"Road safety is everyone's business": 90% increase in video footage of dangerous driving reported to police with almost 20,000 reports from Avon & Somerset over 3 years
The huge increase in reports was seen elsewhere, Lancashire Police receiving 4,120 in 2023/24 up 695 per cent from 518 reports in 2021/22. The force recommended 10,628 of the 19,729 cases be dealt with via an educational course, while 2,483 resulted in a fixed penalty notice. >"A close pass isn't an offence and a lot of cyclists don't realise that": Police chief's"odd" claim that cyclists need education on driving offences highlighted as evidence of UK's current road safety"mess"
> Cyclists in Scotland finally set to be able to submit dangerous driving footage to online police portal… by autumn 2025 – two years after road safety tool scrapped amid claims police inaction was making Scotland's roads"less safe"about its dealing with cyclists' reports, the force recruiting to fill a"shortage in resources" and staff that has meant"Notice of Intended Prosecutions are not able to be sent to the offending driver within the legal timeframe of...
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1.5m of white plastic plumbing pipe attached to your seat post, perpendicular to the top tube on the off side will provide a clear indication of a safe passing distance. Using the seat tube means that it may rotate if struck, not enable any force to be transmitted to bike or rider. This costs a few pounds in the local hardware store rather than hundreds for a camera.Obviously this is not compatible with cycling in cycle paths or narrow spaces but then neither are close passes likely.
I feel sorry for the person who deletes the files and then sends the follow up NFA emails as they must be really busy!If we were to make dashcams mandatory for all motor vehicles. I'm sure incidents and deaths would be vastly reduced if drivers thought their misdeeds could be caught by anyone else nearby.
Or, stand the question on its head and ask why many drivists are content, happy or even eager to disregard the safety of others when they drive. But if you think so there are many countries to pick from - whether nominally theocracies, police- or military-states or simply strongman states where the biggest, most ruthless types have been legitimised.Unfortunately many of our"temporary measures to fix a problem once and for all" turn out to be"swallowed a spider to catch a fly"-type issues.
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