other side of the coin
Why do people tail gate?
Is it to get a good look inside my car?
is it because they dont know what the 2 second gap is?
is it because they are textin their mates?
is it because they think by doing it then there may just be a bit more room for one extra car per 100 to squeeze its way on to the road if the gap is less.
Do they not know what a safe distance is?
am I the only one to get annoyed with them?
I did see a Police car tailgating someone the other day (A38 in Bristol) not a hint of blue light or siren. are they just as bad?
unless that is a sarcastic comment then you have compleatly missed the point.
none of the ones listed (except the second one) ever ammount to anything.
the reason they are tailgateing is because you are blocking the road.
lane hogging on motorways and doing 45 on single carradgeways is unacceptable. however the morons who do these speeds are convinced that they are totally safe drivers and are so arrogant that they take a hollier than thou attitude toward other drivers.
If they are flashing and tailgateing its because they are telling you to speed up or move over. this is not intimidation because they have no other way to tell you and its not reasonable to expect them to be held up!
of course due to the arrogant hollier than thou attitude of most slow drivers they will never see it this way no matter how many times they are told and how many problems they cause.
also a note about people who slam the breaks on (hard) for tailgaters
you probobly think that they are at fault if you slam the breaks on. this is not technically true. if you deliberatly slam the breaks on you break the chain of causation between their tailgateing and the accident makeing them free of any liability, you on the other hand are liable to harsher punishments than they could have been because you aceted with intent to cause an accident and with deliberate recklessness, this means you are looking at criminal damage and mansalughter if someone dies, not causeing death by dangerous driving which teands to net you a few months in prison, manslaughter which will get you 5-10 years. the only reason you will get away with it in practice (and leave the other person with road law liability) is because it is difficult to prove someone slammed the breaks on with intent to cause an accident