Hit and Run in Knightsbridge. Cyclist chases down motorist.

[veloevol]

whats your tube?

It's veloevol Mr D.

 

[TrafficDroid]

Driving like this happens, even had an arse try to side swipe me with his Merc tonight on my way home from Wales in a CAR....

This is very common and " Very worrying "

 

[TrafficDroid]

It's veloevol Mr D.

Sometime tonight you will be able to comment.

 

[Jezston]

A good observation.. I think its all an " ITIS " Thing... interesting to see views from cyclists.. unlike twitter and tube

In fairness it is helpful to concede mistakes, hard as it can be to feel you're giving satisfaction to people giving you grief.

I do hope you accept undertaking another cyclist at speed while blasting a horn probably isn't a very good idea, and I'm sure you wouldn't like it happening to you, regardless of the circumstances. I understand what you were trying to do, but I think shouting "coming through on your left!" would have been a better approach. Sustaining the horn isn't really a good idea unless someone is about to cause a collision.

 

[TrafficDroid]

Is this one of these spoof comedy shows?

I am a regular cyclist (and driver) in that part of London - and have been so for over thirty years.

The driving was poor-to-middling, but by no means unusual.

The headcammer appeared (to my untrained eye) slightly madder than a box of slightly mad frogs.

He was passed quite closely, as were the other cyclists, but these things happen.

He then barged past on the inside of the 'victim', shouting about stopping the driver. It all got slightly weird.

I was unaware initially that the horn was on the headcammer's bicycle. Its use was bizarre, intimidatory and excessive.

The driver appeared to accept he'd driven badly, but this was not enough for our vigilante of truth and justice.

Bizarrely, having honked and yelled for some time, he steps beyond irony by telling the bemused driver to stop shouting.

I couldn't watch to the end, so I have no idea whether the 'victim' appeared.

This cyclo-vigilante doesn't represent me, doesn't dignify cycling and doesn't make the roads safer. I think he's very clever to do all that shouting and riding and honking and amateur policing... But if it's for anything more than entertainment, it has me baffled.

 

[Sittingduck]

I suppose its perfectly acceptable to do nothing about anything these days? ;-)

The intent of your actions is doubtless commendable but their execution is liable to cause more problems, than good. Make predictable and reasonable choices when you're cycling on roads shared by lots of other folk. I don't think that's too much to ask. Good luck with your crusade and stay safe out there. Me - I'll steer well clear of Knightsbridge in the future...

 

[TrafficDroid]

Vigilante? Hardly. They are unseen and unknown.. so how does that make one a vigilante?
We are all individuals like you have manifested ..I am not running office so cannot rpresent you.
Safe cycling ;-)

 

[TrafficDroid]

The intent of your actions is doubtless commendable but their execution is liable to cause more problems, than good. Make predictable and reasonable choices when you're cycling on roads shared by lots of other folk. I don't think that's too much to ask. Good luck with your crusade and stay safe out there. Me - I'll steer well clear of Knightsbridge in the future...

Thanks for the words of encouragement.

 

[TrafficDroid]

In fairness it is helpful to concede mistakes, hard as it can be to feel you're giving satisfaction to people giving you grief.

I do hope you accept undertaking another cyclist at speed while blasting a horn probably isn't a very good idea, and I'm sure you wouldn't like it happening to you, regardless of the circumstances. I understand what you were trying to do, but I think shouting "coming through on your left!" would have been a better approach. Sustaining the horn isn't really a good idea unless someone is about to cause a collision.

Indeed yes..

 

[tadpole]

Catching the bus might cause you a lot less stress. Which would, it seems, be a good thing.

 

[Globalti]

From the perspective of a driver who is IAM trained and has never had an accident - let alone knocked off a cyclist - in 40 years of driving cars, motorbikes, vans and trucks, I would say that being hooted at aggressively rather than just as a warning simply angers me. I'm always willing to admit to a mistake but not when someone gets arsey with me.

 

[veloevol]

From the perspective of a driver who is IAM trained and has never had an accident - let along knocked off a cyclist - in 40 years of driving cars, motorbikes, vans and trucks, I would say that being hooted at aggressively rather than just as a warning simply angers me. I'm always wiling to admit to a mistake but not when someone gets arsey with me.

That's one reason I retired my air horn.

 

[TheJDog]

Do you make sure to give other pedestrians 1.5m when you're walking? After all, they could slip, bounce off you and fly into the road.

I know I am very careful around other pedestrians when negotiating around them at the edges of footpaths on a busy road.

 

[Mange-tout]

To get back to the original theme which was meant to be the car driver's extremely poor, reckless and selfish driving, I hope being stopped by a 'vigilante' might just have pricked this @ricks conscience after all.

Perhaps he is a safer guy on the roads today? If he hadn't been chased down, horns blaring or not , by TrafficDroid, today or tomorrow might be the day when he doesn't just clip someone's hand but has their whole body under his wheels. I feel kind of sorry for the guy - I bet he was shook up by the whole thing and whilst not admitting anything on camera (even having the cheek to straighten his mirror) I have a feeling he is secretly ashamed of his driving and a better driver today for it. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking.

 

[Matthew_T]

Having a horn and wearing cameras is acceptable, but it is how you use them that matters.

I have learnt that it is just a bit pointless uploading everything that I see or happens to me because it wont make people think any better of me. As a result, I upload the things that I enjoy on my rides and only upload bad driving once a month in a compilation. It gets me to focus more on the enjoyments of cycling rather than the dangers.

I think all helmet cammers should take note of this and try to enforce this method in their own uploading of videos. TD does this to an extent where he meets numerous people in London but he also uploads quite a lot of "driving minors". E.g. Stopping in the ASL, it annoys us all but lecturing the people wont always help.

Safety is paramount.