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Originally Posted by VApeople
I think that is what happened near me a few weeks ago.
I was driving south on Buena Vista at 35 mph in the right lane. When I got to the roundabout at lower Bailey Trail, I decreased my speed to 20 mph, went thru the the RAB, and then started to accelerate to 35 mph.
A car behind me in the right lane must have been annoyed at me, so he cut over to the left lane to get around me. Unfortunately for him, there was another car in the left and they collided. In my rear-view mirror, I saw them both pull off the road.
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That is a good story about a situation of impatience. My pet peeve is when I am in the right lane on a highway or interstate and I am going 5 MPH over the speed limit because that is what most of the traffic is doing - and then I see some clown show person racing up to me to "bumper tag" me. I think that maybe some of these people MUST ACTUALLY believe that they are SAFER by being as close as possible to the car in front of them. This MERELY makes me just want to SLOW down so that they will pass me because I feel SAFER with a clown like that in FRONT of me. I wonder if the police hand out many tickets for tailgating - I don't think so - I think they ignore it.
........And when I leave adequate space between my car and the car in front of me, invariably along comes another clown that thinks that they have a MISSION in life to fill that space in order to tailgate that car in front of me.
.........Here is something that I have observed. If you see a certain car that made one bad driving mistake of some kind - keep your eye on that car and likely if you stay behind him for about 5 miles - you will see them make ANOTHER mistake. They seem to repeatedly make mistake after mistake.