nepalover, congratulation on being safe and being able to avert such close encounter. Now getting back to reality, somebody cuts you @ 70 and you move to shoulder instead of hitting on a brake (O: .. no offense unless you were going on a car race how do you even know shoulder was safe to slide over to. natural reaction would be to speed down rather than move aside (O: hoina ra !!!! me being where entry lane merges into the incoming traffic of a highway and 95 nightmare.... along with 91-93-84 ... all i can suggest is. watch traffic in "all of your three mirrors." and try to follow the traffic rather than trying to beat them by racing.... ====================================================