THIS is the moment a Volvo driver is forced to reverse back down a road after they overtook 20 cars – but it’s left people divided.
Bob Mantom was driving through Birmingham, West Midlands, on July 22 when he ran into an unexpected roadblock.
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Bob came face to face with a Volvo XC90, which was apparently in the middle of overtaking a lengthy queue of traffic.
Standing his ground though, Bob forced the SUV to reverse right back to where it began, past a slew of onlooking motorists – whilst nearly ploughing into some of them.
Video captured from Bob’s dashcam shows him driving just after 2.30pm on Saturday as he meets the Volvo driver making his way down the wrong side of the road.
Puzzled Bob can be heard from his driver’s seat, asking: “What the hell? Um, you’re blocking me, what are you going to do?”
The Volvo concedes and begins to slowly reverse backwards, leading Bob to think out loud: “So you’re going to reverse in, is somebody going to let you in?”
However, Bob soon gets the answer to his rhetorical question as the queue of cars stay firmly packed closely together, rejecting the Volvo driver who apparently sped past moments earlier.
As the SUV continues to go backwards, Bob urges them to find a safe spot, commenting: “Come on.”
His commentary is interrupted as he gasps in shock, watching on as the Volvo veers wildly over the road and comes mere millimetres from pranging a Ford motor in the queue of traffic.
This leads to Bob again wondering when or if the driver of the SUV will pull over, he says: “Is she going to pull over? You going to pull over, you going to pull over? Nope.”
Bob then allows the driver to reverse onto the right side of the road before they drive past with a toot of the horn, to which he passive-aggressively says: “Yep, bye.”
He shared his ordeal on social media over the weekend writing: “Head on with a Volvo SUV trying to overtake 20 cars in a queue for an island.
“[They] reversed and nearly hit a car doing so, I had cars behind me so unable to reverse – other drivers didn’t let her back in that she overtook, I did give her room to [reverse].
“It’s [the car] not taxed either.”
His post received dozens of likes and comments from shocked viewers who were quick to condemn the driver of the Volvo.
One Facebook user said: “You did just what I would have done, it’s your right of way so make them back up.”
Another added: “Ah, just love it when someone has to do the reverse of shame.”
While a third simply wrote: “Idiot.”
However, not everyone was convinced.
Someone wrote: “They probably thought they were all stationary cars so went past them.”
Then in a later post added: “They were probably dreaming. I’ve seen it happen myself.
“They usually show more aggression if they were deliberately queue jumping and had to reverse.”
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