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Reason for
- his employer might find out
- would be good to have him held accountable
Reasons against
- sometimes police are rubbish with these kind of incidents
- high probability of nothing happening
- his employer might find out
Miitch-
Thanks, Miitch. I know the last of those points is the most likely lasting outcome but think I might give them a call just to put it out there.
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high probability of nothing happening
Spitting gives them an assault charge that they can make stick.
They will probably do nothing about the driving.
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if he spat at you get police to take a dna swab, this counts as assault
sorry am a bit late to this
a few years ago a passenger in vehicle spat at me and i reported it to the police. the driver denied knowing who his passenger was, so nothing happened.
last year the police contacted me to say they had arrested the spitter on other charges (dna matched) and asked if i wished to press charges and i said yes. however it transpired it was now too late for a criminal case to take place
in your case this is recent and the driver can be identified
Lukas
NotThamesWater
dancing james
Super-close-passed on the left (via use of a left turn lane) while in primary position, verbally threatened when questioned, and later spat at (while riding) by a plumbing van driver in London's famous Manchester.
I have photos of his van/reg, his face, and of the contents of his mouth on my jersey after I arrived at work.
The driver alleged I was in the wrong for moving 'late', and but upon shoulder checking before moving to primary, he was 30-50m behind, while approaching a severely potholed section of road where there is one safe line on a bicycle, and heading towards a 20mph zone.
Hence, I'm pretty sure the driver was speeding behind me, in order to make up so much ground so quickly (I was travelling approx 40km/h / 24-25mph at the point of the pass, according to Strava), and certain he was speeding through the 20 zone, as I was matching his speed (while leaving an appropriate stop-gap), meaning I would also have been speeding if it was possible to apply that law applied to unpowered 'pedal cycles'.
Driver apparently has a 'dash cam', but that footage probably also proves he was speeding, that he passed extremely dangerously, and that whatever I did was safe if he'd been obeying the law.
He later re-passed me further along after changing my route, suggesting he changed his course to follow/find me, and proceeded to slow, roll down the window and spit at me, and speed away (occurred in another 20 zone with me cycling at around that).
Any reason for/against giving the police a bell?