Reporting bad driving.

kingrollo
kingrollo Posts: 3,198
edited September 2009 in Commuting chat
On my comute I regulary see a courier van, being driven at very high speed - and coming very close to me, - I know the reg number, and the name of the company......can I report this bad driving to anyone, without having to produce further evidence.

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  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    Go to the company in the first instance, the police won't be interested until he actually knocks you off :roll: .
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    prj45 wrote:
    Go to the company in the first instance, the police won't be interested until he actually knocks you off :roll: .

    yup first step is company probably best to sent by mail be that email or other wise so it's written down.

    make it clear and not ranty though do point out this is regular, ie not *just* a bad day.
  • kingrollo
    kingrollo Posts: 3,198
    problem is the bloke driving the van - is the probly the propieter !
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    kingrollo wrote:
    problem is the bloke driving the van - is the probly the propieter !

    Don't matter - might make them stop and think, after all driving is their way of earning dough, so they will have to take notice. Advise them that your next course of action would be the Police and that you have witnesses.

    Police will take no action on your word alone.
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  • OldSkoolKona
    OldSkoolKona Posts: 655
    I have heard of some people who have experienced dangerous driving like that and have reported it to the police who then make a note on their (car's?) record? Anyone on here done that successfully? From what I remember of the debate at the time, it was very much dependent on the force involved and the presistance of the complainant.

    I've been on the receiving end of threatening behaviour (van purposefully driven at a group of cyclists) but never followed up on it as I thought the police wouldn't be interested. No one in a Telsa though :wink:
  • kingrollo
    kingrollo Posts: 3,198
    Seems I was wrong, its a national company - have sent an email - telling them to clean up there act - or else my next stop will be a report to the local police. Will let you know if I get a reply.
  • davmaggs
    davmaggs Posts: 1,008
    an observation from dealing with many organisations over the years is that you should send in a written letter if you want something logged and put into a process.

    Emails are all well and good, but the 'noise' created by the volume of them means that organisations have too many of them. Usually you are writing to a generic address so no-one owns the issue, whereas paper has to be dealt with. Letters take effort to write, so they tend to get valued more.


    Oh, my own tale of reporting a driver (on the phone). It didn't really go anywhere at all with HR, until I made the point that whilst I could well be a disgrunted person (they can't take my word for it etc etc) now that I had informed them of the issue they could not claim ignorance should someone else bring a claim against them. It was highly likely that the driver would do the same thing again, so they may want to take some action now. Interesting how the voice had the phone changed, when this came up and they knew I had their name.

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