ballibeg wrote:Don't think a court in the land would agree.
The only mitigating factor was that the guy turned round and gave the 'V'
Imagine if he hadn't. You sound your horn, he turns round to look, loses control and crashes.
Supposed he'd been killed, don't you think you'd look a bit foolish trying to defend using the horn when specifically warned against it in the highway code and trying to defend that choice by claiming you didn't like the way he was riding?
Given you can kill someone with impunity these days I wouldn't obviously put money on it but then I wouldn't put myself in that position in the first place.
If the driver had really wanted to warn the cyclist of their presence they'd have done it several seconds earlier, *before* the cyclist started moving out to overtake and whilst still far enough back not to cause alarm. Not at the point the cyclist had almost completed their overtake and from only a few yards back.