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Dropped my daughter off to school this morning on our bikes, lady is parked outside, engine idling, standing outside her car. I politely said "morning, if you're staying long, would you turn off your engine please for the pollution? Thanks" she rolled her eyes at me & carried on.
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Shaking. Just got hit and run while cycling with my child. Who on earth does that? Somehow I stayed on the bike. I screamed. A person on the pavement who saw it shouted "oh my god" for fear we were going to be killed. I don't think I've ever been so scared when cycling before.
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So predictable the responses to this. Driver is doing something wrong that causes harm to our children's lungs and planet, yet I'm overwhelmed with abuse. What a sad world we live in.
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Why must we tolerate aggressive, intimidating behaviour from drivers? Cycling centrally on a road that barely fits a car, driver behind starts honking. I ignore it, but it continues, with revving. I stop at a zebra crossing and the honking continues. 1/n
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@damiangalvin77
I'm going to continue telling every single person I see to turn their engine off if they're parked up.
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Taxi driver outrageous close pass at pinch point.
Result: driver sent on a course at a cost of £97.
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Had a big falling out with a colleague insisting on driving 100m to a coffee shop. "It's quicker and my time is important" she banged on. It's not quicker at all. And even if it was, by seconds. One. Hundred. Metres. I was dumbfounded. I still am. The arrogance of some people.
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So police are actually confiscating e-scooters from those riding them illegally but are not confiscating motor vehicles from drivers illegally speeding, using their phone etc... You know, the machines whose drivers kill 1800 people a year. This is just so backwards.
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Right, that's it. I've had enough. From now on I don't care how wide or narrow the road is, it doesn't matter how fast or slow I'm riding, I'm riding in the centre of whatever lane I'm in. It's not fair that we have to share roads with dangerous drivers.
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Just got called a c*** by a pedestrian as I cycled past them on the road (they were on pavement) presumably for the crime of: riding a bike. When I asked them why exactly and if I'd done anything to upset them, they categorically denied it. Not sure why, but it really got to me.
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When in reality, he should NEVER be allowed to be in control of a two tonne vehicle with such pent up aggression. I should report, but I'm not sure what with. I almost want any penalising to be licence related. 5/n
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To the driver who tailgated me this morning then decided he couldn't wait until after the traffic island and drove round the wrong way, I hope saving 7 seconds was worth the points and fine coming your way.
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Cycling with my daughter on a narrow double parked road. Oncoming vehicle. I spot a space to the left where there isn't a car parked and pull in. The driver behind me proceeds to overtake us and block the oncoming driver delaying all of us. Absolutely no forward thinking. 🤦♂️
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Still, I'd take him getting away with the close pass that didn't happen and not have my life endangered any day of the week. Although I was shaking afterwards and had my fingers crossed he didn't ram into me from behind. Remind me why society tolerates this? End.
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Inevitably, without trying, I caught them up at the junction ahead. I asked them to pull over because they had hit me. They were saying they didn't realise they hit me. Sorry, what?! Even if you hadn't, the pass was criminal enough!
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Eventually the road clears and there's a space for him to pass. I offer the lane with my hand... He turns off! After all of that. The ironic thing is my position, which discouraged the inevitable close pass, arguably saved him from 6 points and a £200 fine. 4/n
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I should add, it's all on camera. I usually report via the Met online Roadsafe portal for close passes but this seems like it warrants more. Is calling 111 worth it? Not sure what they're going to do differently.
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Every time a car goes to overtake me when cycling with my daughter:
Please don't kill us
Please don't kill us
Please don't kill us
Please don't kill us
Please don't kill us
Please don't kill us
Please don't kill us
Please don't kill us
Why must we cycle in fear?
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Still shaking. That's the closest I've been to being hit in a long time. For riding out of the door zone in a narrow lane. "Move over!" screams the driver, who passed about 2m away from red lights. When questioned, "WELL I HAVE TO GET PAST YOU!" No, you don't. Reporting asap.
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Enough is enough. Why oh why do I have the same old story every single day? There is so much ignorance and entitlement on our roads. To the driver honking at me for taking the centre of the left of three lanes, I was going straight on at the lights 1/n
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@vultuk
Should these drivers or the hundreds I encounter every day in my way pull over for me to pass?
