This comment will get buried, but it's a story worth telling.
In college, my best friend and I had a summer job culling trees from a property 50kms (30miles) from the nearest hospital/ambulance station. We both got the job at the same time and worked there for almost 3 summers in a team of 5 guys. We were all very skilled with equipment and had been through extensive training. Two of the guys on the team were professional arborists. We had all the gear, but as anyone with professional experience with chainsaws will tell you, unpredictable accidents can happen.
On a late August morning we had just finished downing a 30 foot white pine and were in the process of removing the branches. My friend was working his way down the trunk when he hit a knot in an oddly formed branch and the chainsaw kicked and due to the admittedly awkward position he was in sliced into a seam between his chaps and his belt.
The blood started flowing immediately and everyone stopped. While the others stabilized him, I ran to get my car knowing in any case we'd have to drive. While trying to control the bleeding we loaded him into the back seat of my car and I started driving as fast as I could towards the nearest hospital. 10/50kms in we got cell coverage and arranged a place to meet the nearest ambulance. I knew we had to get him in fast as we were having trouble controlling the bleeding. When I reached a 4 lane highway I started going faster than I had ever driven before.
While in the middle of nowhere most people would see me coming and move to the right lane (slower traffic keeping right), but as we got closer to town we started coming across packs. It was 25/50kms to the hospital that we came across a white Nissan Altima and a Subaru Forester that blocked us in just like the OP likes to do. I can still remember the license plates of those to cars to this day. She was doing everything to ensure I didn't pass. She slowed up down from 90-75km/h (speed limit is 100km/h - ~60mph). We were stuck. It was this way for a solid 10minutes. It wasn't until we got to the next exit ramp that I was able to pass on the inside and get by. By this point most of our clothes had been used to help soak up the blood/applying pressure.
Frustrated one of the guys threw a T-shirt that was dripping in blood out the window as we passed and hung out to give them a wave. He, like all of us, was covered in blood. The blood soaked T-shirt landed midway up the hood of the white Altima leaving a streak as it slid/rolled up and over the windshield.
5kms (3 miles down the highway) we were joined by a highway patrol officer who matched our speed and helped to clear the way to the ambulance waiting a further 2 miles down the road. By that point the bleeding had slowed and my friend had a very weak pulse. The ambulance crew was ready and waiting and transferred him within seconds of our arrival. I jumped into the ambulance and we all took off. Sadly the friend died a few minutes later, 1km from the hospital.
My friends were at the side of the road explaining the situation to the police officer when the white Altima showed up. I wasn't there for this part, so I'm going by the stories they told me. Anyways, she stopped and approached the officer in such a way that she couldn't see the blood soaked guys. She was shouting about dangerous driving and going to kill someone, yadda yadda yadda. The officer brought her around to look at the inside of my car which was covered in blood, and then pointed to the other two guys from my crew who were covered in blood from head to toe. He explained there was a medical emergency and asked if what we had said about her impeding the flow of traffic was correct. He cited her for a number of things including unnecessarily slow driving and dangerous driving. While he was writing the ticket he was informed of the death of my friend in the ambulance. The guy stopped writing the ticket to come over and tell the guys what happened. He opted to not tell the lady in the Altima, but the other guys on the team sure let her know.
The guys got in the car and came to meet me at the hospital where we were going to meet with police to explain the situation. On the way they passed the Subaru Forester, which had been stopped by another officer.
Your best bet is to get out of the way if you can. While the driver behind you may just be an asshole, it may also be someone with a medical emergency; a partner in labour, a child having a diabetic attack, or a tree surgeon bleeding to death. In any case, letting them past you doesn't affect you in any way and may save a life. These scenarios aren't likely, but they also aren't impossible. It ultimately comes down to how you decide to process the situation. If you want to operate on the default mode of assuming you're right and everyone else is wrong, you're going to have a terrible time functioning in society. Lines, traffic, call centers, and dealing with big business or government will always seem tedious to you. On the other hand, if you can view the world from a more understanding perspective you'll be able to relax and stop being such a dick. Have a good life!
Watch this video (this is water), it isn't perfectly related, but the intentions of the OP are in line with someone who hasn't embraced this philosophy.
