• Destide@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    “Initially, he just drove on, but later he turned around and came back to verbally abuse and threaten me before getting back in his car and driving off again.

    “So, driver awareness course for this cheeky chappy. Car drivers are right scamps,” -the imaginary judge.

    This is what happens when certain road users are demonized and their humanity is stripped away, replaced by the type of vehicle they use. He didn’t care because it’s “just a cyclist,” like Jeremy Vine, who I believe has done massive harm to the cycling community by making us easy targets for unhinged car drivers to group together and see us as fair game.” Ride with cameras I know it’s extra faff and weight but it’s all you have in situations like this

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    4 months ago

    A driver’s impatience and eagerness to pass has always baffled me and in my area we really need better enforcement for agressive and dangerous passes (uphill, blind corners). The other day i was driving a large work van through a school zone just as all the kids are getting out. This other driver tailgated me, then blew past me in the oncoming lane as we passed the school. About 5 seconds later we were out of the school zone and i had caught up to the driver that was now stuck behind another car. This driver literally risked running over children to save maybe 5 seconds and be 1 car length ahead.

    In my opinion, they should have their car impounded, lisence suspended for a period of time, and have an agressive driving charge which conditions of losing their lisence forever if caught doing something similar again. Letting people continue to drive like that will eventually lead to injury or death.

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      4 months ago

      Letting people continue to drive like that will eventually lead to injury or death.

      Not eventually; it does already, and frequently.

      We collectively just accept it as “the cost of doing business”. A deal with the devil if you ask me.