Confrontation with a Driver [Video]

[w00hoo_kent]

Thats well hall, not far from where Steven Lawrence was murdered all those years ago or Eltham for those that dont know it. Personally I find the area round there pretty congested the best of times. Leave them to get on with it. From experience you get no where with confronting dickheads like that. The law doesnt care, and they certainly dont. Can understand your frustration, sometimes its better to walk away.

On my inbound commute (I come out on the A20) I've had similar coming down that road. Don't know how unique it is but commuting in that area is what has me seriously considering a camera of some description. Fortunately I've only had verbal threats and not been deliberately driven at to anywhere near that degree (although the guy who clipped my bar sufficiently to flatten his nearside mirror against his Golf at 32mph down Shooters Hill was probably the closest.).

Congratulations on some level of result. It'd be nice to think he'd amend his driving because of it.

 

[Beebo]

Thats well hall, not far from where Steven Lawrence was murdered all those years ago or Eltham for those that dont know it. Personally I find the area round there pretty congested the best of times. Leave them to get on with it. From experience you get no where with confronting dickheads like that. The law doesnt care, and they certainly dont. Can understand your frustration, sometimes its better to walk away.

Yep, just down the hill from the memorial plaque.
My wife grew up in a house overlooking Wellhall Park, and we have friends who live in a very nice Victorian property about 200m from that video.
The problem with Eltham is, like most areas of London, there are nice bits and crappy bits, and it's impossible to escape the nobbers.

 

[crazyjoe101]

Thanks for the response guys and my apologies for a lacking OP. I have added some more information in the OP.

 

[glenn forger]

Were you given his name? A caution is a bit weak, watching it again, that bloke's an impotent thug.

 

[Amanda P]

Curious. An arrest for this? That seems unusual - I very much suspect the police already knew this guy, and your report was what they'd been waiting for to arrest him.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

The reason I decided to stop is that after he braked hard like that to talk to me again I didn't think it was a good idea to be cycling in front if him; as you can see at that point I tried to end the whole silly argument.

Sensible, I've done similar a couple of times telling the driver I'd feel safer with them in front of me. Then again I did that on a roundabout in Swanley (or, farking Swanley as I tend to translate it every time I get back there on my commute, there all bets are off with regards to driving standards although I've not had anything that bad happen there for a while now) and the guy in the car behind then decided to drive 'at' me rather than let me pull away and get going. But that's Swanley for you.

 

[Drago]

There's only one way to treat chumps like that...


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ-EOg38t1o

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

Looks like he was trying to impress his woman,though she didn't look very impressed did she.
Glad you got a result mate.

 

[crazyjoe101]

Were you given his name? A caution is a bit weak, watching it again, that bloke's an impotent thug.

I have his first name but I'm not sharing that. If I was in his shoes for whatever reason I would appreciate being given 'one chance' before getting a serious punishment, I think that's more constructive than throwing the book at people from the get go.

Curious. An arrest for this? That seems unusual - I very much suspect the police already knew this guy, and your report was what they'd been waiting for to arrest him.

The police officer who visited me did way more than he was tasked with doing and flagged the vehicle for a stop.

Looks like he was trying to impress his woman,though she didn't look very impressed did she.
Glad you got a result mate.

She was trying to calm him down the whole time, hence why I have tried to pixelate her; I reccon he'd have jumped out or something if she wasn't there.

 

[glenn forger]

Entirely up to you. Your call. I'd name him, it was a sustained road rage incident with an impotent micro-cocked bully using a vehicle as a weapon.

 

[Drago]

Indeed. No way his behaviour could be chalked up as accidental. His actions were deliberate and sustained over several minutes. If he doesn't like his name being associated with such behaviour then its up to him to behave in a civilised manner, not up to you to protect him (although it is very chivalrous of you).

 

[crazyjoe101]

Indeed. No way his behaviour could be chalked up as accidental. His actions were deliberate and sustained over several minutes. If he doesn't like his name being associated with such behaviour then its up to him to behave in a civilised manner, not up to you to protect him (although it is very chivalrous of you).

It's not so much that, I just don't want the video to look like a militant cyclist attack on another motorist, I think the video could be useful to some people out there and I just want it to show what happened.

 

[ianrauk]

It's not so much that, I just don't want the video to look like a militant cyclist attack on another motorist, I think the video could be useful to some people out there and I just want it to show what happened.

looks like the other way round to me.

 

[Tynan]

I watched with the sound off but still found that alarming, how aggressive and looking for a row can a bloke be before he becomes a genuine menace to the public?

I agree that the woman between the driver and you reduced the potential for something even more serious, I think that certainly deserved a charge and a conviction, that was bang out of order by several levels of magnitude. The waiting for you to go first was threatening enough but to drive the car at you at the side of the road in a bus stop, not once but twice?

(I once had a car drive up onto the pavement to catch up with me filtering through traffic)

 

[cd365]

A caution was the least he deserved.