I am absolutely reporting this to the company but my question relates to whether or not this needs reporting to the police?
Walking the kids in this morning and we see a delivery truck for a well known retailer searching for an address. The truck is behind us – around 100 yards away. We are on a footpath alongside a narrow road which is a one way street (traffic would be coming from in front of us).
Next thing we hear is the truck barreling past us the wrong way down the street. It cuts right across us onto the footpath and blocks the entire path. This is not so uncommon these days with aggressive driving but if I hadn’t have grabbed hold of my eldest and pulled her back, she would have been crushed between the truck and the hedge.
I have to admit I lost it a bit at this stage and went and opened the driver’s door and offered some pretty fruity opinions of his driving. At no stage did I threaten him with anything other than reporting. His first reaction was to hold his hands up and apologise – this in my mind actually made it worse as he knew full well that he nearly hit my kids (other kids were right behind as well so pretty hard to miss) but went right ahead and did it anyway.
To compound things, the driver’s mate (who had been on foot) then threatened me! Apparently it would have “made his day” if I had tried to hit him etc etc… I’m sure a few of you on here are pretty handy I don’t do fighting so it wasn’t an option (although maybe I should learn!)
So back to the question – police or just company? Driver committed multiple offences but wasn’t at all aggressive physically. Driver’s mate just a thug in a uniform. There are witnesses to all of this.
Any opinions?