I was involved in an accident this morning, and I'm not happy about the way the other driver was re-acting.
Going through Bordon there's a set of lights which have two lanes. Left lane for straight ahead, right lane for turning right only (up until Christmas this was ahead too).
I moved into the right hand lane as I was turning right, the lights were red. Next thing I know, a van came as close up my behind as he could get. The left lane was full.
The lights turn to green so I moved forward slowly (there was a lorry on the inside which was sitting over the lane marker) until it was clear to go. Just as I turn right, the van behind me has decided he wants to go straight over this junction and I'm not turning quickly enough for him so he tries to overtake me whilst I'm turning right. Bang, there goes my front wing and he takes off down the road, deciding to stop 200yds or so down the road on the wrong side of the road.
I made it across the junction, but the o/s front wheel bucked under, where the suspension had sheared from the impact.
The driver comes up the road shouting at me asking what I thought I was doing etc, and never once apologised for being such a prat as to overtake on a set of lights like he did. A total numb-nut, I was just waiting for him to hit me. Apparently he thought it was my fault for not indicating (which I was, even though the lane was right-turn only). Even if I hadn't hit him, there was no way he would have got back into the left lane before the bollards in front, so he would have gone to the right of the next set of lights on the wrong side of the road.
Tbh, I was so shaken over the accident that I just let him have his say, whilst noting down his van's numberplate.
Right, after war and peace, the question. Do you think I should have called the police to see whether they would have done anything about his (imo) dangerous driving?
Would it be worth popping into a local station to report it?
Going through Bordon there's a set of lights which have two lanes. Left lane for straight ahead, right lane for turning right only (up until Christmas this was ahead too).
I moved into the right hand lane as I was turning right, the lights were red. Next thing I know, a van came as close up my behind as he could get. The left lane was full.
The lights turn to green so I moved forward slowly (there was a lorry on the inside which was sitting over the lane marker) until it was clear to go. Just as I turn right, the van behind me has decided he wants to go straight over this junction and I'm not turning quickly enough for him so he tries to overtake me whilst I'm turning right. Bang, there goes my front wing and he takes off down the road, deciding to stop 200yds or so down the road on the wrong side of the road.
I made it across the junction, but the o/s front wheel bucked under, where the suspension had sheared from the impact.
The driver comes up the road shouting at me asking what I thought I was doing etc, and never once apologised for being such a prat as to overtake on a set of lights like he did. A total numb-nut, I was just waiting for him to hit me. Apparently he thought it was my fault for not indicating (which I was, even though the lane was right-turn only). Even if I hadn't hit him, there was no way he would have got back into the left lane before the bollards in front, so he would have gone to the right of the next set of lights on the wrong side of the road.
Tbh, I was so shaken over the accident that I just let him have his say, whilst noting down his van's numberplate.
Right, after war and peace, the question. Do you think I should have called the police to see whether they would have done anything about his (imo) dangerous driving?
Would it be worth popping into a local station to report it?
