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

On my way to work yesterday morning up Old Kent Road from New Cross. Watch out for this psycho (VK04 EDX), he's a hit and run waiting to happen. Green Corsa, about 2min 40 in. So so close to taking me down. Was reported to Road Safe and I received a prompt reply from the Met saying they will send a letter to remind the driver of the Highway Code, ha ha!
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Woah! What an utter-fucking-cunt.

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Y u no look behind?

Complete dick thought.

Surely the cops would want to fine the guy for crossing a solid white into the bus lane at the very least! Fucking dickacious driving.

And to make things worst the guy was genuinely polite and even holding up
traffic behind him while having this convo with me. So I was left confused,
speechless and upset, thinking that I might have actually missed something in
the hc regarding cycling, so I mashed home as fast as possible, read everything
again and am genuinely upset. Upset that I didn't smash my d-lock into guy's
chin.

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[FONT=Calibri]I’m sorry to hear that. It’s easier to understand and dealwith angry drivers or bad drivers than it is to deal with people like that.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Calibri]I just tell myself that things will get better for us, andthat the public perception of cycling and cycle safety will slowly improve asmore people cycle, infrastructure improves and pro-cycling bodies putthemselves about a bit. [/FONT]
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Christ, font fail, sorry. I'm sure I don't need to say that I'm new here.

I’m sorry to hear that. It’s easier to understand and deal with angry drivers or bad drivers than it is to deal with people like that.

I suspect that nothing is ever going to change his mind, and that is very chilling. It makes you not want to cycle, because people like that will blithely carry on with their ignorant attitudes until they hurt someone,or worse.

I just tell myself that things will get better for us, and that the public perception of cycling and cycle safety will slowly improve as more people cycle, infrastructure improves and pro-cycling bodies put themselves about a bit. I hope.

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Thanks mistertea - I am still in the nursery so can't edit my own foolishness.

Formatting hell tends to happen when you paste text in!

Asked some hot head motorcyclist what he thought he was doing trying to squeeze between me and a van waiting at the lights at Shoreditch High Street/Old Street junction. I'd heard him tearing down the road southbound behind me and I was slowing to stop at the lights with some other cyclists behind me.

A quick glance over my right shoulder and the fucker is inches from me trying to squeeze through a non-existent gap. I ask him the what the fuck he thinks he's doing and stop in the ASL (track standing like a boss). Then I feel someone grab my right arm. The twat has got off his bike and asked me what I said. So I told him exactly what I said previously adding that there was no point at speeding up to the lights and trying to find a non-existent space to squeeze in.

He then told me that I would've had no idea he was there because I don't have mirrors... No, I don't have mirrors, but I do have ears and I can turn my head round to see and hear idiots endangering other road users.

For some strange reason this calmed him down, maybe he understood his error and he got back on his bike, maybe it was due to my magical track standing skills throughout the whole confrontation. The lights went green and he tore off down through the traffic on SHS. Didn't manage to get his numberplate to do any reporting though.

This, well done. I'm normally OK-ish with motorbikes as, having had one myself a couple of years back, I know they're under some of the same pressures on the road as we are. BUT, no sympathy for the fool on one of those three-wheeled commuter scooters on the Kennington Oval bus lane this morning. Slow moving traffic and many cyclists in the bus lane so we're all riding along almost two-abreast. He still decides to squeeze himself past my right with cm to spare in moving traffic though, then had an aggressive grumble at me for deigning to re-pass him (once he'd had to stop behind a bus ahead) and close the non-existent gap he'd used to get past me before. All got a bit dog eat dog out there this morning.

Y u no look behind?

Complete dick thought.

I didn't look behind as I had just pulled away from the lights in the bus lane. There were no buses anywhere near so no real need to check for one. I know the road ahead on the left often has vehicles creeping forward into the bus lane so that I where I'm looking, and therefore I'm positioning myself to the centre of the bus lane. Also, the car was coming at such a speed that I'd have had to be checking behind every two seconds to actually see him coming and give myself enough time to move left before shitting my pants. Awaiting response from Met re perusing dangerous driving charge.

I salute your even temper. Some people might have been tempted to say 'Ed, why don't you, for once, just shut your fucking cake hole and not give advice to people who have not asked for it about looking behind/taking the lane/staying calm/buttering a slice of toast/tying your shoelaces correctly/avoiding poking yourself in the eye with a biro".

Have you considered shoelace training?

I now look behind me before getting into the shower, just in case Ed is there, waiting.

Don't you mean "in the hope that Ed is there waiting"?

I'll go and check.

Thanks for the advise, Ed. I may learn to ride backwards, no need to look behind then!

If his love shaft is at the same angle as his saddle it means he's in the mood.

Thanks for the advise, Ed. I may learn to ride backwards, no need to look behind then!

Then why don't you look forward for fucks sake!

The perils of scoblism

I salute your even temper. Some people might have been tempted to say 'Ed, why don't you, for once, just shut your fucking cake hole and not give advice to people who have not asked for it about looking behind/taking the lane/staying calm/buttering a slice of toast/tying your shoelaces correctly/avoiding poking yourself in the eye with a biro".

Have you considered Scoble training?

This blog post puts pretty succinctly the outrage many feel about the degree we tolerate and let off dangerous drivers and how easy our legal system blames the victims

In the related videos is this twat... Caught Using A Mobile Phone While Driving ? - Speeding Solicitor - Part 1 - YouTube

Driving at speed, filming himself talking about getting off being done for using a mobile whilst driving.

Danté knows his fate.

^^Read a bit, got angry and decided not to finish. I can't actually read these things without ruining my day.

This blog post puts pretty succinctly the outrage many feel about the degree we tolerate and let off dangerous drivers and how easy our legal system blames the victims

I thought that Southampton Echo letter was click bait, or maybe he was trying to be funny, but that poster has form for anti-cycling invective. That letter really should not have been printed.

That letter is so absurd it could be read as ironic. The perversity of anti-cyclists encouraging cyclists to get in a car 'like any rational person' is enough to campaign for all cyclists to drive to work for a day just to show drivers how it benefits them that cyclists ride bikes rather than add to their traffic jams, and that it is to drivers advantage to treat people on bikes well.

Another point of all this leniency by juries is that most jurers (and judges) will consider driving/and driving errors the norm since they will also probably not take sun in their eyes into account so slow down when they drive. So will strongly emphasis with the defendant drivers. There is no way around this here (unlike the US where jurors can be rejected for bias) apart from much stronger direction from judges to compensate (which won't happen). I suppose another effect of safety in numbers of more people cycling is that more jurors will be cyclists. (I did jury duty last year and was the only cyclists amongst my fellow jurors)

Do you really think so? I think she'll be sitting there thinking 'even if they find me guilty they'll do fuck all' and when it turns up at court she'll be surprised how lenient they are and there'll be no deterrent effect at all.

update to this - Court date booked 18/02/14 - I'm a Witness and the police and CJS are following up. will update once trial is complete - took a while but glad it's got to court

Ok update to this: she got 1 year ban to run on top of her already 1 year disqualification, 5 penalty points to be added once she gets licence back and £1300 in fine and costs - they were pretty hardcore on her given some of the sentences out there.
I got £300 compo to cover the bits and bobs that I had to fix at the time - so took a while but good result in the end and as long as your witness statement and your statement are good the CPS do like to push it to court.

Happy Tuesday folks