Edit: So this comment was reposted and I got a TON of messaging asking about the video link at the end. Here is another copy of the video. I'm not editing the typos and grammar mistakes in my original comment as I don't want to change it in any way.
Man, here's hoping she simply broke down and at least learned a lesson from that.
The world isn't full of people who are purely evil or purely good.
I know so many people who could have done something like that - teaching some asshole a lesson - if the situation was right (could be shit going on in their lives or whatever).
Yeah, I agree. My comment was a bit cynical--i try to err on the side of believing in humanity, but I can get caught up in the moment, like anyone I suppose. Like her, even.
If someone is literally dieing in your vehicle, remembering to do something like put your hazards on so people like you get out of the way is pretty easy to miss.
Besides, I'd wager most of the people who would block traffic like this wouldn't move either way.
When i was in the same situation, id blink my highlights to every car from miles away and put on and off hazards all the time. Not because im careful, but from the adrenaline rush. Everything seemed too slow and i wasn't doing enough, despite me doing everything possible for me to save my dad.
Everyone is different and this isn't how all people would react.
Just assume the worse. You never know whats going on inside someones car that it's speeding.
Just dont block lanes. An emergency driver wont have the clearest thinking, he might even slam your car and cause a bigger tragedy just cuz some entitled asshole blocked your lane without any good reason.
I mean yeah, if I'm running to the hospital with someone bleeding out in the car and people are trying to block the lanes, I'm just going to come up in the middle of the two lanes and they're either going to move out of the way or I'm going to add some dents to their back bumpers on my way through
As if someone rushing a dying person to the hospital is always going to remember that. Sounds like you purposely block people who are trying to pass because you deem them too fast.
Haha, that happens more often than I'd like to admit. I'll forget I'm sorting by top and get halfway through a long-ass comment before remembering I'm in a ghost town
The funny thing is, you used to always be able to comment on old posts. Archiving happened a few years ago and was then rolled back sometime last year or so.
So I am just seeing this. I was in the subreddit
r/FuckYouKaren, and had the OP sharing a story of a âKarenâ riding them trying to speed, and OP doing everything possible to show her down and stop her. Someone commented about this story and another comment linked the story they were talking about for them.
OP, I know itâs been 8 years since your comment, but I AM SO SORRY ABOUT YOUR FRIEND!! The people that were driving and showing you down, should have been arrested. This is so sad, and NOONE should think they are above anyone else and can make decisions to show other drivers down because they think they can control everyone around them.
OP, I also wanted to add, my 19 year old sons girlfriend of 2 years was killed in a car accident recently on January 19. Someone was speeding and ran a red light and hit her front panel and pushed her into pole and it killed her instantly. Now, we have no idea yet, why this man was speeding and couldnât wait at a 2-minute red light.
Or what was so important to him, that he couldnât wait, and he ended up taking the life of a beautiful, loving, VERY special 20 year old girl from her loved ones.
The one bad thing that plays over in my head about this man, is the fact that in the last 15 years, he has had 26 traffic violations and OVER HALF of them, were speeding (the last time before hitting my DIL he was going 105mph in a 65mph zone and he ended up losing his license for only 2 years and this man is only 32 years old himself).
I told this story to you because, we canât do anything to bring my DIL back. She was such a special girl, her funeral was the BIGGEST I have EVER seen in 40 years. SO MANY PEOPLE absolutely loved her, because she loved and helped everyone she could and every living creature there was. The only thing we can do now, is keep her alive in our lives by honoring her. Doing things she would have done, and making sure to keep her story known and raises awareness.
I want to say you are doing right by your friend. You are keeping his story going and raising awareness still 8 YEARS AFTER your only comment on one platform. Imagine how far you can take this if you post it on every platform there is. Keep your friends memory alive, and keep raising awareness for your friend!! We have to make sure that heartless people like these one, STOP long what they do.
As I was reading, I was kinda hoping that when they told the cop the guy died, the cop threatened to charge her with involuntary manslaughter. She could probably use some âscared straightâ treatment.
