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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!nx01.iad.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.11.MISMATCH!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!cyclone01.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf01.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe26.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Message-ID: <2ephl.56$Ya3.26@newsfe26.ams2> From: _  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Dangerous driving complaint and response. Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:19:30 +0000 References: <3a30696f-4bca-46fb-87d4-a4c5dac7867a@q30g2000prq.googlegroups.com> 	<9a64b15d-ccf0-4507-b780-df7011e8561f@r29g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> 	<70c5e31e-616a-47f8-b327-804e2dd9504a@p36g2000prp.googlegroups.com>  Lines: 44 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.21.204.127 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe26.ams2 1233526782 82.21.204.127 (Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:19:42 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:19:42 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Bytes: 3228 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:684615

spindrift wrote: > On Feb 1, 4:29 am, Nick L Plate  wrote: >> On 1 Feb, 11:52, oldMaxim  wrote: >> >>> point was still a decent way off). The cabbie didn't hit the cyclist, >>> but the cyclist stupidly bashed the car (adding even more "risk" to >>> the situation on the grounds of distracting the drivers attention). >> A moment before the horn toot is the sound of the initial impact. The >> cyclists hand is at a low angle indicating its proximinty to the >> handlebar, dead close.  The car struck the hand of the rider, causing >> it to deflect upwards, with either the windscreen or mirror.  The >> exact point of contact is not easy to see because the wing of the >> vehicle is obscured.  The sudden deflection of the brown gloved hand >> along with the thud convinces me this was the initial impact.  As for >> bashing the car, the initial impact unbalances a cyclist and in self >> preservation, to slap the side of the car would help in regaining >> balance, so as not to end up under the cars rear wheels or under a >> following vehicle. > > This is the most damning evidence in my favour, what does the driver > say when he stops to talk to magna.

Magna. Okay, then.

> Does he say I

Pardon? *I*?

> swug out at him, > does he say that I

A second 'I'. Hmmmm, not just a typo, then!

> caused the incident? No. He says, 'You were in the > middle of the road!' Now is that what he would say if I

Third time lucky. So you're the cyclist in the clip, then. Wonder why the subterfuge of referring to the cyclist as "Magna" rather than "me"

> had swerved > out at him. He would more likely say, 'you were all over the place', > you swung out' etc. So at the drivers OWN admission I was far out in > the lane at the time of the overtake. (He says it twice!). So lets > just take the drivers word for it......