmac!

I stopped and wiped the bits of paint/plastic from my wheel-nuts.

Hilarious!

Answer 5

Yes some years ago I had just bought my car (2nd hand) and driving home one night a Gold Metallic Mercedes overtook me and stopped and a guy jumped out and came towards the car looking furious. I locked the doors and started to back up and he was bashing on the window and yanking on the door handle and screaming his head off at me. I was so scared I wet myself.
I managed to reverse fast enough to lose him.
I got his number and reported it to the police and the plates were false. The police told me to remove all the stickers on my car and put different ones on as they thought it may have been a case of mistaken identity.

I have never forgotten it and now carry a Mace aerosol in the car (a different one)!

Answer 6

All the time day and night, but it doesn't bother me, it's actually comical some of the faces these people pull it's like a gurney competition, and they are so frustrated, i just laugh and give them a wink, I'm like Mr Magoo every body around me is up tight near Misses, carnage every where and i oblivious to it, i just potter on, I'm really going to have to try and be a better driver, but there's some sadistic humour i get from driving these short fused people up the wall, it was probably me with my lights on full beam earlier, sorry wink.

Answer 7

I had a fool drive up on me at night on a road I was unfamiliar with, (I was doing approximately 50 mph)
He flashed his lights and blew his horn at me, so I slowed down to 45...40...35....30....
He eventually made a right turn... but he had plenty of time to come around me...

Answer 8

yes you get prats all the time thinking they own the road, the main thing that pisses me off is people driving up your *** i give them a few warning brake these days and if they persist i whack my anchor's on all ways seems to work,
being that your insurance all ways blames the guy who hit you up the ***

Answer 9

Yes, my boyfriend beat the hell out of him on the side of the road.

Answer 10

I had to beat him with his own shoe.