[RSBob]

Driving to work yesterday morning at 6:00 AM on a 2 lane highway where the speed is 55, there is a pickup doing 50 on a dry, non-slippery road. Since I gave up tailgating about 10 years ago, I use the 5 second rule and give him plenty of room. I see my opportunity and a broken line on my side and easily pass him leaving about 10 car lengths before pulling back ahead of him. While slowing, I look in the rear view seeing him rapidly gaining on me with another car right in front of me in a no passing area. Meanwhile he is relentlessly burying his headlights in my tail.

I see another passing area which is too short for him to follow and quickly lose him behind the car I overtake. Now back to double yellows for the next 5 miles I relax. Looking in the rear view, I see him passing over the double yellow into an oncoming curve. And then he is again in my tail pipe and I am blocked by another car. I reach for my mobile phone knowing this guy is certifiable and the phone is dead. Hmmm. If I brake-check him he will be into me in a heartbeat, there is so much traffic there is no way to get more than a few car lengths away. Knowing how many people carry guns there is no way I would want to do anything that might piss this low life off further. About another 5 miles is a police station so I just plan on driving there. But all the cruisers are locked away in a parking garage and so you never see cops around, but it's better than nothing. Heading that way, with him still on my tail, I make a quick right and he follows. Getting close to the station he figures out what's up and turns down a side street and disappears.

So the question is, and keeping it legal, since jail time for homicide is not my thing, what would you have done differently?