This morning I had my first incident that I'm tempted to report. I was driving along this road http://maps.google.c...222.24,,0,12.06 at about 9:30 this morning at which time there is a fair amount of traffic on it. No headwind, a slight downhill and no panniers meant I could keep up with the line of traffic doing 25mph in what is a 30mph zone.
As I'm following the traffic I'm holding primary so I don't find myself in a dangerous situation. Unfortunately Mr Transit Driver behind decides to put me in one anyway. As soon as the van in front of me begins extending the gap between myself and him to just under a couple of seconds I revert back into the cycle lane only to have the driver behind me agressively cut across me, swinging into the cycle lane in front of me and then back across. I've no doubt it was deliberate and feel it would be helpful to him and future cyclists if he got some sort of warning. As a note I was still carrying a fair amount of speed and only one other car came past me. As he turned off at a roundabout I then found myself behind the Transit but couldn't pull alongside to have a word. He could see I was less than impressed and as soon as the road split at the next roundabout he was going in the empty left hand lane (I joined the queue for right turns), he accelerated away before braking sharply to make his left hand turn.
I've seen a few of you talk about reporting incidents such as these to road safe but have a feeling this is only for London? Today's incident was in Wiltshire. Also, I got the registration as BF08 OVV but after checking now one website is telling me this is a foreign plate which can't be right.
As I'm following the traffic I'm holding primary so I don't find myself in a dangerous situation. Unfortunately Mr Transit Driver behind decides to put me in one anyway. As soon as the van in front of me begins extending the gap between myself and him to just under a couple of seconds I revert back into the cycle lane only to have the driver behind me agressively cut across me, swinging into the cycle lane in front of me and then back across. I've no doubt it was deliberate and feel it would be helpful to him and future cyclists if he got some sort of warning. As a note I was still carrying a fair amount of speed and only one other car came past me. As he turned off at a roundabout I then found myself behind the Transit but couldn't pull alongside to have a word. He could see I was less than impressed and as soon as the road split at the next roundabout he was going in the empty left hand lane (I joined the queue for right turns), he accelerated away before braking sharply to make his left hand turn.
I've seen a few of you talk about reporting incidents such as these to road safe but have a feeling this is only for London? Today's incident was in Wiltshire. Also, I got the registration as BF08 OVV but after checking now one website is telling me this is a foreign plate which can't be right.
