When I was driving from Sleaford to Louth in taxi on school run on a summers day I caught a car up doing 40mph.Was stuck behind him for ages through all the bends etc near Cadwell,as soon as the road was clear and it was safe I started to over take the car,now it had done the 40mph for miles but as soon as I got alongside him he floored it,I did 65mph to get passed him and pulled in front.Once in front and down to 60mph the car went back to doing 40mph as it fell into the distance,what the hell was the point of such a move?? Glancing at the driver as I went past him he was no boy racer,it was a pensioner so what was he thinking?? This happened more than once with different drivers and I just cannot see why they do it,all it does is endanger everyone on the road...
This is exactly what I'm talking about, not the slight increase in speed which is probably a subconsious human reaction to being overtaken. In the incident I'm talking about it appeared that the three motorists were driving together, fairly slowly, waiting for someone to attempt to overtake them. I caught up with them and drove behind them for a while as, quite often, the rear car may be waiting for an opportunity to overtake. I never tailgate as, in my opinion, that is both annoying and dangerous and should be classed as an offence, and carry an automatic 3 pts and fine. Anyway, as it was obvious they were happy to cruise at 55 - 60 mph all the way to Boston, I overtook them. When I realised the front car was alongside me, and matching my speed, I eased off the accelerator and was going to pull in behind it until I noticed that the other two cars were now blocking me from getting back in the lane. All three vehicles actually slowed as I did, so there was no option other than to complete the overtaking as quickly as possible.
I've seen it happen to other motorists on this same road across from Peterborough, and it has happened to me several times before. This was probably the worst incident as it is usually just one car involved.
It makes you wonder just how many fatalities were caused by this sort of 'game' over the years.