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

Essentially he's right.....

I disagree. Despite the lack of contact the fact that drastic avoiding action was required suggests to me a case of 'Driving without due care and attention'.

I disagree. Despite the lack of contact the fact that drastic avoiding action was required suggests to me a case of 'Driving without due care and attention'.

Driving without due care and attention means nothing, when I got knocked down I asked what action the police planned to take with the driver because the driving was plain dangerous and clearly they shouldn't be on the road. They said nothing as I wasn't critically injured so I questioned not even driving without due care and attention to which they replied that means nothing unless its a driving offence witnessed by a traffic cop.

There is no quick buck or statistic boost to made from cyclists so they don't care.

Your example regarding Americans is more to do with sarcasm or irony, and their general lack of facility with this means of expression.

No it's just a lazy thing that's become normal, like every other linguistic oddity, except in this case it 's clearly absurd.

Most British people don't get irony, Americans aren't especially stupid

I just had a prett7 frightening experience but I'm not sure if it was my fault or not or, whether some of the blame is with me.

Bottom of Northumberland Ave. today about 12:45. I turn on and it's solid with traffic all the way up. I start riding slowly up the right of the stationary traffic and at one point there's a kind of mini raised pavement in the middle of the road between the two lanes - you know what I mean.

Because there was no room to go on the left of this mini pavement I went round it on the right, i.e. in the oncoming lane. This is where I think I might have been in the wrong. So there's two white vans coming towards me and there's LOADS of space between the mini pavement and the first white van who passes me with no bother. The second white van is much larger and has one of those cages on the back for putting recycling in. He takes a very deliberate swerve towards me, like swerving one or two metres directly into my path for no other reason that to hit me and I have to physically duck under his wing mirror to avoid being hit. I nearly shat myself. He called me a cunt out of his open window.

I got his number plate and want this prick in trouble but I was just wondering if I was on shaky ground, being in the "wrong" lane and all despite there being acres of space and one vehicle passing me without incident.

The island would have had a sign on it with an arrow point down and to the left, meaning keep left. So you were on the wrong side of the sign (there is no wrong side of the road as such).

Irrespective of you being in the right / van driver being a psycho cunt, Popo will probably do absolutely fuck all.

Report it on road safe in any case - don't mention the traffic island - and see what happens.

Yes you are in the wrong but also a (presumably) professional driver has tried to cause you serious injury using their vehicle as a weapon. Not a proportional response. Report it.

Cheers for the quick responses, done so.

Yeah, wrong side of the sign. And for future reference the island is called a pedestrian refuge.

Yes you are in the wrong but also a (presumably) professional driver has tried to cause you serious injury using their vehicle as a weapon. Not a proportional response. Report it.

I really hate the term 'professional driver' - most of these are people that drive (badly) as part of their job. Eg. a builder might be a professional builder but drive like a twat.

I was overtaken by a mini cab this morning, he was swerving all over the place. He stopped at a red light, I caught up with him and tapped on his window - it was at this point that he spilled his bowl of cereal (yes, he was eating a bowl of cereal), and then told me that I should not have been on the road. Minicab drivers call themselves professional drivers, but they are really just people who drive around for a job as they cannot get anything else.

When I was a driving instructor (professional, natch) I used to tell the learners to be extra careful of anyone who drives for a living, the whole familiarity breeding contempt thing. (Excluding some driving instructors of course)

When I was a driving instructor (professional, natch) I used to tell the learners to be extra careful of anyone who drives for a living, the whole familiarity breeding contempt thing. (Excluding some driving instructors of course)

My Driving Instructor was a ex-Police Driver. She told me never to trust anyone else on the road.

BEST ADVICE EVER!

Obviously, I taught treat everyone else as an idiot and be happily surprised when they're not, but be extra careful of people who drive for a living.

Obviously, I taught treat everyone else as an idiot and be happily surprised when they're not, but be extra careful of people who drive for a living.

I'd rep you for that but I have no idea how too...

We can't be having that. Click comment to the left of my informative information then click I approve, don't forget a little comment to stroke my ego a little more.

I disagree. Despite the lack of contact the fact that drastic avoiding action was required suggests to me a case of 'Driving without due care and attention'.

Driving without due care and attention means nothing, when I got knocked down I asked what action the police planned to take with the driver because the driving was plain dangerous and clearly they shouldn't be on the road. They said nothing as I wasn't critically injured so I questioned not even driving without due care and attention to which they replied that means nothing unless its a driving offence witnessed by a traffic cop.

There is no quick buck or statistic boost to made from cyclists so they don't care.

Late reply but as I was typing my post I was going to expand upon it to the effect of a without due care and attention charge only being likely if witnessed by the Police or caught on CCTV.

I really hate the term 'professional driver' - most of these are people that drive (badly) as part of their job. Eg. a builder might be a professional builder but drive like a twat.

I was overtaken by a mini cab this morning, he was swerving all over the place. He stopped at a red light, I caught up with him and tapped on his window - it was at this point that he spilled his bowl of cereal (yes, he was eating a bowl of cereal), and then told me that I should not have been on the road. Minicab drivers call themselves professional drivers, but they are really just people who drive around for a job as they cannot get anything else.

Some twat turned out of a turning on my right a short distance in front of me and a little too close for comfort..........
Oh, and he was a professional driver holder of the private hire disc of death.

In an ideal world it would be nice to consider any person that drives a vehicle for a living a professional driver where the term professional means trained, experienced, considerate, etc. driver. Sadly, in most cases, it means it's just their job.

We can't be having that. Click comment to the left of my informative information then click I approve, don't forget a little comment to stroke my ego a little more.

nerged for rep-whoring

nerged for rep-whoring

reped for nerging for reping.... o_0

Is this 'last post wins' v2.0 - Last Rep Wins?

nerged for rep-whoring

Polo 1 start chat thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

Anyone else been sprayed in the face by an adjusted windscreen rinser?

I may be paranoid here. But the there has been an anti cyclist facebook thing in my area, and the cnut hit me with some serious volume, right in the eyes.

Tempted to check face book later, and see if anyone is bragging about it.

....then find them

..and kill them.

...in the face.

..with a nasty potassium compound.

#neverpissoffachemist.