4WD rams P plater in road-rage attack
November 24, 2009 by Matt Brogan
Victoria Police are looking for the driver of a 4WD who intentionally and repeatedly rammed a P plater in Victoria’s north-western suburbs early on Saturday morning.
The car, a Mazda MX6, was written off in the attack when the P plate driver and his friend were rammed from behind.
The driver of the MX6 tried to evade the pursuing 4WD by weaving in and out of traffic, before being rammed a further three times. He then made a U-turn in an attempt to again escape the 4WD before stopping to speak to another driver he thought may have witnessed the incident. Upon stopping the MX6 was rammed twice more.
After the 4WD fled the scene the driver of the Mazda went to a nearby police station to report the incident. The driver of the MX6 and his 18-year-old friend were extremely shaken but uninjured.
With Herald-Sun
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No matter what basic rule this P-plater did to encourage the road rage, it doesn’t deserve a sustained chase.
Wow this would creep me out! Poor guys…
Whoah, wonder what the damage to the 4WD was like
Probably a scratched bull bar 4wd’s are very dangerous cars (sic) to be hit by, they should be banned from driving in the metro area they are for beach driving and country driving only there is no other point to them if u want to move a large amount of people around buy a van.
Yep, 4WDs should be banned from school carparks, shopping centre carparks and a 2 tonne 4WD should have to pay twice as much to use EastLink/CityLink as a 1 tonne Corolla. :-)
totally agree with this. they’re unneccesary.
if not ban large 4wd’s, atleast get rid of bull-bars.
Anyone driving a series 80 Landcruiser/Ford Maverick/old Nissan Navara with huge bullbars is almost definitely a redneck bogan who will tailgate and terrorise motorists for no particular reason. I say round up these inbred retards and castrate them.
You Sir, are a genius!
Guess this makes the 4×4 driver feel like a big man. Maybe he hopes he will not need a magnifying glass to locate his manhood tonight.
For gods sake people have a bit of self control!!!
Well this was certainly not the way to handle the situation, but I have to ask, what was the driver in the Mazda doing to make somebody dish out this sort of punishment? Don’t tell me it was completely unprovoked.
This was a stupid, primitive thing to do as the driver of the 4X4, but a P plater in a coupe? I’d almost be surprised if they weren’t doing something wrong or at least something annoying. I’m not saying the Mazda driver deserved this, but you don’t ruin your front bumper and face possible prison time over nothing.
Certainly the 4X4 driver should be found and banned though. I don’t want that sort of person on the road.
This is typical of the attitude of a lot of the cowboys/girl that drive these trucks. Its not every one of them but I’ve come across quite a few, they have the attitude that “I’m bigger than you so get out of the way!!”
He could have easily killed them, he should be locked up for attempted murder.
you see these bullies everyday on the Brisbane Gateway.
Yay! An opportunity to do some good old fasioned 4WD bashing! For god sake the dude was driving a 4WD yes but if he was driving a van you wouldn’t all be saying lets ban vans, if he was driving a sedan you wouldn’t all be saying lets ban sedans! Get some perspective fellahs! How many maniacs out there drive normal cars? Sure there are a hell of a lot of bad drivers out there in 4WD’s but come on seriously there are a crap load of bad drivers driving normal cars too! Again, just get a little bit of perspective ay? I own a small sedan AND a 4WD and I can assure you my driving attitudes and habbits don’t suddenly change if I jump out of my lancer and into my Patrol.. seriously!
But if he/she was driving a normal sedan, or van, likely he/she would have made a slightly different assessment of the risk to themself and their vehicle before deiciding to act like this.
I wonder what would happen if the driver (or the passenger for that matter) happened to use force against the 4WD during one of these rammings. I am no lawyer but I do suggest a 4wd intentionally chasing & repeatendly ramming a MX6 would be verging on attempted murder, at the very least manslaughter. Surely in such situation one has the right to reasonable and proportional force used self defence?
I bet that p plater won’t be a dickhead again
Sure he won’t be but he never deserved this. Hope they catch the nutball and crush his vehicle in front of him.
i would love that to happen to me, because i don’t think anyone would be able to keep up with me anyways. for some reason i think the p plater provoked the 4wd driver
What make/model/color was the 4WD?
im trading-in my wife’s 4wd to a mazda 3 this friday
I am not condoning this sort of behaviour in anyway but it is refreshing too read about a P plater being terrorised on the roads rather than P platers doing the terrorising which is what I read about and see on a daily basis!
where did you read the 4WD driver wasnt a P-plater?
Good Point. However this is either a case of P platers terrorising each other (a change for once) or a licensed driver giving a P plater their just desserts! (not that this behaviour should be tolerated)
thats crap. i actually had an identical mx6 years ago.. a silver 95! poor car… :(
I would of changed lanes try to get behind the 4WD and ram him up the back and off the road and onto a pole.
jk
But in all seriousness, P-platers act stupid and are typical show-offs on the road. Despite of that, a good finger, toot, tongue lashing, license plate number report, egg on the windshield, dent on the door (when you see the car parked) etc would be sufficient retaliation for some of the typical P-plate road traits..
but ramming them multiple times is a different story… even on my most stressful days, I’d most likely just follow them home and give them a warning that next time I see him drive around like that, he’d/she’d wake up with his/her car torched. Give them a scare… that or a tiny ram on the rr bumper…. :-)
Or how about just ignore it, let them move on out of your way and then get on with your own life??!!! That way you can always give them a smile and a wave when you see them up the road in a ditch/gutter or pulled over by the police!! ;-)
I agree, yell some profanity, flip ‘em the bird, shake your head and move on.
