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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was driving up this road (toward the camera) which is one-way with cars parked at the side of it. The other side of the road (over the ‘central pavement’) is one-way for cycles only. I was about where the camera was which took this ‘photo when a Ford Transit flat bed lorry came racing toward me head on! He braked sharply and started shouting things. I was a bit confused, here I was meeting a truck head on as it came the wrong way down a one-way street. Then he swung to his left and tried to climb over the central ‘pavement’ into the bike lane. He got the lorry jammed so that his back wheels were spinning, but by backing off a couple of feet and then doing it again he got over into the cycle lane. As he was alongside me he started spitting at me so that saliva was running down my window. He then climbed back over the pavement to my side of the road dragging his truck across the rear corner of my car. The car rocked around as it was hit. The truck driver then sped off with his wheels spinning. I was able to jump out and get his registration number. I thought I’d be OK once I got that. How wrong can you be?<\/p>\n<p>I dialled 999 and reported what had happened. “Not very nice” was the initial sympathetic response, then they asked if I was near a Police Station. They wanted me to go and report the incident there rather than coming to see the tyre marks on the road, wet saliva running down my window etc. “It may be sometime before we get to you, much easier for you to go to the Police Station”! Reluctantly I went to the Police Station but they would not take any details or statement because I didn’t have my MOT with me! Can you believe it? I had my driving licence but without my MOT they were unprepared to record the incident. I’m intimidated, spat at, had my car damaged but without my MOT certificate the Police don’t want to know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why ….. I was driving up this road (toward the camera) which is one-way with cars parked at the side of it. The other side of the road (over the ‘central pavement’) is one-way for cycles only. I was about where the camera was which took this ‘photo when a Ford Transit flat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}