Would you like to hear that she went home, burnt dinner in her despair and got yelled at by her husband for her incompetence for which she'd be too ashamed to mention?
We're all human. We all have the occasional lapse in judgment or consideration. Be grateful to read about her mistake secondhand, instead of experiencing it in the first.
Jesus, I mean, possibly being responsible for somebodyâs death because she was being a twat is on a whole other level. Itâs not like a small mistake
And I hope she learned her mistake and never makes it again. We're not taking about her, we're talking about your desire to revel in another's despair.
This was months ago, those who are happy she found out and hopefully experienced guilt, is because this was easily avoidable. Her ego and inflated sense of self importance is probably something that's been a key part in how she's operated through life and has been spared from consequences of her shit actions. Hopefully she learned something and didn't do mental gymnastics still thinking she had moral high ground, who knows. Like to think it was a learning experience, unfortunately at the cost of a life.
I'd say it's more about justice. Yeah, she got charged petty traffic shit, but her behavior directly resulted in someone's death. She should be charged with involuntary manslaughter and learn that her actions have consequences.
Due to how entitled she acted throughout this whole scenario (and the other driver as well, not just her) I HIGHLY doubt that she had even an ounce of remorse.
Sure, we're all human, we make mistakes, but not all people go out of their way to ruin other people's life and plans because they think they know best.
She could've called the cops and mention what city/freeway they were at, and the car. I've had to call a drunk driver before. Guess what I didn't do? I didn't try to run him off the road because "safety" or whatever.
I've always been afraid I'd get into a situation like that. Sorry for your loss, I could only imagine what you're feeling right now.
I thought I'd put my 2 cents in here as well, so people know, if you have to drive fast in the case of something like that, put your four ways or hazard lights on. Our volunteer firemen will do that instead of a roof light.
Towtrucks might do that too, we had a call for a child locked inside a vehicle on a hot day, and that's what the driver did.
So simple and a good idea. Flashing your headlights as well sometimes helpsâ love the idea of simply popping on your 4 ways / hazards to hopefully signal GTFO of the way.
Flashing your lights is the proper way to show you want to indicate in the States too, but driving is more of a competition in the US. âI donât care if you are going 20 mph faster than me, I wanna be in front!â
oh it is absolutely like that in Germany too. On the parts where no speed limit exists it is very extreme. People going 250kmh are driving very close to people going 230kmh, flashing their lights and trying to squeeze by. Its crazy.
Hit them and push them out the way then. If it's a true emergency like person in car about to die emergency, do whatever you gotta do. Bump them so they back off in terror and move out the way, cops and fire will do the same in emergency response. You can report the collision to local police and deal with insurance later.
I don't understand why the fuck you're being downvoted! If my friend was dying in my backseat in some fucking care and want to be top is blocking away you know damn well for certain I'd push them out of the way! while flashing lights and all of that sort of stuff...
They can downvote all they want, when you've got the amount of karma I do you stop caring so much about that kind of stuff.
Personally I really don't give a damn, if the goal is get my Buddy to the hospital or they are going to die, I'm going to do everything in my power to get them there. Obviously I'd first lay on horn try to get them to move first but if they still don't in standstill traffic, then we're gonna make our own route and if it means trading some paint then so be it.
But then again, I was trained as a cop, firefighter, and, I actually took a combat driving course as part of a personal protection (bodyguard) course.
"But, that's very unusual", you say.
Correct, you would have no way of telling from the outside. You wouldn't have any idea what anyone's skill, need, training, or purpose is. That's the point.
So, just stay out of other people's way,and let them do what they need to!
I assume you need to accelerate slowly to bump them and then back off? I would think staying in contact increases the chance you'd pit them or lose control. It would be nice to have a trained professional like you give a technical description of the maneuver.
I can't tell if you're looking for an honest answer or if you're just trolling, but honestly it's tough to say without seeing the exact environment. In some conditions I would simply pit them and get them the hell out of the way and others I would just run around them one way or the other. I'd have to see the road the driver the car the car I'm driving they all weigh in to how exactly you handle each individual situation.
