To the driver in Norwich...
karl j
Posts: 517
...who knocked me off my bike outside the Boundary pub on Friday morning, after i'd got the train in (ok i was being a wimp in not cycling all the way but well, there you have it) about 7.30. You know, where the 2 lanes heading out from the city become 3 as the right hand filter lane starts.Think / wonder if it may have been you (?), then please read on...
I'm the one you were revving your engine up behind in frustration because you couldn't get past as a car was half in the outside lane and half in the RH filter lane and so, effectively, it was blocking both. And as i was 1.5 metres or so from the kerb you had no
room to get through when the lights changed from green to amber, although some might say you
could have waited(and even, dare i say it, put your bloody phone down too!?)instead of
blasting past, knocking me off as you did and then, if that wasn't enough, without stopping jumping through the red
lights the way you did. Quite how you got through there without causing major carnage ii'll never know. Now, i appreciate you may be very important but there is a line
that most reasonable people won't cross isn't there ? For me, and i firmly believe, for
*most* people that line is where you start to put other peoples lives in danger.You crossed
that by a good deal on Friday. Fortunately for you your recklessness in jumping the red
lights at speed meant there was no way for me, once i'd picked myself up to follow you to
get your reg. number or make / model of car. Subsequently the police could offer little
assurance that you will be caught, however i have a feeling that eventually you will be, and hopefully before you've killed siomeone. Now, as for me, yes i'm ok thanks, after being checked out at A&E (totally wasting their time and taxpayers money, as your actions were so totally unnecessary)just a minor gravel rash on my leg but fortunately no head injury which, for me, was particularly pleasing as i have only been back at work 3 weeks after having 14 months off sick due to a brain tumour and chemo / radiotherapy treatment.
If, although i'm not entirely convinced you would be reading a cycling forum in the first place, you recognise yourself and the incident, please feel free to present yourself to Norwich police station at Bethel Street, where i'm sure they'd be pleaased to speak you.
I'm the one you were revving your engine up behind in frustration because you couldn't get past as a car was half in the outside lane and half in the RH filter lane and so, effectively, it was blocking both. And as i was 1.5 metres or so from the kerb you had no
room to get through when the lights changed from green to amber, although some might say you
could have waited(and even, dare i say it, put your bloody phone down too!?)instead of
blasting past, knocking me off as you did and then, if that wasn't enough, without stopping jumping through the red
lights the way you did. Quite how you got through there without causing major carnage ii'll never know. Now, i appreciate you may be very important but there is a line
that most reasonable people won't cross isn't there ? For me, and i firmly believe, for
*most* people that line is where you start to put other peoples lives in danger.You crossed
that by a good deal on Friday. Fortunately for you your recklessness in jumping the red
lights at speed meant there was no way for me, once i'd picked myself up to follow you to
get your reg. number or make / model of car. Subsequently the police could offer little
assurance that you will be caught, however i have a feeling that eventually you will be, and hopefully before you've killed siomeone. Now, as for me, yes i'm ok thanks, after being checked out at A&E (totally wasting their time and taxpayers money, as your actions were so totally unnecessary)just a minor gravel rash on my leg but fortunately no head injury which, for me, was particularly pleasing as i have only been back at work 3 weeks after having 14 months off sick due to a brain tumour and chemo / radiotherapy treatment.
If, although i'm not entirely convinced you would be reading a cycling forum in the first place, you recognise yourself and the incident, please feel free to present yourself to Norwich police station at Bethel Street, where i'm sure they'd be pleaased to speak you.
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Glad you're ok though, hows the bike
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Cool that you arnt seriously hurt
Does the driver use that road every day to work? May be worth camping out +/-1/2 hour each side the time it happened with camera ready.
Plod reallly ought to do more! :roll:
Glad to hear you are ok.
Phil
I would have thought there must be some CCTV in one of the business around there though, isn't Enterprise Rent-A-Car facing that junction? Or the pub might have CCTV?
That junction is always a nightmare, I'm just glad I'm usually turning left there so avoid the carnage of getting across boundary road.
My Cove Stiffee
Evening route ,
You're quite right about the costs. And people dont realise how much it costs the emergency services when they prat about like that.
world is full of w***ers sometimes
I always use the costs bit when I get into discussions (bike related or not) with drivers about how their "Road tax" (sic) is a rip off. After explaining that it is vehicle excise duty not road tax and that it is not ringfenced so roads are paid for from general taxation - I then explain what the true costs of motoring are. Apart from the obvious - road design, layout, maintenance etc there is the cost to tax payers of the NHS, police and fire brigade to deal with road traffic collissions (note I don't use the misnomer or "accident") and that's before you get onto things like the cost to the environment etc etc
For some reason my attempts at education are rarely appreciated :twisted:
anyhow cheers for the thoughts, feeling etc is slowly coming back today and i'm evenhoping to be able to get upstairs in my house again soon
Evening route ,
Maybe its just easier to change my route at the Norwich end...
Evening route ,
no evidence of the culprit having handed himself in just ywet, though. \Go on old boy be a sport !!!
Evening route ,
Chances are, if they catch the guy and he's not been a sport it will, could come down worse for him. Hope something happens.
The physio should be good. I have seen some of those physio girls at the local hospital - you'll enjoy their company.
we are the proud, the few, Descendents.
Panama - finally putting a nail in the economic theory of the trickle down effect.
Sorry, just been looking at the Daily Hate again - don't know what happened to me.
Glad you're okay and hopefully the CCTV will have some clear evidence to identify this knight of the road.
Karma or psychology? If you treat people like **** then they will treat you likewise. Sadly some of these people lack the intelligence to draw the link. :roll: Karma exists, but it isnt anything other than human brains responding to human brains and actions, and ourselves being stupid enough to do things that may somehow disadvantge us.
atb
Evening route ,
Good to hear your negotiating stairs again, back on the bike soon then
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