Incident Report

Description

I know this happened over 2 years ago, but to date it remains the worst driving I have seen. I overtook this guy on the dual carriageway as he sat two inches from the rear of a VW van. Once I turned left at the roundabout and into a 30mph urban route this guy was now behind me giving me a personal demonstration of his tailgating abilities (the grille of his square-fronted Volvo was not visible in my mirror – that’s how close he was). On approach to Langley Roundabout we both joined the right hand lane to take the second exit (dual carriageway) as directed by the painted arrows on the road surface – at which point he almost went into the back of me. Once *on* the roundabout the Volvo driver moved to the left lane and positioned his vehicle level with the rear nearside of my vehicle. As I exited into the right-hand lane of the dual carriageway, the Volvo driver in the nearside lane accelerated and remained in my blind-spot as I increased my speed. Once I eventually passed & filtered in I maintained my speed to increase the gap between him & myself before slowing down gently. The Volvo almost shunted me from behind & then pulled alongside and sounded his horn to show his (dis)approval. The heavily bearded driver of this car displays consistent ignorance of the highway code, common sense and for the safety of others. And this was not his first time I had been victim to the sheer ignorance and dangerous behaviour of this one individual, but was easily the worst and most dangerous episode yet.