Cyclists - Report Unsafe Drivers

[potentialtoburn.livejournal.com]

I was in an incident this morning while biking to work.  A driver turned, accelerating into me, pushing me off Holland St, but then he took off before I could talk to him.  His plate was 608YVG.  It was an older white compact hatchback.  If anyone sees this car, text or call me so I can get a better description of it.  8579284850

If you have an incident with road-rage or unsafe drivers, use this form to report the incident.  It does help.  http://www.state.ma.us/rmv/forms/21171.pdf

bike on. 

Comments

[charlwoo.livejournal.com]

That's very interesting. I had a guy in an old white compact -- not sure if it was a hatchback -- try to run me over while I was on my bicycle about a month ago near the intersection of Mass Ave and Somerville Ave. We'd both been stopped at the light over by Uno's -- it was red; the light turned green, he accelerated and cut me off to turn into the parking lot of the Porter Square shopping center. I hit my brakes, and he saw me at the last minute and braked; I continued past him and he laid on his horn, so I flipped him off. Then he accelerated and tried to run me over, so I turned right onto Davenport street. He followed me, hit the curb and beat up the front end of his vehicle a bit on the curb; I swerved onto the sidewalk where he would have to hit a line of parked cars before running me over. He pulled up parallel to me, yelled at me for a few minutes and moved on.
At any rate, I don't flip off angry drivers anymore.
I wonder if it was the same guy? I didn't think to catch his plate at the time. I was too shocked that someone would intentionally attempt to run over a cyclist.

[potentialtoburn.livejournal.com]

sounds like him. this guy was immediately so angry at me, bitterly swearing as if i'd just flipped his mother off. i actually like antagonize non-bike-respecting drivers in order to provoke them to do something they'll regret. keep a pen in your pocket and write the plate on your arm next time. \m/