The responsibilities of a taxi driver

[edindave]

That's an incredible video. Hope it all works out, Matt.

I guess that's at least one taxi driver we won't be seeing on Mastermind... Britain's Dumbest Criminals, maybe.

A professional driver (potentially two of them), not knowing the highway code, and taking another road user to task over road position, in a very creepy manner. Unbelievable!

Hopefully it'll work out in a positive way for the driver, and other taxi drivers will learn from it.
Basic highway code, I mean come on!

 

[Pat "5mph"]

And did you report this incident?

No: I don't have a camera.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

To be fair, that likely hasn't changed from before he met or even heard about Matt.

Yeah, probably

 

[veloevol]

No: I don't have a camera.

Pen and paper?

 

[Hip Priest]

Pen and paper?

Road user does something illegal, other road user films them doing it. What is there to report?

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Pen and paper?

It was the early hours of the morning it was an isolated spot
Could not tell you the made and model of a car for the life of me anyway
Don't think the driver was in cahoots with the passenger, guess they were just going my way.
Could maybe have reported the british gas van driver that swore at me a few days later, but my angry feelings never hold more than a couple of hours, think would only really pursue it if somebody put my life in danger.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Road user does something illegal, other road user films them doing it. What is there to report?

Bet if I didn't skip the light, he would have beeped at me for being slow at the junction ... or then again, he might have been ok about it
Anyway, I think it was just the passenger being laud, don't think the driver had something to do with it.

 

[Matthew_T]

By magic the video vanishes !

Not when it is imprinted on my hard drive!

 

[potsy]

I'm sure they thought it was hilarious at the time, let's hope that opinion changes when they get the call the the police, very weird stuff going on there.
Well done Matthew on your calm behaviour, no way you did anything wrong and I hope you don't have any more instances like this one, stay safe

Oh, and happy birthday

 

[PK99]

The videos together show the taxi driver going a step or two beyond the mouthing off and chasing down that Matt has shown himself doing many times, and far far less than Trafficdroid has shown himself doing in London(Physical assault on another cyclist when he dragged him back at a red light, and a long and aggressive chase down of a van driver over 20 minutes and more which was the full video of the"sandwich" shown in the traffic wars film).

As I said when matt posted his video and before the taxi driver his, it looked very much like the driver was someone Matt had pissed off sometime among his 1500 """incidents""". If that is the case, than Matt can count himself luck that the retribution took the form of a taste of his own video medicine and not the physical assault that many on here have feared for some time would be the outcome.

 

[Matthew_T]

As I said when matt posted his video and before the taxi driver his, it looked very much like the driver was someone Matt had ****ed off sometime among his 1500 """incidents""". If that is the case, than Matt can count himself luck that the retribution took the form of a taste of his own video medicine and not the physical assault that many on here have feared for some time would be the outcome.

I have thoroughly checked my videos and files. If he had done something before, I would have found it. I have never seen this guy before (apart from NYE) and his behaviour was very odd then (I am taking that video file with me to show the police).
I have also checked my YT videos to see if he has found himself, and he is in none of them. None of my compilations, and none of the individual videos.

He purposefully targetted me and attempted to force me off the road in my video. He was then in cahoots (fueled by the passenger) to pursue me and 'have a word' or 'record me'.

I have my camera on all the time. My video file has about 30 mins of continuous footage before hand showing that I did not shout abuse at the taxi driver like the passenger said (in one of the comments on my video). This driver had the full intention of following me. I am just grateful that he did nothing worse.

 

[Matthew_T]

BTW I havent done yet so I will do this now: Thank you for all the support about this incident. If it wasnt for comments on here (and the video popping up) then I would not have reported it.

Normally in incidents I report, someone says that I did something wrong which is what might have caused the incident. However, in this case I am certain that my position on the road was defensive (over the bridge) and I did nothing wrong. I didnt get angry or annoyed at the driver (I did get a little scared though).

Thank you guys.

 

[PK99]

I have thoroughly checked my videos and files. If he had done something before, I would have found it. I have never seen this guy before (apart from NYE) and his behaviour was very odd then (I am taking that video file with me to show the police).
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Can you be sure about that? Of all the drivers you have airzounded in anger after they have passed you (as shown in your close pass videos, most of which most of us would not call a close pass) of all the drivers you have remonstrated at - many of whose faces you do not have on video - maybe he is one of those. Clearly he seemed to know you.

The message some her have been giving you is that, if you go round shouting at random people sooner or later some random person is going to get the hump and shout back. And maybe some random person will do more than shout back. What you have to remember is that most of the videos you see posted are in london or other cities - the same individuals may never cross paths again. You live in a small town where few people cycle and are therefore distinctive and no doubt well known. Those here who know your background cut you slack - there are nutters out there who will not. Be careful.

 

[edindave]

Can you be sure about that? Of all the drivers you have airzounded in anger after they have passed you (as shown in your close pass videos, most of which most of us would not call a close pass) of all the drivers you have remonstrated at - many of whose faces you do not have on video - maybe he is one of those. Clearly he seemed to know you.

The message some her have been giving you is that, if you go round shouting at random people sooner or later some random person is going to get the hump and shout back. And maybe some random person will do more than shout back. What you have to remember is that most of the videos you see posted are in london or other cities - the same individuals may never cross paths again. You live in a small town where few people cycle and are therefore distinctive and no doubt well known. Those here who know your background cut you slack - there are nutters out there who will not. Be careful.

Or perhaps, just as "clearly", he was acting on instruction from the passenger. It's all conjecture. The passenger did, after all, say things like, "he's escaping", "go babes go", and "get him".

 

[Sara_H]

oh my goodness - I've just seen the taxi drivers video on YouTube - people like that need to be removed from the road.