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Just a quick (serious) warning to anyone who travels on the M3.....was heading down from Surrey to Southhampton last week, in the outside lane, all travelling @ 50mph approx and all gently braking and accelerating as we went through roadworks (everyone keeping safe distances etc). Suddenly mr Vectra came shooting down the middle lane and went to undertake me (which was going to improve his position in the heavy flow of traffic by absolutely nil)....my outside lane was already braking at this point and so his aggressive actions caused myself (and the cars behind me) to effectively emergency brake to avoid contact. Needless to say I was most unimpressed and expressed my discontent with the preferred method of flashing and gestures implying that I knew what he did behind closed doors.....in retrspect this was not the wisest move.....at the flashing, the bloke in the car WENT ABSOLUTELY INSANE! His whole torso was out of the window facing back at me whilst he swore, threatened to kill me and then threw a hard metal box at my car which clipped the bonnet. He then slammed on his brakes and dispite the fact that I had fully backed off by now, I had to brake very hard to avoid running into the back of him......then it got really interesting.....Mr Vectra pulled up alongside me and started trying to ram his bloody car into the side of me - several times I was literally within inches of the central reservation with nowhere to go and had to emergency brake. The rest of the traffic at this stage had seen what was going on and had cleared a bit of space for me to manouvere out of his way, but without a clear road there was no way of immediate excape.....this went on for a further 15 miles or so and in that time I called 999, as the bloke was going to cause a serious accident and seemed relentless in literally ramming me off the road....eventualy I managed to sharply pull off a slip road whithout him being able to follow....but had we stopped on the hard shoulder to discuss our differences Im sure hes the sort of nutter who would have pulled a knife or something similar. The scariest thing was that it was a brand new vectra and the bloke looked about 30 ish and reasonably respectable - and yet he could have easily landed a part in American Psycho! For the record it was a green 5 door vectra reg - DE51 MBX. I fully intend the follow things up with the police, as they said they would visit him and get statements from me etc. Just thought Id share this with everyone in case you either come across this fruitcake or find yourself in a similar position.....think I might trade in for a big old Hum V.....