12/04/2026
Let's be completely honest for a moment...
Tailgating is not impatience.
It is not a personality trait.
It is not something we should just accept as part of driving in Britain.
It is dangerous driving.
Full stop.
And I need people to understand what is actually happening when someone sits two feet from your bumper at 70mph.
At 70mph, you are covering 31 metres every single second.
Thirty-one metres.
The stopping distance at 70mph is 96 metres.
That is the length of nearly 10 double decker buses.
When someone is tailgating you at 70mph, they have removed any possibility of stopping in time if you brake suddenly.
Any possibility.
None.
Zero.
They have made a collision mathematically inevitable in certain scenarios.
And their justification?
You're going too slow.
Move over.
I'm in a hurry.
As if being in a hurry suspends the laws of physics.
As if needing to be somewhere sooner somehow changes your stopping distance.
It does not.
And the people who do it most aggressively?
Almost never actually get anywhere faster.
Because the motorway is a motorway.
There are 30 cars in front of you doing the same speed.
Sitting on my bumper is not going to move them.
It is just going to terrify me.
And potentially kill us both.
The fine is up to £100 and three points.
For an offence that kills hundreds of people every year.
Hundreds.
Here is the question I want you to actually sit with.
If you rear-ended someone because you were tailgating and they needed to brake suddenly, and they died, could you live with the fact that you were close enough to see their eyes in the rear view mirror?
Because some people already can't.
Back off.
