Melonfish
Evil Genius in training.
- Location
- Warrington, UK
This morning a bus from my local transport authority damn near killed me. i want to write a letter of complaint to them.
i've no idea how to word this.
seriously i do all my complaining in person, it gets you good results, but the seriousness of this incident this morning has left me wanting a more formal route so i'll be drafting a letter because i believe the conduct of the driver should be addressed sharpish before he kills someone.
whilst approaching a small roundabout on admirals road this morning LINKY a double decker bus decides to overtake me and go over the island.
btw the pic you can see on google there? thats how close i was, i was doinb about 17mph so its approaching fast.
i'm in secondary at this point (yes i should have been in primary to block him, trust me from now on consider it lesson learned)
now initially the pass wasn't that bad, i could almost touch it if i reached out. the main problem was that the bus then has to cut in to avoid the traffic island and go across the roundabout, i had already been braking tbh i applied them as soon as he attempted his pass and pulled more to the curb. the back end was still very close.
he then stops at the bus stop 100 yards ahead, i pulled up and asked him why he'd passed me at such a dangerous point, his response was "I left you room", to which i told him bluntly that he damn well didn't.
i told him then and there i was taking this to the transport authority and made to move off at which point he quipped "You were in the middle of the road!" so i moved back to his window and stated "I've got every RIGHT to be in the middle of the road pal."
then i moved off, pulled in and wrote the licence down on my phone and waited a few mins before the shaking stopped.
not a problem at any other point on my route to work, had a couple of close passes before and cut ins due to traffic islands but never anything this close.
my next buy is a helmet cam..
pete
i've no idea how to word this.
seriously i do all my complaining in person, it gets you good results, but the seriousness of this incident this morning has left me wanting a more formal route so i'll be drafting a letter because i believe the conduct of the driver should be addressed sharpish before he kills someone.
whilst approaching a small roundabout on admirals road this morning LINKY a double decker bus decides to overtake me and go over the island.
btw the pic you can see on google there? thats how close i was, i was doinb about 17mph so its approaching fast.
i'm in secondary at this point (yes i should have been in primary to block him, trust me from now on consider it lesson learned)
now initially the pass wasn't that bad, i could almost touch it if i reached out. the main problem was that the bus then has to cut in to avoid the traffic island and go across the roundabout, i had already been braking tbh i applied them as soon as he attempted his pass and pulled more to the curb. the back end was still very close.
he then stops at the bus stop 100 yards ahead, i pulled up and asked him why he'd passed me at such a dangerous point, his response was "I left you room", to which i told him bluntly that he damn well didn't.
i told him then and there i was taking this to the transport authority and made to move off at which point he quipped "You were in the middle of the road!" so i moved back to his window and stated "I've got every RIGHT to be in the middle of the road pal."
then i moved off, pulled in and wrote the licence down on my phone and waited a few mins before the shaking stopped.
not a problem at any other point on my route to work, had a couple of close passes before and cut ins due to traffic islands but never anything this close.
my next buy is a helmet cam..
pete