Once again, our slimy slug of a double agent has left us video-footage in the dead-letter drop box beneath the Ruthrieston Pack Horse Bridge. What 'Codename JannieJumbo' caught on camera this time, operating in deep cover from behind his legend in the so-called "active travel activist" movement in Aberdeen, really shocked us.
Oh my God! Did you see that? This irresponsible cyclist's dangerous behaviour caused not only the driver of Aberdeen Car reg P896TGE to ignore a hand signal and pass too close for safety, but also the reckless cyclist made the taxi driver of Aberdeen Taxi reg KY55CCD overtake dangerously, ignoring the cyclist's hand signal and into the path of oncoming traffic - and all for nothing, being held up at the roundabout which was only 50 yards away anyway.
"But - hold on!" we hear you exclaim. "What was it that was so reckless about this cyclist's behaviour? - I've looked at the video, and the cyclist seems to have done nothing wrong..." And that's true up to a point, because what the video cannot show is the privileged information we have access to through our contact with "Codename JannieJumbo".
That information is the fact that this cyclist pedal-cycle was not equipped with a bell at the time. (Thus absolving the blameless motorists of any liability for their actions.)
I have had a similar thing happen to me on several occasions, with driver deliberately accelerating to overtake as I signal a right turn. This is reckless driving pure and simple, it shouldn't be tolerated but sadly the police just don't take it seriously.
ReplyDeleteYou not considered sending the video to your local taxi licensing authority and asking them to remind the taxi driver of their duties?
ReplyDeleteI worry that the taxi licensing authority would not perceive the subtlety of the issue.
ReplyDeletethis is what called as a reckless driving, the cyclist must be drive it in the lane provided to them., but nevertheless this drivers should be charged with suspension of driving license.,
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