Being sent to Lloyd's Pharmacy....
Sirius631
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just as soon as they get their 'contact us' portlet working again.
Dear Sirs,
I wish to complain about the inconsiderate and abusive conduct of one of your drivers experience by members of Walsall Roads C.C. when heading toward Bridgenorth on the morning of Sunday 30th January.
On an uphill section of single carriage main road, three of us were riding single file. As we are all experienced riders, and the road was free of pot holes, we had opted to ride at less than the recommended minimum one metre distance from the curb.
As it was going to be a long ride we were not pushing the pace above ten miles per hour on the uphill section, which coincidently makes it legal to pass the solid white center line to overtake when safe and legal to do so, a basic fact that seems to have bypassed the driver of the car first in line behind us.
Second in line was you vehicle, registration number KW08AKJ, who, when passing close, sounded his horn (not the correct use of the horn), and shouted obscenities out of his passenger window.
There has been a lot of talk of a mandatory minimum space allowance for cyclists, but a precidence has already been set in case law. Six foot is the space that is called for, 1 metre of which I have already stated as the minimum recommended position of a cyclist from the curb. If referring to the Highway Code, drivers are called on to give as much room to cyclists as they do to cars, which means your driver should have been over the other side of the road anyway.
As a matter of course, I wish to know of the training plans for your vehicle operators, as the skill exhibited in this instance is, in my opinion, on parr with a barely trained pedestrian. I would also like to know of corrective action planned over this incident and that the driver is enlightened as to the wisdom of such behavior when driving a vehicle with company logo when moving at a speed at which the registration number can be read.
Your's faithfully,
etc,etc.
Dear Sirs,
I wish to complain about the inconsiderate and abusive conduct of one of your drivers experience by members of Walsall Roads C.C. when heading toward Bridgenorth on the morning of Sunday 30th January.
On an uphill section of single carriage main road, three of us were riding single file. As we are all experienced riders, and the road was free of pot holes, we had opted to ride at less than the recommended minimum one metre distance from the curb.
As it was going to be a long ride we were not pushing the pace above ten miles per hour on the uphill section, which coincidently makes it legal to pass the solid white center line to overtake when safe and legal to do so, a basic fact that seems to have bypassed the driver of the car first in line behind us.
Second in line was you vehicle, registration number KW08AKJ, who, when passing close, sounded his horn (not the correct use of the horn), and shouted obscenities out of his passenger window.
There has been a lot of talk of a mandatory minimum space allowance for cyclists, but a precidence has already been set in case law. Six foot is the space that is called for, 1 metre of which I have already stated as the minimum recommended position of a cyclist from the curb. If referring to the Highway Code, drivers are called on to give as much room to cyclists as they do to cars, which means your driver should have been over the other side of the road anyway.
As a matter of course, I wish to know of the training plans for your vehicle operators, as the skill exhibited in this instance is, in my opinion, on parr with a barely trained pedestrian. I would also like to know of corrective action planned over this incident and that the driver is enlightened as to the wisdom of such behavior when driving a vehicle with company logo when moving at a speed at which the registration number can be read.
Your's faithfully,
etc,etc.
To err is human, but to make a real balls up takes a super computer.
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Just make sure you re-read it again and correct and missing letters before sending!
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Hope any punishment doesn't involve a good seeing to by Philippa Forrester. I've wanted that since I was in school.
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You could also change ''a precidence'' to ''a precedent'' and ''on parr'' to ''on a par'' - but I wouldn't worry too much about those details.
It's not about word grammar, it's about road grammar
Joseph Gallivan
Whilst curb is acceptable and the usual US spelling, kerb is the more usual spelling in the UK and is the spelling used in the Highway Code.
I hope your letter makes a difference. I complained to Asda last year about a delivery driver following my car too closely down a steep hill covered in ice. I don't know whether it made the driver a more careful driver, but it certainly made me feel better.
He never got a reply. He got the address wrong as well, and sent it to Lloyds Bank.
also what training do you need to be a pedestrrian (or even a barely trained one)