spen666
Legendary Member
A bizarre incident on my commute. I had cause to speak to a motorist regarding his driving. Initially he was polite and chatty, until lights changed when he threatened me if I did not shut his door. He drove off. Incident over?
Next lights a 100 yards away I end up ahead of him as a result of advanced stop line. He drives behind me, sounding his horn and close passes me. When he passes he demands I pull over as he wanted a chat. I suggested we stop at police station nearby. He drove off.
I forgot about incident and carried on my way to work.
2 miles or so up the road I see on a slip road a police car with lights on and a vehicle stopped. Police are speaking to the driver. It is same driver from the incident before.
I decide if police have stopped him for something else, they should be made aware of the earlier incident. I speak to one of the police officers and as I do so, the man says to police "thats him".
At which point police arrest him. They take a statement from me and then tell me they had not stopped him, but he had approached them and confessed to a public order offence involving a cyclist!
He was later interviewed for allegations of dangerous driving (overtake and threats), careless driving, initial incident and the public order offence!
Bizarrely if he had not stopped, the incident would never have come to police attention and I would not have approached the police car!
Karma?
Next lights a 100 yards away I end up ahead of him as a result of advanced stop line. He drives behind me, sounding his horn and close passes me. When he passes he demands I pull over as he wanted a chat. I suggested we stop at police station nearby. He drove off.
I forgot about incident and carried on my way to work.
2 miles or so up the road I see on a slip road a police car with lights on and a vehicle stopped. Police are speaking to the driver. It is same driver from the incident before.
I decide if police have stopped him for something else, they should be made aware of the earlier incident. I speak to one of the police officers and as I do so, the man says to police "thats him".
At which point police arrest him. They take a statement from me and then tell me they had not stopped him, but he had approached them and confessed to a public order offence involving a cyclist!
He was later interviewed for allegations of dangerous driving (overtake and threats), careless driving, initial incident and the public order offence!
Bizarrely if he had not stopped, the incident would never have come to police attention and I would not have approached the police car!
Karma?
