Please report dangerous drivers to the police - Roadsafe. Report to plod, not just whinge here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36478481

In 2010, a motorist in Devon who threw a spider out of her car window crashed into a man on a charity bike ride.

Well, that was her story.

What a fucking shit piece of content

Fuck whoever thought it merited commission

Check out the linked article about that crash.

two-year driving ban, a two-year community order and sentenced to 200 hours unpaid work

Uh...huh.

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Other Op Tramline results. 18 drivers not in proper control. One was reading a book on M271. One caught masturbating on the M40 #HantsCVU

Roadside masty, classic

Almost got left hooked by an HGV turning onto Southwark Street from Southwark Bridge Road. He was round the corner and gone by the time I could think to take any details.

Genuinely shaken by this one - not even sure he saw me. Did all the right things - I was in the middle of the left lane to go straight ahead, nice strong positioning. Saw him at the last second come up in the right lane (indicating - what an absolute gent) and then move hard into my path. I slammed on the brakes and pulled into the side of the road with much yelling, but surprisingly little swearing.

Very very shaken by what could have happened if I hadn't been on the ball. I know never to put myself in that blind spot - but sometimes, as it turns out, they put you in it without you having to do anything...

Edit: Just described this incident to a colleague. Her first response:

was he indicationg? were you in his blind spot?

FFS...

Now involved with said colleague in a lengthy debate about the nature of risk and 'accidents' on the road.

Maybe I do need to chill out a bit - but people's understanding of risk and careless behaviour really gets to me...

Punch colleague in the face and say sorry that was an accident see what they say.

Sounds like a lucky escape thou! Can you not report it to the police it should be on CCTV and they will be able to get all the details.

Fuck sake:

http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/Lorry-driver-jailed-death-Paignton-woman-set-free/story-29381325-detail/story.html

Debate has ended with me agreeing to calm down a bit, on the proviso that next time I tell her about a near miss on the roads she doesn't a) assume initially that I was in the wrong because 'bloody cyclists' and b) she doesn't spend the conversation coming up with reasons the driver might have had for endangering me ("maybe he was late/his satnav didn't tell him to go left until the last second/he couldn't get into the left hand lane earlier").

She acknowledged that the driver was stupid - but I don't think we agree on the nature of the link between the terms 'careless driving' and 'accident'. Put it this way - if she was on a jury for a careless driving case, there'd be an element of "there but for the grace of god" in her reasoning.

Can you not report it to the police it should be on CCTV and they will be able to get all the details.

Not a bad shout - I'll definitely think about it. Not convinced anything would come of it though.

she was cycling to work wearing a fluorescent jacket, helmet and
headphones.

ok

Apsey's failure to check twice in his wing mirror was 'careless' but
it was not the most serious case of its kind.

if the result of your carelessness is that somebody dies, is that not about as serious as it gets?

fuck everything about that

One caught masturbating on the M40

What else is there to do on the M40? It's the most boring motorway in the UK.

NY cop pulls gun on bike messenger, realises he's being filmed:

http://gothamist.com/2016/06/14/hood_guy_with_a_gun.php

Ftp

Had to read it 3 times to actually realise that the cop was the one that got let off!

Just another car crashing into a shop video

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-36538718

However the mouth breather behind the wheel takes out a child picking his sweat. What is refreshing to see is the mother going ape shit at the driver.

Sitting waiting for @I_am_Hingis outside London Bridge last night watching the fuckwits try to kill each other on the main junction/crossings when a van at the front of the queue coming from tooley st stalls it and takes about 5 seconds to get it going again. nothing too out of the ordinary there.

the fucking black taxi cab behind him though that decided it was too long and decided to turn on his hidden flashing blue lights behind the radiator grill and chirruped a siren (much in the way police do when they pull a car over) with a passenger on board is either a very niche undercover officer or massively fucking breaking the law.

he only used it once and used it so briefly if i hadn't been looking directly at him i wouldn't have seen where it came from. pedestrians obscured my view of his tags so nothing I could use to report but it's fucking telling what kind of driver must feel entitled to be able to have something like that fitted.

Remember Tom (I think) from TA had some on his Volvo.

#TTA4lyf

Hello, new to the thread.

Does any one know how i can go about reporting a Tesco delivery driver? I got a reg number. I don't usually do that sort of thing buy the guy shouldn't be on the road.

Call tesco customer service and say you want a follow up call within 5 days or something like that ask if there is a case number allocated to the call and take down the time you called etc.

How bad was his driving? A call to the police is always an option if its that bad.

if the result of your carelessness is that somebody dies, is that not about as serious as it gets?

The law distinguishes between the seriousness of the offence and the seriousness of the consequences. You might get blind drunk, put on a blindfold and go driving through a residential part of town at 100mph, and if you're exceptionally lucky you might get away without doing any damage or hurting anyone. That's still a more serious type of offence.

Equally, you might have a momentary lapse in concentration, and kill someone.

The law looks at the nature of the offence, and the consequences are a secondary factor. Whether that's right or wrong is another question.

The problem lies in the fact that it is his profession and therefore should be at a high standard of driving. Much more so than someone with a class 1 or class 2 licence and had hired a truck to say move his furniture.

Anyone that is behind the wheel of a car as there job and causes an accident that is not outside of their control (aquaplaning for example) should get the book thrown at them no exceptions.

I also worked in transport for many years so I'm not just looking at this as a cyclist point of view.

I may give that a try.

I was holding my line coming up to a red because i know it's about to change and its unsafe to over take me, so as it goes yellow he over takes, then sees the on coming car and swerves into me, i then get a lil nudge from the side of his van, almost knocking me off, i banged the side of his van and then hopped the curb to avoid eating curb.

What a cunt bag!