Road Rage

[Ace]

As the poll says, have you even been involved in road rage, either receiving or giving.

Firstly i have engaged in road rage, but only the odd finger and screaming some abuse. However since leaving wagga i dont bother, i show people my appreciation nowadays but dont real get worked up.


What sparked this thread was an incident that we say on the way back from the botanical gardens today.

We were on the M4 near the Northern Road exit i was in the fast lane sitting on about 115-120km/hr when i looked in my mirror and saw a hyundai Excel behind so i found a gap and moved into the middle lane, as i did this they slowed considerably. I was looking in my mirror at the time when i notice a falcon tradies ute right up there arse. I then concluded the excel had backed off to tell the ute to back off. Did this happen? Far from it!! The ute found the nearest gap in the middle lane, swerved into it drew along side the exel and then slammed them into the safety barrier on the inside of the westbound lanes. Now i am not sure if they contacted of if the violent swerving motion of the ute towards the people in the excel cause them to react and swerve away sending them straight into the saftey fence. Then to our amazement the ute just kept on trucking. We slowed down to get his number plate, but after a few minutes he pulled onto the hard shoulder and crawled along for a while before stopping. Very nasty indeed.

Now i have seen road rage before but never to that extent. Matt

[incisor]

but did you ring the police to report it?

not much use taking the number if you dont act on it...

[Ace]

Originally posted by incisor
but did you ring the police to report it?

not much use taking the number if you dont act on it...

We didnt get the rego number we slowed right down but he slowed down more than us so he never caught back up to us. We did ring Penrith police and gave them our details so in the even they needed another witness they could ring us. Matt

[disco_ute]

This happen about 10 years ago (damn I feel old) my mate and I were in his mums brand new XR6 cruising the streets of Melb chapel etc…. anyway we got a phone call to pick up another mate so we headed toward Caulfield and along the way we came to a set of lights and a brand new Camry with 4 blokes in it pulled up beside us anyway we got that look lights went green and we smoked them!!! A Camry wasn’t going to be a match for an XR6!!!! Got to the next set of lights same thing smoked them again but this time they over took us on the wrong side of the road we backed off as this was getting stupid. Pulled up 2 blocks from our mates house and they were in poll position and we pulled in to the left hand lane and had a laugh and look back at them, lights went green and once again SMOKED them but this time I think we ****ed them off…… they were right up our ass flashing lights honking horn arms out the windows etc as we drove for a bit we had lost interest and pulled up 1 block from our mates house and 3 of the guys got out and started bashing the god damn car!!!! I don’t know how but these meat heads didn’t think to open the doors so we had time to hit the central looking one guys on my side hit the window so hard he started to bleed!!! The lights went green and we took off!!! Let me tell you the chase was on!!! As we both went to school in the area we new the street quite well but when yr on yr push bike speed humps really don’t matter but at over 100kmh speed humps are like f*@king jumps!! We got this xr6 so air born it felt like we were in the air for minutes before we landed but we couldn’t shake these guys in the Camry… anyway we finally lost these guys after some fancy driving by my mate pulled into someone’s drive way turned the car off and we ducked. I think we were in the car for about 15 min laying low before we took off back to our mates house. Once we got there we parked the xr6 in his garage and sussed out the damage the driver and passenger doors were screwed and blood all over the pass window. We were made to pay the insurance excess and never allowed to drive the car again  this was about the worst thing that has happen to me on the roads… and i have never looked at a Camry in the same way :twisted: :twisted:

Mick

[Captain_Rightfoot]

It's a long story, but when I was a young teenager, I was in the passenger seat of a mates car and he got rammed for nothing in particular. The guy and his wife then got out and started beating into the car. unfortunately for them, a sargent from the dog squad was sitting at the nearby lights watching it all unford https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ Lucky for us 8O 8O

Anyway, it turned out that he was a friend of a friend of a friend 8O Apparently he arrived at a party at 3am (after the cops were finished with him) and told his mates that a couple of teenagers had been giving him a hard time :roll: :roll: :roll:

I guess that kind of taught me that you never know what is the mental state the person in the car next to you. So, I try and be very firm in my driving style, but at the same time very courteous (??) I never give anyone the finger or use the horn etc though.

