[Allen Key]

I’ve had an actioncam for two months but not reported any bad driving yet. The camera was mainly bought to show liability in an accident when I commute.

My concern is, if I recorded them, they may have ‘identifying’ video of me, and might decide to pay me a visit one day… (or tell some friends to)
Or they may receive a warning letter and could ‘put 2+2 together’ with the date stamp (or if required, even [i]see[/i] you in court???)
So I am reluctant to report any incidents unless they are quite serious.

A few have happened near my home on my regular routes, so it wouldn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure out where I live, but they were not serious thus I didn’t inform the police.
Maybe I’m more paranoid than most? I just wondered if anyone else had similar concerns.

Thanks for any advice 🙂

P.S. I’m not having my windows put through just because someone didn’t give way, if you get my drift…

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[Rendel Harris]

I must admit that due to my

I must admit that due to my concern about this I’ve stopped informing drivers that they’ve been caught on camera, if their behaviour’s bad enough I just send it in and in the vast majority of cases they get an FPN and will have no idea it was me, so hopefully won’t be able to take revenge on the road. 

In terms of going to court and being seen by the defendant, certainly the Met form has an option to say that you are not prepared to attend trial if it goes to court. How much this affects any decision to prosecute, I couldn’t say, I’ve never ticked it.

Have to say though, I’ve never heard of anyone having any retribution visited upon them for making a video report. CyclingMikey reports hundreds of drivers a year and his areas of operation are well known, and although he gets a lot of threats from anonymous cowards on socials he hasn’t, as far as I know, had anyone come after him.

[kil0ran]

Yeah, this is a normal victim
Yeah, this is a normal victim response, the flip side of inventing lasting and painful tortures for the perpetrators. (Or is that just me?)
When I was victim of a road rage assault I marked the activity private on Strava just in case, and if I’m expecting to ride that road I don’t wear the same kit as I did on the day. I avoided it for a good three months because it’s one of those rural roads only local residents would use so the chance of encountering the cockwomble again was high.

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