Police response and how the whole process is weighted.

[glenn forger]

https://beyondthekerb.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/guest-post-nipping-it-in-the-bud/

The actual driving was terrible and the driver has a potty mouth, dunno if I would bother reporting it, but the response can't simply be explained by budget cuts. It's the old story of the cops changing their mind about why footage of drivers behaving like that doesn't result in any sanction at all.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

The cyclist doesn't let on to the one he overtakes at the end, nobber.

 

[Origamist]

The cyclist doesn't let on to the one he overtakes at the end, nobber.

I don't know what you are saying here - could you clarify?

 

[Globalti]

Looks like a non-event to me, a crap driver who has zero anticipation and crowds a cyclist then has to brake hard to avoid hitting a bollard, and takes out her embarrassment on the cyclist. It happens thousands of times a day and if I was the copper I'd be doing my best to discourage you from making a complaint.

EDit: here in Lancashire the Police encourage the Public to phone the non-emergency number and report speeding or dangerous driving. The report is logged against the vehicle and if that vehicle is "seen" by a Traffic car equipped with ANPR the driver will be stopped for a chat. If more than three reports appear against a vehicle the driver receives a home visit. We have dealt successfully with several habitual speeders and short-cutters in our restricted access street using this method; they haven't been seen again.

 

[downfader]

Do you remember the bit in Hitchhiker's Guide where they have to see the Bureaucrats..? Thats what UK Policing has become.

 

[Origamist]

Looks like a non-event to me, a crap driver who has zero anticipation and crowds a cyclist then has to brake hard to avoid hitting a bollard, and takes out her embarrassment on the cyclist. It happens thousands of times a day and if I was the copper I'd be doing my best to discourage you from making a complaint.

EDit: here in Lancashire the Police encourage the Public to phone the non-emergency number and report speeding or dangerous driving. The report is logged against the vehicle and if that vehicle is "seen" by a Traffic car equipped with ANPR the driver will be stopped for a chat. If more than three reports appear against a vehicle the driver receives a home visit. We have dealt successfully with several habitual speeders and short-cutters in our restricted access street using this method; they haven't been seen again.

It seems a little peculiar that you are quite happy to report speeding drivers on your street (even though speeding probably happens "millions of times" a day) and relay the positive outcome of police action for the residents, but dismiss a dangerously close pass of a cyclist as a non-event and then fantasize about dissuading the cyclist form continuing with his complaint! Either it's myopic localism or hypocrisy.

 

[kiriyama]

There's crap drivers on the road. Its not right, but that's never going to change. Don't think this was worth reporting. The cyclist handled the situation well, avoided danger and didn't get too high and mighty about the situation like some of these camera cyclists.

 

[Incontinentia Buttocks]

Forget the traffic aspect which I doubt would ever have gone anywhere, what we do have here is a pretty clear S5 Public Order Act.

 

[Crandoggler]

Kind of agree it needed looking into, but this shoot happens all the time. I've gone to over take and realised I won't make it. Granted I've pulled back in before pulling alongside and usually said sorry, not beeped and shouted like a trout.

 

[downfader]

There's crap drivers on the road. Its not right, but that's never going to change. Don't think this was worth reporting. The cyclist handled the situation well, avoided danger and didn't get too high and mighty about the situation like some of these camera cyclists.

Kind of agree it needed looking into, but this shoot happens all the time. I've gone to over take and realised I won't make it. Granted I've pulled back in before pulling alongside and usually said sorry, not beeped and shouted like a trout.

Like I've said for a while - the fact that bad driving is so normalised is the reason cyclists remain 2% of all UK traffic. Back in the early 80s we were 5%... in the 50s more like 25%+

 

[Crandoggler]

I think that the cost of owning a vehicle in those days may have something to do with that correlation. But yeah, you're right, people are in too much of a hurry every time they jump in a car, and I'm as much to blame as some of them. However, I try my best with cyclists.

 

[downfader]

I think that the cost of owning a vehicle in those days may have something to do with that correlation. But yeah, you're right, people are in too much of a hurry every time they jump in a car, and I'm as much to blame as some of them. However, I try my best with cyclists.

I think people like yourself have an advantage many nonriders dont. Its the basic experience you can share with noncyclists in small ways that helps make steps towards change. We riders are very much an endangered species as it stands despite the media and political rhetoric of "cycling boom"

 

[CopperCyclist]

Forget the traffic aspect which I doubt would ever have gone anywhere, what we do have here is a pretty clear S5 Public Order Act.

4a

;p

 

[Incontinentia Buttocks]

4a

;p

correct, though I can't remember the last time I used that!

 

[vickster]

Thought I recognised that road, A24 into Epsom. I had an incident a couple of years ago going along there the other way, I had some dick try to overtake me while I was passing a bollard through a pinch point....such as shame as he didn't have enough space and drove over the island, a Big Bang behind me, rattle, rattle...sounded like a new tyre and wheel might be needed...poor pillock...oh how I chuckled