I hope he reported him.

[LewisLondon]

From their facebook page, big apology from the owner and it looks like the driver has been sacked. Good response as a minimum

 

[Milzy]

The driver says he was having family problems which contributed to his actions. As he was an engineer he would have been on a decent wage. He will be having even bigger family problems now. The knobber.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Driver has been fired

 

[winjim]

Their Twitter's down too. Shame. It could have been a good opportunity for them to very publicly do the right thing. Unless their lawyers have advised them not to I guess. I wonder exactly who was driving the van...

Back with a big apology. Driver dismissed, driver awareness course instigated. Social media was down due to abusive messages they were receiving. So there we go, publicly doing the right thing.

ETA: I would still, in this instance, rather the police were involved and hope that Vidette would cooperate should that be the case.

 

[Milzy]

You can't beat a good which hunt!

 

[fossyant]

Personal problems don't excuse that.

 

[winjim]

You can't beat a good which hunt!

As in "Which hunt was driving that van?"

 

[Milzy]

Cyclists have also taken to Google to express their displeasure, resulting in the company having a one star rating on the search engine. lol a few from this forum!!

 

[burntoutbanger]

Good response from the company I feel. Driver should now be charged, imprisoned and banned.

Feel the company may still suffer in the short term, time will tell.

 

[winjim]

Cyclists have also taken to Google to express their displeasure, resulting in the company having a one star rating on the search engine. lol a few from this forum!!

I hope they revise their opinions in light of the apology and the actions taken by the company.

 

[Drago]

Its a shame they waited until they were sure it wouldn't go away before making a positve comment.

 

[flake99please]

google "vidette uk ltd" and the google review show up in the search results. There are now 128 one-start reviews!

If I was that drivers boss that van would now be back in the possession of the company and the driver would be calling into the office on Monday morning to collect his dismissal paperwork.

This is an apparent statement from one of the company directors....

I am writing this letter to express my sincere apologies to the cyclist that was very unfortunate to experience a very irresponsible and dangerous move by an engineer driving one of Vidette's vehicles on Sunday 30th April.

My wife and I are both very keen cyclist ourselves so fully appreciate the impact/trauma that a near miss like this would have on anyone in this situation.
I have now interviewed the driver and can honestly say the he is so full of remorse and fully understands how lucky he and the cyclist have been on this occasion and swears to never let himself get into a position like this again He stated that he was having personal problems with his family and his mind “was all over the place” and that he is so sorry. I do believe him and could tell his apology was genuine, however we cannot condone nor let this behaviour have any place within our company, we have decided to make an example here and to promote driver awareness going forward. He has been dismissed from immediate effect!
This experience has made me realise that I can do something to help reduce this sort of behaviour on our roads so have decided to introduce a driver awareness course into our already busy H&S training matrix for all our employees. The AA seem to have a nice one called Driver Alertness Education, I have actioned this to be investigated & organised immediately.
Adding to the above, I have had full backing & agreement in these decisions from all of our management team.
I hope this letter will also be of comfort to the other road users & cyclists who have written their concerns.

NB - I was on holiday until early this morning which made an immediate answer nigh on impossible. I understand that the vast majority of mails and social media comments are from concerned genuine people however, we received some really hurtful mails wishing all sorts of medical curses on our office staff which swayed me into taking down the access from our web site & social media pages.

Sincere apologies,

Ian Frazer

 

[Drago]

Apparently some barrister type who fancies himself as a bit tasty in the court room has offered to advise the victim for free.

The only downside of the driver being sacked is he now has mitigation to present to the court when sentencing is considered.

 

[Milkfloat]

Fair play to the company if what he has written can be believed.

 

[400bhp]

Fair play to the company if what he has written can be believed.

Agree, although I winced at the "I'm a cyclist and so is my wife" type comment.