Near Miss of the Day 827: Bus driver “bullies his way into a gap that was never there”.

Congratulations! you have just qualified to join the police force.

Welcome to your new career. You can rest assured you will not have to do any more detective work, get out of your car or meet the public unless someone is killed or someone rich and/or famous needs help.

I see one of your brexitty young ukipconservatives has taken my name. Nothing is sacred to the brexitty lot. 

I just assumed you were a secret Tory worshipper being as two of them have now come out with the same phrase you like to use. (And this name only appeared after the first one said it).

NOtotheEU wrote:

Congratulations! you have just qualified to join the police force.

No chance, far too good.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/c407c0ff-9078-49bb-8ec3-069660f7c64d

It's not the clearest image, but pretty much beyond doubt to me that it's YP59 OED.

The police should reconsider the decision on this one. The driver can be identified by the bus company and they should be given at least an FPN for careless driving (a 'driver improvement course' would seem a bit ridiculous when that driver is a supposed professional).

Not only do we have tracking data. But the bus has CCTV. This is likely to store footage for at least 30 days. So prompt action will get video of the whole incident from the bus perspective. It's also likely there is an internal camera videoing the driver, removing doubt about who was responsible.

Watch this again taking note of EVERY OTHER VEHICLE on the road. Notice how legible they all are then look at the bus. I'm sure the Highway Code states your plates must be clean, legible and not reflective. That number plate is impossible to read. I'd argue that should be a fineable offence on tbe bus companies behalf at least. If the cyclists cam can't pick it up, what if speed cameras can't either?

onlinejones wrote:

Shouldn't the bus have an id number on the side, and if the Police were to chase it up, surely the bus company would know which driver was on that route at that time?

The bus id number is visible(but not legible) just below the obscured number plate. Perhaps someone  reading this on a better quality screen than my tablet can make it out. Although HoarseMann 's excellent digital detectory above should be sufficient to get the police off their arses.

But, but, but....that means doing actual police work!!! Are you nuts?

I mentioned with Kookaburra vid that in this day and age, most buses have GPS . Vision have their own tracking system so I don't see why they wouldn't be able to get the company to trace this if they were serious in doing something. 
 

Katies video you mean ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRBbm12pSpk

Yes, someone posted it in the forum yesterday. 

ah missed that

OnYerBike wrote:

I guess 5 minutes on the phone to Vision buses is just too much effort.

Not sure they'd even have to do that, just send them a letter demanding that they identify the driver.

Adam Sutton wrote:

The standards I am seeing from bus drivers is really concerning, and not just with regards cyclists.

Don't know if this is your experience but at the moment I'm finding at least 50% of London bus drivers are blatantly ignoring cycle boxes, which are there specifically to remove the danger to cyclists of having large vehicles alongside them when the lights change. Police not interested, bus companies promise action but say they can't say what it is due to GDPR or whatever, drivers themselves just give you the back of their head if you try to speak to them about it.

In that respect I've been lucky, most of my route is reasonably segregated. I tried cycling most of the way but it was 20 miles Cycling each way on top of unpredictable work, so I now cycle with a Brompton to where I can get a cheap fare, then cycle the last bit to Chiswick. I have had a ridiculous overtake from a bus on Chiswick High Road though, again just as I was about to turn off to work and was indicating as such. The bus overtook only to immediately pull into a bus stop.