Sheffield_Tiger
Legendary Member
Not me...a mate has just been telling me of his ride home this morning (he works nights)
About 7am he passed a car that was stopped in the middle of the road, to answer the phone. The car moves off as he passes but follows (up a hill that's a pain, it doesn't look steep but it is)
He needed to turn right a few hundred hards up the road, and feeling uneasy at the car behind on his back wheel making no attempt to pass when passing was possible, he decided to cross over and ride the 200yds to the junction on the opposite pavement, to get out of the way of a strangely-behaving motorist/
This is where it gets odd. The car followed. Up the kerb, onto the pavement and with a fence to the right and parked cars to the left, the car continues to drive up the pavement, when it meets with a lamp post the car scrapes (literally) by the school fence.
Eventually they come to a white van parked half on the pavement making the gap too narrow for the car. He's freaked out by the experience so didn't stop to see whether the car's stopping was due to recognition of the narrow gap or a collision.
My first thought was that the driver was so inebriated..the lack of a "threatening behaviour", just a blind following of the thing in front, made me think that the driver was completely out of it.
The police were disinterested and asked a cyclist who was worrying about being run over, to go back and take a reg no. and offered to come out to visit at 4pm - 8 hrs later - for what?
I think, after tonight's discussion of this, next week there will be another cyclist equipped with a camera
About 7am he passed a car that was stopped in the middle of the road, to answer the phone. The car moves off as he passes but follows (up a hill that's a pain, it doesn't look steep but it is)
He needed to turn right a few hundred hards up the road, and feeling uneasy at the car behind on his back wheel making no attempt to pass when passing was possible, he decided to cross over and ride the 200yds to the junction on the opposite pavement, to get out of the way of a strangely-behaving motorist/
This is where it gets odd. The car followed. Up the kerb, onto the pavement and with a fence to the right and parked cars to the left, the car continues to drive up the pavement, when it meets with a lamp post the car scrapes (literally) by the school fence.
Eventually they come to a white van parked half on the pavement making the gap too narrow for the car. He's freaked out by the experience so didn't stop to see whether the car's stopping was due to recognition of the narrow gap or a collision.
My first thought was that the driver was so inebriated..the lack of a "threatening behaviour", just a blind following of the thing in front, made me think that the driver was completely out of it.
The police were disinterested and asked a cyclist who was worrying about being run over, to go back and take a reg no. and offered to come out to visit at 4pm - 8 hrs later - for what?
I think, after tonight's discussion of this, next week there will be another cyclist equipped with a camera
