Last night I was riding home on my motorbike. I was in the fast lane stuck behind a minivan that was going 95 in a 100 speed zone (Australia). The roads were a little greasy thanks to a light drizzle, so, in some regards I was glad for the reduced speed. It still amazes me how many people think that trying to get home faster is a smart idea in wet conditions.

A ute squeezes in behind me as the middle lane he was pushing was going slower than he wanted. Next thing I know, I'm getting the courtesy flash of his lights and the polite double tap of his horn as he asked me to make way for him.

I had nowhere to go. It was unsafe for me to manoeuvre into the middle lane, so I stayed in the fast lane keeping a safeish distance with the minivan in front.

The flashing and tooting got progressively more aggressive, but there was nothing I could do. I was constantly checking my mirrors etc in case there was an emergency vehicle trying to get past the traffic etc, but no, it was simply an aggressive driver wanting my place in the lane I was in.

There was a break in the middle lane about 1km before the off ramp I needed to take. I indicated and made my way across the lanes as I approached my offramp. The Ute driver now showed his dominance as he sped past me dangerously, winding down his window and gave me the one fingered salute.

To my surprise, he got off at the same off ramp as me and was waiting impatiently in one of the 2 turning lanes. These lights were notoriously long and he must have just missed them.

I casually rock up in the other lane. The rain had stopped so I put my visor up. The driver winds down the passenger window and I brace myself for some additional road rage. He yells at me "why the fuck didn't you move across?"

I simply replied I couldn't do it safely and I couldn't go any faster because of the minivan in front of me. He continued to berate me and I simply yelled "what makes you so special that gives you the right to go in front of me?"

His significant other sitting in the passenger seat then chimed in with...

"Yeah Jordan. What makes you so fucking special?"

The passenger window closed and we sat awkwardly for another minute before we parted ways.

I’m so confused i was behind another car, waiting behind a construction vehicle holding up a stop sign and then this car comes up behind me

We were sitting there for a while and i look back in my rear view into the other car and this old man is just sticking up his middle finger?? 😂 i was so confused like is he doing that to me?

Then we are able to go and he’s not tailgating me or anything he’s just going slow/regular speed

But then we get to a stop light and i look back again to check and he’s doing it again 😂😂 like wtf? Do you guys think he thought i was staring him down or something because idk if there was any way he could see my eyes or anything especially with my glasses too it’s not like i was turning my whole head but thats the only reason i can think of.

Literally made no sense to me

Just happened to me, literally 30 min ago...

im on my scooter on a one lane blvd. theres an automated speed camera that will take a picture of your plate and send you a ticket if you go above 30mph. so i was going the limit, this asshole in a jeep cherokee speeds around me nearly knocking me off my bike. only to get stuck at the red light ahead. i pull up next to him and tell him theres a camera and the speed limit is 30mph, kinda like a "common man, you know better", theres also a school and playground with kids on break accross the street.

he starts getting out of his car and taunts me to fight, words were exchanged.

i laughed and called him a low life loser, more words exchanges from him, i proceeded to tell him he has a low IQ and will never amount to anything. then I take off on my way.

he come flying up behind me, cuts me off, nearly clips me and slams on his breaks in front of me. mind you it's 1 lane and there's a divider/curb to my left. so i had instinctively hit my breaks and my bike lost control, i flew off and have a shit ton of deep scrapes all over my body, hands forearms, knees. i had my helmet on.

worst part is, he took off and i didnt catch his plates.

what angers me the most is that he will suffer ZERO consequences for his actions.

The NYPD, in so many words, told me they can't do much of anything. There's a tons of silver jeep grand cherokees.

lets me honest here, you can literally get away with stabbing someone and not get jail time.

i hate to think that he believes he won and considering he's scum of the earth, he's probably proud of what he did, will brag to his friends, zero empathy or respect for other humans.

how do i cope with this anger?

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Went on a trip to Nashville. My gf was driving and merged left with blinker. My gf later tells me she did not cut him off, I did not see it happen. Guy in pickup gets pissed and blares horn. Proceeds to pull up next to us and throws something at our vehicle and threatens us. He legit almost hit a car in front of him with children in it. Then sped off to the next exit telling me to follow him(to I guess fight) and hits a curb. Never see the guy again. I think this guy was on some type of drugs. I’ve never seen someone so angry in road rage. I didn’t think to get his plate number because I was genuinely scared he was going to cause an accident and it slipped my mind.