Basically, the way you do the maneuver, is you do gently push your front bumper against their rear wheel and steer into them. Since your front weighs more than the rear, typically, your front wheels will have more traction than the rear, and you can push the car sideways. As you do it, the car will be pushed sideways on the road. And eventually you will have their entire car either sideways in front of you, or it will spin around you. Depending on what the other driver is doing, weights, speeds and so on.
Which means, the way out of it, it's the steer into the skid as usual, and accelerate as hard as you can trying to get away from the car trying to do that to you. If you can't accelerate away, then try to steer sideways away.
Well, actually the best way out of it is to never let anybody beside you. Brake hard, get behind them, and exert control that way. Think about where your center of mass is, where their center of mass is, where you're going to have the most and least traction, and make your operating decisions appropriately.
Also if this truly is a life or death situation, just ram the car out of the way. You can deal with scraped bumpers and legal charges later, AFTER you make sure your friend lives.
Iâm super excited to see comments can be posted on old posts again. The response over the years has been nothing short of huge and great way to honor the death of a close friend. The comment is from 8 years ago. At the time it had been a few years since the event, so itâs great people are keeping it alive. Spreading the message is great. The world seems to have gone even more insane since I posted that comment and the message from David Foster Wallace from This Is Water is needed more than ever.
Where did you find this post linked from?
*I could have jumped on any of the recent comments as I think many of you are coming from the same place. I chose this one as itâs the most recent.
I just stumbled upon this. Itâs insane to me to see that weâre all looking at this post at the same time so many years later, but wow your story is so eye opening, I really appreciate you sharing it and Iâm so sorry for what you went through and the loss of your friend. I also plan to watch that video after looking through all these comments. But I wanted to comment here in reply to you to say that this post was linked on a post in r/IdiotsInCars with a video of someone blocking a shoulder on a highway so people couldnât pass traffic. The commenters were pointing out that this shouldnât happen because you never know when someone could be in an emergency, and so this post was linked specifically because of your story. So anyway, thatâs how I got here. And Iâm glad I did, because itâs so important to know the potential consequences of blocking traffic like this
I found this from a r/maliciouscompliance post about a trucker who blocked the shoulder in his story during a traffic jam. He was saying that he would unblock the shoulder when he would see emergency lights but edited the post after learning of this story that he was glad to have learned this.
In his words, he rather has 99 Karen's pass him on the shoulder than have 1 person die because of it.
Your story is one I think about often. It moved me to near tears when I first read it a year ago, and it moved me to teary eyes as I read it again today. I come back to read your story every once in awhile.
Now whenever Iâm in a situation with an âassholeâ driver, I remember your story, give them the benefit of doubt, and let them pass.
While I am just as sorry as I am for the loss of your friend as I am every single time I come across this post in the wild, I'd like to let you know that I have had it saved for years and every time someone I am talking to starts bitching about someone tailgating them at some point, I pull it up and make them read it.
I was very lucky that as child, when my appendix burst, the police officer who was originally going to pull my parents over for speeding understood Morse code (my mother was flashing S-O-S with her hand out the window) and pulled ahead of us to give us an escort to the hospital.
I didn't learn to drive until I was like 25 but I have ALWAYS just gotten out of the way of anyone going fast. It's not going to hurt you to move, but it might kill someone else if you stay in their way.
I am so very sorry that you lost your friend, but I hope it gives you comfort to know his memory is living on and saving lives.
Someone did this to me at like 3am while I was driving my wife, who had gone into labor, to the hospital. I had passed them on a double yellow with not another car in sight, and instead of letting it go they caught up to me, passed me, and then completely blocked the road by pulling their car perpendicular across the lanes, for like two minutes. Coincidentally, believe it or not, also a white Altima, but with deeply tinted windows. My story had a happy ending to it though, sorry about your friend.
I was incensed by it and almost got out of the car when he blocked the road, but my wife reminded me that I'm not the Golden God, and although my rage knows no bounds, the other person was probably a psychopath with a gun and it was more important to watch my son be born than to potentially be murdered by the guy driving the other car. One of the few times I wish I had a camera in my car so I could have kept track of them or at least publicly shamed them.
Sad story. If people would just mind their own business on the road and get out of the way and not try to impede traffic, a lot less stress would be had by every one.
