"Lee" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Bit of a panic this AM, had my first real "nob head" c*r driver to contend with.
The last part of my commute takes me down a fairly narrow lane (you can
fit
Quoted message said:2 cars accross and a cyclist but not much room for error!).
So this (*&%%$ in his car decides its a good idea to overtake me on a
blind
Quoted message said:bend, and I notice a car oncoming! The next thing I hear is the screeching of tyres and my brain
is thinking "this is it". Luckily he stopped in
time
Quoted message said:and averted a bit of a nasty crash (of which I would no doubt of come off worst!!).
I could understand his frustration if I was trundling along but i was
doing
Quoted message said:close to 20mph (which i suppose to that idiot is a trundle).
Just thought I would share
Thanks for sharing. It seems to be an increasingly common problem. Last year, I was cycling on a
country lane, up a pretty steep hill, with a blind right bend at the top. As I approached the top, I
heard an ominous deisel noise behind me as a van was thrashed up the hill. I saw the reflection of
the headlights of a vehicle coming the other way, and held my hand up, palm backwards, to try to get
the van driver to slow down and not overtake me on the bend, but he ignored it, to go straight into
the oncoming car. I stayed as far left as possible to give them as much room as I could, but I
didn't fancy the ditch. Result, serious damage to both vehicles, both drivers shaken but not
injured. My witness report made it clear that the van driver was at fault, but I don't know if he
was prosecuted.
Quoted message said:
Lee
