To feel shaken by this incident and want to leave work?

No the law doesn’t protect women receiving verbal abuse it would probably just come under freedom of speech, even when it sounds threatening to the recipient.

Thats why they do it. No consequences.

You rang the nhs to report a crime

If its a company van get cctv then name and shame the company on your local Facebook page, you won't be the first or the last until their called out. Some people seriously need to grow up. I'm glad you got to go home and could get changed

It may seem like an overreaction but I think you should report this to the police. He committed a public order offence shouting ‘slag’ at you not to mention deliberately splashing you. He needs to be found and dealt with, if only to stop him doing it to someone else.

I'm sorry OP, I'd have gone home too. Glad you're feeling a bit better now!

When my eldest was in nursery I was once on my way to pick him up when a car suddenly swerved onto the pavement and drove straight towards me. I always thought if something like that happened that I'd dive out of the way like you see in films, but I just froze. They turned back onto the road just in time to avoid hitting me and were all jeering through the window but I didn't manage to get any details either except the car colour.

What a truly shitty thing to do, no wonder youre upset. The only consolation is that it wasnt personal even if it felt like it.
Thats the kind of arseholes they are and thats their own prison sentence.

That's a horrible thing to happen op. Id absolutely report it, they've committed 2 offences, both of which they wouldn't have done if you were a man.
The police must take this sort of thing seriously.

Big man probably showing off to his bro’s.

The fact is in this joke of a country that it’s illegal to splash someone with your car, but screaming misogynistic verbal violence to women is fair game says everything as to why women are angry.

Make no bones about it, if he could get away with mowing you down or punching you in your face for jokes, he would.

Its pure hatred towards women disguised as bants.

Glad you are OK now @Cynthiaramsey What a horrible thing to happen. I am so sorry! 😢

And yes pps are right, it IS an offence to do what this 'man' did. If you didn't get his registration though, it may be hard to do anything about it.

But yeah, something similar happened to someone I know last year. She had some bloke call her a fat cunt out of the window, and he deliberately rammed his car door into hers. (She was parked next to him on the car park next to a main foodstore. No reason whatsoever. He was just a horrible bastard.)

She took his registration and reported it to the police immediately. It was classed as assault, and also vandalism. The red paint off his door had transferred onto her white car door, and there was cctv in the car park. So she had proof.

The bloke tried to deny it, but the proof was there (that this lady was telling the truth.) Although it took about 3-4 weeks to get back to her, the Police Officer who took the report said it was his employer's vehicle, and the police had gone through them to sort it. He got the sack. AND he lost the company vehicle. So he paid for what he did! Hopefully something similar happens to this van driver. Maybe the police can source some cctv???

Good luck,

OP I’m so sorry this has happened to you, you were not being unreasonable at all in wanting to go home after such an upsetting incident.

Whoever did this is a very sad and pathetic excuse of man and I pity him to be honest if targeting women in this way makes him feel somehow validated. He is a worthless worm and he probably knows it.

I would report it as an assault so there is some chance he will get his just desserts and be punished for this.
There must be CCTV along that road somewhere.

@TheGander that’s a good point about being a hate crime, given they used the word slag. It’s just awful. It would be nice to think there was some pay back for them.

Because like I’ve alluded to many times. They’re too much of a shit house to target someone stronger or even as strong as them. That’s a bullying cunt in a nut shell for you.!

On a side note, I think karma deals quite well with people like this. People who put out hate like this aren’t going to have good relationships, trust and live, their ability to thrive at work will be limited.

What scum. Bet they thought it was really funny. Suspect they wouldn’t think the same if it had been done to a relative of theirs!

A few years ago I was driving behind a white van and they were clearly stuffing their gobs with McDonalds and then proceeded to chuck the rubbish out of the car as they drove along. I used 111 to report it as it was truly disgusting and how would they like it if someone came and dumped their McDonalds in their garden or through their letter box.

I’m glad you’re home and that your boss was sound. I would be so shaken by this.

It’s great that you are planning to report it. Hopefully there is CCTV from the garage. If they are driving a work van, it would be great to think there would be come-back from the employers.

How horrible and misogynistic. I don’t know if it is a hate crime but it should be, imagine if they’d done the same to an ethnic minority while yelling an insulting racial slur. That would be a hate crime. I’ve had similar while on my bike, fuckwits in a white van came up behind me at a junction then yelled like banshees. I could easily have fallen off. One did it to me from a bike and I chased him down to his council estate but unlike @ToWonderWhyIBother ’s mum I didn’t catch up with him ☹️

Utter shuts, so sorry this happened. What immature, horrible men. I really wonder how pathetic their lives must be to get a laugh out of this. Idiots.

It's all them op, nothing you did and nothing to feel bad about.

It’s illegal so they should find and fine them
https://www.mylondon.news/news/health/law-car-splashes-puddle-water-15520807

”What might seem like a harmless prank to motorists could see them be fined as much as £5,000.
Driving through puddles and splashing pedestrians may seem like a normal or unavoidable occurrence, but it is not just rude - it could be illegal.

Under the Road Traffic Act 1988, it is illegal to drive "without reasonable consideration for other persons". The law also bans "driving through a puddle causing pedestrians to be splashed".
READ MORE:Call for 'dangerous' cycle lanes near bus stops to be changed over fears for safety
While the £5,000 figure is one extreme, most people would be handed a fixed £100 penalty for the offence, Gloucestershire Livereports.
That would be imposed if the driver’s behaviour is found to be "an act of incompetence, selfishness, impatience, or aggressiveness".
However, as well as points, drivers are risking three and nine penalty points on their licence.
Will police really act?
Last year, in Cambridgeshire, an appeal was launched to find a motorist who soaked a mother after ploughing through a puddle.”

ironic really, as believe it or not that's actually a feminist song, about a group of women enjoying a party then a group of men come and ruin it with their obnoxious behaviour. Course those guys would be too thick to comprehend this level of sophistication, even if it was explained to them in very simple language.

I’d report too, makes you feel less helpless. Perhaps get a FB message out too somehow without revealing your identity asking for dashcam or similar to get in touch

Definitely report it! Might make them think twice before doing it again. Pleased you're home now warm and safe. Enjoy your chocolate!

One obvious thing that should be done IMHO is that there needs to be a 'fit and proper' test for anyone holding a driving licence.

So in this case not only the driver but his mate loses their licence

Well its not that nice for the inhabitants of hell but apart from that it will help keep the streets safe

This happened to me on my lunch break right outside EAT which is were I was going for lunch. The staff in EAT saw it and felt so sorry for me they gave me free lunch!🥰. When I came back to the office I used the hand drier to dry my hair and clothes

Your Mum !