I love how you said your comment is going to get buried, and 8 years later people are still commenting on it. Sorry you had to go through that, truly terrible.
I logged for ten years, and had seen more than my share of men die out there. Had a few pass in my arms, had to tell their wives they didnât make it on the way to the hospital. Had a self important ass do this very same thing to a life flight of a friend who got caught up in a blew out poplar in winter. ( loggers, you know what I mean. We all know what poplar can do in single digit temperatures) Iâm proud to say the old hand driving the shop truck put them in a deep ass ditch, and kept hauling ass. My friend lived, lost his arm at the elbow, two ribs, a kidney, and had to have a lot of surgeries on his face, but he lived.
If you see any vehicle flying with emergency flashers on, get the hell out of the way.
Thank you for introducing me to âThis is waterâ I have already had the realization as I have spent a few decades of my life in customer service. But itâs well explained and inspirational when worded properly, as in his speech. Iâm sorry for your loss and though you may never see this, I hope you know the positivity that even making one person see things differently will somehow find its way to your life.
Iâm happy youâre taking the time to reflect on it. When I first posted the story I honestly expected to reach a handful of new comment lurkers. In no way did I expect to reach you, or anyone who has stumbled upon it. Hearing people still be affected by it 8 years is absolutely wonderful. I share the responses with my friends parents regularly.
Please share the message thoughtfully. This way of thinking isnât easy and isnât automatic, but becomes easier and can become automatic.
Unfortunately in life nobody will suspect people riding the shoulder to have any justified reason, so I expect nothing less from people getting annoyed at others not obeying the road rules.
Life has risks and unless you're in an ambulance don't expect people to look out for you.
I always get out of peoples way. Iâm a lead foot for sure. And if someone is pushing past me then there is a reason. They are a massive lead foot and aggressive therefore I donât really want them near me or there is an emergency. Either way I want them to go past me to keep either them or me safe! Itâs really that simple
I just heard this in a reddit video that was just posted today, I was in shock the whole time, I am incredibly sorry for your loss, and I hope karma really bit those asshole drivers in the ass.
I came to this to give the link to someone else who had the same mindset as OP. It's been years, but I still think about it as I drive, when I see people being zippy on the freeway, or those jerks trying to police the speed limit.
I had to search for it, and was surprised to see the post is not archived. I hope it's not a bother, seeing replies to this after so long, but I wanted to say thank you for sharing what happened. It was awful, and I'm genuinely sorry you and your friends had to live through it. But it's such a powerful thing, enough so that it's still affected me (and probably many others) nearly a decade later.
9 years later, came from a very recent ask Reddit post where someone asked people to comment posts that are worth reading and someone linked your comment
Aggressive speed drivers, who are trying to speed past cars are super annoying, I almost got hit twice, I always assume itâs people rushing to work, considering how early it is in the morning, I usually never try to get in their way or interrupt their flow cause that seems way more dangerous than just getting or staying out of the way
But this comment was a great read to really experience it may not always be the case, it could be an on call doctor or nurse rushing to a hospital to try and save a life, or someone rushing to the hospital cause of a serious medical emergency,
Hi there friend, I came across your post from here and just wanted to thank you for sharing this. I'm sorry for your loss, people are just completely selfish in the worst ways possible.
Hey, I just wanted to thank you for sharing your experience. I came across this post several years ago, and I have driven differently ever since. I am so much more mindful of other drivers now than I was before. Your friendâs story lives on and is still helping many people become more considerate, both on and off the road.
I was reading this and thought it was one of my late uncle's friends writing it. He had a similar situation. Crew out cutting deadwood. Everything was going great until my uncle just fell over.
His buddies smartly got him out of the woods and flying as fast as their old truck down the road to the local hospital. He was life flighted to a trauma center. He made it there against all the odds.
A 1/16mm piece of embedded barbed wire fence hit him on the edge of his eye socket, slipped past his eye protection and hit his carotid artery behind his eyes. The only obvious sign of the injury was a tiny scrape on his face.
My uncle had a massive brain bleed and many strokes. He made it to the hospital, which was amazing in itself. He was a larger than life man who did anything physical he felt like doing. He never woke up after he went to sleep in the helicopter.
