Road rage incident

**DrDarkMatter** · 21st March 2014, 06:49

So I had my first experience in road rage after coming back to riding in NZ after may years off. I was coming home from work from welly to Kapiti and I was in the right lane sitting behind a silver/gray Hilux doing 95K ish and I pulled left and over took him after waiting a few K's for him to pull over.

He didnt seem to like the over take apparently. and came after me. I was in the right lane a 100 meters or so ahead of him, He pulled next to me in the left lane and started to slowly move right, INTO MY LANE. I did the wrong thing and flipped him off, he then looked right at me and pulled hard right into my lane. I had to brake or I would be dead in the cheese cutters.

So I thought to my self, what a nutter and I thought it was over, not! we continued to drive through Pukerua Bay, he in front of me , me following at a 2-3 sec distance back. after Pukerua Bay he decides to pull into the first Scenic look out going down the hill after Pukerua Bay. I thought OK he is going to think over what he did, nope he then pulled back into traffic about 4 or 5 cars back. Once we got to Mcays crossing he passed those cars and got behind me and sat there through Raumati south flats. I am not thinking OK this is kind of scary. I decided to turn off and Raumati south and see if he would follow me and if he did I would just head to the police station.

He didnt follow, thank god. I got home and told a friend about it and he said I should have called *555 I didnt think of it at the time but should have. I went to the police website and filled out a "report a bad driver" and gave them ALL details.

Interesting thing was he has his website printed across the back of his truck, maybe that's why he got behind me lol

too bad I remembered it and gave it to the police with his rego Mr jsroofing.co.nz based on SH1 just across from ZIP plumbing in Kapiti.

if you come across this guy hes a nutter, brown hair, clean cut guy in his later 20's it looks like.

Doc

**nzspokes** · 21st March 2014, 07:02

So you undertook him?

**unstuck** · 21st March 2014, 07:20

Thats the problem, you were driving your bike. Now if you were riding your bike, it may of gone differently for you.

**BuzzardNZ** · 21st March 2014, 07:27

So where's the rage? It sounds like nothing really happened apart from you giving him the finger and him following you!

When I opened this thread I was expecting something juicy with punches thrown

etc!

**p.dath** · 21st March 2014, 07:39

I'm assuming there were two lanes going in your direction, and you just used the left of those two lanes? If not, it was an undertake as someone else as said (you can't "overtake" on the left in a single lane). Perhaps the driver pulled over to call *555 on you ...

However that doesn't excuse someone deliberately trying to move into your lane when they know you are there, creating a further danger. Very scary.

**DrDarkMatter** · 21st March 2014, 07:40

Originally Posted by nzspokes

So you undertook him?

yes I under took him, as I would do to any fast lane camper going under the speed limit

**Hawk** · 21st March 2014, 07:42

Originally Posted by nzspokes

So you undertook him?

two or more lanes on your side of the road ..........................

I was in the right lane a 100 meters or so ahead of him, He pulled next to me in the left lane and started to slowly move right, INTO MY LANE

should cause no problem if the two lanes were on your side of the road ie there was another marked lane for traffic approaching from the opposite direction. But flipping him off was mostly likely the cause

**DrDarkMatter** · 21st March 2014, 07:42

Originally Posted by p.dath

I'm assuming there were two lanes going in your direction, and you just used the left of those two lanes? If not, it was an undertake as someone else as said (you can't "overtake" on the left in a single lane). Perhaps the driver pulled over to call *555 on you ...

However that doesn't excuse someone deliberately trying to move into your lane when they know you are there, creating a further danger. Very scary.

yes I undertook, sorry but my miss use of the wording. he didnt stop in the lay by he just got back into traffic behind me

**DrDarkMatter** · 21st March 2014, 07:44

Originally Posted by Hawk

two or more lanes on your side of the road .......................... should cause no problem but flipping him off was mostly likly the cause

yes 2 lanes, yes I undertook, yes it was the wrong thing to do to flip him off, but its not an excuse to try to deliberately run me off the road.

**unstuck** · 21st March 2014, 07:46

Your only mistake was to not pull in behind him at the rest area and bitchslap him.

**DrDarkMatter** · 21st March 2014, 07:51

**Scouse** · 21st March 2014, 07:51

Would you like a tissue?

**Banditbandit** · 21st March 2014, 08:01

You did not "undertake " him ...

If you were in the left hand lane doing 100ks then you were perfectly within your rights . if he was doing 95 ks in the outside lane, then that's his problem.

Other posters - Show me a rule or road code section that says if someone is doing 95ks in the right hand lane you can't do 100ks in the left hand lane ...

If that rule exists, then someone sitting at 30ks in the right hand lane will hold up all the traffic in the left hand lane as the MUST stay behind that car - clearly that's ridiculous ..

**iranana** · 21st March 2014, 08:03

Hmm, never fun to have something like that happen... but flipping people off is sometimes a very bad idea if you can't get out of the way quick sharp. I like to think that fuckers that drive like that and put our lives at risk will meet misfortune sooner or later. Clearly not a very healthy individual to be behaving like that... I see his website is very shitty. Could write a script to send hundreds of false enquiries just to waste his time, lose him business and annoy him

That might turn him into more of a nutter though.