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This big Maersk lorry being driven slowly (and safely) through town this morning. Did driver pull over to let the other drivers pass? Nope. Did the drivers get annoyed at him not pulling over? Nope. Yet when I'm cycling (faster than he was), that's what drivers want of me 🤷🏻♂️
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"Do you want me to come out and knock you out?" No thank you, I'm just trying to cycle to work safely. I try to explain that there's no space to pass regardless of my road position as there are oncoming vehicles but it falls on deaf ears (shock!). 2/n
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Awful commute home this evening. One driver honking because I was in the middle of the lane on a narrow road preparing to turn right closely undertook, another close passed shouting abuse then subsequently tried to turn into me. Why is this still tolerated? It's really not OK. 😥
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I actually don't know what to do now. At the time, I wanted to call the police. Now? I'm not sure I ever want to cycle again. I hate the state of the standard of substandard driving we allow on our roads every day.
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Guys, thank you so much for all the support out there, it's much appreciated. ❤️
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I still can't actually believe he drove off. Twice. He totally knew what he'd done.
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Driving behind a cyclist, I'm turning left at the next junction so slowly wait patiently behind him. Cyclist goes straight, I turn left behind him. Tailgating driver behind me frustratingly drives through as the lights change blasting his horn, gesticulating at me. 🤦
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Dangerous enough that you should NEVER be allowed to drive again. EVER! I said they also left the scene of a collision which was illegal and could they pull over because I'm going to phone the police. They said OK, I'll pull over across the road straight ahead.
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Is it too much to ask to be able to cycle to/from work/park/shops/family/friends safely?
Should I call the police now? Maybe 111? I know they're overburdened and I'm genuinely not sure what they can/want to do. It feels like more than a Roadsafe submission is needed.
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Why should Guy Ritchie (or anybody else who has accrued 12 points) ever be allowed to drive again? You've "passed a test" that says you can drive safely and responsibly and yet failed. If it was a licence for a firearm and I kept shooting it in public, I wouldn't get it back.
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He then starts screaming at me to "GO!" and I point out the children crossing the zebra crossing. Does he want me to cycle into them? Through them? The crossing clears and I continue, in the centre of my lane, through a pinch point. The honking is constant now. 3/n
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I still can't believe how many drivers simply sit in their vehicle, idling, burning petrol, polluting our planet and our children's lungs. Is there a "polite" way to tell them? If I've got time to stop and tell them, all I seem to get is abuse...
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Some relief that they'd finally at least seen common decency. But no. As I cycled across the junction straight on, they turned left and sped off!!! I'm home now. We're both OK. But I'm in shock. And nothing will be done.
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It's so ironic how many drivers overtake me because I'm "in their way" only for them to inevitably get in my way.
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"Cyclist dies after crash with van". Disgusting reporting again from the BBC. When is this going to change? 😢 Rip
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This driver will get a slap on the wrist and be told don't do that again. I mean, who does that? What's the thought process?
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"Here's a dad, riding centrally through a pinch point with his child on his bike, I'll overtake where there's clearly a traffic island. Hmm, I've ran out of space and I'm now next to them both. Do I abandon the overtake and brake? I could do.
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Absolutely pathetic. Ban every single one from driving for 6 months and fine them all 10k. Pathetic. How dare they? So entitled it's beyond belief.
I can’t believe what I am seeing here on Bincote Road, En2!
@SadiqKhan
@ShaunBaileyUK
@TfLAccess
@MumsForLungs
@metpoliceuk
@BorisJohnson
@BetterSt4Enf
@EnfieldCouncil
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(video 1 of 2)
#LetSchoolsBreathe
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Just witnessed a driver actually honking an old lady and gesticulating to her to hurry up. She was on a zebra crossing. The entitlement of some drivers!
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Driver: "oi, you need to watch where you're cycling!"
Me:
Driver: "I could have reversed into you!"
Me: "well maybe don't then? You need to make sure it's clear before you reverse?"
Driver: "not yet I don't! The new highway code rules aren't in place yet!"
Me: 🤦♂️
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@1Redders0
Not if they're being ridden? Did you miss the part where the lady was parked up, out of her car with the engine running?
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Driver parked idling this morning talking on her phone. I don't say anything. 45 minutes later come past her again and she's still there idling!!! Why then when challenged do people always get so defensive or aggressive? How about "sorry, I'll turn off and not do it again"?
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Or, I know! Let me veer left into them! What was that thud? Maybe a pothole. Somebody is calling me to pull over. Did I hit somebody? Ah, it's probably nothing, I'll drive off."
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Friday, got stuck behind dozens of drivers, horrible ride in. This morning? Best ride in since lockdown, hardly anybody around! Can we ban cars already?