Generally this works for me. However sometimes if someone p's me off I can be firmer with them than at other times so I picked the both option :wink: :wink:

Did that all make sense to anyone else out there? :oops: 8)

[hiline]

i think i'll keep all my reports to myself :oops: :oops: :oops:

there's been a few over the yrs :? :?


best one was a young<span style="color:red"> P</span>plate driver being really stupid
and nearly causing a accident :evil: :evil: :evil:

so i got out of my car https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ put my hand in his window :?

pulled his car keys out and threw them on the shops roof https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ :wink:

then i told him to think about his stupid driven next time 8) 8)

[disco_ute]

Originally posted by hiline
i think i'll keep all my reports to myself :oops: :oops: :oops:

there's been a few over the yrs :? :?


best one was a young<span style="color:red"> P</span>plate driver being really stupid
and nearly causing a accident :evil: :evil: :evil:

so i got out of my car https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ put my hand in his window :?

pulled his car keys out and threw them on the shops roof https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ :wink:

then i told him to think about his stupid driven next time 8) 8)

That is GOLD!!!

I have dont it too mates but only thrown the keys in to the back seat or the try of a ute but to throw his keys on the shop roof CLASSIC!!!!!!

[Captain_Rightfoot]

Originally posted by hiline
i think i'll keep all my reports to myself :oops: :oops: :oops:

there's been a few over the yrs :? :?


best one was a young<span style="color:red"> P</span>plate driver being really stupid
and nearly causing a accident :evil: :evil: :evil:

so i got out of my car https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ put my hand in his window :?

pulled his car keys out and threw them on the shops roof https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ :wink:

then i told him to think about his stupid driven next time 8) 8)
I knew there was a reason why the keys go in the left side of the column on the fender :oops: :oops:

[dullbird]

my'ns not really road rage but a guy that really cheesed me off

i was doing 80 up a hill (the speed limit)..........and my disco isn't the fastest when it comes to hill climbs......

this guy cam up behind me and he was traveling soooooo close to me i could only see the top of his windscreen in my rear view mirror and could only see his rear quater in my side mirror..........

i lifted my hand to sort of say why are you driving like a nob......

he persisted to travel what i call dangerously close as i would imagine he had no breaking distance between us......

so becasue we were the only two on the road i very gently lifted off and we both travel up the very long hill at 45kph.........

we we got to the top i put down my window and gave him a hand gesture as he past me.......

funny he couldn't look me in the face when he passed.......

i understand people need to get places and i must infuriate some people as i do tend to try and stick to the speed limit mainly becasue i'm on p's and i don't want to get caught speeding (this was also on a bank holiday double points if you get caught)

but when people are that impatient that i feel they are putting my life at risk as well as there own it p**s*s me off.

dullbird

[Farnarkle]

The worst place for road rage is the motorway from the Gold Coast to Brisbane. Seems to endow a lot of drivers with a frontal lobotomy. They see the 4 lanes and go crazy - I've seen cars fighting over the fast lane and there's 3 others vacant :roll: At peak times it's hopeless even in one of the slower lanes they pull up right behind you a by insinuation demand that you get over to let them by. I'm gettin cranky just thinkin about it. I have driven in all states and that has got to be the worst.

[broonski]

Originally posted by dullbird
this guy cam up behind me and he was traveling soooooo close to me i could only see the top of his windscreen in my rear view mirror and could only see his rear quater in my side mirror..........

i've had that done to me many a time...

i always like it when they do it in the day time, cause i just flick on my parkers (so it looks like i'm braking) and watch them panic and wack on the anchors! :twisted: (only when there's no-one else around of course, i don't want to cause accidents)

well, i've been on the recieving end and i've dished it out...

but it's only ever the minor stuff (giving them the one fingered salute, or maybe hurling some abuse out the window) i haven't witnessed anything extreme either... (yeah, i'm boring... https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ ) i have had other drivers try to spit on my car though...

cheers,
bryce

[Bytemrk]

I had an incident... probably 20 years ago.. that still makes me giggle a bit..

