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Videos: Royal Mail drivers in collisions with cyclists

Warning: footage features a (perfectly understandable) burst of colourful language

In this first video, a Royal Mail driver cuts in on Alex Potter and hits him. By way of defence, the driver asks the rhetorical question: “Am I not in my lane?”

The Met Police’s Cycle Safety Team don’t seem to feel that’s a pertinent question.

Royal Mail also replied to Potter’s tweet – although Andy Thornley’s comment above would imply this isn’t necessarily indicative of any great follow-up action on their part.

Apparently cyclists have enough dicey encounters with Royal Mail vehicles that it can legitimately be considered ‘a thing’.

Here’s someone being cut up. Here’s a van cutting across a cycle lane without looking.

And here’s a staggering clip of someone in a cycle lane getting hit by the wing mirror of an oncoming Royal Mail van.

 

Uploader Mike Hall writes: “I was in a dedicated cycle lane and came to a complete stop before I was struck in the arm by the van’s wing mirror which resulted in minor bruising. The vehicle pulled into the cycle lane without signalling and without due care for other road users. I was wearing high visibility clothing. The driver failed to stop.”

Alex has written for more cricket publications than the rest of the road.cc team combined. Despite the apparent evidence of this picture, he doesn't especially like cake.

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Goldfever4 | 6 years ago
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Both a disgrace, pure and simple.

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stevemaiden | 6 years ago
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To be fair to Royal Mail they have thousands of vehicles on the roads every day covering tens of thousands of miles and incidences like this seems rare BUT at the same time these drivers attitude is shocking and they should be reprimanded with the second one charged with dangerous driving. 

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fenix | 6 years ago
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Crappy driving by the RM there.  I think the first one is the worst - no reason for it. 

Second one driver is way too impatient - looked like there was space to pull in.

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Zjtm231 replied to fenix | 6 years ago
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fenix wrote:

Crappy driving by the RM there.  I think the first one is the worst - no reason for it. 

Second one driver is way too impatient - looked like there was space to pull in.

 

Both were very deliberate acts to cut the cyclists up and force them  off the road or at least to stop.

Effectively using the vehicals as weapons... 

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Crippledbiker | 6 years ago
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The first cyclist is even wearing a Lumos helmet (going by the LED patten), so is highly visible.

Seriously shitty driving.

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Grahamd | 6 years ago
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Awful driving by the RM. How many examples are needed for such disregard of road safety for it to be considered endemic and have senior staff held to account?

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Hirsute | 6 years ago
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Pretty bad with the driver trying to run him off the road.
Loved the way he tried to tell the moped witness it was nothing to do with him.
RM had a spate of zero tolerance for any activity against policy at one point, so might be a bad outcome for the driver.

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