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"I didn't see you because the sun was in my eyes" says the lady in control of a 2-tonne hunk of metal who pulled out in front of me as I'm doing around 20mph. But for my evasive braking, I could be in hospital. If the sun is in your eyes and you can't see, please don't go.
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I mean, at least own it. Don't backtrack because you've been caught and you were just expecting me to take it and not ask the question. I ended up being super nice and bid them a nice day which I think annoyed them even more. Is it too much to ask to just ride without abuse?
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Car starts veering slowly into me this morning. Oh, he's talking on his phone. Later, car turning right, so car behind him moves left into cycle lane without looking and but for my scream, he'd have hit me. Oh, phone in his lap. Why do we tolerate this?! Enough is enough!
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This is not OK. Pavement parking has to be made illegal everywhere and enforced. No consultation. Just do it. From tomorrow. Done. Get on with it. The entitlement is beyond belief.
The whole street is blocked 🤬 had to send someone into the pub across the road to move them as couldn’t get into my house. Pub isn’t accessible so without someone with me I’d have been stuck.
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@damiangalvin77
Many of them will, no doubt. But if I get through to one person who reflects on their ways, that's a win.
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@Topcat2512
Can someone explain how driver's get special motorway's to themselve's which are usually well maintained. But they don't pay road tax, 1.3mil of them don't pay insurance. But I have to subsidise the damage they cause to the road's. Which have load's of pothole's caused by car's?
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Waiting at a zebra crossing to cross with my daughter whose hand I'm holding, driver stops. We begin to cross, carefully as ever, and he starts driving! I stepped back with my daughter, and saw the driver typing on his phone as he passed us. Seriously scary.
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Told he "must not drive". Drove anyway, killed somebody.
I mean... 😪😢😭
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Cycled in this morning riding primary the majority of the way. A few impatient tailgaters, no honks of the horn, and most importantly, no close passes 🥳
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Got given the finger my a driver on his phone today for daring to ask that he not endanger my life. I really, really hope the police prosecute. Really, really, really.
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Some of the comments on this. This is absolutely disgusting. Driver runs over person's bicycle, hits him on the head with a bat and drives off illegally... And people are congratulating him and laughing at the victim? Absolutely disgusting.
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@UnitedCabbies
@chilternlaw2013
Why would you be proud of this? The driver is a danger to us on the roads if he's accrued 12 points. What an embarrassing tweet.
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@Munroekelly2
What I'd like is to prolong all of our lives without selfish people thinking they can pollute unnecessarily.
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@UB1UB2
Both should be banned for driving for life. The motorcyclist acting all innocent while doing three times the speed limit! Embarrassing.
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Growing up I never used to see cars. Like, really notice them. But they're like an optical illusion: once you see them, really see them, they're impossible to unsee.
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Omg. I'm speechless. I'll take all the horns from impatient drivers all day long riding centrally rather than risk this. Hope the rider is OK.
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Cycling with my daughter approaching a side road, a van driver is waiting to pull out. He looks my way, makes eye contact, then pulls out as we're cm away. His passenger shouts at him that we're there and the driver jumps and slams on his brakes. We must be invisible? 🤷♂️
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Anybody been put off from submitting a close pass because of how they reacted (e.g. tapping a car, swearing etc). Honestly, try so hard to stay calm but sometimes it's hard when you've been close passed.
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Dangerously close passed last night. Caught the driver up (obv). Told him it was to close. He looked confused. I cycled off. He did the horn, I turned round faced with a middle finger. If you've done something wrong (and dangerous) and are called up on it, why not just apologise?
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@logicandreaso18
@damiangalvin77
An active vocal minority don't account for the whole population. I wouldn't want my kids hanging out with anybody whose parents are so selfish.
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@ShaunBaileyUK
"Shaun Bailey will remove all unwanted LTNs in his first 100 days as mayor". Well, I want them all. So therefore by that logic, they're not unwanted so he's going to keep them all as they are? Super!
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"That's dangerous!" says van driver who wound window down, took eyes off the road, and veered close to me and my daughter to tell us so. "You're dangerous", was my response. He swore, fingers and words. I waved and blew a kiss as I passed him in traffic seconds later! Bye! 👋
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@MerseyRoads
@BlatantWatch
@Wankpanzer
@T_Extinguishers
@theJeremyVine
@markandcharlie
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How embarrassing. Illegally driving, and films himself while he's getting (rightly) punished for it?
