Police ask for help to catch driver targeting cyclists...

[BSRU]

For dangerous driving....err I don't think so!! It's a mandatory CPS referral for a disposal option

But your assuming the police call it dangerous driving.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

The video is showing as private for me. Is it available anywhere else?

GC

 

[Big Nick]

But your assuming the police call it dangerous driving.

What else would you call driving deliberately across the road at a cyclist on several occasions!!!???

 

[BSRU]

What else would you call driving deliberately across the road at a cyclist on several occasions!!!???

It doesn't matter what I call it.

 

[fossyant]

But your assuming the police call it dangerous driving.

Try Road CC - they twittered it.

 

[Big Nick]

It doesn't matter what I call it.

Actually it does if you would call yourself an ordinary 'careful and competent driver' as that's the standard the police apply to decide

 

[ufkacbln]

Don't get me wrong in this, as I understand Sara H's position and share her feelings

However there is another side to this.

I had an incident where I took objection to a left hook and the driver then complained to management that I had been aggressive, violent and abusive. It would have been very difficultto prove otherwise, and I would have felt aggrieved if they had simply taken their evidence.

 

[ufkacbln]

the police record with regard to RTCs involving cyclists is very poor, the CTC have recorded over four thousand complaint. I hope the police do something and don't just shrug if the reg keeper refuses to identify the driver.

I always reckon thatthere is a simple solution to this:

1. So...... you don't know who was driving the vehicle atthe time of the incident
2. So... you cannot thereforeactually prove the vehicle was insured at the time
3. As you cannot prove the vehicle was insured it is perfectly reasonable to assume that it was not isured..... Your car is impounded.
4. Please come come back with proof that the driver at the time of the incident was insured

Then and only then will the car be released.

 

[Sara_H]

Don't get me wrong in this, as I understand Sara H's position and share her feelings

However there is another side to this.

I had an incident where I took objection to a left hook and the driver then complained to management that I had been aggressive, violent and abusive. It would have been very difficultto prove otherwise, and I would have felt aggrieved if they had simply taken their evidence.

I guess its the reluctance to investigate a complaint at all that rankles. In my case I had no reg number, no witnesses no nothing for the police to go on. But we see examples frequently where there is footage that the police just write off. I guess if they'd wanted to, they could have looked for CCTV footage, but as I wasn't injured I'm not surprised that they didn't.
The case in the OP seems extroidinary because the police are acting!

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

I always reckon thatthere is a simple solution to this:

1. So...... you don't know who was driving the vehicle atthe time of the incident
2. So... you cannot thereforeactually prove the vehicle was insured at the time
3. As you cannot prove the vehicle was insured it is perfectly reasonable to assume that it was not isured..... Your car is impounded.
4. Please come come back with proof that the driver at the time of the incident was insured

Then and only then will the car be released.

Genius, your wasted on here!

 

[Archie_tect]

The video is showing as private for me. Is it available anywhere else?

GC

I can't run it either.

 

[BSRU]

Actually it does if you would call yourself an ordinary 'careful and competent driver' as that's the standard the police apply to decide

You seem to live in a very idealistic world, it is very common for dangerous driving to be treated as just careless.
As someone who has experience of Wiltshire police I think they will go for the easiest option for them.

 

[HLaB]

Hope the camera got his face not just the reg, if not, the cynic in me thinks he'll get of on the old lame excuse 'it wasn't me, it was my mate driving and I'm not obliged to tell you his name' :-(

 

[glenn forger]

Maybe the cops asked for the clip to be taken down. Maybe the driver did.

 

[Big Nick]

You seem to live in a very idealistic world, it is very common for dangerous driving to be treated as just careless.
As someone who has experience of Wiltshire police I think they will go for the easiest option for them.

Every situation is different and applying blind prejudice before the case has been finalised is very negative and narrow minded. In my view they are really trying hard to bring this nutter to book by releasing this out to the media etc. You clearly have an axe to grind with Wiltshire Police so it would be more productive to pursue said grievance with whoever dealt with your incident rather than tarring every other officer/ the whole Force with the same brush