I know he won’t read this but I have to get this off my chest.

To the guy that threw something at my vehicle and did no damage to it. You are the epitome of weak trash. If I knew you didn’t have a gun or some other weapon I would go toe to toe with you and make you apologize to my gf. You endangered lives and I really wish I could teach you a lesson.

Ladies and gentlemen we have to be prepared at all times when driving. If you see someone flipping out like this, we must not respond. Your pride is not worth injuries or worse. These people are pathetic and their anger shouldn’t matter to you. The only reason he didn’t crash or injure others was because I kept my cool and didn’t give the response he was looking for. I recommend carrying a weapon while in a vehicle and/ or taking self defense. This can happen to anyone at anytime .

Men we need to try and avoid these conflicts at all cost. But men we also be prepared to handle business when we are up against the wall.

Was driving in the Walmart parking lot, and turn into a new aisle. I slowed down because a car had just backed out and had not started to move forward yet. They were about 20 feet in front of me and in the same side, directly facing me. They started waving at me to go around them, progressively becoming more animated and you could tell agitated. They then made gestures as if I was a moron. It was a mom and her teenage son, they both were visibly upset and annoyed. It all lasted about 30 seconds before I finally went around them.

….meanwhile… the whole time they didn’t stop to think that they were the ones on the wrong side of the aisle, and they were facing the wrong way in a one way aisle with angled parking…. Why do people find the need to get so mad? Patience goes a long way in life…

me my mum and sister were driving home and a small blue car in front of us was driving fifteen kph and pretty much boxing our car in and then another car behind us driving up our ass screaming at us to go faster.

The blue car was taking it’s sweet time in front of us we couldn’t switch lanes or merge or even pull over we had to keep going mind you the car behind us screaming at us was a tall four wheel drive and our car and the blue car were very small so we thought the car behind us would see the blue car.

No they choose to ignore it and then proceeded to stop yelling at us they decide to keep spamming there lights into our car we can’t see anything because we were being blind.

Because his lights were so bright I get pissed start yelling at them then they run up the back of us I’m especially mad so at the traffic lights I get out and walk over to his car he gets out realises I’m islander gets scared try’s to punch me but I block I’m still mad so I bolt at him punch him for trying to punch me and then tackle him then his wife gets out telling me to stop so I do the even worse part is he has a kid scared crying I get back I’m the car drive of now before you start slamming me note my mother is an epileptic person she could of had a seizure and no she wasn’t driving my sister was so did I do the wrong thing?

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I’m still a fairly new driver (I got my license back in November) so I’m always cautious when I’m driving. It was dark and I missed a turn so I was rerouted to go down a road that I had never been down before. The man in the Subaru had his brights on and was tailgating me (in an attempt to make me go faster despite me doing the limit) and everything was fine. I stopped at the stop sign and waited for the truck approaching to go past so I could go when he laid on his horn behind me. I laughed it off but my friend got pissed off and started going off about him for laying on his horn when there’s a stop sign and obviously a giant truck going past. She rolled down her window and gave him the finger as I proceeded to go along my way.

I didn’t think he was following us until I noticed he was following extremely close. I put my right blinker on and so did he. He nearly crashed into the back of my car because he was following so close. My friend became a little panicked and I told her not to worry about it because I’m sure he’s not following us. She said she shouldn’t have flipped him off and I agreed but I told her not to worry about anything. The man continued to follow close behind me despite there being 2 lanes. It takes a lot to scare me so I continued driving and made another turn to get into a more populated part of my town where it’s also more well lit. He continued to follow and at the last minute, I pulled into an empty medical building parking lot instead of pulling into the ice cream lot we were supposed to go into. The man had went into the ice cream lot where we were supposed to go. I quickly reversed and went into the ice cream lot (right across from the medical building lot) and we watched him rip through the parking lot then leave the ice cream lot and go into the medical parking lot then leave and go the way we just came from.

