We discussed this twice in the past - the last one being a 20 page "marathon" on "Tailgaters - Had enough" and another one "Tailgating Cameras" (you may find these of interest - especially the link regarding "Traffic Waves") a bit back.
The M6 and M62 have chevron marks on trial stretches - and these seem to be adhered to each time we've driven on them (speak for whole family on this.) These have been in place for past 5 years to my knowledge.
Personally I'd love to see the old "Only a Fool breaks the tow second rule "advert again as this actually explained
how to do this. Lot of people look a bit blank when asked how to measure the two seconds. Personally I tend to look at a marker and recete either "one thousand and one, one thousand and two - just right
" if I pass the same marker on the "two"
Allegedly, it takes two seconds to say the catch phrase as well. Gatsomate has another version if I remember correctly - which is much catchier.
My son encountered a tailgater from hell yesterday. He's 17 and he'd taken his mother down to Manchester. According to my wife - he handled two "nasties" like a "pro". (one idiot on a motorway and a class one twazak on an urban road - almost twice the speed limit on a road with parked cars on each side!
)
In m/way roadworks -my son slowed gradually so that he was at limit by passing the sign. But this did not stop the idiot behind from braking hard. Guy was not paying attention to the road ahead of him. . For the remainder of the 40 mph tempo - this guy drove about 0.5 seconds from the rear bumper. I h do not know whether or not it was because be perceived a young lad in a flash car (they used my wife's car- and Wildy can pass for half her age as well
) My lad held his speed down to 38 mph (per the GPS) and the guy was flashing his lights and gesticualting.
They were in an area crawling with temproary Gatsos as well.
Wife observed from the passenger mirrors - middle aged bloke in a Focus!) Guy kept this up for entire 5 miles of the roadworks.
Not a lot he could do to shake off the guy - he could not accelerate as he was exactly two seconds behind the car in front - and to do so might have resulted in a Gatso trig in any case. There were no exits in these roadworks - as he would have just exited and rejoined to get rid of him.
As soon as my lad reached the NSL again - he took off and left him standing
You usually find these type have limited skills.
Incidentally - 40 mph for this stretch of road works is about right as it's a busy stretch and there are lot of workmen around.
Matter of education and enforcement and, as luck would have had it - policeman was mounted at a police surveillance site about a half mile after the road works. He was using his hairdryer as well - as the laser alert bleeped at 67mph!
Our lad is disciplined and perceptive!
Sounds about right!
Just nab people in case they accelerate a bit to much after the slow down and jams....
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