That's a hotspot, it happens there all the foccing time. The number of times that must have happened on my commute through there. Glad there was no contact!
PS. At least you didn't get blanked by Warwick Davis again lol
Until I read your comment Fuzzy I thought it was just one of those London things that happens anywhere.........but feck me I got it this morning at 6.30am . Coming up to the lights and slowing (got down to about 10 mph) waiting for a change, they changed and had been on green for a good second or so when I went through at 25mph ish in 2nd. Low and behold a black 7 series wank mobile did the same to me as Stiggy. No time to brake so just swerved hard.
The plus side is those 7 series have 'kin large rear lights so was hard to miss with the toe of my boot and I think it would of been rude not to assist him in developing his future driving skills. Totally shattered the lens and laughed my nuts off on the rest of my trip to work.
Now the tricky bit - there's lots of cameras around so if numb nuts decided to approach the police and the incident was caught on video, what's my stance? Is it, "he ran a red & could've seriously injured me so yep I did it on purpose" orrrrrrrrr " sorry officer but the violent swerve to avoid him made my leg swing out"
Anyone had a similar him/me caught on video where you have deliberately sought revenge and had to state your case?
Any advice appreciated fellas.
Sorry for making this a smart ass reply, but I can't help it. Here's the thing from my city's perspective:
1) Video evidence is kept for up to a week. No more room on the servers. So if a driver had say 2 people on board and reported me for breaking his stop light, the other two passengers could confirm. If I get the charge after more than a week (which is a reasonable time), video evidence would have been gone by the 7th day and it would be my word against 3 witnesses.
2) It is not your job to teach people to drive. There is the police, you can report. But doing justice on one's own is not very wise if you want to live long and good. In my city people tend to get out of cars with baseball bats, or guns, so getting into arguments, even if you're right and they're wrong is not productive at all. Idiots won't learn, they probably even know they're doing wrong.
I had a situation when I just flipped the bird to a rude driver and he stopped, got out of the car. I thought: what a stupid reason to get beaten, or sued for causing injuries - whatever happens I'm in trouble!
On another occasion, I was on a bicycle and a guy started pushing me off the road with a car (driving parallel with me and then turning towards the kerb slowly). I started banging with my hand on his car, but he didn't stop, so I had to brake, let him go ahead. The idiot didn't know he was doing anything wrong, he was angry for me hitting his car (but this one didn't stop to have a chat).
After those incidents, I always do this:
Just let it go.
Oh, and those lights: even when in a car - I always check for idiots running red light. Those things happen quite often. I either slow down to have a look, or have a bus/lorry by my side covering me.