My friend explained he must be looking for us and I told her that I didn’t think so because we are right here and how didn’t he see my car? Maybe he was just trying to scare us but I don’t know maybe it was a coincidence. The situation itself made me realize how unprepared I am for a scenario where the person continues to follow me or attempts to confront me. What do you do in this situation especially at night?

I sometimes wonder what goes on in people’s mind when they suddenly just have road rage for God knows why. This morning two different people stuck their fingers at me and I don’t know what I did wrong. The first rager in front of me was making a turn, we were slowing down so he could turn and then he stuck his hand out the window with his middle finger… um ok then. Not sure what I did to cause that but I just laughed. Then maybe 15 minutes later there was another guy in front of me that did the same thing. And then the guy started brake checking me. I really don’t know what I did to piss these guys off because I’m just driving the speed limit, and I’m behind them at a safe distance too. Didn’t honk the horn at them or anything. Maybe my headlights on an old 2006 Hyundai were too bright? I guess I could fix that with turning on the highbeams. (No I wouldn’t actually do that)

The one time I didn’t have my dash camera plugged in. Oh well. I just wonder what goes through people’s mind like that because I’ve been laughing about it all morning.

What’s the point of rolling your window down to yell at someone, especially on the highway?? I am passing you at 65 mph and you think I’ll hear you?? I don’t hear a thing. Do people think they’re that important that they need to roll your window down to yell? Just flip them off and keep driving. But for real though, why do people do that?

I am here to admit I have a problem and see if there’s help out there in this community.

I was in the wrong. In the left lane someone comes up from behind and flashes their lights. I’m usually level headed and would just move over or even better see them coming from behind and move over before they even flash their headlights.

Today my reaction was to slam on the gas. Double my speed to 120 mph. On wet roads. With a curve coming up with a cement barrier.

Thank goodness I snapped out of it and barely missed the barrier and corrected myself but this incident has terrified me.

Are there any resources that the community would recommend for me? I generally don’t get angry. When I am confronted with situations that would anger most people I just go into calm calculated mode to solve the problem. That’s why I’m so shaken up by this.

Every time I have passed a car on the road when driving because they’re going too slow, I always look at the face of the person I’m passing and they’re always screaming in their car. I’ve never had a woman do this, only men in their 30s and 40s. I’ve had some brake tech me and stop and proceeded to get out of their car and scream at me. Why did they do this? Why do they get so mad? Is it an ego thing they don’t like that a young girl is passing them ? I’m curious as this behaviour has has only happened with men in their 30s and 40s.. so what’s the deal? Why do they get so mad?

Burner- I don’t post much and I’m on mobile, so sorry for any errors. I (43F) was a victim of road rage yesterday and it was terrifying. I was changing lanes with my blinker on and there was a car beside me. I needed to turn soonish, so I sped up a bit. I noticed her speeding up and figured she wasn’t going to let me over, so I slowed down. She then slowed down also, and I figured she realized I was trying to get over. I merged and turned left shortly after. As I turned, I heard someone honk. Then a car pulls up next to me in the exit lane of the strip mall, blocking me from turning left into the lot. She rolled her window down and started screaming at me. I was so shocked I couldn’t even respond. I thought she was letting me over and apparently she wasn’t. I finally managed to stutter “I, I ,I…” and “I’m sorry.” She then mocked me for stuttering out of shock and screamed that I needed to apologize. I said “Ma’am, I already said I was sorry.” She continued screaming until she ran out of expletives to call me while I stared at her silently, terrified I would escalate her. She had enough and started to leave. I did tell her she was classy as she was driving off because it’s all I could get out. I cried for a long time yesterday afternoon because it was so scary. Even if I made a mistake and “cut her off”, I don’t feel it warranted her behavior. I’ve never felt so defenseless in my entire life and she had a child in the back seat witnessing the entire ordeal. My car is a bit distinctive and now I’m afraid she remembers what it looks like. In my area, it would not be strange to encounter her again. Apologies for rambling, it was just a lot.

I’ve noticed lately some people are honking at me or flashing their brights at me when I’m in traffic with people infront of me or at a stop light it turns green ..they honk and I’m not even the Lead car.

These are times where me and the car infront of me the one at the white line have not moved with in LESS than 1 second after the green. I’m talking about totally inpatient people behind me.

