The justice league of camera cyclist ride out.
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jefmcg
Guru
Traffic Droid has been knocked down.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_6ibr7zfb8
(Nasty, but I assume he is basically OK, at least well enough to get the vid uploaded)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_6ibr7zfb8
(Nasty, but I assume he is basically OK, at least well enough to get the vid uploaded)
winjim
Smash the cistern
It would be interesting to see that footage unedited from every angle.
It just goes to show though, parping a horn at people doesn't make you safer!
mr_cellophane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Essex
No, parping at people and then passing them, doesn't make you safer. I suspect getting infamous for reporting every minor traffic offence to the police doesn't help either.
Glow worm
Legendary Member
- Location
- Near Newmarket
Christ- what a lunatic driver! Hopefully that will have been their final fare.
winjim
Smash the cistern
Is he infamous amongst taxi drivers? Or just cyclists?
shouldbeinbed
Rollin' along
- Location
- Manchester way
Yes. looks like the taxi driver took offence at the hooting and stopped for a chat, sotw rode on by, apparently not keen on explaining himself and the driver came too close to have round 2 of the conversation, its muffled but sounds like 'whats your problem' as the taxi shoulder barges him off his bike. Poor car control I suspect rather than a deliberate attack, but either way, I wouldn't want to be in or near that cab.
From what the vid shows the first pass was too close and deserves looking at by the licensing authority, but cyclist with an agenda coming tooled up to fight a ton and a half of vehicle with an airzound is only going to have one winner when (not if) they meet mr angry.
I suspect if sotw reports it to the cops, the driver will have good grounds to claim provocation and the accident only happened because sotw didn't stop when it would have been easy to do so & driver felt forced into a risky manoeuvre by the cyclist hooting and then just riding on by when he'd stopped to ask if anything was wrong.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Really poor driving by the taxi and IMO he purposely bumped into him. I'm not a fan of the bloke but nobody deserves that, I hope the taxi driver has a lot of explaining to do to both his boss/taxi authority and the police!
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
No one is safe when I go parp!
winjim
Smash the cistern
Yeah, but I bet you get some space.
Origamist
Legendary Member
I hope SOTW is OK.
I'd be very surprised if the police/CPS don't act as there is little justification for the first pass which was too close and no justification for the dangerous and abysmal driving that caused the collision. Of course, the cabbie will say it wasn't deliberate (which it certainly appears to be) but he'll still have to justify attempting an overtake, whilst passing parked cars, in the face of oncoming traffic and hitting another road user (who does not appear to change his lateral position), as he did so. Driving without due care and attention should be a stick on, but who knows.
I reckon this video will have hundreds of thousands of hits within a week.
PS Left brake light not working?
I'd be very surprised if the police/CPS don't act as there is little justification for the first pass which was too close and no justification for the dangerous and abysmal driving that caused the collision. Of course, the cabbie will say it wasn't deliberate (which it certainly appears to be) but he'll still have to justify attempting an overtake, whilst passing parked cars, in the face of oncoming traffic and hitting another road user (who does not appear to change his lateral position), as he did so. Driving without due care and attention should be a stick on, but who knows.
I reckon this video will have hundreds of thousands of hits within a week.
PS Left brake light not working?
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winjim
Smash the cistern
I think I'd need to see the unedited footage in order to make a judgement on any of those points.
Sounds lucrative.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
The way Twaffic Dwoid rides I'm surprised that it was actually someone else's fault when he eventually came a cropper. What are the odds, eh?
Origamist
Legendary Member
Why? What are you struggling with when watching the redacted version?
Yes, I'm sure SOTW will be retiring to The Hamptons by Xmas.
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