National Highways has launched a campaign warning drivers to keep a safe distance and cut down on tailgating.

Today we ask locals: How do you feel when someone tailgates you on the road—and how do you usually deal with that kind of driving?

Transcript

00:00national highways has launched a campaign warning drivers to keep a safe distance and not tailgate

00:05how do you feel if someone's ever tailgated you on the road does it kind of irritate you

00:11very irritating happens all the time and yeah it needs something needs to happen to it same

00:17with like middle lane lockers on that way yeah they need to clamp down on both so so national

00:22highways have launched a campaign warning drivers to keep safe distances and to kind of cut down from

00:28tailgating have you ever been tailgated like how does it make you feel yeah it makes you feel

00:33threatened in a way it makes you want to go faster which goes against all the safety guidelines of

00:39the road doesn't it so yeah and i definitely wouldn't ever tailgate somebody because it's just

00:44safe just keep your distance you don't know when they're going to stop how quickly they're going to

00:48stop i haven't really i tend to walk as much as i can i think bristol's a really walkable city so

00:54i suppose i use the car if i leave the city but otherwise i'm kind of on foot so or my bike