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So, as the title says post your stories of idiots on the road. I'll start.
Yesterday we went for a day trip around central NZ, trip just shy off 600km by the time we get home again. It was the first time my eldest son has driven out on the open road (he was following me) and with it also been the Xmas no tolerance speeding week I was taking it rather easy. We were down by one of the hydro lakes (SH30 I think) and I was going bang on 100km/h in the straight bits and it bit slower through the windy stuff. I had noticed a car was approaching us from behind and catching us at a moderate rate, the weather was also closing in and it was getting dark, by then the vehicle had caught up to the back or my sons car and was tailgating him. Not long after the heavens opened up with a torrential down poor, so hard I could hardly see and been at the front of the line of cars I was the pioneer and before I could scrub of enough speed was aquaplaning as I hit standing water but kept it straight and carried on at about 60km/h until the rain eased off. Once the rain eased off I could see the SUV following my son and still tailgating was a BMW X5, roof racks with multiple boards on top and the icing on the cake, it was towing a trailer with about 6 push pikes on it! In the next set of long straights I purposely kept out speed down to give the idiot X5 a chance to overtake but instead he persisted in tailgating much of the way. When we finally joined up with SH1 there was an overtaking lane where he finally went past us only to tailgate the next car up the road. He ended up heading in the same direction as us and with clear weather I couldn't keep up with him keeping to the speed limit and he was towing a trailer
******* IDIOT.
Yesterday we went for a day trip around central NZ, trip just shy off 600km by the time we get home again. It was the first time my eldest son has driven out on the open road (he was following me) and with it also been the Xmas no tolerance speeding week I was taking it rather easy. We were down by one of the hydro lakes (SH30 I think) and I was going bang on 100km/h in the straight bits and it bit slower through the windy stuff. I had noticed a car was approaching us from behind and catching us at a moderate rate, the weather was also closing in and it was getting dark, by then the vehicle had caught up to the back or my sons car and was tailgating him. Not long after the heavens opened up with a torrential down poor, so hard I could hardly see and been at the front of the line of cars I was the pioneer and before I could scrub of enough speed was aquaplaning as I hit standing water but kept it straight and carried on at about 60km/h until the rain eased off. Once the rain eased off I could see the SUV following my son and still tailgating was a BMW X5, roof racks with multiple boards on top and the icing on the cake, it was towing a trailer with about 6 push pikes on it! In the next set of long straights I purposely kept out speed down to give the idiot X5 a chance to overtake but instead he persisted in tailgating much of the way. When we finally joined up with SH1 there was an overtaking lane where he finally went past us only to tailgate the next car up the road. He ended up heading in the same direction as us and with clear weather I couldn't keep up with him keeping to the speed limit and he was towing a trailer
******* IDIOT.