Anywho anyone have experience at using a PA system? I want to get one mount it in the rear bumper and use fun accents and be like “Ello sir impatience, honk once If you have to poop bad honk twice if you’re just an ass hole.. helloOoo back there.. etc.

Whatcha y’all think are fun ways to make traffic and road rage fun?? If any?

I was on the way up the ramp when a guy cut me off. I honked at him and flipped him off which I know was wrong and I acted stupidly in the moment, but the guy in front got really upset and stopped in the middle of the ramp holding up all the cars and rolled down his window and started yelling at me. I didn't hear what he said I was kinda surprised and I thought he would just speed off.

He kept pulling over and when I started to drive he would swerve and try to hit my car and he kept opening his door and acting like he would get out but never did. I really don't know what to do in these situations because if I kept driving the guy would try and hit me but I was holding up traffic and the cars behind me were trying to pull through. I pulled off to the side to let them pass but the guy pulled over and waited and kept taunting me and yelling at me like he was daring me to get close to him but I kept my distance and eventually he exited.

I'm really freaked out like it was my fault for honking and flipping him off but I don't think it's right for him to stop in the middle of the ramp. Should I contact the police and tell them about what happened? My dashcam was on but it didn't capture everything, but I feel I would be putting a hit on myself if I contacted them.

I need help, I was driving down a main road and the traffic was built up heavily and I had right of way and a car kept edging out more and more and nearly catching the side of my car as he was trying to get out of a side road and under no obligation to let him out as had no room to move so someone else let him out and he chased me down the road and cut me off and angled his car in front of mine like police do so I couldn’t go forward or back as cars behind me and screaming at me and had a mate with him threatening to cut my throat as he was still mad from earlier didn’t let it go. So he got in front by skipping lanes after that and didn’t move to let him get in front to get him gone what do I do should I carry a self defence weapon like a stick because 2v1 I would have been badly injured any advice for people that stop to fight? I’m from UK so uk roads thanks very much

I was driving around the evening today when I was stopping to a red light and suddenly one red Chevrolet car cut me off from the left lane and it was almost about to hit me (I was on left lane too), so, I flashed twice and then that guy got mad as hell, break checking me in 3-4 times in the traffic and just to avoid conflict I changed my route but that guy followed and then again started break checking me by this time I realized this guy is ready to do anything stupid to maybe let go of his anger I plan to take the picture of his number plate but then at the traffic stop he drove next to me and started blabbering something, I rolled my window down (and realizing how mad this guy is or maybe he had a gun and was ready to escalate the situation) I instead kind of apologized by saying I didn’t mean to disrespect by flashing on you and then the guy was like good night brother and drove away.

I think I did good by deescalating the situation but later on I feel bad by apologizing to the stupid driver even though it wasn’t my mistake.

What do you people think?

We are from Detroit Michigan but we sometimes like to go to Toledo Ohio for a day trip. We were going into a store and we already had the right of way, there was no cars coming so me and my mom crossed. This woman comes driving 50 miles an hour in a pedestrian zone (the stop sign had a sign underneath that said speed is 20mph for pedestrian crossing) She honked at me and my mom and I yelled at her "you're supposed to wait there's a stop sign for pedestrian crossing!" And she called me a white btch, LOL! Then I said f you, not proud to say that but I hate rude and inconsiderate people. Also I'm sick of them calling me a white btch, imagine if it's the other way around I would have gotten canceled all over the internet.

yesterday i was driving home from work and was like 2nd or 3rd person to pass this car fluctuating from 40-45 in a 50. i will say, i did speed up to pass her because she wasn’t wanting to let me go, but i could see her car in my mirrors so i knew i had enough room.

well, i think so many people passing her must’ve made her mad or something. after that she started tailgating me, and then swerved in the right lane at a red light (she cut someone off to do this) in order to scream at me. i just ignored her because this has happened to me once before and my mom has always said to not give in to their anger. finally, she got frustrated and threw a drink at my window and pulled forward to the car in front of her.

