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Hi
Went for a ride from the Dales Centre in Reeth today.
On the way back, just before 2pm, heading towards Richmond thre are 2 sets of traffic lights cos of the subsidence which drops the road to one lane and you have to move to the right hand side of the road to go through.
In the first set of roadworks myself and the car in front were behind a pack of 6-8 roadies, and as we left the restriction they all pulled to he left but continued to ride in a pack.
The right hand side of the road was clear and vision was excellent but the car in front pulled over towards the cyclists, within a couple of inches until it reached the front one then deliberately clipped the riders arm with the wing mirror.
He didn't come off but it was close and he would have brought them all down.
Couldn't believe what I'd seen so reported it to the police when I got home.
The police have just rang back and it's a lady local tonthecarea and if the cyclist makes a complaint they're gonna do her!!
Don't suppose he will but you never know
Cheers
Steve
Not sure I understand. Was the motorist overtaking the cyclists when he clipped the rider? Well done for phoning it in btw
Yep car was overtaking the pack of cyclists
Steve
probably wasn't deliberate just a typical girly driver trying to text, do her lippy and put on some outrageously big sunglasses, all things which are far more important than controlling the car.
That driving sounds horrendous. Hopefully she'll get a wake up tickle from the long arm of the law
Would definitely say it was deliberate!
Moved towards them, very very close then a bit closer still for the contact before pulling away
No sudden movements as if caught unawares.
No reason to even pull over towards them in the first place.
Cheers
Steve
"If the cyclist mad a complaint" is the key words there.
Question.
When you do this who do you phone ? 999 or local police station ?
I ask because i want to report my neigbour. Chap in his late 80's - drives on the wrong side of the road most of the time i see him. Oh and the small fact he DRIVES to the local pub every night, has a few glasses of whiskey and DRIVES home again pee'd out his face.
How did the other cyclists react? They must have been pretty angry!!
"Punishment pass" - I just can't understand the mentality of the people who do this kind of thing. I had a women behind me yesterday morning. I was travelling at the same speed as the cars, as the road was a minor road with width restrictions and speed bumps. There was no room between me and the car in front to overtake, but between each of the speed bumps the women behind was accelerating to try and get past me, right on my rear wheel and overlapping my wheel a couple of times just before I approached the width restrictions. In the end I just backed off the pace and waved her through. Couldn't believe the dirty look she gave me when she overtook. Maybe she thought I was her ex-husband 🙁
When you do this who do you phone ? 999 or local police station ?I ask because i want to report my neigbour. Chap in his late 80's - drives on the wrong side of the road most of the time i see him. Oh and the small fact he DRIVES to the local pub every night, has a few glasses of whiskey and DRIVES home again pee'd out his face.
crimestoppers. 0800 555 111
get him off the road before he kills someone, over 65 he has a free bus pass.
Could it have been a local cycling club outing? Worth contacting one or two and letting them know they have a witness?
Had a **** in a land rover disco drive at me today. I was coming through a village, where the road narrows in places due to parked cars on the other side to the lane I was using. It's uphill slightly too so I could see the whole scene in front. This nobend was determinedly making a couple of cars progress and then pulling in again in favour of oncoming cars in my lane, so he knew the right of way was against him. Until it came to me on my bike, where he just drove directly at me forcing me into the verge on the basis that in this game of chicken I had a much larger stake in the game.
Where does this mentality come from?
Although... Plastered all over the public car park next to work are local authority signs saying "suspect a drunk or drugged driver - ring 999"...
DrP
When you do this who do you phone ? 999 or local police station ?
I ask because i want to report my neigbour. Chap in his late 80's - drives on the wrong side of the road most of the time i see him. Oh and the small fact he DRIVES to the local pub every night, has a few glasses of whiskey and DRIVES home again pee'd out his face.
i just email glos police if i see dodgy driving.
Had the same last year, " punishment pass " for riding two abreast. Open road female driver swerved into my mate hitting his arm then sped away.
Took ten months for any action, which amounted to careless driving 3 pts and £25 quid fine. If I couldn't sort it out myself not sure I would bother again.
Actually it was driving without due care and attention, that's with four witnesses saying she drove at him as if on purpose.
Riding slightly up hill today on a quiet but wide enough road, a few slight bends so not 100 percent vision, Flash Harry in his Masserati decides the safest course of action would be to boot it past me to within 18". Two seconds later the road straightened and he would have seen enough to use the other side of the road. Still, that was today's only incident.
Hi
I just phoned 101.
Could have been a club outing I suppose.
They had been in the Dales Centre for food.
They had similar tops on but can't for the life of me remember the detail
Cheers
Steve
Good work fella. The police can do anything about it if they don't get the complains in the first place.
It baffles me how you can punch someone and it would be taken very seriously. Could even end in a prison sentence, but a driver can use a 1 tonne weapon and deliberately hit someone and get away with it pretty much.
The law needs to start handing out proper sentences for people itself cars as weapons then it might make people stop or at least cut down on the number of these incidents.
At the momet drivers aren't taking it seriously because they know they can get off very lightly or in some cases get away with it 100%