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

Note that from the photo you can't tell whether the lorry is parked or not.
Not doubting you Adrian; just pointing it out.

I wouldn't go to the bother of posting a link to a photo of a driver who was parked and texting. He was texting on the approach to a signal controlled junction, the sort of place where cyclists are most at risk. And he was driving a lorry that belongs to a company with previous. Hence the post.

I think that walm might have been pointing out that the photo doesn't show that, it just shows a guy in a cab who could have been anywhere - it doesn't show he was driving at the time. I don't think he was doubting what you'd said, just that the photo doesn't support it.

given that there is a large gap in the buildings behind the lorry, I'd assumed that he was across the end of a junction, and therefor not parked, but I don't know that bit of town, so could have been wrong...

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Your driver in SE16 this morning decided that his ability to be in the next traffic jam 50 yards up the road 5 seconds sooner outweighed my right to cycle safely and appropriately.

You suppurating arsehole.

I actually rang them and reported one of their driver for overtaking me as I stopped at a red light so that he could go on to jump it.

I was in a van too!

And I'm typing this as I report Westminster Refuse Truck MX53NLF for overtaking a queue of vehicles that had stopped for the red lights in Rotherhithe New Road so that he could jump them despite them having been red for some 30 seconds!

I think that walm might have been pointing out that the photo doesn't show that, it just shows a guy in a cab who could have been anywhere - it doesn't show he was driving at the time. I don't think he was doubting what you'd said, just that the photo doesn't support it.

If you look through the cab there is a 'Controlled Zone' road sign that you find at the side of the road which suggests the truck is across a road junction an thus very unlikely to be parked.

If you look through the cab there is a 'Controlled Zone' road sign that you find at the side of the road which suggests the truck is across a road junction an thus very unlikely to be parked.

thank you, was beginning to wish I hadn't bothered.

Putting this through Google translate gives me "please remove my nearside mirror, as I don't use it anyway".

um, yeah.
did this 6 or 7 years ago to a guy who literally ran me off the road, I had to bunnyhop up the curb. when i caught up with him and pretty politely had words with him he turned the air blue and threatened to get out and "fuck me up".
I smacked off his nearside wing mirror and chucked it into his lap as he sat there raging about it. he didn't get out though so i rode away (with my heart just about coming out of my mouth)

to this day i feel conflicted about it.

retribution 10/10
but
criminal damage 10/10
impulse control 0/10

yeah, stil not sure how i feel about that incident.

retribution 10/10
but
criminal damage 10/10
impulse control 0/10

yeah, stil not sure how i feel about that incident.

Well put, despite having 2000 lumens of searchlight on this morning, going round the roundabout to the west of Lambeth bridge, a car went straight over not paying any attention to what was going on & but for some serious braking, it would have hurt. Had I decided to:
retribution 10/10
but
criminal damage 10/10
impulse control 0/10
....no doubt I would have been interviewed by the Met already!

Again...... I used my inner monologue/mantra....what would Wiganwill do.... works every time!!

thank you, was beginning to wish I hadn't bothered.

Ah - I hadn't spotted the sign. It's clearly a junction.
Sorry for my lack of detective skills/simple observation!

Is it time to start calling out bad drivers?

Yes, but I think you and everyone else on here should visit their local MP and ask him/her something along the lines of, Can we have the 1 Metre Rule to be Adopted for Cars Passing Cyclists passed and enforced please?

Being a keyboard warrior does fuck all for civilisation. Get off your backsides and do something about it!

some of us on here do speak to m.ps and work promoting cycling,
its just that they also have twisted senses of humour and mostly come on lfgss for relief from talking to m.ps and promoting cycling
youre right though to an extent- but taking the lane is often more failsafe than the metre rule thats always gonna be interpreted different.

Those activities are not mutually exclusive though, are they.

Please explain

some of us on here do speak to m.ps and work promoting cycling,
its just that they also have twisted senses of humour and mostly come on lfgss for relief from talking to m.ps and promoting cycling
youre right though to an extent- but taking the lane is often more failsafe than the metre rule thats always gonna be interpreted different.

I agree. I'm talking about giving us (cyclists) space.

Don't get me wrong, I know they're are lots of good guys whom do visit MP's and promote cycling, but if we ALL went to see our local MP, then...?

Being a keyboard warrior does fuck all for civilisation. Get off your backsides and do something about it!

Those activities are not mutually exclusive though, are they.

Please explain

Talking about something on a forum, and taking action are not mutually exclusive, i.e. one does not exclude the possibility of the other.

I have never lived in a city thyus never experienced the traffic, but countryside traffic is also terrible.
Where I live is full of thin lanes where drivers can overtake and be inches away; even when i am breaking the speed limit for that road it seems to happen- and people wonder why I am so rude to dangerous drivers.
A good example is the other day, I was travelling around 15mph after a long cycle, just coasting down a slight downhill and I was overtaken by a rather impatient boy racer, revving the hell out of his tin can Clio, then instantly afterwards he took a left, causing me to brake suddenly, I spat out at his car hoping he would see and have a go so I could teach him a good lesson, but he just rather cockily drove off.
I'm sick of this, the 1m law should definitely be implemented, i'm telling you, the next pointlessly dangerous or impatient driver is getting a spanner to the windscreen. No joke.

Do whatever you can to survive - you're on your own. I queried the road death investigation unit about the verdict on Michael Evans, killed by a black Range Rover one Sunday morning last May on the main route out to the lanes fron S E London. 'Accident' - all sorted and filed away.. He was an experienced club cyclist..

Seeing as most of this is written from a cycling perspective, not sure get how this is different from reportage of dangerous drivers.

the OP details one educative incident Festus
as you know it is very possible to do this without resorting to violence.
but whatevs merge it if it helps.

Talking about something on a forum, and taking action are not mutually exclusive, i.e. one does not exclude the possibility of the other.

Oh, thanks.

Do you get out much?

It's possible to write on this forum [i]and[i] take a more active stance in campaigning.

Your post seemed to suggest that it was one or the other.

true. It just seems a lot of people talk, which does fuck all.

I have never lived in a city thyus never experienced the traffic, but countryside traffic is also terrible.
Where I live is full of thin lanes where drivers can overtake and be inches away; even when i am breaking the speed limit for that road it seems to happen- and people wonder why I am so rude to dangerous drivers.
A good example is the other day, I was travelling around 15mph after a long cycle, just coasting down a slight downhill and I was overtaken by a rather impatient boy racer, revving the hell out of his tin can Clio, then instantly afterwards he took a left, causing me to brake suddenly, I spat out at his car hoping he would see and have a go so I could teach him a good lesson, but he just rather cockily drove off.
I'm sick of this, the 1m law should definitely be implemented, i'm telling you, the next pointlessly dangerous or impatient driver is getting a spanner to the windscreen. No joke.

I agree with you on the 1m rule. I was ran off the road by two vehicles with boy racers in last week. This was on a country road also. I've filed a report with the police, but don't hold my breath.

I'm off to see my MP next week.

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Oh, thanks.

Do you get out much?

Again, currently being alone indoors on the internet, as you are/were is not mutually exclusive with going out and having a social life. It's just a coincidence in my case.

BTW, please tell us of your work campaigning, so that we may support it.