Dave: Save yourself from tailgaters
Aug 14 2010 Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Dave: Save yourself from tailgaters
AFTER drunk and uninsured drivers, there is one type of motorist I cannot stand – the tailgater.
Impatient, aggressive, little morons who drive about one foot from your back bumper regardless of the traffic or speed.
In their tiny, warped minds they believe that by almost sitting on your behind you’ll go faster or pull over allowing them to shave a few seconds off their journey time.
Because a few seconds, it seems, matters to these pathetic individuals.
It doesn’t matter that if I have to stop so suddenly they’ll go straight into the back of me.
It never dawns on the tailgater that if I accelerate I’ll be putting myself and others at more risk.
That’s because the tailgater believes he/she far more important than me, you or indeed, anybody else.
An AA survey last year found tailgating to be the number one cause of motorist irritation.
The study found that 16% of motorway accidents were caused by it.
As annoying and dangerous as tailgating is it’s best to keep your cool in such situations.
Don’t try to teach the idiot a lesson by tapping the brakes or stopping him overtaking.
There’s plenty of sensible advice on how to deal with tailgaters at www.safespeed.org.uk/tailgate.html.
If someone chooses to drive like an idiot let them hurt themselves.
Just don’t let them take you down with them.
