Careless Driving
- Thread starter BSRU
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It was the definite eye contact then secondary move across the lane that made me seriously consider reporting it, plus having to slam on the brakes and move sharply to the left made my stubborn mind up.
I'm impressed I got this response, I was waiting for my "not going to take it any further letter" to show up some time soon.
It is only the third time I have reported something like this to the Police in nine months, always when I felt I was very real danger of coming a cropper.
I think his view was obscured by the A pillar too BUT that is no excuse, you should know where your blind spot is. Truth is they were probably too busy checking for cars each way to look out for a cyclist.
Great sound effects though! not the horn... the sound of the squeal of your brakes... just confirms how hard you had to brake to avoid the accident.
Great sound effects though! not the horn... the sound of the squeal of your brakes... just confirms how hard you had to brake to avoid the accident.
As Easy As Riding A Bike
Well-Known Member
The willingness to pursue this makes me think that the guy might have previous, as the incident (although bad) doesn't immediately strike me as one that the police would be all that interested in.
Maybe I'm just deeply cynical though.
Maybe I'm just deeply cynical though.
Black Sheep
Guru
- Location
- Rammy
any update beyond whats already written in the op?
Browser
Guru
- Location
- Crowland, Lincolnshire, UK.
Good to know it's being pursued and that the police are starting to use video evidence to bring cases like this to the CPS.
BSRU, what type of camera was that you used please?
BSRU, what type of camera was that you used please?
Not really, I'm just about to post the cd with the video on it to the Police station, our only Police station is out of town almost in Oxfordshire.
It is a ContourHD 1080p.
The willingness to pursue this makes me think that the guy might have previous, as the incident (although bad) doesn't immediately strike me as one that the police would be all that interested in.
Maybe I'm just deeply cynical though.
I am also as deeply cynical but hopefully I will be proved wrong.
mgarl10024
Über Member
- Location
- Bristol
Hi,
Good luck with your case.
Another angle I wanted to add was that the denial could be genuine. Whilst the incident was no doubt of a great danger to you and sticks out in your mind, he probably wasn't in any great danger. If he does a lot of driving for example, he may find that through his or someone else's fault that he gets into many scrapes (i.e. imagine how often a taxi driver in London must get beeped at).
I'm not excusing what happened, just suggesting that the denial may be genuine.
MG
Good luck with your case.
Another angle I wanted to add was that the denial could be genuine. Whilst the incident was no doubt of a great danger to you and sticks out in your mind, he probably wasn't in any great danger. If he does a lot of driving for example, he may find that through his or someone else's fault that he gets into many scrapes (i.e. imagine how often a taxi driver in London must get beeped at).
I'm not excusing what happened, just suggesting that the denial may be genuine.
MG
I agree the denial could be genuine, it happened two months ago, I know I probably could not remember what happened while commuting in my boring car on a certain day two months ago.
Browser
Guru
- Location
- Crowland, Lincolnshire, UK.
Thank you, I thought the quality of the footage was very good and am still considering getting a camera myself. Sorry for the minor thread hijack.
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
A caution goes on their record?
If so, result! if not, still a result!
If so, result! if not, still a result!
