phaedrus
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Going home around 4.45 last night, I'm in the inside of two lanes coming up to a roundabout where I intend to take the second exit (straight ahead). 30mph area. Pedestrian barrier on the pavement. Fairly busy traffic conditions. I'm in primary.
An articulated lorry flies past me, almost touching me. He's mostly in the outside lane. While he's about half way past me he indicates left, slams on the brakes, and starts to turn into the first exit. Everything goes into slow motion. I look at the side of the lorry coming towards my right, and the barrier on my left. I hit the brakes as hard as I can and throw the bike to the left. The rest of the lorry whizzes past, just missing me, and the rear wheels mount the pavement just where I would have been. My heart was pounding in absolute terror.
The only detail I can remember is that the lorry had an Irish number plate, which is pretty common around here. MN 04 something. I'm a very placid person, but I believe I would have been capable of serious violence towards that lorry driver.
An articulated lorry flies past me, almost touching me. He's mostly in the outside lane. While he's about half way past me he indicates left, slams on the brakes, and starts to turn into the first exit. Everything goes into slow motion. I look at the side of the lorry coming towards my right, and the barrier on my left. I hit the brakes as hard as I can and throw the bike to the left. The rest of the lorry whizzes past, just missing me, and the rear wheels mount the pavement just where I would have been. My heart was pounding in absolute terror.
The only detail I can remember is that the lorry had an Irish number plate, which is pretty common around here. MN 04 something. I'm a very placid person, but I believe I would have been capable of serious violence towards that lorry driver.
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. In my case the truck left deep tyre tracks on the grass verge adjacent to the road, over which I jumped into a drainage dyke with my bike - a touring hybrid with panniers and not a light jump bike or MTB, and realised had I remained on the road I would have been well and truly flattened. The driver had previously nearly killed me trying to pass me, took umbrage when I shouted up at his cab, rammed me into the side of the road, stopped, got out and tried to assault me. But he didn't feel lucky when he saw my Abus Granit X Plus D-lock poised to strike his head so he backed off and waited up the road as in Duel for me to pass by some 20 mintues later. Truly frickin terrifying. And plod in Peterborough was not interested. Although I recommend you report it to your plod, they might take incidents such as these more seriously than Cambridgeshire Police, but they might not.