There are a crap load of far more important things in life than getting even with someone who has “wronged” you on the road.
Exactly, there are far more important things in life!! :-)
If you feel really compelled to do something, I have found a smile and a wave instead of a finger etc seems to have more effect on them then than anything else! It is as if they want you to swear/flip them the bird etc when the do the ’stupid’ action. When you smile and wave, it seems to annoy them even more as well as making you feel better and less likely to do anything stupid in retaliation.
You have got the right idea. Don’t reduce yourself to their level (that of an angry rabid monkey) just smile, relax and remember that these people are worthless to you. You don’t work for them, you don’t want to marry their sister, just let it slide and secretly hope to see them on the side of the road up ahead with a copper booking them (toot – smile – wave) or better still, a blowen up engine (same again).
It can help if you accept that every time you hit the road you are going to see at least 2 idiots, then you can count them off, make a little game of it. How long before the 1st one, “Ah, thats 1, 15 miniutes into the trip” “Well done sunshine, thats 2, 21 minutes” Some days you will be suprised to have none.
It’s idiots like you that damage other people’s cars, provoking more and more people to do so. Why cant you be mature enough to let them out of the way. Being a p-plater, if I ever saw someone doing something so stupid as to damage someone elses cars i’d grab their number plate and report them to the police. You truly are stupid for provoking attacks on people regardless of whether they are p-platers or not. Just to further point out your immaturity you say that you’d throw eggs mate are you in year 7, its time to grow up.
Bull Bars should be banned from suburban roads..
Its unnecessary, like a theft-repelling flameflower
Whilst we are at it we may as well ban tow bars for people who don’t have trailers and make it compulsary for people to have a Hayman Reese style removable tongue for when they aren’t towing… ;-)
I’m not sure if it was related but I did see a 4×4 Dual Cab Ute being winched onto a tow truck in the presence of two cop cars, about 5km’s up the road from the incident in Barrymore Rd Greenvale late last night.
Well my Pajero which is lifted and does have a bullbar is freekin awesome and I’m not changing it for anyone! Too bad if you don’t like it, its not your car! While we still live in a free society where you are allowed to buy and do whatever you like then you can all get stuffed and i’ll buy whatever car I damn well like!
Too Right!!
You idiots!! 4wds have every right to be in CBD,etc. And nit everyone is like that
Can’t for the life of me imagine what the P Plater must have been up to. I have to admit that I personally have been tempted to do the same to some of these D heads but have so far managed to let reason prevail. I can sure sympathise with anyone who gets pushed over the edge though.
I think this insane 4wd was living out one of those intense raging moments, you know the one where a p plater decides to overtake cars while the traffic is braking.
If there are no witnesses I would suggest the following scenario, a p plater decides to change lanes during a red light, they sweep into the next lane, another car already under breaking struggles to stop, and then plows into the back, there was no chase, the whole thing could very well be a lie… similar to the “chik chick boom girl”
or
there is a sociopathic 4wd owner out there, who thought what better way to test out their new bullbar, than plow into the back of some p plater with bad taste in music and 2 subwoofers to prove it.
BTW for interstate readers, the western suburbs has the highest concentration of cars with rims-and-stereos-being-worth-more-than-the-car drivers, 2nd only to the eastern suburbs of melbourne.
I think this insane 4wd was living out one of those intense raging moments, you know the one where a p plater decides to overtake cars while the traffic is braking.
If there are no witnesses I would suggest the following scenario, a p plater decides to change lanes during a red light, they sweep into the next lane, another car already under breaking struggles to stop, and then plows into the back, there was no chase, the whole thing could very well be a lie… similar to the \”chik chick boom girl\”
or
there is a sociopathic 4wd owner out there, who thought what better way to test out their new bullbar, than plow into the back of some p plater with bad taste in music and 2 subwoofers to prove it.
BTW for interstate readers, the western suburbs has the highest concentration of cars with rims-and-stereos-being-worth-more-than-the-car drivers, 2nd only to the eastern suburbs of melbourne.
Was the 4WD a late model Prado as there seems to be a disproportionate number of these drivers that love to tailgate and generally bully other drivers.
Sort of the 4wd equivalent of a vy/vx commodore driver.LOL.
Unfortunately these urban assault vehicles are allowed to cruise our city streets for no good reason.
Lifting them basically negates whatever protection u may have in a car.
All five stars out the window because some underendowed moron wants to lift his 4WD.
Lifted 4WD shouldn’t be allowed on the road.
May as well forget about ANCAP if a moron can lift his 4WD and put solid metal bullbars on it.
Funny you seem to be so upsest about lifted 4wds, when your beloved falcadores seem to be significantly more overreprsented in fatal accidents!!
Quiet frankly I haven’t heard of any fatal road accidents caused by 4wds being lifted in years?
While in the last week, how many people died in accidents involing falcadores??
Tool box, don’t forget you can legaly lift your 4wd up to 50mm (in most states even less), before you actully need an Engineers Certificate!!
Also most 4wd these days, need and can afford a decent lift for better offroad function!!
In QLD we never used to have to display “P” plates (up until 2-3 years ago??)
Previously we used to play guessing games to find the P-Platers, but would never truely know. Now it is like a spot light has been put on them, and after you see some silly behavior, and make a guess of P plater action, you can actually see you are right.
You never realised how stupid they are till the spot light was put on them
Pretty easy to spot the lifted 4WD with the 200kg bullnar as it crashes through your A pillar and takes off your head.