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Same car same overtaking yesterday so I’m going to report them again. Anyone else seen this car? OY62BHF.
garybMemberThe same driver has been pulling the same dangerous manoeuvres again in the last couple of weeks so I’ve finally reported them to the police. I’ll also be getting my helmet camera out again (and trying to remember how to use it).
garybMemberI reported the Micra driver using:
https://reportonline.thamesvalley.police.uk/
I didn’t provide any evidence but did subsequently catch the same car shortly afterwards doing the same thing on camera. I stopped seeing it after that so I didn’t notify the police.
The response I got was:
“The information you have provided about the vehicle you witnessed driving dangerously has been added to an observations list. This means if the vehicle is seen by Officers it will be pulled over and the driver given words advice about the conduct of their driving.
Getting any conviction from the report you have made would be very difficult as the Crown Prosecution Service require certain criteria to be met for any conviction to be issued. The main thing missing in this instance is an independent witness (someone who witnessed the event in the same way you did, but is not connected to you or the offender in anyway). Without multiple independent witnesses the Crown Prosecution Service will not allow the case to go to court.
Thames Valley Police does, however, understand the nature of your complaint and knows that the manner in which people drive must be dealt with if they are posing a risk to themselves and others, so you can be assured that the vehicle you have reported will be looked for.”
garybMemberGold was the nearest colour I could think of! Dirty silver might also describe it.
The last time I complained to the police about a driver (red micra which I also mentioned on this forum) they were very good about it and said they’d go and have a word with the driver if the car was spotted. That was with no evidence other than my word.
Interestingly this Kia seems to be coming from the same direction and was passing me in roughly the same places, at the same times and in the same way as the micra. I wonder if the driver of the micra bought a new car….?
garybMember“I seem to be lucky in that I rarely get overtaken in a dangerous way BUT…”, not BY!
garybMemberIt looks like the comment on option 4 should read “many cyclists currently use option 4A” and not “many cyclists currently use option 1A”.
garybMemberSorry, Didcotbob! I didn’t mention it was a woman originally as at the time I didn’t want to identify her.
I should have said that each time it has been on the B4017 going south. She came out of Lockway one morning so I assume that’s where she starts her journey.
garybMemberFour more journeys into work this week and three more occasions where the red micra has done something stupid/very stupid so I think it’s reasonable to point out that registration is S107JFC and the driver is quite a fat lady. Hopefully the police will have a word as I don’t think she even realises.
garybMemberThis is the response I got from the police. Sounds reasonable to me:
The information you have provided about the vehicle you witnessed driving dangerously has been added to an observations list. This means if the vehicle is seen by Officers it will be pulled over and the driver given words advice about the conduct of their driving.
Getting any conviction from the report you have made would be very difficult as the Crown Prosecution Service require certain criteria to be met for any conviction to be issued. The main thing missing in this instance is an independent witness (someone who witnessed the event in the same way you did, but is not connected to you or the offender in anyway). Without multiple independent witnesses the Crown Prosecution Service will not allow the case to go to court.
Thames Valley Police does, however, understand the nature of your complaint and knows that the manner in which people drive must be dealt with if they are posing a risk to themselves and others, so you can be assured that the vehicle you have reported will be looked for.
garybMemberI decided to report the incidents using the Thames Valley Police website above. It seems that a few people have had success with getting the police to help car drivers realise where they can improve their driving skills.
garybMemberI think driving recklessly is illegal and my wife had a positive experience dealing with the police recently after she reported another driver and the police offered to go to the drivers house and “have a word”. My wife was in her car not on a bike though so the rules might be different.
I wouldn’t normally even think of taking action but to have three incidents in three journeys with the same car seems a bit much given that I might normally have three incidents a year!
garybMemberI’ve spoken to the cyclist with the helmet cam and he said that the cyclist that was hit was riding up the pavement and then moved into the road to cross over without having seen the car approaching. The driver of the car didn’t have time to stop even though they were under the speed limit. The cyclist should have had a better look before he crossed and was lucky the driver wasn’t going faster.
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