To report this to the Police?

[HarveySherlock]

I was out driving earlier and was driving down a busy road, stop start traffic. A cyclist was between me and the car in front.

As traffic started to clear the cyclist moved along the inside of the car in front and held on the car's wing mirror. We were going about 15/20miles an hour when the car in front slammed on their brakes and the cyclist wobbled and let go. I stayed back as I wasn't sure what the driver would do. The driver and cyclist shouted at each other then drove/cycled away.

I've had cyclists do this to me but I just put on my hazards and stop accelerating, not braking and they usually let go. I would never brake like that. I have a dash camera and it shows what happened and the car's registration number. Aibu to contact the police? Sending them the video?

I’d stop the car if a cyclist was holding on. The speed of my breaking would depend on whether the cyclist was a garden variety cheeky fucker or an aggressive, intimidating cheeky fucker.

I used to see a cyclist every day on my commute. He was noticeable because of his aggressive cycling, weaving in and out, banging on cars in his way and his temper (especially with women drivers). I saw him on the same route for years, and if anything he got worse.

One day I read in the paper he was driven over the top of by an articulated lorry and killed. The only surprise was that it hadn’t happened sooner.

If someone is hanging on to your car as it's moving, the safest thing to do would be to brake, so I don't see how you could report the driver for anything.

Your husband is an idiot.

I am both a driver and a cyclist and, while not loving the ALL CYCLISTS ARE MENACES posts, am truly perplexed by the cyclist's behaviour here. This has never happened to me and I certainly would never do it myself - what on earth was the idea? You can't really blame the driver for braking, I have no idea what the appropriate response is supposed to be in that situation but I expect as people are saying s/he was just taken aback. It seems worse to me to continue driving with a human randomly attached to your wing mirror...

Report the cyclist or the car? I think the cyclist is at fault as he should not have held on the the car's mirror. They used to do that but that's just so dangerous for someone in two wheels.

They used to do that but that's just so dangerous for someone in two wheels

Why did they do it?

Is it like skateboarders hanging onto the back of buses?

Also, definitely report to the police - a non-urgent report - even if they do not do anything in this particular case, this kind of information adds to their overall picture of how people use the roads, and may help them to develop guidelines, legislation, public awareness campaigns or better cycling infrastructure

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No it fucking doesn't. Where do you think all this non crime information is stored? How big do you think the databases and servers would need to be for this constant "log it with the police" bollocks?

I swear some mumsnetters would have fucking loved East Germany....

Grumpyfrog hilarious isn't it?!

It would be former but sadly this sort of bollocks gets reported all the time. There's a huge swathe of society who have no grasp on how to deal with any issue whatsoever, needing a more "adulty" adult to sort it for them, so go running to the authorities.

But then a decision about the correct one is even too much like hard work so they call the police. these same people would then go bat shit if the police turned up to "have a word with them" when they hadn't broken any law

Even the invention of the internet isn't good enough for them. They'll still want/need someone else to do even that.

No it fucking doesn't. Where do you think all this non crime information is stored? How big do you think the databases and servers would need to be for this constant "log it with the police" bollocks?

I always imagine a guy writing in a giant book with a quill whenever someone mentions logging it with the police.

The cyclist was in the wrong here, not the driver. WTF was the cyclist thinking? Sounds fucking suicidal to me.

Was the driver called Ronnie?