Why? Driving observation
Well after the commute home, dinner, and while walking the dogs my mind wandered back to the daily commuting grind. This may or may not apply to your local, I live and drive in the greater Portland...
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BruceMc wrote:
Not long after getting my new Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen, I had an idiot try to pass me in a merge lane on a 2 lane highway. The area is 45mph, and just after the merge, the speed goes to 55.
We were on the main highway and he had been tailgating me anyway. Just as we hit the merge lane, he yanked his into the merge and tried to go around me. I saw what he was doing & engaged the turbo on that little 1.8L to close the gap in front of me, leaving him no where to go. he had to back off & pull back in behind me.
Now it may have been that he thought the highway changed to 2 lanes in our direction, realized his mistake but tried to barrel ahead anyway. If that was the case, he should have simply pulled back in behind me.
Saw the almost same thing in front of me a few weeks ago, except it was a VW Golf sedan, and the VW was accelerating and decelerating to deliberately keep pace with the other vehicle, including slamming on the brakes. The result was a sideswipe when the driver in the lane that was merging who had a bigger vehicle just decided enough was enough.
The ironic thing is that after I stepped up and mentioned what I saw, the police officer didn't write a ticket to the driver (who normally would have gotten an expensive citation for failure to yield.) After I handed out my business cards and the officer told me that I could go, I saw him apparently writing up the VW driver in the rear view.
Sometimes someone can be just ticked enough that they will be more than happy to burn their accident forgiveness perk just to teach someone else a lesson.
