Today was a good day for me. I missed the rain on my rides to and work and had a tail wind on my way home. No one was an idiot, apart from this one Mercedes Sprinter van, who was less of an idiot and more just slooooow. Work was easy and my friend is in town on her way to Uzbekistan. All in all, today was good.

I was going to start off this site with random instances of terrible drivers which I’ve been noting over the last few weeks as I’ve been sorting it all out. The John Lewis driver in Crouch End who raised his arms all dramatically and exasperatedly at me, even though I’d waited behind the parked cars so as he could carry on uninterpreted. Or the Mercedes driver who actively swerved into my partner who was cycling in front of me in Newington Green. Or the a list of the myriad cars and lorries who refuse to use their indicators. And so the list grows.

Instead I find that despite my lovely day, another cyclist has been killed by a left turning HGV. See this report for some small details about it, and this clip of the news report.

Whoever you were, RIP.

More and more I sense the urgency in campaigning on this issue: HGVs are dangerous to cyclists and something needs to be done. I should give a shout out at this point to Bill and his enormous sideburns over at Moving Target who has been writing about this issue for some time. Check out his contents section for lots of articles on HGVs.

This site then, is to be a repository of information about incidents with HGVs. I want to report the instances whereby you (and I!) have a near miss or a close shave; where you are shaken, scared, terrified, angry and indignant because some driver of some large (or small) vehicle has just wantonly endangered your life. I want you to give me the details of the experience and I will post it here. Essentially I am naming and shaming in the hope that eventually HGV operators will care enough to respond to my letters and give their drivers the awareness training so many desperately need.

Please go to the Submit section for more details on how to submit to this site.

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