Cyclist submits 25 videos of poor driving to police – but only one motorist receives a warning letter

Definitely not just Derbyshire.

Submitted footage of an incident to Police Scotland where I was struck by a car as I was waiting to turn at a junction and the driver cut the corner into my stationary bike at 6.30am.  I had a 250 lumen front light on, was wearing a fully reflective jacket and I could see the driver approaching me for 5 seconds before they cut the corner and clipped me and my bike with their car.  No injury or damage to car or bike.

But even with this footage ...... no response from them in 2 months.  Not even a warning letter sent to the driver.  No facility to report online so had to go in person with memory stick and give a statement...... officer taking the statement said they needed to pass the footage to their sergeant for review and they have been silent ever since

In other news, police overworked and under resourced, shock!

So much verbal about the police here, but it's the lack of resource, not the police perse.. A bit like saying the NHS doctors are letting people die...clearly not.

Resource the police, increase penalties for repeat offenders, save the world.. Move to space.. Too much to ask?

I can't help but think this is about a lack of resources.  Faced with road policing along with domestic violence, drug offences, knife crime and the rest,  something's got to give with current police numbers.  I know it's politicising the situation but even the current government has acknowledged police resources have been cut too far and are trying to backtrack.

Society gets the policing it's willing to pay for......

Pompey Cyclist needs to make a direct complaint to the Police Complaints Authority.

The Cat and Fiddle is NOT a dangerous road, it is a road with many dangerous drivers on it!

Most were drivers wanting to continue withour slowing down for you. 

Ride further out to create a rolling road block.  Once you've got one vehicle to slow down they all have to. 

Stops these inattentive passes.

Institutional racism is defined (McPherson report) as "The collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture, or ethnic origin"

Institutional anti-cyclism "The collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their choice of mode of transport"

It's fcuking dangerous out there and the police need to take action when evidence of poor driving is handed to them on a plate. Even more worrying though, is that they do not act when somebody is using a car as a weapon - really this has nothing to do with traffic or the highway code and it needs to be dealt with in the same way as a knife wielding maniac would be.

Disgraceful!

BTW, it's not just a national problem, it is similar here in Germany and, I suspect, everywhere where people drive cars.

It was the way the rear flicked in at the last moment. A small misjudgement and it's goodnight Vienna.

Do what you must-just don't become identifiable on the road as the local "Cycling Activist".All the hate and ignorance focuses on you.I often think of Cameron Frewer and his three children.The damage to the car that hit him suggests he was deliberately targeted.There are people prepared to go to jail to prove their demented point.

A general lack of awareness in most of those vids. In my experience (commuting by car and bike, but also training and racing) many people driving cars pass other vehicles closely and take a bit of a risk wth their wing mirror- generally missing narrowly, but they simply don't appreciate that we're just people on bikes and at much more risk, so pass us in the same manner. It's a very bad national habit.

This tells you all you need to know about the ineptitude and backward thinking of the police in the UK and in fact elsewhere.

If you crack down on this then it's more likely to reduce people being killed or seriously injured, which means not just fewer families being ripped apart but massively lower costs for the bill on those lower KSIs. And if people feel safer to cycle on the roads then massively lowered NHS costs- by tens of billions a year at the very least.

More people cycling, healthier, more kids cycling in safety to school all becomes part of a bigger picture of a happier society, jesus it could change the landscape of the country in so many ways.

And yet that's a pipedream because the police/government/CPS/judges are directly complicit in the way motorists do what they want and have no jeopardy, the fall out from that is massive, more than the plebs in blue can ever comprehend but they don't even need to, they should just do what they were employed to do and swear an oath to do!

A mixed bag. That flat bed was awful though and the one at the road works.

That'll be the same Derbyshire Constabulary which has been the subject of a number of inspection reports over many years, detailing its abject failure. No comfort to know that keeping roads safe isn't the only thing they are not at all good at. There are probably many people trying to do their best, but as an institution it's failing. See https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/publications/derbyshire-... and a many Private Eye issues.

Please keep it up Pompey Cyclist, it must be incredibly frustrating but your persistance may eventually get things done.

These are examples of truely awful and dangerous driving.

Very depressing that so many examples of bad driving get no response from the people who's job it is to keep us safe.  Has Pompey Cyclist tried the Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner?  https://www.derbyshire-pcc.gov.uk/Home.aspx