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I survived a near vehicular manslaughter / murder years ago on Norwood Road on a sunny Friday at noon. Let an ambulance overtake me passing Thames water roadworks, rode after them at a safe distance and fast speed to clear the way quickly. A motherfucking, brainworm rotting cunt in a grey van turning onto Norwood let the ambulance pass, looked at me, let me get too close to brake, and gunned it. My first thought as I skidded braking was ‘fuck, I’m about to smash face first into the solid side of this van’ as he blocked my lane. And then he kept turning. I was skidding at an angle, and I can clearly see in my minds eye now, 4 years later, how his front right wheel turned all the way to line up with me, with the driver looking straight at me.

By a pure fortunate unconscious instinct, my body knew to loosen my deathgrip on the brakes, and my tires regained enough traction to roll me enough out of the way of the van to barely avoid the mirror. I stopped in the road, yelled ‘Cunt!’ to the still speeding van, and the driver put two fingers out the window yelling ‘the light was red!’. There was no light for an easy hundred meters, nowhere near where the roadworks started for me or where he was, he was full of shit. His speed never slowed and his brake lights didn’t even blink.

After several interactions, the police did exactly fuck all. Logged it as a near miss traffic incident iirc, without any investigation.

Top tip to keep in mind: get witnesses’ contact details immediately, record plates of any vehicles that might have cameras at the scene, if cooperative witness offers help calling the fuzz in the moment take it, 999 operators will make it clear they don’t care what’s happening they just want to hear police/fire/ambulance, popo won’t believe you without witnesses and even then they might not do fuck all.