i thought she was done but she ended up speeding up to get way ahead of me, and then began to slow down when i started to catch up. she then got in my lane and slammed on her breaks. this is a three lane road, so i moved to the right lane. she did it again, so i moved back to the middle lane, she started braking even harder and at this point was about to hit my car. this happened one or two more times. i then decided to floor it and speed past her in the left lane because quite frankly, i was getting a bit scared. she was in an SUV so her car couldn’t speed up nearly as fast as mine, but as i was passing her she was actively trying to shove me into oncoming traffic and ended up being halfway in my lane. once i passed her, she slammed on her breaks and swerved all the way into the right lane to turn. i later realized she probably did this so that i couldn’t get her plates. i did call the police but since i didn’t have her information, they couldn’t do anything. they told me to call them if i see her again.

now i’m scared and nervous as i take this route home from work almost everyday around the same time. there’s no other way to get home from my job, so i can’t change my route. i don’t want to run into her again and i’m scared of what will happen if i do. any advice?? i get paid tomorrow, so i think i’m going to invest in a dashcam.

Today while pulling out of sonic, I merged into the appropriate late. There was a car behind me but there was plenty of room for me to merge, except she decided to punch on the gas and swerve in front of me and almost made me wreck. She gets in the turning lane and I roll my window down to look at her and she peels out beside me and so I get in the turning lane and she follows me. She rolled her window down in the middle of traffic to show me her baseball bat and to tell me “I will beat your ass hoe” over and over. I let her know I had her tags and was about to call the police while laughing because I genuinely do not understand why in the world you are over here threatening me with a bat. I told her she needs to go or I’m calling the cops and eventually she sped off. People are insane

I’m new here…but I was driving on an access road and guy was trying to pull out of a shopping center. He was at the yield to oncoming traffic. I saw him continue to pull out even though I was coming so I got nervous and honked at him so he would see me. He got mad and honked back and continued to honk as he passed me. I didn’t honk back at him because I was already feeling bad. I feel really bad for honking I was scared in the moment and I probably prevented us hitting but still. I hope he has a better day and i’m sorry for honking at you.

I’ve noticed a lot while driving that sometimes people are overly nice even when they don’t have to be. One thing that really makes me mad is whenever I’m at a stop sign, and the right of way traffic is going at a pretty moderate speed, but still no breaks in between cars for me to go, and someone from the right away traffic stops and lets me go or turn whenever it’s not my turn. And like yeah it’s nice but it’s not the rules of driving and it could cause a potential accident because it’s not the right thing to do!

For people who do this … is it done unwittingly or do you actually not care about other drivers you’re holding up?????

While I was on 95 today there were a set of drivers in all four lanes riding right beside each other same speed and everything. I have found that the other drivers on the road became really frustrated and began to start raging 😡 in order to get from behind them. I’m that moment I have found that road rage isn’t always caused by impatient drivers. It’s also caused by drivers not paying attention to the surrounding traffic climate.

I was getting into the slower of two adjacent left turn lanes today and had some guy pass me on the right in a non-turn lane. Then after doing that, at the red light while I'm turning my phone on to call my mom (over Bluetooth hands free) and starts screaming that I'm an asshole. Don't know if he thought I had the phone on before the red light or what. I'm usually working remote on Mondays-guess it's a meaner crowd. Didn't escalate though just in case.

Hi. Im new. First i want to start off with I am also in the wrong and shouldve handled it better.

I was on my way to work on night shift. I hadnt slept very good and i was already in a shitty mood. Well. Some guy was coming off an on ramp and suddenly had a problem. I went to go around someone hogging the left lane and then the person started going slow so i was going to go around him too. Well he sped up and when i DID get around hin he only followed me and tried to ride my tail. Well all i wanted to do was get away bc i could tell it was going to be some bs so i sped up and started speeding to just stay away bc i really didnt feel like ring around the rosie. Well i got to another motorist was going slow in the fast lane and so i was going to go around and they seemed to have an issue was people going around them too so they started trying me too. So it went on until we came up on an officer who was from another county it seemed, bc i tried to flag them down but they didnt do anything so i just stayed behind the officer while the two guys were still raging at me. I did get off on an exit close enough though and luckily they continued on. But like i said i feel like i couldve handled it better. I did get one of their license plates and asked my mom if i should report one of them with the discription and she said i should but since they were from another state the the police probably wouldn’t do anything. Ill take any judgement at this point bc i do live in a place where road rage happens often since a lot of people do speed here.