Post by acnedriver on Feb 7, 2023 9:40:13 GMT
A taxi driver was given a warning letter after overtaking a long queue of traffic at speed in the wrong lane – narrowly avoiding an oncoming cyclist and her child in the process – because Derbyshire Constabulary believed that a conviction was “not realistic” and that prosecuting the motorist would not be “proportional”.
Cyclist Kate Ball was riding with her daughter on the Uttoxeter Road, a residential road with a 40mph speed limit in the Derby suburb of Littleover, when the taxi driver – overtaking a very long line of slow-moving traffic, right indicator blinking the entire time – passed them at speed, causing Kate to emit a startled ‘whoa!’
The astonishing incident (which can be viewed below) took place last Tuesday on what Kate describes as a key walking, wheeling, and cycling route in and out of the city, with two schools on streets adjacent to the section of the road the taxi driver evidently viewed as his own private circuit.
Cyclist Kate Ball was riding with her daughter on the Uttoxeter Road, a residential road with a 40mph speed limit in the Derby suburb of Littleover, when the taxi driver – overtaking a very long line of slow-moving traffic, right indicator blinking the entire time – passed them at speed, causing Kate to emit a startled ‘whoa!’
The astonishing incident (which can be viewed below) took place last Tuesday on what Kate describes as a key walking, wheeling, and cycling route in and out of the city, with two schools on streets adjacent to the section of the road the taxi driver evidently viewed as his own private circuit.