Whatever the rights and wrongs of this video I find the statements made by the car driver alarming and actually indicate his attitude towards non motorists.
"How $$$$ big is that bicycle?"
.......You're $$$$ lucky I didn't hit you then!"
"Are you a $$$$ taxi? No. Are you a car? No, but you're a $$$$ little bicycle" - driver indicates a narrow width with his hands - "but you seem to want to be in the middle of the road so it's your problem if you get knocked off"
So basically he can drive into anyone who isn't in a vehicle!
It's reported "The video now has more than 3 million views on YouTube and after the incident, Thames Valley Police confirmed an investigation was carried out into the incident. A caution for a public order offence was handed to the driver on Saturday, August 1."
Unfortunately this driver is not alone in his attitude. I had a similar conversation, but not heated like this, with an (elderly) - like me
- driver in Tunbridge Wells who had passed me very closer when I was standing with bike at the side of a road. He had exactly the same attitude; if you're in the road you can expect to hit. Amongst his other moans was cyclists hold up traffic on Major York's Road (if anyone knows it) and should be riding on the pavement.
That road is narrowed by legally parked cars, but they weren't the problem according to him!
"It takes a genius to spot the obvious" - my old physics master.
I don't peddle bikes.