Aggressive Driving

Proving you a point

I've had several incidents where a driver has cut me up because they didn't like what I was doing. All these resulted in no actual contact, but were quite alarming nonetheless. The two worst cases involved buses. One driver didn't like the fact that I wasn't using a cycle path, so overtook me dangerously close; he admitted as much when I caught him up. Another driver (South Notts bus) was arguing with me with the doors open whilst I was cycling along, and pulled right in close to me when a car came towards us in the opposite direction. In both those cases I was moving at around twenty MPH, and a few inches of movement on my part would have taken me under the wheels.

Just today a driver took exception to the fact that I entered a cycle path next to the road, and shortly later exited back onto the road after it had taken me on a left turn around a roundabout. This driver roared closely past me, and when I had words with him (he had stopped a few seconds after cutting me up since he'd arrived at work!) he tried to tell me off for cycling aggressively and using a footpath. I did my best to point out that he had been driving aggressively, which is really quite dangerous, but he was adamant that I deserved it.