BERLIN (Reuters) - A German truck driver beat up a motorist he believed was driving too slowly in a case of 'road rage' in a country famous for having no limits on stretches of its motorways.

The trucker got in a fight with a car driver who had been slowing him down by observing a 30 km-an-hour (18 mph) speed limit in a built-up area.

Police in the western town of Bochum said the truck driver told them he felt provoked by the motorist "because he was actually driving 30 kph in a 30 kph area." The trucker faces an investigation and may lose his driving license.

I heard something about this on NPR the other day. The fatalities from motor vehicle accidents have continued to rise dramatically there, to the point where they have the highest incidents of this type of fatality world wide. Citizens are beginning to come around very slowly to the realization that there is such a thing as too fast, but many Germans just can't slow down & don't really want to.

id love to beat people who only drive the speed limit
they make me late
its not my fault i left late
its theirs
i must hurt them
damn dirty bastards

it's not the people who drive at the speed limit that piss me off. It's the ones who do 35 in a 50. And who don't understand that yield signs do not mean come to a complete stop and wait until you receive an engraved invatation to merge.
If you're so scared of driving that you need a quarter mile gap in traffic before you'll pull out into it, and that going any faster than 35 requires you to have one foot riding on the brake pedal "just in case" - DON'T DRIVE.

div wrote:it's not the people who drive at the speed limit that piss me off. It's the ones who do 35 in a 50. And who don't understand that yield signs do not mean come to a complete stop and wait until you receive an engraved invatation to merge.
If you're so scared of driving that you need a quarter mile gap in traffic before you'll pull out into it, and that going any faster than 35 requires you to have one foot riding on the brake pedal "just in case" - DON'T DRIVE.

Amen. An excellent example for me would be the James Robertson Pkwy. exit off of I-24 in Nashville. I have to take this to work every day.

Now the exit ramp hits James Robertson, and becomes a new lane of that Pkwy., however there's a yield sign on the shoulder. What I don't understand is that it's a wide open lane, but some idiot has to stop and wait for a mandate from God to proceed forward. I mean, it's a wide open lane, just slow down a bit in honor of the yield sign and GO!!!!

white_darkness wrote:

div wrote:it's not the people who drive at the speed limit that piss me off. It's the ones who do 35 in a 50. And who don't understand that yield signs do not mean come to a complete stop and wait until you receive an engraved invatation to merge.
If you're so scared of driving that you need a quarter mile gap in traffic before you'll pull out into it, and that going any faster than 35 requires you to have one foot riding on the brake pedal "just in case" - DON'T DRIVE.

Amen. An excellent example for me would be the James Robertson Pkwy. exit off of I-24 in Nashville. I have to take this to work every day.

Now the exit ramp hits James Robertson, and becomes a new lane of that Pkwy., however there's a yield sign on the shoulder. What I don't understand is that it's a wide open lane, but some idiot has to stop and wait for a mandate from God to proceed forward. I mean, it's a wide open lane, just slow down a bit in honor of the yield sign and GO!!!!

problem with that is the fact that people drive like psychos in Nashvilel and would prolly jump in that lane and hit you just cause. I was never frightened of driving until I moved to Nashville. Makes me almost miss Bowling Green, at least there some people know what a turn signal was for. and would give you the courtesy of letting you change lanes. whereas in Nashville they seem to take joy out of forcing people onto the wrong interstate or forcing people onto the shoulder or onto exit ramps they don't need.