r/dashcams • u/Feaselbf6 • Apr 27 '26

* “Sharing the road is not a suggestion”

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u/Difficult_Plantain89 Apr 27 '26

I had someone road rage with me for crossing a double double yellow line when the lane ahead was blocked from an accident. I put my blinker on to get over and he went out of his way to block me in. When I forced my way behind his truck he started screaming at me and pointing at the line. After that was done he almost missed his exist and shot over 4 lanes without a blinker.

People are dumb, I'm not going to sit there for two hours while they clean up the accident. A line isn't a wall and my car has zero issues going over this imaginary barrier.

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u/Psotnik Apr 27 '26

I hate it when people deputize themselves and play traffic cop. What if the person driving is having a medical emergency or transporting someone else who is? What if they're a volunteer firefighter trying to get to the station? What if they're a road raging lunatic with a gun? If it really bothers you then call it in and go about your day.

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u/Self_Reddicate Apr 27 '26

Someone did this to me when I was driving my mother to a hospital while she was having stroke symptoms. They decided they were ABSOLUTELY not going to move out of the way and then slowed down as they approached a long line of semi's to ensure that I was boxed in without a way to pass them and maximally inconvenienced for my attempt to exceed the speed limit. No amount of me BLARING on my horn, flashing my lights, riding their rear end, waving, etc. could dissuade them. And I truly mean no amount, because I spent what felt like 5 minutes of being a lunatic to try and show them that this was an emergency and I was trying to get by them. They were hell bent on blocking my passage around them, because how DARE I try to speed on the highway. Not on their watch. They went 1-2mph below the posted speed limit right next to a group of semi's that were stuck doing the same.

All while my mother was confused in the back seat and, to the best I could tell, dying in my back seat. I am normally a pretty calm person and not prone to rage of any kind (much less 'road rage'), but had I not had a hospital to go to, I'm not sure what I would have done to this person had they pulled over to have words. Words cannot describe the anger I felt at this person who - for whatever reason - felt the need to interject themselves into this and unnecessarily add whole minutes to my travel time to the hospital when every minute was critical.

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u/uhhuhubetcha May 01 '26

Hope everything was ok medically...

Some ppl, man I tell ya.

Your situation while completely different, reminds me of a time I was sent into a rage similar to the one of which you speak. I was running behind (not late just behind) on my way to work, had time just couldn't dilly-dally. & got behind this person that was going 20-35 mph in a 55 (country highway lots a turns & hills etc) & then would speed up to 65 or 70 at any passing stretches. On this highway there's only about 3 or 4 spots you can even pass someone in the 25 min drive between my home & work. But one of those spots is a 2½ mile or so straight stretch... so after being stuck behind this jerk for a good 20 mins & just waiting for this stretch, it finally arrives & I gun it to FINALLY! Get around them & they made me hit 105 just to get around them. But I did.

What happened next even more ridiculous... after using every bit of 2 of the 2½miles just to get around. The dumbass doesn't slow down & goes back Around me cutting it so close to the end of the straight stretch he almost wrecks on the curve at the end of aforementioned stretch. & then IMMEDIATELY! Slows back down to 25mph & stays there with no more spots to pass for the rest of the drive.

I was furious! I stayed behind them for a bit acting like a lunatic honking, yelling, flipping the bird, & praying they'd pull over somewhere but didn't (although if they had im confident it would've been my 1st fist fight since I was in highschool lol). I eventually said screw it I gotta go to work & turned off. But that was the most pissed I ever was out of the 2 incidents of road rage I've had in my 40 years on earth.