I was driving a hiace :oops: :oops: ( It wasn't mine ok!..)

A guy behind me got all upset because he felt I cut him off [After I had indicated and moved right in front of him so I could get into the turning lane - tonnes of room IMHO ]

Anyway he started yelling and screaming at me... so I did what most mid twenty's guys would do...... I flipped him the bird out my window... and didn't really give a rats...


Next thing I know he is standing next to the open window yelling at me..... so I kindly told him to go and do something I am fairly sure is a physical impossibility..


The mongrel threw a punch at me up through the open window - which kind of ****ed me off. :evil:

I swung the door open to get out and have a go...

I hit him fair in the face with a hiace door and knocked him to the ground... :oops: :oops: I really didn't mean to do it....

But the turning light turned green... so off I went.:!:


Never saw him again...... but spent the next 6 months waiting for the cops to visit :?


The moral to the story..........dipsticks are nothing new on the road....


Mark

[Ace]

Penrith Police rung today, i wasnt sure if the guy in the ute hit the Excel but it turns out he full on slammed into them and pushed them into the fence, and he did stop, 3km later.

I was driving home one friday night from Lithgow to Rylstone along the mudgee road. I was approaching Cullen Bullen (it was raining) at about 110km/h and this guys comes flying up behind me and sits mere centimetres off my arse. I ignored him and let him pass on the other side of town. I then sped up and did the same to him, he sped up more i sped up more and so on. We then came to the train crossing at Ben Bullen which is a 90 degree turn to the left and then an instant 90 degree right hander on the other side of the lines. Now bare in mind it was raining. I had purchased some flashy performance tyres that stuck like **** to a blanket and had pretty good suspension in the commodore he was driving some ****ty front wheel drive thing. Anyway as he hit the turn at 80 he made it across the lines but slid off onto the gravel on the outside of the turn, he made it back on infront of me where he promtly stopped at an angle across the road, it stopped and waited, he sat there so i drew along side him to see a white faced man with red knuckles stuck to the steering wheel. I waved politely and drove off. I think he got the message. Matt

[VladTepes]

Definitely on the receiving end.

Was going home via the local 3 km long causeway / bridge thingy which narrows from 2 lanes to one at the exit (yeah some a genius thought of that !) when a commodore came flying alongside me in the inside lane (the one that has to merge back in to my lane). He leaves it til the last minute and then realises he's not going to make it, and slips in behind me.

After we get off the bridge he puts the pedal to the metal and roars off ahead.

and that, I thought, was that.

HOWEVER

About 600 metres further up the road I slow to turn the corner and there's this big islander looking bloke standing next to a white commodore and as I pass he throws this ****** great rock at the Rangie ! It bounces off the door, leaving a small impression. Luckily nothing major but it could have been far worse !

I was pretty ****ed off (and shaken up) by it BUT I didn't have his number plate so I did a u-turn and drove back past on the other side of the road to get the number.

As I drove past (and pretty quickly I might add) I saw another big bloke (obviously they were together) with a heap of chain wrapped aroud his fist and some swinging from the end - come charging at me screaming something that I didn't understand but figures wasn't polite.

And this is all despite the fact that both me and my mate were in our Uniforms (those of you who know me, know I work for the government) and that would have been plainly visible to them.

After dropping my mate off at his place, I drove straight up the cop shop and lodged a complaint / incident report.

