Wierd Mazda Driver - possibly drunk or crazy

[Parkingidiot]

Had a strange encounter tonite, just a short while ago.

 

Was on my way home at about 11pm, after visiting a friend. Driving along Farrer Road heading towards PIE, keeping to lane 2, and being a good boy by keeping to the road speed limit (70kph, and 50kph near the circle line construction area). I stayed away from Lane 1, as at this time there are sure to be drivers who would like to chiong a bit, and thus did not want to block their way.

 

Suddenly, just after the underpass at the Farrer Rd/Holland Road junction, I noticed a car started to tailgate me. Tailgating very, very close - I could not even see the bonnet - only the other guy's windshield. I was wondering "What's wrong with this guy - got so much space on Lane 1, why don't overtake?"

 

I decided not to apply any brake so not to antagonise him, so i just released the accelerator fully - but because the road was sloping down at the point - the speed decrease was very slow. Other cars overtook from the right and left - but not this clown. He continued to stick to my butt like glue. "Quite good brakework," I thought.

 

Then the road started to slope up as we ascended the Adam Road Flyover. I saw my speed decrease 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10.....and still this idiot did not change lanes ... and he slowed down with me. Near the apex of the flyover, my car completely ground to a halt - unable to go forward without acceleration. I pulled handbrake and waited a few seconds.

 

The moron in the Mazda, also halted his car behind mine and did not move. I was like "What the F%$%?!" This was a 70kph road - and here were 2 cars stopped in the middle lane for nothing. I opened the door, and got out, and made an angry questioning gesture whilst mouthing "What?" at the guy. It was a heavy set Chinese guy in a dark Mazda 3 (SJB XXXX). He did not make any move to exit his car. After a few of my gestures - he made a signal to move on with his hand.

 

I was wondering why he did not just change lanes and move on, why did he stop behind my car? - most probably drunk or panicked. He probably never expected the tailgate victim to actually stop the car in the middle of the road!

 

Anyway - I saw many other cars zooming by, and I did not want to be caught in or cause any accidents - so I got back in my car and moved off. This time, I changed lanes to the left and slowed down - and let the fella move on ahead of me. Then I moved back behind him and taped him on my dashboard video cam.

 

Coincidentally he was going my way. PIE, BKE - so I stayed about 50-100m behind him all the way - and I think he must have seen me following him in his rear-view, and was worried - as he kept to the left lanes after that. The last I saw he was headed in direction of Woodlands along BKE, when I exited at the Dairy Farm exit.

 

A somewhat exciting end to a rather boring day. These are the kind of weirdos we meet on the street that make driving in Singapore so interesting!

 

 

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To the idiot in the Mazda 3 SJBXXXX:

 

I do not know what your intention or plan was with your tail-gating. But my car is much older than yours, and my boot is in need of an overhaul. I could have just tapped brakes and let you buy me a new boot, and hurt your shiny new SJB Mazda. But I didn't. So let this be a lesson to you. Not everyone would be intimidated by your stupid actions, and there are already enough accidents on the road - don't add to the statistics.

 

By the way - I have a video of your car from my dashboard video cam - which also recorded our stop along the Adam Road flyover. Just FYI.

[Beanoyip]

I don't know what to say, but stopping in the middle of the road??? I'd say that's horribily dangerous..

[Mazdaowner]

Bro. Not me ok. I don't drive my Mazda, my wife does, and she's not heavy set.

[Mustank]

whoa!!!! you hiong manzzzz

 

i so far don have experience with cars who taigate me but if they tailgate me i confirm would not know

[Tunge]

i would say both of u r weird man? u were abviously trying to antagonise him too, by driving so darn slowly n stopped in the middle of the ROAD.... what?!

[Robo]

normally when people tailgate me i on the hazard light and tap the brake lightly... esp if its a taxi..

 

normally it scares them off...

[Cthulhu]

i kena something like this before... one sunday afternoon, i was travelling at 80+ kmph on Lane 2 on the PIE towards Changi because my newborn was in the back seat with my maid...

 

suddenly the black (& loud) Gen2 came behind & started tailgating very very closely... i was bewildered as Lane 1 was empty... this went on for about 20 or 30 secs, during this time i maintained my speed at close to 90 kmph on Lane 2... i guess that he's not happy i was "hogging Lane 2", so i filtered to Lane 3 to let him pass by since i wouldn't want to get into trouble... i was like wtf man! just overtake me on Lane 1 lah... everyone does that rite?

 

but bro, stopping in the middle of the road... now, that's kinda dangerous.

[Singer]

hahahaaa... this is horrendously farny

 

bro, got link to your video boh? mayb can be identified by one of MCFers here

[Singer]

Cud it be one of these peeps??...

 

Dun flame me hor

[inlinesix]

I m trying 2 b sympathetic.

However, i could not deny d fact that what u hav done is dangerous. U could hav move 2 d left & let him overtake. If some1 rearended his ka, u might b injured.

[Robin]

no ... by the way, thats my car

[Singer]

teasing you n bro Linus oni...

 

copyrighted pic taken from fuel system cleaner thread

[Route88]

I dont understand,why feel intimidated until stop the car to confront?

If he made a mistake by tailgating too close and langgar,good right can get a new bumper and some money

[Parkingidiot]

yeah...on hindsight, i agree what i did was also not the best course of action either.

Now that I think about it, the best and safest course of action would have been to signal left, and change to lane 3 and let the fella carry on.

 

But at the time, I was also not really happy with this guy's actions - as the encounter started without any provocation by me, was driving at road speed limit on lane 2. Not hogging, not attracting any wrong attention, did not want to travel too slow on lane 3 behind the other cars and motorcycles, left Lane 1 clear for speedsters and overtaking...so no reason for this guy's actions.

 

But when the guy was tailgating me for so long, and at such close quarters, I did not want to tap on brakes or jam brakes either - as that would have been sure accident scenario. So i release accelerator - assuming this fella would just changed lanes and overtake.

 

That he would actually crawl to a stop behind my car was something I could not imagine happening - esp with the other lanes clear for overtaking.

 

Thinking back on this incident - just wierd man! Luckily no one got hurt. Next time i will just keep changing lanes to let tailgaters over take me.

[Parkingidiot]

Did not actually feel intimidated - just released the accelerator expecting the guy to overtake and move on - the car came to a stop because we started to go upslope. Who could have guessed this guy would actually tailgate me to a stop?!

[Loki]

Next time someone tailgates you when you are not hogging, just continue driving as you were and turn on your hazard lights. Drivers see hazard lights automatically will pull back.

[Linus]

[laugh]

 

heng ah, its a mz3, not 323.

[Parkingidiot]

Yeah.. but i felt tapping on brakes may antagonise him further, if he was some road rage nut. And it was really too close to chut some wild stunt - no point getting into an accident for no reason - esp that Singapore insurance companies not helpful to victims.