Tailgaters

[Gasman]

Thought I would share a tailgating near miss/hit story that happened to me a little while ago.

Was heading home from work southbound on the M1 in the right hand lane. Heaps of traffic but was moving well,about 110-120k. I noticed a white sh*tbox something (80's Mazda or Toyota maybe?)noisy sh*t pipe up my arse. As the highway rounded the bend I noticed a couple hundred metres up all brakelights were on. I looked in my rear view and saw knobface still on my arse looked forward and the bloke infront was hard on the anchors. I knew dipsh*t in his pieca wouldnt stop with his scabby drum brakes, so I hit the skids and pulled hard right onto the shoulder where I stopped to watch nubcakes with all four wheels locked up skid to a stop beside me. I took the opportunity to yell "stay the f*%# back",Dunno if he heard me. He took off pretty quick into the next lane while I thanked my ABS and my split second decision to avert a highway pile up.

I have a nephew who is a terrible tailgater,I hate getting in his car with him (winey sv6) and always telling him that anything can happen.

Anyone else got a near hit/miss story/nubcake driving experiences to share?

[Henz]

A mate of mine had an experience. What he did crosses the line between right and wrong though but is funny nontheless.

So he was heading home, in his r 33. P plater in an sv6 ute sitting up his ass. He did a few brake tests but the sv6 kept coming back and tailgating him.

So he's coming round a bend doing about 70, and there's a truck turning right. He waited till the very last minute and swerved around the truck on the left. Bam, sv6 destroyed. Straight up the trucks ass. He went back, told the guy (who was balling at the time) not to tailgate and left.

[Gasman]

that'll learn him

[234Fpv]

I hate tailgaters. Dangerous, stupid and pointless.

[MX Dave]

Ive had people throw bottles at me after doing a couple warning brake tests, to think they are stupid enough to just to get close again.

I have just returned from indonesia.. now that place has some tailgaters aha!

[sexual harrassment panda]

When I stil had the rodeo I had a bloke in a magna was tailgating me on the hiway for about 30k's, even on long clear straights he wouldn't go around me. Tried slowing down a bit and speeding up a bit but he just stayed on my arse. Coming through a patch of scrub there was a blown truck tyre on the road in the middle of my lane. Rodeo diff just cleared it and all I saw in my mirrors was a magna with a folded front bar and the remnants of a truck tyre in there nice and deep like.

[turbo ute79]

Sideways that is gold.

[Never had any say Panda]

Henz's story made me chuckle a bit.. Swap the cars around and something very similar happened to a mate of mine in a skyline.. With an SS ute (Except it was my mate that ran up the arse of the truck).. Wanker was so intent on the taillights of the ute he wasn't paying attention to anything else..

My worst one isn't about tailgaters but about a farked old pensioner driving. Was heading home one afternoon.. 60 zone.. Rounded a bend onto a straight notorious for sun in your eyes about 5pm in the afternoon.. Reduced speed to about 40km/h as I couldn't see sh*t.. And found the towball of a Nissan Sigma where the driver had decided to stop in the middle of the road and wait for the sun to pass so she could see properly.. So after the initial bang and trying to figure out what went wrong I started to get out of my car.. Seatbelt off, door open, leg out and BANG I then got rear ended by a telstra truck.. I'll miss that car..

[PookeyMaster]

Lol, your story made me laugh Brenno. Not that I think it's a good thing your car was totalled though

I had a woman tailgating me on Centenary Drive/Homebush Bay Drive a few months back while talking on her phone. She was always close for several km's. Ahead the light was red so I started slowing down (maybe 3 cars in front of me I think) and just as I pull to a stop, I felt a soft 'thud'. I didn't think anything of it at the time but as I pulled away, my Towball took her bumper with me (I could hear it scraping the ground) :laughrolling:

I pulled over in the next side street to remove the offending object from my towball and laughed as the woman pulled up. As I left (and she waited for a towtruck, I think it had struck the radiator or something) I said to her "idiot driver lesson 1: don't tailgate". I got a fingered salute for my troubles

[Paulie2256]

I had a old bitch taligating me once in 80 zone. There was a bit of traffic so I had to get on the brakes. I could see her in the review ripping the hand brake up to try and stop. I just thought she was lucky pulling up without hiiting me using every set of brakes at her disposal. She did the same thing another 3 times.

Must be a tailgating pro pulling moves like that.

Too bad cause I really want a new rear bar.