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Hi all
I've just been out in the company vehicle. Happened to be sat at a level crossing about 5 cars back.
Barriers lift so all traffic starts moving car close behind me, as I'm pulling away and gathering momentum two lads on cycles shoot out form my right hand side across the two lanes straight in front of me, naturally a beep of the horn from me as it was difficult to stop as car was following close behind. He was close to the front of the car I was driving, albeit slow at that point.
Anyway, a tyrant of abuse is heard from the cyclist shouting at me if I want to pull over etc. His mate joins in. Slow moving traffic and they saw me turn left. Both lads deliberately kept up with me. As I drove off and went left again I couldn't see them. I was outside the client premises at this point I'd been in and collected what I needed then got back in the car as I check my blind spot I can spot both lads shouting 'there he is' and hurling more abuse anyway I manage to drive off.
I'm concerned as I'm in a labelled up vehicle with company name on.
They may turn up.
I've just been out in the company vehicle. Happened to be sat at a level crossing about 5 cars back.
Barriers lift so all traffic starts moving car close behind me, as I'm pulling away and gathering momentum two lads on cycles shoot out form my right hand side across the two lanes straight in front of me, naturally a beep of the horn from me as it was difficult to stop as car was following close behind. He was close to the front of the car I was driving, albeit slow at that point.
Anyway, a tyrant of abuse is heard from the cyclist shouting at me if I want to pull over etc. His mate joins in. Slow moving traffic and they saw me turn left. Both lads deliberately kept up with me. As I drove off and went left again I couldn't see them. I was outside the client premises at this point I'd been in and collected what I needed then got back in the car as I check my blind spot I can spot both lads shouting 'there he is' and hurling more abuse anyway I manage to drive off.
I'm concerned as I'm in a labelled up vehicle with company name on.
They may turn up.
Edited by cpjitservices on Thursday 8th December 16:11
Edited by cpjitservices on Thursday 8th December 16:13
It happened at that point when (Automatic) you lift your foot off the footbrake and your in a line of traffic can't get alot of speed but are gaining momentum thats the moment he shot across the road with his mate, not like I could of swerved or slammed on to miss him if I had to. I think a beep was fair
ging84 said:
It's pretty pointless beeping at someone after an incident has happened purely to express your dissatisfaction no matter how badly in the wrong you feel they were, but in a sign written company vehicle it's not pointless, it's stupid.
Sometimes it is useful to draw other road users attention to let them know you are in the process of avoiding a collision, just in case they are not looking and assume you are going to keep accelerating. May or may not apply in this case of course.cpjitservices said:
Well nothing happened so far - It was as he cut across me I beeped not after. I had to do something as couldn't exactly slam the brakes on
Eh? What if one of the lads had fallen off his bike? Would you have slammed the brakes on then? "Doing something" - using the horn as an alternative to braking in this case seems a bit odd, brake if you need to, but don't use the horn as an alternative, surely?
ging84 said:
It's pretty pointless beeping at someone after an incident has happened purely to express your dissatisfaction no matter how badly in the wrong you feel they were, but in a sign written company vehicle it's not pointless, it's stupid.
I agree it's pointless using the horn but it's not the driver who's stupid. OP, unfortunately there are a lot of moronic cyclists out there, emboldened by the wave of protest by their ilk and the advent of the GoPro. It's best to keep out of their way and to avoid interaction; sooner or later they'll get their just desserts.
Sounds like the cyclists were filtering past a stationary queue of traffic on the right (safer that riding up the inside); when the traffic started moving they naturally moved across to the left hand side of the road and you gave them a blast of the horn....
Sounds like they should have better anticipated when the traffic would start to move and you should have been more aware. Chalk it up to experience, luckily you didn't hit one of them.
Sounds like they should have better anticipated when the traffic would start to move and you should have been more aware. Chalk it up to experience, luckily you didn't hit one of them.
jesusbuiltmycar said:
Sounds like the cyclists were filtering past a stationary queue of traffic on the right (safer that riding up the inside); when the traffic started moving they naturally moved across to the left hand side of the road and you gave them a blast of the horn....
Sounds like they should have better anticipated when the traffic would start to move and you should have been more aware. Chalk it up to experience, luckily you didn't hit one of them.
^^^ This. Folk just "appearing out of nowhere" again.Sounds like they should have better anticipated when the traffic would start to move and you should have been more aware. Chalk it up to experience, luckily you didn't hit one of them.
MS<blind-spot(s)>M.
tigger1 said:
^^^ This. Folk just "appearing out of nowhere" again.
MS<blind-spot(s)>M.
Being a biker I recognise that visibility in all metal box transports is impaired (whether through physical construction or mental obstruction) and ride accordingly, other road users don't expect bikes etc. to be appearing suddenly and can react in a panic so the cyclists above put their own safety in jeopardy and threw their toys out of the pram when called out on it.MS<blind-spot(s)>M.
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