‘There’s nothing you can do about them’: how do you deal with tailgaters?

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People driving too closely behind you can be a pain, but can also be incredibly dangerous on the road. We’re asking people in Cardiff how they deal with them, and if they’d like to see the police do more.

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00:00Well I have experienced it but if I do get someone up my backside I usually just

00:06move over if I can move over otherwise I just maintain my speed because there's

00:11nothing you can do about them they're gonna come up your backside but if I

00:15can I'll move over but otherwise I'll maintain speed yes my husband's been

00:19driving and we do a lot like really gives you time to turn they're like right on

00:23your bum so yeah I think it is it seems to be a problem but I don't drive here

00:29enough to know yeah a lot actually it's one of the biggest things that

00:35frustrates me the most really because I've got two kids so when they're in the

00:39car especially and someone drives up that close behind me if anything goes wrong

00:43that's my kids in danger so it's they should really be doing something about

00:47that and I think if they can it's just gonna make it safer and more kind of

00:50enjoyable experience for everybody really to police the motorway and to do it

00:56effectively you're going to need the resources which they haven't got

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