ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
My cycling pal Bill came round yesterday with a report on his narrow escape from injury.
He had been riding up the A6033 from Todmorden towards Littleborough when he came up to the junction with the Bacup Rd which emerges under a railway viaduct on the right.
Bill spotted a van coasting up to the stop sign and made eye contact with the driver. Yes, you can guess what happened next ...
The van shot out and came straight at Bill, who swerved left as far as he could. He said that his tyre was rubbing the kerb when the nearside front of the van sideswiped him. He was swatted off the road and collided with the corner of that building next to the road.
The van shot off but another van driver and a taxi driver who had witnessed the incident stopped to help. One of the drivers took Bill's phone number and set off in pursuit of the errant van driver.
The other driver checked that Bill was ok. He was groggy and shaken up but miraculously had suffered nothing more than a few scratches and bruises. Even his bike had escaped almost unscathed!
A few minutes later his phone rang, unknown caller ... "Hey, someone just stopped me and said that I knocked you off your bike back at the Bacup Road junction - SORRY MATE, I DIDN'T SEE YOU!"
Bill made a few choice suggestions on how his driving could be improved (
) and decided to leave it at that. Given that there were no injuries or damage to his bike, then he didn't think that the police would be interested.
I actually think that he should have reported the driver. There were 2 witnesses to the bad driving. If there had been a report against him then surely that could help build a case against him in the event of a subsequent more serious incident?
Ha - while using Street view to capture the image above, I spotted this ... Obviously, the van driver didn't! (If he wasn't even paying enough attention to avoid a cyclist, then any approaching motorcyclist would have been in mortal danger!) LOOK. LOOK AGAIN!
He had been riding up the A6033 from Todmorden towards Littleborough when he came up to the junction with the Bacup Rd which emerges under a railway viaduct on the right.
Bill spotted a van coasting up to the stop sign and made eye contact with the driver. Yes, you can guess what happened next ...
The van shot out and came straight at Bill, who swerved left as far as he could. He said that his tyre was rubbing the kerb when the nearside front of the van sideswiped him. He was swatted off the road and collided with the corner of that building next to the road.
The van shot off but another van driver and a taxi driver who had witnessed the incident stopped to help. One of the drivers took Bill's phone number and set off in pursuit of the errant van driver.
The other driver checked that Bill was ok. He was groggy and shaken up but miraculously had suffered nothing more than a few scratches and bruises. Even his bike had escaped almost unscathed!
A few minutes later his phone rang, unknown caller ... "Hey, someone just stopped me and said that I knocked you off your bike back at the Bacup Road junction - SORRY MATE, I DIDN'T SEE YOU!"
Bill made a few choice suggestions on how his driving could be improved (
) and decided to leave it at that. Given that there were no injuries or damage to his bike, then he didn't think that the police would be interested.I actually think that he should have reported the driver. There were 2 witnesses to the bad driving. If there had been a report against him then surely that could help build a case against him in the event of a subsequent more serious incident?
Ha - while using Street view to capture the image above, I spotted this ... Obviously, the van driver didn't! (If he wasn't even paying enough attention to avoid a cyclist, then any approaching motorcyclist would have been in mortal danger!) LOOK. LOOK AGAIN!
