Re: Dangerous driving complaint and response.

spindrift wrote:

The driver overtook recklessly, you can hear the oncoming car hooting
him. It's not even as if the cabbie made progress, the cyclist would
have caught him at the next junction. This driver is going to smash
into something/someone, his boss or the representative of the
licencing authority is basically calling the cyclist a liar and a
thug, there was no swearing at all.

Hpw do you know it was the following car hooting? How do you know he
didn't make progress? How do you know he'd have been caught at the
next junction? How do you know he's ... yada yada yada .....

The audio isn't good enough to tell whether there was swearing or not,
well, I can't hear any, but then I wasn't getting shouted at either!

There was no swerve and even if there was the cyclist has a right
enshrined in case law to wobble and deviate from his or her path. This
means that overtaking a cyclist safely means that even if the cyclist
toppled sideways the overtaking vehicle would not run him or her over.
Look at the clip again, the driver basically bullies his way through
and the cyclist understandably wards off danger with an open hand,
there is no swerve whatsoever, the letter is a bare-faced lie.

So, was the rider hurt? Did the world stop and stare? What really
happened?

A car came a little closer than comfortable to a cyclist who complained
about it and nothing came of it .. tough shit.

--
Paul - xxx ... somewhere else.

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