Revenge is sweet

joachim Hey,

Interesting thread to pop up just now as Monday night a bus driver on oxford st tried to run me off the road. Not like he didn't see me or anything I was riding smoothly (not over taking or anything) and he was tail gating me for a distance first, then as soon as there was room on the other side of the road he pulled along side and the moved left as he looked at me out the front passenger door.

I've been riding around london for about 7 years and of course get cut off and so on all the time but never so obvious and blatently 'attacked'.

I tried to get his details but he wasn't talking to me, so I took a photo of the bus (he blinked his headlights trying to ruin the shot)

Called TFL and they said complaints could only be taken during business hours. So I went to a police station (Snow Hill in the end) and filled in an 'Self Reporting Form for Traffic Collision/Accident' (or something like that anyway).

Has anybody else done such a thing? any luck? I would think the police are a higher authority that TFL, but maybe I should still complain to TFL anyway?

thanks!

Most buses have an ID number on the side, if you remember that, when and where, the bus company can usually find out who the driver was. A bus driver clipped my pedal as he was trying to close me out, prick, made the back of my bike hop off the ground, lucky to stay on. I reported it to the company, they said they had taken 'appropriate' action against the driver, whatever that means, but I assume they have to take such complaints seriously.