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How much does being angry actually affect your driving?
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RedViking
Nord of the South
Are you a danger to others when you are angry?
RedViking
Nord of the South
What golf do you have?Too worried about damaging my car to take risks, so no
RedViking
Nord of the South
I'm imagining an MK2 or something, being floored, going full speed 80 down the high way.Can only be a GTI or R
I'm imagining an MK2 or something, being floored, going full speed 80 down the high way.
:crylaugh:
Golf 7. Takes off like a bomb. Have to say I've picked on the wrong car now and then and been left in the dust. Tried it on with a horrible bright blue BMW the other day, turned out to be an M2.
He must've been laughing.
RedViking
Nord of the South
Yes
Correct. All I want to do is drive on the highway at 120 and overtake without hindrance. Driving in CT is very different to driving in Jozi. There are more people in CT either driving old bangers, or mindlessly coasting in the fast lane 40 km/h below the limit just because there are fewer cars in that lane. I had a debate with a few friends of mine in CT. Their opinion was that 'Keep left, pass right' means 'Drive on the left hand side of the road, pass on the oncoming side of the road i.e Right Side' . They disagree that this principle applies to highways, claiming that they can choose any lane that they like.And yet you can’t control your road rage
It took 3 of us to convince him otherwise. I have to wonder what ratio of people bought their licenses down here.
I (Car A) undertake on the left of Car 'B' against my wishes, then change into the fast lane again in order to overtake Car 'C' who is ahead of both of us in the left lane and the next to be overtaken. Why do you think that this would involve speeding?
Joburg is very different. It's not uncommon for a car going 160km to flash a car travelling at 120km in the fast lane to move over. I try to stick to speed limits, but I am constantly being overtaken, and can see drivers getting annoyed. Seems Joburg has the opposite problem to Cape Town. Best bet is to just not travel in the fast lane if you don't intend on breaking speed limits.
You are the reason that driving in Joburg is so great. You actually use your rear view mirror. In CT, hardly anybody does. This is tolerable if you're in the slow lanes, but driving in the fast lane comes with this additional responsibility which everyone down here ignores.
If someone is doing 119km/h in the right lane and I am doing 120, that person should make their way out of the fast lane when it is safe to do so. This is the law. The slower driver is in the wrong if they are occupying the right lane unnecessarily.
However the game changes with your scenario. If someone is speeding up behind me at 160km/h and I'm doing 120, he is in the wrong because he is exceeding the speed limit. The rate of closure is too fast and sometimes difficult to see in your rear view mirror before he is already right behind you. If I spot this in time and I can find a way to get out of his way, naturally I will as per the keep left principle. However, I fully agree that this driver has no right to tailgate or hoot at you to get out of the way because this person is breaking the law. I think it is safe to say that you're getting out of the fast lane as a courtesy.
HavocXphere
Honorary Master
A lot. Definitely made some questionable decisions while being irritated
On the R45 going north on Saturday. I was travelling at 120km/hr and there were 4 cars behind, all going the same speed (there is Average Speed monitoring on this stretch). A guy in an old Mercedes goes past at least at 150km/hr, then swerves in front of me and jams on his brakes hard until we were all stopped dead. I managed to stop in time as did the car behind me but the 4th car behind drove into the back of the 3rd. As I get out, this Mercedes speeds off
The drivers of the 3rd and 4th cars are now irate and come running up to me swearing since there is plastic and glass all over the road. The driver behind me says he saw nothing, could not recall a Mercedes driving past, nothing at all and if we don't mind, he needs to get to Mykonos without delay. At that he drives off.
Fortunately the dashcam recorded everything, including the CF3**** licence plates of this Mercedes.
The SAPS at Vredenburg wrote everything down but declined to look at the dashcam recording and were not very interested. They suggested that no crime had been committed, the driver might have braked to avoid an animal crossing the road
I have heard of people overtaking you and braking hard to cause a collision. Is this a common occurance?
The drivers of the 3rd and 4th cars are now irate and come running up to me swearing since there is plastic and glass all over the road. The driver behind me says he saw nothing, could not recall a Mercedes driving past, nothing at all and if we don't mind, he needs to get to Mykonos without delay. At that he drives off.
Fortunately the dashcam recorded everything, including the CF3**** licence plates of this Mercedes.
The SAPS at Vredenburg wrote everything down but declined to look at the dashcam recording and were not very interested. They suggested that no crime had been committed, the driver might have braked to avoid an animal crossing the road
I have heard of people overtaking you and braking hard to cause a collision. Is this a common occurance?
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Were you in the far most right lane? When the other lanes sound like they were open? He was being a dick yes, but the law does state keep left pass right, so if the three of you were following the law, this incident probably wouldn't have happened. The two that were involved in the accident could ask you for the dashcam footage
It is a single lane road, nothing more and when I looked afterwards, there was a solid white line since it was up a hill. I gave the other drivers a business card. The rear car (Nissan Almeria) was badly smashed and the tail gate and canopy of the Ford bakkie were badly damaged.
The law can't do anything about it, but should the other 2 drivers claim against insurance and use your footage, you can bet your bottom dollar the insurance companies will recoup their costs by suing the Mercedes driver.