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Hey, just wanted to give an update to everyone.
I got called up today by a nice policeman, who told me he had been pestering this driver to come in to the station, who had recently done so. The driver in question claimed he did not remember the incident, but provided his phone number for me to contact if I wanted compensation for my bike. The policeman said this was a sure sign that the driver remembered the incident/his bad driving.
The policeman said he would take this to court if I wanted, that he and his superior would support it. This I found kind of overwhelming as I managed to avoid the car properly hitting me. So was worried about CCTV surfacing on which it would probably look like I was not hit at all.
So I said I was only really hoping for the driver to get a stern warning, so the wrecklessness would not go unnoticed. So the policeman said he would be very happy to do so. He said he would talk to the fella and make him regret it.
Fantastic stuff, faith in the police restored.
Good work!
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Bad driver + passenger justice - fucking cunt deserves it.
YouTube - karma sucks
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i saw that a while back, and it never gets less funny :D
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Car bumpers are pretty soft. Doubt it would be anything worse than bruising.Could have been much worse - if he hadn't been knocked out of the car, his neck might have snapped...
Sadly this probably hasn't knocked any sense into him. He'll probably just fuck with cyclists more carefully :-(
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Not sure where to post this, or even if it matters, on my way home a flash white BMW pulled alongside me whilst and the driver asked me for directions to the nearest maccyd's - Then pulled away and his passengers in the back proceeded to spray me with supersoakers. Not so bad all in all considering the heat - but just epitomises the shit area i live in.
Anyway, i know his plate now and if i see his car around locally i'll key it to fuck
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Yeh I appreciate it's not serious, probably would have happened just as easily if I was walking along the pavement at that time. Just miffed me a little
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You got off lightly. Supersoakers = a bit of fun.
I have had eggs and rocks thrown at me randomly from cars.
You got off lightly. I got hit quite hard by cars on two seperate occasions and I got punched in the face by a driver.
Do I win?
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I'm often amazed how close cars seem to come to clipping each other when passing (especially on narrow roads with parking each side etc). I guess the difference is a few inches the wrong way means a scrape in a car - or a snapped hip on a bike. I just kind of resent it when drivers gamble with my health...
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You got off lightly...
I got shot three times in the face then set on fire by a driver.
Do I win...?
My housemate says you got off lightly. She was run over and killed but not before being dragged 40 miles, losing all her skin and having all her bones broken. Luckily she was brought back to life by medical experts but she is in excruciating pain for the rest of her life. Does she win?
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Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
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Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
Shit. I feel for you.
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Actually no, I'm pissed off now because I laughed so much it hurt :-( Bastard. -
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But, if I made a report every time I had someone nearly hit me, accidentally or otherwise, I'd be filling in multiple forms every day.I use stop-smidsy for near-miss; while the police won't do anything about it, it's recorded for stats and lobbying purposes, so may one day be useful.
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I had an incident this morning in W1 with a driver of a minibus.
Unfortunately it ended with him out of the van threatening to hit me and us dancing around my bike which I placed in the road between us.Thankfully I have his registration and the name of an independent witness who saw the whole thing.
I have reported the matter to the police and have a visit tomorrow.
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As a follow on from the 11th Feb post.
As the case was a road traffic incident, it is handled by a central unit not a specific station/officer.
There is a preliminary hearing in June and the driver has been charged with 'driving without due care and attention'
**Tips
**I was told by police - if the driver drives off and you **call **101 (or 999 if it is serious) then the traffic cameras (particularly in the congestion zone) can pick up the driver on the same day and stop them.Forms. Yes you have to fill out a form and return it to a central unit but you shouldn't be discouraged. These incidents take time to process.
Independent witnesses. I had one and make sure you get their details. I am convinced that this is the reason that this incident is going to court
All I can do is reinforce the 'what do in case of an accident' notes
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http://cyclinguphill.com/ever-worth-arguing-drivers/
^ Dealing with bad drivers. A nice article from a nice blog.
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I always seem to have (and I'm not kidding) Somalians I had two at the same junction within seconds of each other.
I also had one taxi driver in Coventry call me a cunt because I moved over to turn right and he was a good 100 metres behind me and also said you'll get run over being in the middle of the road, in which I duly replied only by someone stupid enough to not notice a fluro orange bike in front of them!