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When you're driving along and the driver in front of you stops to turn right, please don't veer left to undertake them without looking into your mirrors. I mean, how do these people get licences?
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@Naughton3D
My road position is not relevant. They cannot pass me safely whether I'm hugging the kerb or in the middle of the lane.
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I've absolutely had enough of arriving at work/home shaking in tears because of the entitlement and ignorance of those who on a daily basis endanger my life. I'm a father, son, brother, husband. I'm a human being. Enough is enough.
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"You're supposed to be on the left!" shouts the driver who waited patiently until it was safe to pass me. I calmly explained at the lights for a full minute about highway code, doorzone, potholes, debris, the works. Once I'd finished: "You're supposed to be on the left!" 🤦♂️🤷♂️
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On a walk with my daughter earlier, dozens of drivers on their phone. Most of those vehicles had passengers too. How can anybody get into a car where the driver is on their phone and not say anything? They're as bad as those using the phone.
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Parked up my bike to go into a shop. Driver idling right outside. Ignored it. Came back out 10 mins later, he's still there idling. I went over and politely asked him to turn his engine off. He responded to tell me to f*** off, with his finger up at me and continued idling...
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"Hit by a red Kia car which is understood to have mounted the pavement"
Oh really?!
Pathetic reporting ONCE AGAIN!
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Lifetime driving ban for this driver. Anything less is a joke. You cannot deliberately drive your 2-tonne weapon at another human being and ever be allowed to drive again. Needs prison time too.
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This is attempted murder and nothing else. You cannot deliberately drive into somebody on a bike and claim otherwise. At the very least, they should never drive again.
Trigger warning: This is what cold-blooded assault looks like
The truck driver claimed the rider was "All over the road", but the footage shows a very different picture. We will post this again when the courts have made their finding
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@Mollie_Whuppie
@MilanistaKaleb
It's all of our business to let people know when they're doing something wrong, especially something that causes harm to children.
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Not close/dangerous enough for a prosecution apparently. Driver sent a warning. 🤷♂️
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Lifetime driving ban and prison time. Genuinely the only appropriate outcome for this driver.
We have a responsibility to stop our elderly from freezing to death, to stop children living in cold homes and to stop future generations from an unimaginably horrific future.
Register for the zoom at 4pm to
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Man injured after being hit by bullet.
Woman injured after being impaled by knife.
Person injured after being starved of oxygen by force of hands round neck.
Cyclist injured after being hit by lorry in West Lothian.
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Antagonised by a driver today for a good 30 seconds. Riding centrally on narrow, double parked road. He's aggressively doing his horn trying to squeeze past. I explain there's no room to pass safely. He continues.
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It's mad how you can go days/weeks without any incidents and on one cycle in you have 4(!) close, dangerous passes that leave you shaken and questioning everything. 😣
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@GMB
You should be embarrassed for inciting such hatred and vitreol against vulnerable road users. If you had any shame you'd delete this immediately.
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I ride off, shaking. This. Is. Not. OK. There's no point reporting it as I only had forward facing camera and there was no close pass etc. But if he was waving a gun at me (without actually firing it) for 30 seconds, I imagine he wouldn't be able to own a gun ever again.
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It might just be me, but rather than 16 months prison and a minimal driving ban, wouldn't no prison time and a lifetime driving ban be better for all involved?
Shocking CCTV footage has been released of the moment a driver ploughed into the side of a HGV with a three-year-old boy in the back of his car in
#Chesterfield
. Read more:
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Shaking. Again. As is a regular occurrence with cycling in London. Narrow road with parked cars either side, riding outside the door zone, driver somehow squeezes through where there wasn't space. 10 seconds later I caught him up (obviously).
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@vultuk
No, they're in the way! I want to cycle at a leisurely pace but they're stopping me from doing so in their large vehicles inefficiently taking up road space. They should move out of the way... Right?
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Ffs, this is heartbreaking 💔😭. And it will continue to happen unless we seriously punish those who break the law and put lives at risk. Change the law now. Make it easier to issue lifetime bans and prison time.
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Driving at 20mph last night in a 20 zone, I had a driver behind me flashing their lights and honking their horn the whole time. Eventually they broke the law to overtake me, to immediately stop for the same red lights I stopped at. Patience isn't a virtue apparently.
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Bus driver overtook cms away. Then stopped at the zebra crossing I stopped at. Then got to the traffic lights same as me. He said he thought he'd given me "3 foot". I said it should be more like six. He was very apologetic and willing to learn. We bid each other a nice evening!
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