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Just thought I will share 2 stories on mine, one happy and one not so happy...
Story one happened in July/Aug 2009, can't remember exactly when but round about that time, I was only my way home, going through Walworth Road in South London. I think I was going maybe 10 mph, triffic was smooth as it was a sunny afternoon so I though I will take my time and enjoy the sun. I was on the left hand hand, as left as I could be really. All of a sudden, I felt a bump from behind and I nearly fell but manged to remain balance, so I got off my bike and found out the drive from behind hit me on a purpose. He stopped and starting saying all the usual nasty words... I thought, instead of shouting back as usual, I took out my phone, took a picture of the car including the reg number, a few pics of the areas etc and headed straight to the police station, which was just 10 meters down the road... did the incident report thing, didn't expect anything to happen but surprise surpise... about 6 months later, I was informed the driver had to go to court and was fined £450 and 6 points of his licence... happy!!! By the way, he was done for failed to provide driver's details as I was not hurt at all, but pretty heavy fine I think...
Story 2 is not so happy, x'mas eve 2010, I got kicked off my bike by a bunch of jaywalkers... I shouted they stopped but obviously the decided to change their minds at the absolutely last second... lef knee got busted... ouch...it's been 6 weeks, still walking on crutches... no cycling for probably many more weeks to come... can't sue, can't do nothing, only I wished I got hit by a car... at least I could do something...