Aggressive driver in total meltdown with Carmarthenshire cyclists after close pass

What a horrible horrible man. I'm sory Matt that that happened to you and I truly hope that that bloke gets some sort of retribution.

First of all, the aggressive driver commited a S5 public order offence for swearing in public.  The riders need to inform the police  of this(video is the corroboration).  The other offence is driving aggressivley and sounding horn for no reason. 

I presume there is further video from his dangerous overtake earlier

The riders need to report this to the police for S5 public order offence.  This driver will cause serious injury if not brought to account for this attitude.  Also the aggressive driving

Terrible behaviour from the driver. Why can't drivers just 'own-up' to their mistakes and apologise accordingly, rather than escalating it. If he is an ex-policeman he's doing a diservice to the police. I think drivers behaviour is slowly changing for the better in Carmarthenshire (and Towy valley in particular) but clearly there is still work to do. I shudder to think how younger (school age) cyclists would have felt confronted by such aggressive behaviour :-(.

Matt, have you considered contacting Dafydd Llewelyn the police commissioner for our county to inform of the lack of follow-up since you logged the call with the police for this incident. I know the police are stretched but they should at least got back to you by now.

I love the way that he's ridiculously and aggressively territorial, but he's got an English accent and he's living in west Wales.

Also, hope you're doing OK, Matt. I know from experience that these incidents can play on your mind for a while after they've happened.

Well, I'd have lost the plot and wrapped my bike round him. Then more. And probably have gone to prison, but at least the world would be free of that cowson.

If you put Clive Norman into a facebook search, you'll find this man there. 

He does seem a bit angry doesn’t he. He has the look af an angry man too. I don’t know why you would bother to stop and chat to someone like him. 

This cyclist v driver, driver v cyclist gets a bit tedious we are all victims it seems.

But this driver does seem to be a twat I’ll give you that. And now we have his reg and I am  living not to far from him, I’ll keep an eye out and see if we can create a sequel.

The irony of complaining about being held up but then stopping for a confrontation is always lost on these idiots. 

The appropriate response, once he'd started effing and blinding in your face, was to call 999 and report a threatening road rage driver.

In instances like this where the vehicle has stopped up the road and the driver has got out, I was advised by a police friend to simply stop where you are on the road.

After a close pass , we were riding two abreast,and horn blowing episode by a BMW X5 on a clear country road the driver pulled in about 200 mtrs further up,we stopped too and watched him get out of his car as he screamed abuse.We watched him for an age in what seemed like a Mexican stand off, we started laughing at the absurdity of the situation which resulted in him storming off.

Best form of defence is non confrontation and that includes words say nothing, your life is more valuable than trying to convice an angry, irrational person that they are wrong.

Although in the early 80's an eccentric club mate now RIP, used to attach carbide lathe tools to the end of one of these pop out refelectors  more than once he showed us a swirl of car paint work on the tool tip!

The cyclist should never have engaged with the motorist and giving his name and suburb is ridiculous.

A few months ago I had a very close pass, and slapped the car roof.  Driver stopped up ahead, but I didn't, and lost them easily at the next junction in town.  Unfortunately, it's possibly the most confrontational actions one can take, especially for drivers with raging gammon tendencies, but difficult not to do when vehicle is so dangerously close.  I keep telling myself to avoid touching a too close car next time, and instead shout uber loudly, & just capture pass on front/rear cams.  Unfortunately all these drivers will want to do is yell in your face, and will not listen to any reasoned protestations about dangerous driving & the highway code.  Never set off on the bike before a driver in this condition /  be prepared to deviate from original route temporarily for safety.

The only way to appease the Cycling Gods, would be to post his address online.
Then invite the holy Disciples, to visit him with gifts of Gold, Frankincense and rocks.
Showering his car with... love.
😉

 Most of the road rage attacks on me have been by people with low tech brains -apart from one: I was cycling home from work in West London on a cycle lane with the normal stationary traffic on the right when a car turned left in front of me and parked half on the pavement and half on the cycle lane leaving me just enough room to get by, but as I went by the driver opened the door in front of me, I got off my bike and told her what I thought of her - this beautiful filmstar/popstar type of women got out of the car, put her arms around me and fondled my buttocks, she hugged me and kept saying " you're so good looking, you're so good looking - I thought apology accepted and went on my way!

He reminds me of one of my old PE teachers...