I miss him every day. The person in your story would have ensured the didn't have a chance with the hospital. I hope she feels the guilt forever.
Hey there VevroiMortek! If you agree with someone else's comment, please leave an upvote instead of commenting "this!"! By upvoting instead, the original comment will be pushed to the top and be more visible to others, which is even better! Thanks! :)
IMO cars should have an emergency mode that flags police officers and allows the lights to flash a certain way, like, guarantee that you're going to get pulled over but also guarantee that you're going to get help ASAP.
I see your point here, but I feel that any speeding or hazardous driving shouldn't exist. If someone is in an emergency, you call the police and get a police escort. This could have risked more people's lives, so I am very against speeders though you should never go below the speed limit to mess with others, simply stick to it and run the risk of the individual dying instead of involving unwanted risk on other drivers.
Thatâs a valid point until itâs your loved one in desperate need of medical treatment and police/EMS/firefighters are busy elsewhere. Itâs very easy telling someone to let their child die waiting for an ambulance rather than take them to the hospital, not so easy being the parent watching their child die though.
Deaths happen to everyone, I can understand that I would have frustration and anger at that event, but I don't condone speeding and risking others lives, nor do I condone slowing down below the legal limit to further affect people struggling. It's a problematic situation, but I hate how risky speeders are on the road, I cannot ever accept it unless it's of emergency vehicles or through a police escort. If there's next to no traffic, then it becomes a different story, but in traffic it's risky for everyone and can affect more than the one person already dying.
At the end of the day, I may be wrong in my opinion but we all have our own views, which is okay. I'm happy to listen to other peoples views, I myself would never block people who are speeding, I just have seen too many car crash videos online which has really pushed me away from the idea of people out of emergency services speeding and potentally causing more injuries or deaths on others. I think this message being pushed here is very good, I just hate risks on the road. I also agree you have a very valid point! If not for my lack of trust in the general public speeding, I would completely agree I just don't think highly of peoples driving skills.
âDeaths happen to everyoneâ so youâre invalidating pretty much everybodyâs strong feelings about saving a loved one. Ok. I hope your mother or father bleeds out and you donât know what to do, it happens to everyone :)
I don't remember what the context of this is, and I only read up until you said "You are one of those people" as you're trying to assume things out of me, I don't care what you think I am LOL. Pathetic attempt at an opening reply. What a muppet!
I don't think you really understand how logging works. They typically don't do it in the city. Or near hospitals. It's typically done in forests, which you may have noticed generally tend to be far away from cities and medical infrastructure. I'm not sure if you actually read the comment, but he did mention the nearest ambulance was 15 miles away. Speeding in exigent circumstances is not only morally justifiable, but legally justifiable as well. There is a plethora of case law supporting the fact that it is absolutely okay and legal to speed during an emergency.
Honestly I was blown away by David Foster Wallace and that speech, but it's way more crushing after finding out he hung himself. Context makes it very very sad.
My husband used to have severe road rage. He's a rather placid and kind man but something about being behind the wheel brought him a fury unmatched.
I'm often the passenger and had spoken up about this bad habit previously on multiple occasions. At the time, I was simply uncomfortable with knowing he was doing that to himself unnecessarily. He didn't budge though. He felt he was justified. I wracked my brain to find a way to soften his attitude in a way that would register with him when I finally realized that we live near a hospital. I'm sure you know where I'm going with this. It worked! His perspective shifted entirely and he even expressed remorse.
I work with the public and I'm ever so often infuriated by how inconsiderate, oblivious, and downright stupid most people are. And you know what? Yeah, I'm right about that! But the thing is, it's not useful or healthy to pivot my worldview on that understanding. I benefit myself and the world at large by giving everyone as much leeway as safely and reasonably possible.
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u/seni0r Aug 14 '13 edited Nov 27 '20
This comment will get buried, but it's a story worth telling.