They asked if there was any damage to people or property and as there wasn't really they couldn't do much about it. They looked up the plate number on their computer and while unsurprisingly they wouldn't give me the bloke's address - they did tell me a suburb and it was nowhere near us so chances were I wouldn;t "run into" these characters around the place. They said (and maybe they even did) they'd send a car to do a drive by (unfortunately not the US gangland style) of the guy's house and check things out. Oh, the constable also said that she couldn't confirm these blokes were "known to police". https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

The moral :?:

Well, this isn't one. It's just a story of stuff that happened. :roll:

[MacMan]

The ONLY time I have dished it out was while on a motorcycle. 6.30pm traffic outbound down Royal Parade. Some numbnut was stuck behind a car that was trying to turn right at Optus Oval, and he had sheepishly nosed out to the point that he was now blocking both lanes with his car. I was playing cautious being on the bike and all and I slowed to let him in and he just sat there like a shag on a rock. His missus was in the car too, and they were both looking at me while I waited for them to go. I flashed my light to indicate THEY should go and waited another 2 seconds and they did nothing.

Finally I got sick of waiting, and I could feel the people behind me getting ****ty so I went past and shook my head. Now minding my own business, Mr Knobjockey has decided to move and has sped up to pass ME on the inside. I look at him to try and work out what he is going to do, and he AND the Mrs are yelling their heads off with windows down. Then he tried to run me into the oncoming traffic. I've had this happen before and instantly checked the mirrors, worked out that there was enough room behind me and hit the anchors as hard as I could all in about half a second.

That was it. This ***** had tried to kill me for being polite! I knew that he would be stopping at the next lights and timed it so that I just gently cruised up between him and another car. I WAS going to put the side stand down and get off but thought better of it. The bike I ride is a trailbike with raised suspension and a raised seat, so my 6'6" in leathers and a helmet must have looked seriously imposing on top of it. I leant down and gave him a spray through his open window before he knew what was happening. The blood drained from his face and he went to wind up the window as fast as he could. To my satisfaction, the last thing I managed to yell was at his missus - "does it feel good to faaaarrrrrk a hero like this dickhead every night???". He's lucky he stayed in his car...

I have no problem using the horn when someone does something stupid - I genuinely believe in making a point and moving on with life and if nobody points out stupidity or self centred driving it goes unchecked. However, if that kind of thing ever happens to me again, I reckon I will try Ray's trick. Live and let live, but make some people push their cars - it's safer.

[p38arover]

Five years back I was coming home from the City on Parramatta Rd. Iwas on my bike when this bloke of Middle Eastern appearance in a WRX in front tossed a lit fag out the window and it hit me. So I pulled up beside him at the next lights and had a word.

As soon as the lights changed and we moved off he tried to force me into the oncoming traffic. At that point Parra Rd is narrow and it was peak hour so it was impossible to lane split to get out of the way. He tried several time to run me off the road or into oncoming traffic.

When I got to Penrith, I went to the police and reported the driver (and his car load of ME mates). The car rego was "WASNME"

The cops wouldn't say if he was known but I made the report to ensure that the so and so was known if he did it to anyone else.

I hate people who toss stuff out of cars. Yesterday my wife was riding her push bike across the M4 bridge over the Nepean River at Penrith. She was on the separate footpath going in the opposite direction to the traffic when some hero tossed a can out of the car travelling at, probably, 110km/h. It hit her in the chest. What if it had hit her in the face? What if it had been a bottle?

Ron

[BMac]

I had a guy behind me ( with his family in the car ) give be a blast with the horn because I didn't take off from the lights the instant they changed to green. 100 yards down the he was able to pass and as he did, me and the kids gave him a big wave and smile like he was our best friend from way back.

Subtle hey https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Bruce.

[ATH]

I remember some years back (well a lot of years actually) I was sitting at a junction in Perth waiting to turn left and my view to the right was obstructed by a truck. So I waited and the bloke behind in an old Holden started blowing his horn and shouting at me to go.
I did, when the truck started going.
The bloke behind accelerated, swerved past me and shook his fist then cut me up so I signalled him to pull over. I pulled in behind and walked up to him and asked what his problem was.

"I was telling you to get as move on" he said and then shouted "You ****** pommy bastard, do as you're told when you're out here" and poked me in the chest!
Now I've been called a pommy bastard by a lot of people but never poked at the same time and I let him have it so hard I swear his feet left the ground.
He hit the boot of his car, bleeding nose, broken teeth and slumped to the ground.
I looked over to the shopping centre we were opposite and there was about 6 drivers out of their cars watching so I picked my watch up which had flown off when I thumped him. got back in the car and disappeared asap.
Certainly not proud of doing it but sometimes the past and other things get to you and you react automatically to a threat.

