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

That's hardly fair. What about the Audi drivers?

@PhilDAS Automatic cars tend to creep if you're in 'drive' or 'reverse' rather than 'park' or 'neutral'. Normally applying the handbrake would keep the car still, but if you hit the accelerator hard enough it would just surge forward or backward anyway. Article clarifies that this is what she did. So yeah, probs an automatic van.

As ever, a 'small' mistake by someone who chose to drive a motor leads to a massive loss (death) for the vulnerable person not wrapped in 2 tonnes of steel.

I just assumed that it would have been in park when they said the handbrake was on if it was an auto.
Never had an auto myself so wasn't sure if parking brake was all some had. I see what you mean now though

Bit of a dredge but I'm noticing the unsurprising omission of any mention of cheaper premiums for the rest of their customers.

Cardiff marathon

The video says it's Plymouth, was it initially titled Cardiff?

van driver on fleet st effectively forced me into oncoming traffic when he had to go around an obstacle in this lane (I was turning right onto fetter lane so was on his right). He saw me, we made eye contact, and he still did it. I couldn't believe the callousness of it; and only to get to the red light 5 seconds quicker. When I gestured and pleaded him to stop whilst he was doing it, and knowing it would force me between him and an oncoming vehicle, he just stared forward with a smug grin on his face pretending not to see me. All I have is the reg plate and removal company he works for. Anything I can do other than roadsafe?

removal company he works for

You could do something with that I expect....

Get the twitter mob on it.

Yea I was thinking that. As always, I suspect emailing them wouldn't make any difference, but if it makes them consider that their actions don't go unnoticed it may help? Other thank saying "one of your drivers did this". What can you ask for/say to them?

I suspect emailing them wouldn't make any difference

Or it could get him in shit so he won't do something like that again, because next time someone might get seriously hurt.

Well, you don't have any video so you can't expect much from them. Calling them and explaining that the incident happened and that you've reported it to the authorities might make them think a bit. Or not. It might be run by shysters.

Call them - it's serious. Speak to the owner of the company. Follow up with an email.

Social media shaming is another avenue should you receive a response to the above that's unsatisfactory.

@Jezston and @Howard thank you for the responses. I will do this and see where I get with them. It's a big company which appear to do office removals and storage etc so will probably not want people driving their vans like that.

Tweet: "I'd like to speak to you about one of your drivers deliberately forcing me into oncoming traffic today" - that'll get their attention pretty sharpish probably

Also report to the police and tell the company you've done so - complaints might be stacking up against the driver

Cheers @frankenbike I'll have to get a twitter account for this one I think.

Cheers for your advice. I've had a swift email response from the company saying the usual apologies, but also that following an investigation the driver has been identified and disciplined. However, I'm not sure what that means, or if anythingreally happened. The operations manager signed off the email with "We should all feel safe on the roads and I for one pleased you have brought this to my attention."
So I guess a result?

That's the most you can hope for. Even if it is just guff.

I suspect a lot of places (that aren't big enough to have formal procedures in place) will ignore one or two of these kind of complaints but if the same driver keeps getting small complaints then they'll start to clock that there's an issue and generally the company doesn't want to have to keep dealing with complaints (or the potential bad publicity down the line) and will start doing something.

Ask for a personally writen apology from the driver.

Baz will get told by Darren to stop being such a cunt to cyclists in the company van, Baz will say "yeah, sorry Daz" then they'll both moan about cyclists for half and hour and talk about some women's tits they saw earlier that day.

In my personal experience, this is 100% correct.

There is a person, who I know through being a boy racer in Essex, who now drives tipper trucks, he used to be an Ambulance driver. The company he works for sent him and some other drivers on one of the courses where they ride bikes in London so they can see how it feels to ride a bike, generally considered to be quite a positive influence on HGV drivers from what I understand. He posted on fb after his day that he'd had a good laugh, even though a lot of the day was just spent laughing at themselves as fat HGV drivers breaking a sweat just trying to have a gentle pedal around the city, he really felt he'd learnt how it feels to be "a cyclist" and how buses and HGVs pass you really closely even though you're not "being a cunt". The first couple of comments were really positive and congratulatory on his experience, and then it just descended into red lights, zebra crossings, and name calling. I feel like if he hadn't said anything to anyone else he'd have had a really good takeaway from his experience and modified his driving, but instead he basically got peer pressured back into the illusion that all cyclists are cunts. Then the tits got posted.

Girl* nearly drove into me while walking through Bath. Knocked on her window, she had laptop over the handbrake and phone in her hand. She said she was lost. Weak, weak weak. I think it spooked her someone even challenged it.

(*Probably in her 30’s like I am. I use girl the same way my older sisters are girls, that Zoe & Andrea were an artist duo called The Girls, and I am a boy. I have assumed gender. She could have been a he, in which case replace ‘girl’ for ‘boy’, or non-specific gender term.)

I feel this would have been easier to write if you just used 'woman'

Next time I’ll stealth edit. Probably still in trouble for assuming gender or some other non-PC issue.

Someone nearly drove into me while walking through Bath. Knocked on their window, they had laptop over the handbrake and phone in their hand. They said that they were lost. Weak, weak weak. I think it spooked them that someone even challenged it.

Too ambiguous