People on the street: What should be done about tailgating?

We went out into Manchester to ask people on the street how they act when they come across tailgaters on the road.

Transcript

00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World. My name is Theo Hewson-Benson. Today I'm out on the streets of Manchester

00:03talking to people about tailgating. And that's because National Highways have launched a new campaign

00:08to try and reduce the amount of tailgating out on the road. We want to know when people are tailgated,

00:13what's their usual approach, how do they try and get out of that situation, and what is their first emotional reaction?

00:19Well, it's intimidating.

00:21It's a deliberate intimidation tactic in most cases.

00:24When I find something on the road that makes me feel less safe, I just slow down.

00:29That usually resolves the tailgating situation fairly quickly because they either check their behaviour

00:34or they get more aggressive and risk-taking, in which case they're not my problem anymore.

00:38I mean, it's a bit infuriating, really, and it's also like you feel like, what am I doing?

00:43But usually they're just angry, so you've just got to let them go past you, really, and not kind of escalate the situation.

00:48Choose peace.

00:49Choose peace, man, because you don't know. You could be in danger in someone's life.

00:54Good for you, man.

00:56Yeah, just let them just go off. Let them overtake you.

00:59Let them overtake you.

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