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Unreal!! But surely you are not the only one riding on each of these people's commute. If there was a serial offender then maybe they could suspect you but I think that would be highly unlikely.
I had a crazy close pass yesterday.
White SUV - Tick!
Unfortunately I was on my MTB and although I thought I had wiped the rear lens clean before hitting a road section i had smeared it and I couldn't see the registration number. Typically I forgot to fit my front camera.
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Unfortunately, we are the only parents that ride our kid to school and we don't see anyone else on our route on bikes (rural life, not city commuting) so that, coupled with the sore arse that is a cargo bike... we are easy targets now.
Yeah, the whole "snitches get stitches" crap is fun and games until someone is actually getting stitches or it's a child that has been hurt. Because I can tell you this... if I have to deal with another hit-and-run with my bubba on the bike I might actually lose what is left of my mind.
Oh and one of the worst that we reported? A driving instructor who is also a parent at the school.
RunRabbitRun
We've been reporting ever since our little one started at school in September. We ride a solo and a Bullitt cargo bike (kitted out with cameras front and rear), single-file, for the whopping three-mile roundtrip. We've noticed the number of reportable incidents increasing steadily and now, we average about one dangerous driver per day. We are not exaggerating and the police concede that everything we report is fully justified, with nearly everyone receiving a Notice of Intended Prosecution for their driving. But something interesting just happened.
We were called by one of the police team that monitors the camera submissions and warned that we might be in danger as people will no doubt begin to figure out who reported them, if we take the same route every day. We were told to be careful as we could face "backlash" to our reports, especially from those who have incurred fines/points etc. So basically, we are being told to either stop reporting, drive everywhere (not a chance) or face the real risk of getting a hiding simply for trying to protect our four-year-old daughter. The threat was made so plain that we have now bought extra cameras, that we can wear, in case people follow us home or try to approach us at the school.
Can we all take a minute to just revel in the ridiculousness of this, as well as the totally avoidable nature of it all?