Overtake: worst one yet

[Archie]

This one hasn't gone to youtube yet as I was so incensed about it I intend to go to the Police.

link to blatant intimidation

Sadly you can't see this from the footage but after I pointed and yelled at him it was being reported I could see twice he pointed forcefully to the side of the road. That tells me:

* What he did was intentional
* Was intimidatory
* Was intended to force me off the road

Well I'm not having it. Tomorrow I'm handing the footage into the Police and they can do what they want with it. I intend to leave with an incident form, even if they intend to do nothing else, I'm not being fobbed off. Hopefully they'll do more than that and feel the guys collar, which would be a result as far as I'm concerned.

I'd like some help from you guys too if you can by suggesting how I can edit the footage and prepare myself for the visit, to ensure I get the best chance of getting what I want. If I can prepare some arguments if they do try to brush me off that would be really helpful.

And if anyone can help with compression settings on VirtualDub that would be handy too! The uploaded footage is really ropey, but the source is uncompressed and over 2GB, so if someone can suggest settings to get it down to VCD size that would be really helpful.

Cheers,
Archie

 

[cheadle hulme]

Is it a shared use path alongside the road? Is that what he was pointing at?

 

[Archie]

Yes, it is a shared use path.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Way too close an overtake. Go to the police, the CPS will advise them of the chance of a successful prosecution (not the police's decision). What the police can do is trace the owner/driver and have a word in their shell and tell them to wind their neck in.

Just because there is a 'Cycle' path doesn't mean you have to use it.

If you are travelling at a decent pace, the traffic is light, and you are safe to do so, it makes good sense to go on the road.

IMO your position was ok, traffic was light, the driver in the mondeo looked caught out in the video, and didn't anticipate your presence in time (red car in offside lane preventing black mondeo from moving out), hence the close overtake and the 'pass the buck' attitude.

 

[HF2300]

...I could see twice he pointed forcefully to the side of the road. That tells me:

* What he did was intentional
* Was intimidatory
* Was intended to force me off the road

I'm not sure - I suspect, as CP says, he was barrelling along, couldn't move out because of traffic in the outside lane and was too impatient to touch the brakes and wait for a gap to move out, so he decided to squeeze his way past regardless of your safety.

Intentional yes, in that he intended to overtake dangerously rather than lose a few seconds slowing down, but I doubt he was intending to force you off the road.

Sadly, I doubt the feds will do anything, either...

 

[andrew-the-tortoise]

Nasty, hope the police take the matter seriously.

You can clearly see the overtakers registration plate from the uploaded video if you pause it, but you could burn the uncompressed image to DVD [4.7 gb on those I think?]

 

[hambones]

Blimey some people would hate my commute if that's supposed to be bad!!

OK OK so it's not the best overtake - I suspect he/she objected to your positioning on a road which was clear of nearside obstruction and you could have been considerably nearer the gutter and still avoid drains.

 

[HF2300]

... you could have been considerably nearer the gutter and still avoid drains.

I don't know, Archie looked to be in the track cleaned by cars' LH wheels, that doesn't seem unreasonably far out to me.

 

[domtyler]

Absolutely awful, what a **cking tosser!! Unfortunately there is absolutely no point in taking this to the police. They deal in crime and no crime was commited.

 

[ComedyPilot]

........so it's not the best overtake - I suspect he/she objected to your positioning on a road which was clear of nearside obstruction and you could have been considerably nearer the gutter and still avoid drains.

Instead, the cyclist's position made the car driver slow down and take avoiding action. The car driver was not best pleased and made sure the cyclist was aware of this.

Just how much faster (and closer) would the car have gone past (remember no offside lane due to red car) if the cyclist had ridden in the 'gutter', thereby leaving a tempting (to the car driver) 'I can get through that' type gap?

A good driver will have seen the cyclist from a good distance, have got off the throttle (aiding filtering into offside traffic) and taken up a position behind the red car, with little or no time lost, and no chance of maiming or killing a cyclist due to a got-to-get-ahead attitude.

 

[John the Monkey]

A good driver will have seen the cyclist from a good distance, have got off the throttle (aiding filtering into offside traffic) and taken up a position behind the red car, with little or no time lost, and no chance of maiming or killing a cyclist due to a got-to-get-ahead attitude.

A bit of a tangent, but I think that idea of "reading the road" and adjusting your driving for conditions ahead of you is a real dying art in this country.

 

[Tynan]

coppers will seee nothing actionable there, perhaps nothing at all, sorry

not sure I'd fancy riding on a road like that

 

[ComedyPilot]

A bit of a tangent, but I think that idea of "reading the road" and adjusting your driving for conditions ahead of you is a real dying art in this country.

From my PERSONAL experience I can assure you failing to 'read the road' is the main, if not 'THE' cause of death on the roads

 

[Archie]

Absolutely awful, what a **cking tosser!! Unfortunately there is absolutely no point in taking this to the police. They deal in crime and no crime was commited.

Well, how about "Driving without due care and attention"? That's an offence.

 

[fossyant]

Reading the road in a modern car....... oh dear..

Anyone that can drive will feel a car slip.... 95% won't these days...... a new car is so removed from 'road feel' that they all won't know what happened....it's sad...and it's life threatening......

No one takes note of the bloody lights flashing on the dash these days - i.e. blooming big 4x4's that the drivers think handle like sports cars.............