Bad Kia Driver

Sounds pretty standard for some of the drivers round here. If it’s happening repeatedly it might be worth a call to Thames Valley Police via 101. They can have a word and that might be enough to change behaviour.

I got this one this morning right at the entrance to site:

I got overtaken with barely 10cm space by a gold Kia this morning with no traffic coming the other way on that road not too far from campus this morning. It was some kind of Qashqai I think but I didn’t get the number, so I can’t really complain to the police myself.. if you didn’t yet though, I would think it’s worth doing, doesn’t seem like it’s just you that car is out to get.

Interesting, according to the DVLA, the car with the registration quoted by Gary is silver, not gold!!

I loved NP’s video “what’s he on about, that grey car gave him plenty of room -whoa!, where did that come from!?”

We need to get the police to have a ‘word’ with this Gold Kia driver. Where did this morning’s near miss happen?
Has anybody else had a problem with this car, even if you have just thought it was one of those things that happens now and then? We also need to get a second confirmed number plate identification.
We don’t have to put up with this kind of behaviour and if we work together we can get the police to take action.

We need to get the police to have a ‘word’ with this Gold Kia driver. Where did this morning’s near miss happen?
Has anybody else had a problem with this car, even if you have just thought it was one of those things that happens now and then? We also need to get a second confirmed number plate identification.
We don’t have to put up with this kind of behaviour and if we work together we can get the police to take action.

This morning was coming from the Rowstock direction just before the Icknield way crossing at around 7.40. I was a bit taken by surprise and didn’t get any more info than gold medium-sized Kia though.

It’s worth mentioning that police can issue fixed penalty charges for careless driving, 3pts + £100 fine. From when I last spoke to them it seemed that would be the approach for repeat offending but I assume they would require camera or independent witness evidence for that.

If anyone is interested you can pick up the Garmin Virb for about £75-85 (that’s the camera I was using in the clip I posted).

What’s the usual procedure for cyclists wishing to complain to TVP about careless driving? Phone 101 and send any video clips into a particular email address?

Yep phone 101. They’ll take a few details and check you have some evidence (camera or witnesses). They pass them on to a member of the road policing unit who will give you a call back – for me this was the following morning. The officer took some more details and I was asked to upload to youtube and send a link to the officer’s email address. I was also asked at this time what outcome I was looking for – advice letter, prosecution etc. After the officer had looked at the footage he called back and asked again if I was happy with the advice letter approach with a link to the footage in the letter. I then got another call once the letter had been sent out and checking I was happy with their response.

Better process than I was expecting to be fair. I’m not sure how it differs with no corroboration – I imagine an advice letter would be possible but not sure if it would be passed to the roads unit or not.

Hi, I’ve just started cycling to work from Didcot (day 2), and got passed far too close by a gold Kia this morning also! I must have been a few minutes behind you, arrowlee, as it was halfway between the Rowstock roundabout and Icknield Way crossing. I can only assume this is the same car.

Unfortunately, I don’t have a helmet camera, and didn’t catch the numberplate. I’ll look out for it tomorrow though, as I intend to do the same route and the same time. I was planning on knocking on the window, as it went past fairly slowly due to traffic up ahead, but wasn’t sure that if that caused an accident I would be liable…?