Well just had an incident this morning on my cycle to work in frogland. Approaching roadworks with trafic lights the light was red so after checking the road behind was clear I took the primary position in order to protect my space at the lights. Just as I arrived at the lights a car appears on my left and cuts in to my space, making contact and going past the traffic light (still on red) I had to work hard to not fall and hit the concrete structure in which the traffic light was being housed. The contact was a glancing hit and caused my brake lever leaving a large scratch along 3/5 of the side of his car.
I stopped and put my bike in a safe place and approach the car. It took 3 requests for him to finally wind down the window and I told him that he had just crashed in to me and that he needed to pull in so we can assess damage. Despite the fact I am fluent in french he said "What?" so I repeated it a second time. He just looked at me confused, it was then I smelt the alcohol and saw his eyes. I said that I was going to call the police and he then sped off through the red light and in to the oncoming traffic. This traffic had to take emergency action to avoid him making contact. This guy was clearly drunk and was a real danger to other users.
Cue 30 minutes on the phone with the police, there is now a local police alert and al lthe gendarmes are looking for him. They are coming around later for a copy of the video.
Close shave, could have been worse.
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