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Okay, on my way home today on a side highway that runs the length of the city with very few lights, I pull up to a light and there is a very large dump truck with 2 full trailers of dirt and another large chevy of some sort infront. The road is only one lane but after the light it has a small section where it is two lanes so people can enter onto the road from the intersecting road. So I pull up beside the trucks and pass them when the light turns green as they are very slow and large. The one Chevy guy eventually catches up to me and litteraly drives about one car length away from me while we are travelling at 100km/h (speed limit for that road is 80), so I slow down very suddenly to around 85km/h to let the guy know to back the hell off. He then starts swerving all over the place and gets even closer to me than he was before, I am wondering why he doesnt just pass me as there is not another car in sight. Anyways for about 10km of driving he does this the whole time and I just ignore him.

When we get back onto the main road with two lanes he slams on the gas, pulls up beside me, and gives me the finger! I look over and he has a small boy who looked to be about 4 or 5 in the seat beside him. I am very disturbed that he could be such an asshole and endanger his son (I am assuming it is his son) like this. Speed limit is 80 on this road and that is what I am doing. He slows down to about 70 so I signal to change lanes so that I do not tailgate him, he swerves into the lane I just entered. So I signal and change lanes again and he swerves again. I then slow down to 60km/h because I figure the life of the child is a little more important than playing games with someone. Then when I slow down that much the guy must have slammed on the gas cause he just took off, I went back up to 80km/h and he was gone, I bet you he was doing at least 120km/h. I finished the drive home.

Now what on earth inspired this guy to act in such a way? He is in a large, slower accelerating vehicle and I pass him in a perfectly acceptable and highly used manner. He goes nuts and drives like a complete maniac and endangers both our lives and more importantly the life of the small boy. The road was on the side of the city and it has wildlife all over the place, this could have made for a disaster as there would be no way he could even attemp to slow down in time if there was an emergency. I feel sick to my stomach that people can even do this with children aboard, even if he was alone it would be bad enough.

Any thoughts on what you would have done? Should I have written down his liscence plate and told the city or anything? I honestly didn't really have that much of a problem as people are generally assholes on the road anyways, but when I saw that child my stomach just did flips.