spindrift wrote:
>>From C+
>
> Riding home last night at 6.30 thru Deptford along Evelyn St, a 4x4
> (Nissan Patrol?....privacy glass windows) pulled from McMillan St into
> the road in front of me to join the traffic but stopped halfway out as
> there was no gap to join. This made me swerve, but no big deal; I went
> round the back and carried on. As I have to get over to the right to
> get into the filter lane into Deptford Church St fairly sharpish from
> here; I signalled right and moved over behind the car infront, but I
> could here a FRANTIC revving from behind getting very close and
> glanced back to see the nose of the Nissan heading stright for my back
> wheel.....I swerved a bit but it came so close its mirror hit my
> (signalling) hand. It revved off to be the first to wait at the
> traffic light waitng to go into Deptford Church St. I said nothing but
> waited at the lights at a safe distance from the Nissan; I didn't even
> look at it. At the next lights I got to the front of the queue. When
> the lights went green this Nissan came up behind me so closely,
> revving its engine so frantically I was convinced it was going to hit
> me(it was veering sharply over towards me at the kerb by now) so I
> pulled my front wheel up onto the kerb. It was doing that stop/start/
> on-the-clutch/on-the-brake jerky thing. Like having a mad kangaroo
> start aimed at you. By now I had to say some thing so I asked what the
> F### they were trying to do. I could now see it was driven by a young
> girl and full of her mates. As I was saying this the rear window wound
> down and I received a face full of gob from a nasty little chavette.
> The Nissan revved off in a stench of fried clutch. Off course, the
> next part of the road is single file thru roadworks. Evertime I got
> near, it would swerve VIOLENTLY towards me, so I tried to go on the
> pavement, but it mounted the pavement to try & hit me.
You should take a lesson from football (the dive) if the car came close
enough to be convincing you should come off your bike and play dead. The
other drivers will phone 999 and the police etc will become involved.
Additionally it is blocked all the way to Brookmill road so it would be
very hard to do the run bit of a hit and run, the other drivers could
get the number plate or at the very least the offender would have a very
uncomfortable few minutes trying to make their getaway.
At the very least you would have given them a scare.
I realised it
> was probably best to be behind it, but, no; it sarted reversing
> violently back.....The other cars around me were keeping their
> distance. It stayed stopped for a few moments.....all traffic held up
> at a standstill by it. It the occured to me that they could just jump
> out and stab/shoot/maim me. I took my phone out and got a photo of the
> registration plate (P497 TGU). Whether they saw me do this or not I
> don't know as it had privacy glass, but it had the desired affect and
> it screeched off. I was quite shaken up. I called the police station
> when I got home and had to leave a message. I said I wanted to report
> an incident. I'm still waiting for a reply.
>
> I did absolutley nothing to provoke this behaviour.....well, apart
> from being on a bike. I'm still shaken by it.
>
> End quote.
>
>
> The police have been very good and have the registration.
>
> Kind of the driver to volunteer a DNA sample...
>
