admittedly frightening encounter today
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2023 6:33 pm
a day out planned and heading for the M6 motorway (spaghetti junction)
there is a strange three way junction just before going do to the motorway.. waited for traffic to clear and pulled off onto the lefthand lane of the two lane road ahead when a car from behind nearly scrapped me on my side whilst passing (at god knows what speed).. i pipped the horn and he immediately braked in front of me in my lane gesturing with his fist to pull over the nearside.. I was not going to do that.. I tried to go around him when he pulled away still looking backwards and shaking his fist to pull over.. Wife is now very frightened!
I'm in a quandary now. and I am truly scared of him... I want to go down to the island underneath spaghetti so as to get on to my turn to join North but this will bring me to a stop at the island... the righthand lane takes you into Birmingham central onto the A38 expressway.. as he is still rolling i pulled over to the righthand lane as though going on the expressway.. we're still rolling. The expressway becomes a two lane road so i pulled further to the right (red line).. I waiting for him to get so far up the slip road where the kerb starts, that he cant pull off.. I'm desperately keeping an eye on what is behind if this was going to work.. (nothing at all) when he does i pull of the righthand lane (Blue line) I changed lane quickly to the left leaving him on the expressway (hoping he wouldn't U turn on the motorway slip!!!) he was sooo angry I would not have been surprised.
We carried onto our destination but it took sometime to settle down... it could have been a hospital visit or worse. someone mentioned on this forum that city driving is always worse. OMG the standard is atrocious now.. I have done some stupid things and been tooted .. if it's my fault i put my hand up. but this was another thing completely.
there is a strange three way junction just before going do to the motorway.. waited for traffic to clear and pulled off onto the lefthand lane of the two lane road ahead when a car from behind nearly scrapped me on my side whilst passing (at god knows what speed).. i pipped the horn and he immediately braked in front of me in my lane gesturing with his fist to pull over the nearside.. I was not going to do that.. I tried to go around him when he pulled away still looking backwards and shaking his fist to pull over.. Wife is now very frightened!
I'm in a quandary now. and I am truly scared of him... I want to go down to the island underneath spaghetti so as to get on to my turn to join North but this will bring me to a stop at the island... the righthand lane takes you into Birmingham central onto the A38 expressway.. as he is still rolling i pulled over to the righthand lane as though going on the expressway.. we're still rolling. The expressway becomes a two lane road so i pulled further to the right (red line).. I waiting for him to get so far up the slip road where the kerb starts, that he cant pull off.. I'm desperately keeping an eye on what is behind if this was going to work.. (nothing at all) when he does i pull of the righthand lane (Blue line) I changed lane quickly to the left leaving him on the expressway (hoping he wouldn't U turn on the motorway slip!!!) he was sooo angry I would not have been surprised.
We carried onto our destination but it took sometime to settle down... it could have been a hospital visit or worse. someone mentioned on this forum that city driving is always worse. OMG the standard is atrocious now.. I have done some stupid things and been tooted .. if it's my fault i put my hand up. but this was another thing completely.