Today, I was driving on the highway and a cop had his radar gun out. The woman in front of me panics and slams her brakes on, causing me to rear end her. The cop cited me for "tailgating" and I have to pay for the damages on both of our cars. FML
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Today, I was tailgated on the highway. There was a car in the lane next to me, and my tailgater was WAY too close to risk slowing down, so I sped up in order to switch lanes, which bumped me over the speed limit. That's when my tailgater turned on the flashing lights. FML
Today, a cop rear-ended me. Then I received a ticket from him for driving too far under the speed limit. We were in a school zone. FML
Today, I was driving home from work and noticed the car behind me was tailgating me pretty badly. I was starting to get angry with the driver, and kept glancing in my rear view mirror at him. While I was doing so, the traffic ahead of me stopped, and I rear-ended the car in front of me. FML
Today, I was speeding a little on the highway. I thought I saw a police car, so I slammed on my brakes, causing the person behind me to rear end me. The "police car" I saw was just a broken down car on the side of the road. FML
Today, I was driving to work when a state trooper rammed into my car from behind, because he was on the cell phone and not paying attention. He gave me a ticket for "Failure to control speed to avoid a crash." FML
Today, I was driving a little over the speed limit, when I saw a cop car waiting to join the road ahead of me. I quickly hit the brakes so they wouldn't have a payday with me. I hit the brakes too hard, lost control and almost ended up on someone's lawn. FML
Today, I was tailgated by a car with his high beams on for an hour. Any time I changed my speed or lane, he would do the same. I finally managed to get away from him because a cop pulled me over and gave me a speeding ticket. FML
Today, a cop almost rear-ended my car, slammed on the gas with no warning, swerved around me, flipped me the bird, then cut me off and then drove a full ten miles under the speed limit. When I changed lanes to overtake him, he pulled me over for road rage. FML
Today, I was in a car accident. After screaming at the woman for running into me, I got in my car and drove off. As I was driving away, I was staring her down when I ended up rear-ending the person in front of me. FML
Today, some aggressive asshole was tailgating me on my way home, bumping into me twice. I got scared and kicked my car into high gear and got out of there. Seconds later, a traffic cop came out of nowhere and pulled me over for speeding. FML
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MechEngineer 0
Thats the technical definition of tailgating. If you're so close to the other car that in a situation in which the car in front of you suddenly breaks, and you rear end the car in front of you, that would be tailgating. Really, what do you think tailgating is if its not exactly the situation you're in now?
Ilovelife07 0
I cant stand people who slam on their brakes whenever they see a cop. Especially when the dudes on the other side of the highway
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olive_you 0
It's always your fault when you rear end someone. It doesn't matter why the person in front of you hit the brakes. Leave some braking room, fool.
Sneakyxllama 2
It sucks that she slammed on her brakes, but its the law that even if someone in front of you does something like that, you have to be far enough behind that person in order to stop in time. Its your fault for not being far enough away.
Amorbis 0
shittt that sucks. PS. #142 WTF?? hows that relevant
Eiotlrd 0
by definition, it is tailgating if you don't have enough time to stop if the person in front of you slams his brakes or you could just be a shitty driver, I have no sympathy for shitty drivers either way, YDI
christopherlove 0
That's why you keep plenty of distance, especially on the highway. In case somebody must stop suddenly. She was stupid, but you were worse, so you completely deserve it. I hate people like her, but I hate people like you much more.
BulldogQB4 0
To all the idiots saying cops suck you probably don't drive. It sucks for you though. But that's how it is, if you hit someone in front of you even if they hit their brakes it's ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS your fault.
BulldogQB4 0
#109 is clearly a dumb bitch who probably gets in accidents all the time because shes just jammin to Taylor Swift. for those of you not willing to scroll up and see what I'm referencing it goes along the lines of: I wouldn't pay for that shit. Get a lawyer. Hun, that would never hold up in court. Then again, I guess that's why they don't let 14 year olds into law school.
kiit23 0
Okay, it clearly says the woman panics. You can be a safe distance away and still hit someone if they VERY SUDDENLY HIT THEIR BREAKS. Most people arent expecting the person in front of them to suddenly slow down that much. It doesn't mean they were tailgating, and it doesn't even mean they were speeding. People panic. Sometimes that means they were going maybe no more than 5 over, and that OH NOES ITS A COP means they have to go 10 under. It happens. It also says on the highway... so going a fast speed, someone panics, slows down, its really hard to slow down that fast on the highway. The faster the speed, the quicker you catch up to that car. If you stay 2 seconds behind a car, doesn't that mean it takes 2 seconds to hit them if they slow down suddenly? Not much time to realize what's going on and stop. Either way, not tailgating, and the person in front deserves to pay instead.
crazyweirdo101 0
Pay more attention then it was totally your fault you should of had your following distance people slam on there breaks randomly all the time
Truan_fml 0
one of the fundamental rules of driving is to make sure that you have enough room with the car in front of you to not slam into them when they 'slam on the brakes' YDI.