"Ian Jackson" <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message news:-oc*775Qr@news.davenant.relativity.greenend.org.uk... (This is a copy of an entry I have made on my webpage http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/bikecams/ See that page for the video, context, and other incidents.) 30.7.2007 Close passing by taxi no.86 OV04 CLJ <snip> My road position was

(This is a copy of an entry I have made on my webpage http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/bikecams/ See that page for the video, context, and other incidents.) 30.7.2007 Close passing by taxi no.86 OV04 CLJ As I was cycling over the Victoria Road bridge, this taxi (blue taxi plane no.86) passes me far too close. If I had wobbled (eg due to a gust of wind) I might well have been

In article <DZSdnemLj9ETQSvbnZ2dnUVZ8qWhnZ2d@bt.com>, Tony Raven <traven@gotadsl.co.uk> writes: |> |> Even even 1%% of those assaults goes badly wrong, you can expect some |> potentially fatal or permanently disabling 'accident' once every 4 |> years on a 3.5 mile commute. |> |> By that estimate cycle commuting should have died out by now. With that |> suggested rate for fatal

In article <Pii*c4yRr@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, Jonathan Amery <jdamery@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: |> |> |> How do you distinguish this from the common case of deliberately |> |> driving past a cyclist at 30 MPH at 1-2' distance because that's the |> |> distance past a cyclist that you drive at? |> |> When they pull in to do that, yell at the cyclist to get into the |> lane

David Damerell wrote: Quoting John Taylor <john@example.com>: 3) On the way back home on Greene End Road, lorry passed me VERY close while negotiating the speed humps at only slightly greater speed than me, and pulled in too soon to avoid oncoming traffic. With a high kerb to the left my only choice was to brake HARD. I find this style of incident - where a cager apparently