Dave Davenport
Guru
- Location
- Hampshire
Me, mrs d and a friend were returning from the clubrun Sunday, we were doing about 20 mph down a two lane road coming into town. I was in the middle slightly further out than my mate on the front with mrs d behind, when we were about 200 yards from a set of lights (Leigh road Eastleigh by the pub & hotel for any locals) a car went by very close sounding it's horn and then swerved hard and fast right across the front of us. He had to stop at lights 10 seconds later so of course I was at his passenger window and my mate was at the drivers giving him some verbal. He said we shouldn't be riding two abreast! I said A. Read your high way code B. Did he think it was ok to try and kill us because he thought we took up to much room on the road and C. He was lucky he was about 70 or I have dragged him out of his window and he'd be lying in the road bleeding by now!
We then filtered along the traffic to the front, when we moved off (the road goes to single lane) I stayed out to make him go right around us thinking he'd be a bit sheepish, but he pulled along next to me and started to move over towards me, he had plenty of room to pass and was obviously doing it on purpose. So at this point I unclipped my right foot and gave the door of his new shiny toyota and hefty kick which made a nice dent and scratch. He then swerved infront of me stopped, got out and started ranting that he was going straight to the police station just up the road, we said fine, we'll come too.
Anyway, we both gave our stories to the desk sargant who then called me back in. He said his intention was to just record it as a reported incident with no action unless I wanted to take it further, I said I'd leave it as I couldn't see it getting anywhere with no actual injuries and I should think he was looking at £500+ to re-skin the door (The sargent said he was a motorcyclist and shook my hand and winked at me when I went as if to say nice one mate)
I was amazed that a very respecable looking seventy'ish year old bloke out with his wife would so deliberatly risk seriously injuring us, also that some people would have given him a good kicking despite his age. I expect he went home and penned a 'lycra louts/ police take no action' letter to the mail.
We then filtered along the traffic to the front, when we moved off (the road goes to single lane) I stayed out to make him go right around us thinking he'd be a bit sheepish, but he pulled along next to me and started to move over towards me, he had plenty of room to pass and was obviously doing it on purpose. So at this point I unclipped my right foot and gave the door of his new shiny toyota and hefty kick which made a nice dent and scratch. He then swerved infront of me stopped, got out and started ranting that he was going straight to the police station just up the road, we said fine, we'll come too.
Anyway, we both gave our stories to the desk sargant who then called me back in. He said his intention was to just record it as a reported incident with no action unless I wanted to take it further, I said I'd leave it as I couldn't see it getting anywhere with no actual injuries and I should think he was looking at £500+ to re-skin the door (The sargent said he was a motorcyclist and shook my hand and winked at me when I went as if to say nice one mate)
I was amazed that a very respecable looking seventy'ish year old bloke out with his wife would so deliberatly risk seriously injuring us, also that some people would have given him a good kicking despite his age. I expect he went home and penned a 'lycra louts/ police take no action' letter to the mail.
And getting the approval of the copper, to boot!
