On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:19:21 +0000, Vir Campestris wrote:

On 25/01/2016 08:35, Adrian wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 21:32:50 +0000, Vir Campestris wrote:

shrug
I've always found the best solution to such fears is "Don't crash".
Simple.

The other day I saw a stopped truck on the other side of the road.
Behind the truck was a car with a slightly damaged bonnet.

And a slightly more damaged boot.

Half a dozen cars behind was a mangled mess of metal that might once
have been a car or a van, with another truck pressed firmly into the
remains.

With a 2CV you would of course be more likely to be in the truck lane
than the other one on that dual carriageway...

Migod. This explains why I've been killed to death at least
seventy-three times over the third of a century I've been driving 2cvs,
across the US and from the southern tip of Greece to Northern
Scandinavia...

You've been lucky - and probably good as well. The guy in the
van/car/whatever wasn't.

I've only been tailgated once in ... lets think... half a million miles
or so. That doesn't mean it won't happen tomorrow. A colleague of mine
was braking for some roadworks, and looked in his mirror. Swerved into
the cones, and watched the car he'd been following get tailgated.

It's only happened to me once in 47 years of driving. It was slightly
unusual. A line of cars was cruising along a straight road (one lane
either way). A boy racer came up behind and overtook the entire line. He
then either (a) noticed a sharp blind bend ahead or (b) saw a vehicle
approaching from the other direction.

In any event, his solution was to swerve into a small gap in the line
(behind me). He was going far too fast and rear ended me.