finnerandr
Member
This happened a few weeks ago, but it has been bugging me and thought that I would run this scenario past you guys and see what you think. I was traveling westbound on Kellogg(Hwy 54) through east Wichita. There is a ton of construction so naturally I was in among a bunch of other cars and it was stop and go traffic for a while. A white Cadillac Escalade got behind me and was riding my back end. He got so close that I no longer could see his grill(I drive a small 4 door saturn). I mean I was actually afraid he was going to make imminent contact. Even when we werent stopped, he was right on my butt. Neither one of us could move because there was construction on the left, and a line of cars on the right. He couldnt pass and I couldnt yield the right of way. Anyways, the construction ends and the road opens up into 3 westbound lanes instead of two. I get in the far left lane and he gets in the middle lane. He pulls up along side my car and it is a middle aged rough looking hispanic guy. We make eye contact. I never made a gesture of any kind, never mouthed anything obscene, nothing. Just looked at him. At that point he drops back into my blind spot and just stays there(Roughly my 4-5 O'clock position). He stayed there for a couple of miles and I was getting uneasy and I would speed up to pass or slow down to let him pass, but he kept pace with me the whole time. I couldnt get behind him because now traffic was pretty heavy again. So I floored it to get in front of him and take the next exit because I was getting scared. I did not cut him off, I made sure there was plenty of room. Im in front of him for roughly 20 seconds before I get on the off ramp. He zooms up onto my butt again and follows me onto the off ramp at which point I punch it and swerve back into traffic on the highway fast enough that he couldnt react and he was stuck on the off ramp. Before I pulled this manuever I made sure the lane was open that I swerved back into. I never put anyone in danger. I never instigated anything with this hispanic fellow. But I sure was scared by the time I made it to where I was going(the gun range!). Anything I should have done different? Should I have let him follow me and just called the cops? Or let him follow me and invite him trapping me at the next light and having a showdown? At the time I feel like I made the right decision, but now a few weeks later I am second guessing myself. Telling myself I over reacted and all that crap. Anyways, sorry for the long post, but let me know what you think. And feel free to share your road rage incidents as well so that we may all learn from them.