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Hit by a bus (twice)

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  • October 4, 2018 at 1:21 pm #29019
    alansmurphy

    Whilst navigating a short journey between my sons school and work yesterday I was hit by a bus (twice) in what could only have been a deliberate act at least once.

     

    I was ahead of the bus in an ASL at some traffic lights (hadn’t even filtered past it) when the bus decided to pass me on leaving the line as I was 95% through the crossing. In a stupid move and haste to avoid the car in the right filter lane on the other side the bus chose a stupid angle to cut in front and brushed the handlebar and front wheel – which by this time was in a cycle lane. The bus appeared unable to navigate the road without taking the cycle lane.

     

    Now, I often wonder of the good of putting yourself back in risk but thought the driving was so bad and probably sheer ineptitude that i decided to pass the bus at the next lights and politely (honestly) turn to tell the driver that she had hit me. She refused to make eye contact. I gestured to tell her she’d just hit my bike and to give room the next time.

     

    Her eyesight obviously wasn’t great as she did exactly the same, close pass followed by cutting too early and ending up driving down the cycle lane as we pulled away the second time. This time I hit the bus, twice, hard. Unfortunately for her, she had to pick up passengers 100 yards down the road, bus stopped doors open I decided to let her know that she was a disgrace. Again i didn’t want to be perceived as angry ridiculous man on bike so politely told her that she had just hit me and left the scene of an accident and that her driving was a disgrace. She literally refused to even turn her head and look at me, to prove my point she shut the doors and drove straight through a red light, onto a roundabout and was nearly hit by a car. 

     

    Unfortunately she had to stop another 300 yards down the road for a passenger at which point my politeness had gone, she got called an effing c bomb multiple times as the adrenaline was pumping.

     

    I know the bus number and the time so the company will know the driver. Without film evidence is there anything I can do? No actual damage and my aim is to get the driver removed or at least aware of the disgraceful standard of her driving. She will kill someone.

     

    Wondering what people’s method of attack would be…

     

     

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  • October 4, 2018 at 7:04 pm #928535
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    growingvegtables
    LastBoyScout wrote:
    I got left-hooked by a bus a while ago – reported to both police and bus company.

    Bus should have CCTV both inside and out and you/the police will need to request it is stored before it is deleted/overwritten. The fields of view will, hopefully, show you position in relation to the bus that makes it obvious you were close-passed, if not actually hit.

    Get onto both parties quick, with full details of times and places and bus details.

    Police should definitely act as it’s technically a hit and run.

    This.  And quickly.

    It’s a few years ago now, but I’d a bus driver driving aggressively at me four times.  I didn’t have a camera, but the bus did ;-).  Management took the driver off the road for two weeks re-training, and monitored his performance with “secret customer” inspectors.

    October 4, 2018 at 3:35 pm #928533
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    freetime101
    Creaky Joints wrote:
    Turns out the driver claimed to have not seen me saying he threw the orange at the biker instead in a minor fit of road rage.

    So this was OK?

    October 4, 2018 at 3:34 pm #928531
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    Creaky Joints

    A lot depends on the person

    A lot depends on the person at the bus company dealing with the complaint.  I was passing a bus and motorbike when the bus driver leaned out and threw an orange at me, hitting the bike.

    Forgot the number plate by time I got to work, but did give the company the route number, time, place and rough description of driver.  A day later, they claimed not to be able to trace which driver as some buses were running late. 

    After explaining how poor an excuse this was, I went on to say I didn’t want the driver fired, just a bollocking.  Once they realised I was not planning on taking it further, I was then told that the driver was found and he did get a verbal warning.  Turns out the driver claimed to have not seen me saying he threw the orange at the biker instead in a minor fit of road rage.

     

     

     

     

    October 4, 2018 at 3:27 pm #928529
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    rebeccarrgghh

    I had an incident earlier

    I had an incident earlier this year where a bus driver drove towards me on a narrowed point in a road where there are road signs to give way to vehicles coming in the opposite direction. He should have gave way to me but he drove a double decker straight at me squeezing me at the side of the road and shouted out the window at me. I didn’t have a camera on but I reported it straight away by email. It took ages but I did get a response eventually saying he had been identified and interviewed about it. I don’t know how far this goes but I think its worthwhile complaining. Hopefully at the very least it will go on record that they are a psycho.

    October 4, 2018 at 3:06 pm #928527
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    brooksby

    You’ve reminded me I need to

    You’ve reminded me I need to draft a stern email to my local bus company.

    I was a passenger on a bus the other day, the driver of which clearly had no f-ing idea no about safe driving around bikes.

    I was sitting near the front of a double decker, so could see that the bus was maybe a bike’s length behind a bike, on a main road with a shared-space cycle path adjacent but no on-road cycle lane: the cyclist was doing a pretty good speed, but if anything had happened then the bus driver couldn’t possibly have reacted in time.

    You know when you’re a passenger in a car, and find yourself applying non existent brakes? That.  I was a passenger on a bus and I was getting white-knuckled in case something happened.

    The cyclist finally bailed – they yanked left and went up a dropped kerb onto the pavement (with me wincing – if they’ve fallen they’d have been flat!), and watched the bus sail off.

    October 4, 2018 at 2:35 pm #928525
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    vonhelmet

    Police won’t act, hit and run

    Police won’t act, hit and run be damned. They weren’t there, didn’t see it, your word against theirs, blah blah blah.

    October 4, 2018 at 2:24 pm #928523
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    LastBoyScout

    I got left-hooked by a bus a

    I got left-hooked by a bus a while ago – reported to both police and bus company.

    Bus should have CCTV both inside and out and you/the police will need to request it is stored before it is deleted/overwritten. The fields of view will, hopefully, show you position in relation to the bus that makes it obvious you were close-passed, if not actually hit.

    Get onto both parties quick, with full details of times and places and bus details.

    Police should definitely act as it’s technically a hit and run.

    October 4, 2018 at 2:03 pm #928521
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    freetime101

    If you’ve got the time I’d

    If you’ve got the time I’d say it was worth a call to the bus company – I’d be surprised if anything comes of it though…

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