Danger on Roads

Bob Hawke said:

I couldn't believe the attitude of a middle aged woman driver I had an
encounter with today.

I hate aggressive drivers and I believe I am a courteous driver and bike
rider. I was riding my bike to a local flea market this morning and had
just entered a road from a T intersection. A woman in her mid 50's in a
white commodore with a few battle scars on it followed me from the same
direction and continued from the T intersection the same direction as I was
riding.

This road led to a set of traffic lights after travelling about a further 50
meters. At the traffic lights there was another T intersection. I was
intending to continue straight ahead into a railway station car park
controlled by the traffic lights. The white commodore was wishing to turn
left. The road I turned into split from a single lane into 5 lanes. Two
turned right with 1 optional straight ahead. One land straight ahead and
two turned left. I was attempting to travel to the lane which travelled
straight ahead and headed for this direction. This did not suit the woman
in the commodore and she sounded her horn and drove with her front bumper
about a meter from my rear wheel. As I said it was only about 50 meters to
the traffic lights which were red in all directions anyway. I was peddleing
flat out and if I had braked I am in no doubt she would have hit me. I
looked to my rear and watched the front bumper of the car and my rear wheel.
I slipped a pedal and skinned my shin.

I couldn't believe a woman in her mid fifties could be so aggressive in a
motor vehicle.

I had some serious words with her including a few expletives which I believe
were quite in order. She demanded to know my name so she could report the
matter to the police. I demanded hers which she refused and said I could
take her number plates despite my injury (although slight my shin did bleed
quite a bit).

I couldn't be bothered with the police but the attitude of this [censored] was
unbelieveable.

I have never struck a woman in my life but it this [censored] had hit me with her
car I woul have let loose as it would not have been an accident but callous.

Quite a few years back I used to ride with a few objects in my pockets to
hurl at any carrs endangering a cyclists safety. I looks like I might have
renew this practice.

Greetings,
After being on the roads long enough, you believe anything. I had one
drelb yesterday morning sitting at a green left turn arrow with her
indicator on. She was too busy brushing her hair in her rear vision
mirror to realise she had right of way. I gave her a (very loud) yell of

`Wake Up [censored]' which she eventually did, but did not looked impressed.
The car was a BMW (Brain-Dead Moron & [censored]) of course. Some
motorists spend half their time in La-La land, and then say, `Oh, I
didn't see you' when you get in the way.
Regards,
Ray.

Ray Peace said:

Greetings,
After being on the roads long enough, you believe anything. I had one
drelb yesterday morning sitting at a green left turn arrow with her
indicator on. She was too busy brushing her hair in her rear vision
mirror to realise she had right of way. I gave her a (very loud) yell of

`Wake Up [censored]' which she eventually did, but did not looked impressed.
The car was a BMW (Brain-Dead Moron & [censored]) of course. Some
motorists spend half their time in La-La land, and then say, `Oh, I
didn't see you' when you get in the way.
Regards,
Ray.

We had a lovely one yesterday. Crossing a road, with the green bike signal lit up for us; 4 of us head out onto the road (4 lanes or so of it). I stop quickly as I realise a car isn't going to bother stopping at the red light (it was pointed out later that I'd have been safer if I sped up, but my reflexes didn't reason that far!). I didn't hear all of the exchange between my partner and the driver (was too busy going from "all the things I won't get around to today because I am going to be injured" to "all the things I won't get around to ever because this f#cker is going to kill me" to "oh my god, I'm alive, I'm alive!"🙂 ). Apparently the driver thought we were all riding too fast across the road. Yes, with the light in our favour. I have no idea how he reasoned that one out...

ali

Bob Hawke said:

I couldn't be bothered with the police but the attitude of this [censored] was
unbelieveable.

Be bothered. for your's and all our sake.

flyingdutch said:

Be bothered. for your's and all our sake.

Write down all the details of this altercation and REPORT IT. Oh you reply, what's the point? And I'll duly reply - do you want to keep being treated as second class citizens or not?

Bob Hawke said:

I couldn't believe the attitude of a middle aged woman driver I had an
encounter with today.

Sure it wasn't Hazel?

Bob Hawke said:

I couldn't believe a woman in her mid fifties could be so aggressive in a
motor vehicle.

I had some serious words with her including a few expletives which I believe
were quite in order. She demanded to know my name so she could report the
matter to the police. I demanded hers which she refused and said I could
take her number plates despite my injury (although slight my shin did bleed
quite a bit).

I couldn't be bothered with the police but the attitude of this [censored] was
unbelieveable.

If you, a cycling enthusiast, can't be bothered then who will be bothered? You could be bothered to write a post ab out it on this forum yet you can't find the time to actually do something about it. If not you, who?

Not good enough IMO.

Do you want attitudes on the road to change or not? If you don't report it there's no problem as far as the police and therefore government are concerned and you can guarantee nothing will be done.

Needless to say glad you're relatively OK and sad you had such a situation. You've three choices. Get mad, do nothing or do something.

Bob Hawke said:

I couldn't believe the attitude of a middle aged woman driver I had an
encounter with today.

[snip]

Ok, some drivers are a pain. If we had switched places, I'm sure I wouldn't be staring at my back wheel and the car's bumper. You're in front, you're riding safely - it's her problem to safely overtake or wait until it's safe to do so.

The fact that you were injured in the incident suggests it warrants a report to police - if nothing else, it will be "for the record".

Hope the shin heals up quick!

Ritch

Bob,

You could've at least called her a "SILLY OLD BUGGER"!!

DJ

alison_b said:

Ray Peace said:

Greetings,
After being on the roads long enough, you believe anything. I had one
drelb yesterday morning sitting at a green left turn arrow with her
indicator on. She was too busy brushing her hair in her rear vision
mirror to realise she had right of way. I gave her a (very loud) yell
of

`Wake Up [censored]' which she eventually did, but did not looked
impressed.
The car was a BMW (Brain-Dead Moron & [censored]) of course. Some
motorists spend half their time in La-La land, and then say, `Oh, I
didn't see you' when you get in the way.
Regards,
Ray.

We had a lovely one yesterday. Crossing a road, with the green bike
signal lit up for us; 4 of us head out onto the road (4 lanes or so of
it). I stop quickly as I realise a car isn't going to bother stopping
at the red light (it was pointed out later that I'd have been safer if
I sped up, but my reflexes didn't reason that far!). I didn't hear
all of the exchange between my partner and the driver (was too busy
going from "all the things I won't get around to today because I am
going to be injured" to "all the things I won't get around to ever
because this f#cker is going to kill me" to "oh my god, I'm alive, I'm
alive!"🙂 ). Apparently the driver thought we were all riding too fast
across the road. Yes, with the light in our favour. I have no idea how
he reasoned that one out...

ali

I had a bloke overtake me and turn left. Locked up the back wheel and
just missed him. Went after him. He said ¨you shouldnt have been going
so fast¨ Hey you overtook me moron. If I was going too fast WTF
were you doing?

This about 3 months ago. I have the cretins car and address memorised.
If he does it again he will learn all about road rage.. or as we
prefer to call it.. pre emptive homicide.

Dave