Puff The Magic Wagon!

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Rough day at work yesterday, so thought I would get some energy into riding home...

Come over Tower Bridge, onto Tower Bridge Road and I'm slipstreaming a French coach. I notice that an 07 reg blue Porche Carrera was keeping pace with me and not backing off even though he had one wheel the other side of the central white line. I even pushed further out and he still didn't back off. Sure enough, traffic eventually stops the bus and Porche driver siops really close to the coach, so that I couldn't pass it. I looked at him & he winds down the window..

"What's your problem?"
"You should be riding by the side of the road!"
"Eh? What you on about?!" (I mean I had been going as fast, if not faster than he was!)

At which point he decided to accelerate off hard round the side of the bus, onto the wrong side of the road for 200m, overtakes another bus and decides to cut into the inside lane of the queuing traffic ahead, but completely misjudges it and slams into the back of a stationary people carrier in the outside lane...

OH HOW I LAUGHED

However, the middle-aged woman in the people carrier got out of the car holding her neck and was very disorientated I hope she feels better and has no lasting effects from the idiot driving of the Porche driver. I stopped and made sure she didn't need an ambulance and gave her my details as a witness, as did the bus driver behind. She called the police. If the police contact me, then I am quite willing to tell them exactly what happened.

What a pillock and I hope he gets what he deserves. I'm sorry that he hurt someone and hopefully he might learn from this.



(I already posted this on Bike Radar but thought you lot would want a laugh/cry)

urban

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I hope you made sure the tool saw you gloating
Personally I'd have given him a big thumbs up on the way past.

Chip

Justice indeed.

borderlinechris

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wheres trout???

J4CKO

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxZ5AKDvyfU

Was funny, hope MPV lady is ok and Porsche driver learns not to mess with the cyclists.

Wolf_gsxr

The grabbing if the neck was for the whiplash claim she is about to put in that's gonna make your insurance even higher.

PaulC72

haha the fool. Another ugly car off the road for a while then ;-)

SwissTony

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whats the point of trying to race over tower bridge anyway. Vehicles have the 20mph speed limit enforced by specs on either end of the bridge.

Pointless and a complete tool he was

urban

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Perhaps she was hurt - after all we know the tool driving the porsche maybe have been travelling quite quickly when he hit her

Tidgy

darn can;t see the vid at work, but lookign forwad to it tonight

sounds funny as.

markjmd

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It takes a very special kind of sad to$$er to own and drive a Porsche, and still feel they've got something to prove to a guy using pedal-power.

Hope he gets banned, and hope the woman is OK.

pimmo2000

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Jamescsti

Good stuff, I would have made a point of telling him to have a nice day on the way past too.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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It was actually Tower Bridge Road but not to worry. Cyclists don't have that limit on the bridge though

He ran into the back of her at about 15mph at a slight angle so I'm not surprised that she was clutching her neck when she got out the car. She was totally confused for a couple of minutes as well, poor lady.

I deadpanned it with the driver - no point in winding him up further as who knows, him or his mate might have got violent with me. He realised what a prat he'd been anyway as he sat in his car for 3 or 4 mins just staring straight ahead.

SwissTony

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I missed that part. In which case crack on sir