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I had a run in with a driver on Coldhabour Lane last year I think. Traffic was pretty stationary as we were approaching red light, a driver gave me a fairly forceful bump from behind, I got off my bike, asked her why did she do that for, as politely as I could at the time. To cut a long story short, she refused to give me her details but I took pics of her and her car etc. 2 things happened as a result of that:
All other drivers on the road ganged up on me because I was holding up traffic, there was a lot of bad words towards me and not the driver, so the driver and I 'agreed' to go off to the side. Obviously she just drove off.
I reported her to the police, weeks later, got sent a letter informing me that they will not be taking any action against the driver as I was not injured and also it's not in the public interest to take this further.
How is it not in the public interest to follow a case of esentially hit and run, in stationary traffic, still amazes to date.