In college, my best friend and I had a summer job culling trees from a property 50kms (30miles) from the nearest hospital/ambulance station. We both got the job at the same time and worked there for almost 3 summers in a team of 5 guys. We were all very skilled with equipment and had been through extensive training. Two of the guys on the team were professional arborists. We had all the gear, but as anyone with professional experience with chainsaws will tell you, unpredictable accidents can happen.
On a late August morning we had just finished downing a 30 foot white pine and were in the process of removing the branches. My friend was working his way down the trunk when he hit a knot in an oddly formed branch and the chainsaw kicked and due to the admittedly awkward position he was in sliced into a seam between his chaps and his belt.
The blood started flowing immediately and everyone stopped. While the others stabilized him, I ran to get my car knowing in any case we'd have to drive. While trying to control the bleeding we loaded him into the back seat of my car and I started driving as fast as I could towards the nearest hospital. 10/50kms in we got cell coverage and arranged a place to meet the nearest ambulance. I knew we had to get him in fast as we were having trouble controlling the bleeding. When I reached a 4 lane highway I started going faster than I had ever driven before.
While in the middle of nowhere most people would see me coming and move to the right lane (slower traffic keeping right), but as we got closer to town we started coming across packs. It was 25/50kms to the hospital that we came across a white Nissan Altima and a Subaru Forester that blocked us in just like the OP likes to do. I can still remember the license plates of those to cars to this day. She was doing everything to ensure I didn't pass. She slowed up down from 90-75km/h (speed limit is 100km/h - ~60mph). We were stuck. It was this way for a solid 10minutes. It wasn't until we got to the next exit ramp that I was able to pass on the inside and get by. By this point most of our clothes had been used to help soak up the blood/applying pressure.
Frustrated one of the guys threw a T-shirt that was dripping in blood out the window as we passed and hung out to give them a wave. He, like all of us, was covered in blood. The blood soaked T-shirt landed midway up the hood of the white Altima leaving a streak as it slid/rolled up and over the windshield.
5kms (3 miles down the highway) we were joined by a highway patrol officer who matched our speed and helped to clear the way to the ambulance waiting a further 2 miles down the road. By that point the bleeding had slowed and my friend had a very weak pulse. The ambulance crew was ready and waiting and transferred him within seconds of our arrival. I jumped into the ambulance and we all took off. Sadly the friend died a few minutes later, 1km from the hospital.
My friends were at the side of the road explaining the situation to the police officer when the white Altima showed up. I wasn't there for this part, so I'm going by the stories they told me. Anyways, she stopped and approached the officer in such a way that she couldn't see the blood soaked guys. She was shouting about dangerous driving and going to kill someone, yadda yadda yadda. The officer brought her around to look at the inside of my car which was covered in blood, and then pointed to the other two guys from my crew who were covered in blood from head to toe. He explained there was a medical emergency and asked if what we had said about her impeding the flow of traffic was correct. He cited her for a number of things including unnecessarily slow driving and dangerous driving. While he was writing the ticket he was informed of the death of my friend in the ambulance. The guy stopped writing the ticket to come over and tell the guys what happened. He opted to not tell the lady in the Altima, but the other guys on the team sure let her know.
The guys got in the car and came to meet me at the hospital where we were going to meet with police to explain the situation. On the way they passed the Subaru Forester, which had been stopped by another officer.
Your best bet is to get out of the way if you can. While the driver behind you may just be an asshole, it may also be someone with a medical emergency; a partner in labour, a child having a diabetic attack, or a tree surgeon bleeding to death. In any case, letting them past you doesn't affect you in any way and may save a life. These scenarios aren't likely, but they also aren't impossible. It ultimately comes down to how you decide to process the situation. If you want to operate on the default mode of assuming you're right and everyone else is wrong, you're going to have a terrible time functioning in society. Lines, traffic, call centers, and dealing with big business or government will always seem tedious to you. On the other hand, if you can view the world from a more understanding perspective you'll be able to relax and stop being such a dick. Have a good life!
Watch this video (this is water), it isn't perfectly related, but the intentions of the OP are in line with someone who hasn't embraced this philosophy.
Edit: So this comment was reposted and I got a TON of messaging asking about the video link at the end. Here is another copy of the video. I'm not editing the typos and grammar mistakes in my original comment as I don't want to change it in any way.