Straight to the place the cook worked and gave her the keys telling her if the cops asked, she'd had the car all day.
I rarely lose my temper but that was too much.
Nowadays I grit my teeth and give idiots (mostly drivers of inferior vehicles) a wave just to let them know they've been seen doing something stupid.
I think I'm too old to do anything else and wouldn't anyway.
Alan.

[George130]

Had a guy try o run me off the road 2 couple of weeks back. 8O
P plated commondor vs Dfender 130 https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/
Started becuse hes was so fur up m tail pipe I couldn't see him through the side mirros and only from his roof back out the rear view mirror. I slowed and he didn't back off, There was nothing around and it was also a great overtaking point :roll: . Since ths didn't ork I turned my revesing spotties on and next thing you know he is on the anchors swerving out from behind me then flat to the floor as he passes he tried to ram me. Then e cut back infont of me and hit the brakes in cloud of smoke. Missed him by mllimeters but a leftin a hury when I turned all my lights on and just reved my engine a little.

Stupid thing is If he wsn't tailgating then he coud have been round e in seconds and gone.

[Captain_Rightfoot]

Originally posted by George130
Had a guy try o run me off the road 2 couple of weeks back. 8O
P plated commondor vs Dfender 130 https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/
Started becuse hes was so fur up m tail pipe I couldn't see him through the side mirros and only from his roof back out the rear view mirror. I slowed and he didn't back off, There was nothing around and it was also a great overtaking point :roll: . Since ths didn't ork I turned my revesing spotties on and next thing you know he is on the anchors swerving out from behind me then flat to the floor as he passes he tried to ram me. Then e cut back infont of me and hit the brakes in cloud of smoke. Missed him by mllimeters but a leftin a hury when I turned all my lights on and just reved my engine a little.

Stupid thing is If he wsn't tailgating then he coud have been round e in seconds and gone.
George, it looks to me that your typing isn't keeping up with the new broadband https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Please don't forum rage me :oops: :oops:

[DiscoTDI]

Had a run in with an off duty police officer in my courier days, basically I was driving down the ipswich motorway and this numbnut infront of me was doing 80kmh in the fast lane beside another vehicle doing 80kmh (100kmh zone in those days). After sitting behind him for about 5 minutes and figuring out he had no intention to pass just to agrivate traffic I moved closer flashhed the high beams and hit the horn and gestured to get in the left and let the rest of the world go by. Well old mate had a spac attack jumping up and down in the drivers seat and waving his middle finger out the windows at me. At this stage all I cared about is he decided to get out of the way and I passed him at 100kmh without breaking the law (Actually true for once) thinking at least the nut job is behind me now. Well I was wrong wasnt I, As we turned into granard road and got mingled in the traffic it happened to be gridlocked so old mate decided to get out of his vehicle and try and look tough by flashing his badge all over the place.

Long story short he requested that I pull over and we have a talk, I politly told him to go and get stuffed and that if he decided to join law enforcment that he should possibly lead by example and not break the law and be courteous on the road and not aggrevate people so he could prance about with his pretty little badge in front of everyone and that he should know better. He was less than impressed and took a kick at my van as I drove off. I yelled out that a criminal act and if you stand there long enough someone will put you out of your misery.


I very much doubt he would have lasted long on the force

[George130]

Originally posted by Captain_Rightfoot+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Captain_Rightfoot)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-George130
Had a guy try o run me off the road 2 couple of weeks back. 8O
P plated commondor vs Dfender 130 https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/
Started becuse hes was so fur up m tail pipe I couldn't see him through the side mirros and only from his roof back out the rear view mirror. I slowed and he didn't back off, There was nothing around and it was also a great overtaking point :roll: . Since ths didn't ork I turned my revesing spotties on and next thing you know he is on the anchors swerving out from behind me then flat to the floor as he passes he tried to ram me. Then e cut back infont of me and hit the brakes in cloud of smoke. Missed him by mllimeters but a leftin a hury when I turned all my lights on and just reved my engine a little.

