> Anyway. It's terribly foggy tonght. We'd just started off from a traffic
> light, and I was going 60 in a 55 in the fog, in the left lane. Probably
> going a bit too fast. We are maybe a 1/2 mile from where we merge onto
> the main Interstate. This guy comes up and is tailgating me. So as I'm
> going too fast to probably react to something like a deer coming out of
> the fog, I slow down. No brakes. He gets closer. I can't see his
> headlights in my RVM. But I know they are there since he's turned on his
> brights. By this time, the car that's been next to me has pulled a half
> car length ahead. The guy jumps over there, and when there is about 3
> feet distance between the back bumper of the person and my front bumper,
> the guy comes, fast. Fortunately, no one else was tailgating me, because
> I hit the brakes hard and dove for the shoulder. Fortunately, there was
> a shoulder and not a ditch or railing.
First, this guy was being an idiot.
That said, it sounds like if you had followed the rules of the road, this
guy could have blown by and not ruined your night.
You say you were running in the left lane of what was apparently some sort
of highway. Unless you're actively passing, this isn't the place to be.
Sounds like you were basically making a rolling roadblock with the guy in
the right lane. If you were actively passing, you would have completed your
pass and moved back to the right lane, leaving this joker free to drive
blindly into the fog.
Some good reading on a similar subject:
http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=27&article_id=7652&page_number=1
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