Tailgating

Posted by: JohnC

28th Jan 2011 07:29am

Something I absolutely hate while driving. There is no reason for it and it is very dangerous. Vicroads teaches to leave a 2 second gap from the car in front, but who can estimate 2 seconds while driving at 100km/hr? It is much better to use a rule of thumb which is 1 car length for every 10km/hr of speed, plus 50% more if the road is wet.

kimc

13th Jul 2011 04:13pm

Both my cousin and my uncle have been tailgated. Except they didn't know that they were being tailgated by an undercover police. My cousin lives in a quite street but he doesn't drive over the speed limit anyway. The undercover police was tailgating him for a few minutes. They was no way to pull over so he had to keep driving. He was driving within the speed limit and that police wouldn't stop tailgating so my cousin decided to go a little over the limit and bang, next thing, the guy revealed himself as a cop and gave my cousin a speeding ticket. The exact same thing happened with my uncle, except he lives in Melbourne and my cousin lives here in Queensland. My cousin, even though he doesn't speed, now has a sticker on his dashboard saying "DO NOT SPEED" but it wasn't his fault anyway.

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