Thread: How to avoid road rage

would work in Russia, but 20km down the road here, you'd be face down on the bitumen with a police officer stripping your car trying to find the gun!

Originally Posted by Sprint

would work in Russia, but 20km down the road here, you'd be face down on the bitumen with a police officer stripping your car trying to find the gun!

maybe but in Russia it might have been the off duty "police" waving the gun!!!!

LOL, i'd love to do that to some ******* on the road. Would make them think twice. I think alot of people are very lucky when they carry on like that on the road. It only takes one time to do it to the wrong person and anything can happen.

We were on the M4 a few years back and a hyundai excel was sitting about 100m behind me in the fast lane, we were moving past traffic in the middle lane steadily. I looked in the mirror and the excel slowed right down. Then I saw a blue falcon ute right up his arse. My guess is that the guy in the ute didnt think the guy in the excel was moving quick enough. The excel just kept slowing down until the ute swerved violently into the middle lane, drew along side the excel and slammed into the side of him like something out of a movie. The excel was pushed into the wire gaurd raid which stopped the excel dead in its tracks. The guy in the ute kept driving but slowed right down. We rang Penrith Police Station but 50 motorists had already done it so we left our contact number and kept driving.

One of the coppers rang us a few days later and said that the guy in the ute was found with his head on the steering wheel stopped at the next off ramp. I wasnt sure of the ute had hit the excel and thought maybe he swerved towards the excel and their reaction to swerve the other way was what caused them to hit the barrier but the cop said the ute made contact with them when he swerved at them.

Some people need to chill out. I used to get angry with idiots on the road cutting me off, but I just smile and give them space now, not worth getting upset, doesnt achieve anything, they'll always be an idiot.

I try to drive curtiously, defensively and descisively. about Once a fortnight to a month a lunatic seems to think I have slighted them in some way. Strangely enough it is almost always much smaller cars?

Until I got the hang of city driving some of it while the reaction was not justified, was my error.

But give me a landy for city, rural or of road driving any day

I find that being in a biggish 4WD is enough generally. Very few people do stupid things around me. On the other hand, when I'm driving a car then everybody else becomes 50x more aggressive, with changing lanes into me, driving right up my ass, cutting in front, yelling out the window even! - a hole range of things that they just dont do when Im in the 4WD.

Hi,
about 25 years ago we owned an old yellow volvo 240D, and the kids had bought me a 'volvo driver's hat'.
It was a brilliant car, it seemed to have a 30m force field surrounding it that was nearly as effective as the siren and flashing lights on our local fire truck.
cheers

Originally Posted by Slunnie

I find that being in a biggish 4WD is enough generally. Very few people do stupid things around me. On the other hand, when I'm driving a car then everybody else becomes 50x more aggressive, with changing lanes into me, driving right up my ass, cutting in front, yelling out the window even! - a hole range of things that they just dont do when Im in the 4WD.

I have noticed that as well now I have bought a car for the first time. People seem much more willing to tailgate, cut in front, and much less willing to let you merge when you are driving a car.

Agreed with Slunnie and IsuzuBen
Driving a cumbersome looking, silly tyred juggernaut seems to have a calming effect on other drivers. Getting cut off in my 110 is when someone pulls into the 80 metre gap in front of me right up the preeding car's cloaca, well away from me. People put their blinkers on to change lanes, see some tyre or 'nudge' bar, and make a better decision.
I must admit, I have used this special talent to my advantage, primarily in car parks when drivers sit and wait for a spot to appear. They move when I approach. Fun times.