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I hope you aren’t going as
I hope you aren’t going as far as to suggest that this results page is fabricated too
No, I’m stating rather than suggesting that Lancashire Constabulary fabricates the statistics by the simple means of not including indisputable evidence cases that they don’t like. I know from personal experience that they ignore those cases that I show all the time on here. I suspect that they lie about cases where they have taken action, but I can’t prove that as they’re not my cases. Sending a NIP is NOT an outcome because the police frequently bin these for made-up reasons. That’s why I asked you: you showed a left hook where they claimed to have sent a NIP. It’s 3 years ago, so the case must have finished. So what does the wonderful Safer Essex case reference say was the actual outcome? Leaving it at ‘evidential file presented’ would be worthless – I know from personal experience how the police bin cases for the stupidest of reasonsThis is 3 years ago and did
This is 3 years ago and did get a NIP for the left hook
Is that one online, and did you follow-up and find out whether the NIP actually came to anything or was it just quietly binned by the police?
Council and police send
Council and police send letter reminding locals that ‘liveable neighbourhood’ does not mean ‘more free places to store your car’
Joy will be unconfined when, and if, they get around to enforcement.
if you were on the limit you
if you were on the limit you were presumably still within the confines of the cycle line; if you were over the limit, then you were in the road, where you are also perfectly entitled to be. Mind-boggling stupidity and ignorance of the law
Many people find it difficult to believe not only how malevolent and anti-cyclist police officers are, but also how thick and ignorant. They should surmount this difficulty- they really are!
They will try hard to
They will try hard to interview you. I was contacted by various means 13 times until I sent a cease and desist notice citing harrassment
If TLO wants it, I have all the video, audio and succeeding correspondence in which a BMW pillock close-passed me, then threatened to ‘fucking flatten’ me and to ‘knock me off’ my bike. The police tried very hard to do nothing at all about it and it was only after months of effort on my part that a police officer ‘spoke to’ the driver and said ‘he should not have spoken to you like that’.And that was it- no public order offence, no assault charge. The expletive-deleted police will do everything they can to favour a driverMore standard police tactics-
More standard police tactics- I don’t understand why more people do not vocally agree with me that the major factor leading to reducing safety for cyclists in the UK is the ‘bloody cyclists are too much trouble’ attitude of the police.
Complete fail from Essex
Complete fail from Essex Police
I think these duff forces such as Essex Lancashire and Scotland, who simply ignore every offence committed against or even reported by cyclists, are now competing with each other for the Most Anti-Cyclist Trophy. You can’t appeal to the PCC because they always support the police with ‘that’s an operational decision by the police and we can’t interfere’. I recently reported, and showed on here, a close pass offence by a police car driver. There was no response so I complained to the joke Lancashire Constabulary Professional Standards department. They refused to accept any such complaint from me- in writing! I reported the case to the PCC, and they said that because this was a refusal to respond rather than an official response to a complaint in a correct template letter ‘they couldn’t do anything’. I hope the government abolishes these entirely useless PCCs, so there would only be one useless bent policing authority to deal with.
This is interesting- there
This is interesting- there are very many buses passing up and down here all the time: school buses, Stagecoach etc. and there are several 90 degree corners, but this diesel spill problem doesn’t exist. Maybe it’s because the bus garages where they must fill up are several miles away in both directions.
However, while cycling back to Garstang from Lancaster, I did see a big BMW go down on a trail of diesel which came onto the main road from a farm side road- and that was a straight section of road coming towards me and the rider was behaving perfectly sensibly, just ambling along
Of course the nutter being an
Of course the nutter being an Audi driver is just confirmation bias, just like the electric BMW driver killing a small child by SMASHING through the heavy metal fence around a sports ground in Kendal“I just lost concentration,
“I just lost concentration, the dog jumped on my lap”
I’m rather surprised this didn’t get him off completely, on the ‘I didn’t mean to do it’ principle so often accepted as mitigation for driver offences- maybe it’s because it wasn’t just a cyclist who was killed. The police are usually acting on behalf of the offender: I had a photo of 3 large dogs in the front passenger compartment of an ordinary car and the Lancashire traffic police sergeant wrote: It [sic] might have been properly restrained
Superbly put!
Superbly put!
So: I’m still hoping that
So: I’m still hoping that somebody who sent in a video to the Met. (or to any police force) and who then received the ‘we’re taking action but we’re not going to tell you what it was’ missive, and where the video of the offence is online, can send me the evidence of a proper penalty for an offence against a cyclist: either from this Met. (or the Northamptonshire web page which preceded it) spreadsheet, or from a letter from the police. Bungle_52 provided an exemplary case! One thing that struck me about the Met. speadsheet (apart from ‘why not provide the case reference?’ which suggests to me they’re trying to make it as difficult as possible to put people off) was the number of people where the evidence was written off as not to the required standard. My experience is that my evidence is first rate and I think that this is just yet another police dodge to ditch cases they don’t like. How do you get better than these? – I suspect most submissions are of comparable quality,and many of these Met write-offs were mobile phone offences which are easy to get when there are lots of traffic queues
https://upride.cc/incident/pe18ojj_insignia_redlightpass/
https://upride.cc/incident/dp14fym_insignia_closepassdwlcross/
https://upride.cc/incident/n7blh_rangerover_closepassuwlcross/
And this one was ‘closed’ by an un-named police officer as soon as it went in, you won’t be surprised to see
But what’s the answer?
But what’s the answer?
You would think that Torbay
You would think that Torbay Council would be run by a load of Basil Fawlty Daily Mail devotees, and it is indeed Tory. However, the stated aims of their ‘Greener Way climate action plan include:
Make sustainable transport and public transport more accessible and affordable
and: Ensure that roads and paths are safer and more accessible for cyclists and walkers
This sounds like heresy, but are the council The Heroes of Torbay?
the Vue Cinema (formerly the
the Vue Cinema (formerly the Novelty Rock Emporium)
Is this true, or is it an allusion to Walmington-on-Sea?