Stupid thing is If he wsn't tailgating then he coud have been round e in seconds and gone.
George, it looks to me that your typing isn't keeping up with the new broadband https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Please don't forum rage me :oops: :oops:[/b][/quote]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/
Just my usual skill.

[blitz]

can i say I stopped road rage once?

I pulled out onto a dual lane a couple of years ago a car was comming in the same lane about 300 meters back - heaps of time I thought, I sped up to 80 the speed limit but this car kept getting closer. When he was about 1/2 a cars length behind me he started to flash his lights including spotlights then left them on. so I indicated to him to pullover which he did.

I grabbed my hammer jumped out, smashed his spot lights before he got out of the car then told him his lights were faulty and I fixed them for him.

He had his door half open slammed it shut and took off, made me feel much better.

Blythe

[muddymech]

...and they say driving is fun.
road rage was a lot worse in uk and lucky for me not seen much out here, i try to keep out of it, i really dont want abroken nose or dented car for some moron who can not control there themsleves.

[Ace]

My head teacher was in sydney, parramata road i think he said and was just heading up the street minding his own business, he was stopped at a red light, but didnt realise he was in a left lane must turn left lane, but not knowing the area and knowing if he turned he would have gotten lost he stayed at the lights when the green arrow told him to go so he could go straight ahead when the main lights went green. By this time a car full of Lebanese guys in a sports car pulled up behind him and started ramming his car and screaming out the window. Now he was in the wrong i know, but this isnt really called for. He got that last laugh though cause they were in some Jap rice burner thing and all they were ramming was the towbar on his rodeo. https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

[Ace]

2 more incidents i had forgotten about.

The first one i was a passenger.

We were in our old ford fairmont wagon coming back from sydney with a car load of 7. We were just starting the climb down Mt Victoria when we came up on a slow truck so dad checked his mirror and pulled out, no problem there. Once we were along side the truck this guy appears from nowhere behind us and stands on his horn and screams abuse at dad. Once passed dad pulled in and let him go by, he then parked diagonally across both lanes and stops dead in the road, trucks were locking up behind us car going everywhere. He then grabs a steering wheel lock and comes up to the car. Calling dad a ****ing dickhead etc etc saying we nearly killed him. He then slams the club lock on the bonnet got in his car and screamed off at the speed of sound. We stopped in Lithgow and gave the cops his rego details.

Second incident i was driving. I was heading out of Rylstone to go to my (now) ex girlfriends house. Just out of town you used to go through a dip and the about 100m later there was a reasonable sharp right hander. As i rounded the corner there was a toyota corona on my side of the road (totally) he had swung wide into my lane to take the corner at well above the speed limit. I hit the ancors and only just missed a head on. I then chucked a U-turn and followed him into town where he had stopped in the main street (which was packed with people) i got out of the car abuse the **** out of him making sure if he pulled a stunt like that again and didnt kill me i would kill him and left. When i got to my girlfriends house 20 mins out of town her mother already knew what had happened, the woman working in the supermarket had rung her when i left. Gotta love small towns. https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

[DiscoTDI]

I remember seeing one in moorooka in brisbane years ago where a bloke was chasing another one through the traffic and when he caught up to him started swinging a club lock at his car while he was driving, nearly caused a pile up :roll:

[George130]

Years ago when out with a mate we were run off the road by some guys we know from school, They were di@% H#$%^. Seing we knew them and liked them as much as they liked us we gave chase. Next thing you know its 20 minutes later of trading paint and pushing eachother up kerbs. At least we had an old bomb and could fix it ourselves. Their nice shiny car was still damaged 2 months later. Also heard they got into heaps of stife by the old man when he saw what they had done to the car.

These days I never get out of the car unless to offer help and i don't stop if they want me to. Very few people pick on the Fender though. I also try hard to appologise when I know I have done something daft.