[Closed] Whacked by car passenger, worth reporting ?

Report it.

yup. Next time it could put someone under a bus.

Yup, get it done

Certainly I'd report it if I had the reg, its assault at a minimum.

Maybe they'll just get a talking to, but it might make the dingbat think twice in future.

Report although doubtful anything will be done

Report although doubtful anything will be done

This from experience.

Report it.

Yes, it is important to report things like this, but I'm sorry to agree with the others and warn you not to expect too much. I may have been unlucky, but my experience in two cases is that the police are not very interested in this sort of stuff.

They may not be interested but if the reg flags up a known driver with "previous" then they may use it as an excuse to go have a word and see if they can spot some other things. Or if they do it again and the result is someone gets hurt then it might be used to show intent rather than "sorry, didn't see him"

It honestly upsets me how some people are so horrible. Why? Just why?

Had a similar experience a few yrs back, I reported it at the time and police by chance caught up with the car, turned out to be a drink driver and no insurance.
2yr ban and a £500 fine!
RESULT!

I've reported it but they didn't seem too interested until I told them I'd check the car on MID and it's not insured.

Keeping my eye on Twitter as my local force love to brag when they seize a car for no insurance 😀

I reported someone for doing it to me. The whacked me then tried to run me over by driving at me head on twice. The police were not interested at all. My word against theirs they said.

I'd report it

and then I'd imagine finding my car all smashed up and with an old chainset embedded in the dashboard

I was outside my house last summer on my road bike eating to join the traffic. Bazzed up focus coming down the road, dad egging 10 yr old kid in passenger seat to do something it looked like. As they went past me the kid threw a McDonald's bag, a big one containing the whole family's rubbish at me, it hit me on the head, lucky I was stood still.

I ran in the house and wrote down the number. Called 101. Police attended his house, took a statement from me and he had some community order thing. Good result.

The copper said someone else locally had a can thrown at him from a car and he fell off into the traffic, near miss. Put me off road cycling a bit. Cyclists seem to some to be a legit target for random acts of violence. This is in rural hampshire. I don't know what's gone wrong.

Report it if you have the time to waste. I reported something similar, had a policeman round fro 30 minutes taking a statement had to take a few follow up calls and then they just dropped it.

I understand the police can't go around resolving every incident with the number of people they have and the stats are pretty horrific - from memory something like 20% of reported crimes investigated and 50% of that 20% have some sort of outcome, i.e. 10% of reported crimes "resolved"

Just need a bit more honesty and tell you up front they won't be looking into it as it is not high enough priority then as least you know where you are. Would save everyone some time.

It needs reporting to build up a full picture of what goes on, and as said if several reports flag against the same car then things can be escalated.

Would it be useful to put the reg and model of car on here so that people in your area can be wary of said motor vehicle.
No doubt some worthy citizens can tell you where he lives so we can return his wallet if he should ever drop it.
A random email of his front door should let him sleep easy about the safety of his wallet.

Yes report it. Injury or damage seem to be thresholds for taking things further so, whilst you shouldn't lie, make the most of any injury what ever.

Its sad but this is the biggest thing that puts me off a bike ride.

I've very regularly had abuse, rubbish and tennis balls thrown at me whilst out riding. I would say I get shouted at every other ride at the moment, most often not even words.

Its sad that I have to accept that if I want the joy of the ride on the trails, I must get the shouting and rubbish of the ride on the road.

As if by magic, the car appears on our local traffic polices Twitter feed having been abandoned on a main road.

Just have to look out for the idiots in another vehicle now.

I caught up one guy at the traffic lights where the passenger threw a drink at me so I punched him as hard as I could in the face and rode off.

I didn't cycle that road for years in fear of retaliation or the police.

I was young and very stupid. I would just report it to the police.

Some dick got upset that I was in his way so he blasted the horn and got agro did a silly pass of me and my mate, then my next 2 mates in front. Problem was there were a lot of traffic lights out of sync. Next set my mate with the biggest beard goes left I go to the right and point out the error of his ways, then again at the next set of lights, and the next ones...

They may not be interested but if the reg flags up a known driver with "previous" then they may use it as an excuse to go have a word and see if they can spot some other things

Thing was, when we got his name, we searched and found out he's been targeting kids and schoolgirls for years. Google 'Jamie Roy Fowler sex offender' and see what you get. Sentence this time? A rehabilitation order. He'll probably get sent on an Outwards Bound holiday.

I've very regularly had abuse, rubbish and tennis balls thrown at me whilst out riding. I would say I get shouted at every other ride at the moment, most often not even words.

Do you ride like a tosser? Where are you riding?
Been a cyclist for over 15 years and can only think of a handful of incidents of abuse from drivers.

Do you ride like a tosser? Where are you riding?
Been a cyclist for over 15 years and can only think of a handful of incidents of abuse from drivers.

Back in the UK beeped at, sworn at shouted at, car pulled over to abuse us after we questioned how safe it was overtaking on blind bends along borrowdale

Plenty more, not riding like a tosser, just in places where people see bikes are in the wrong for being on the road.

Well obviously the bogans are known cyclist haters but I guess I must be lucky and never had anything thrown at me while on the bike.

I've reported it but they didn't seem too interested until I told them I'd check the car on MID and it's not insured.

Lancashire police: "We're not investigating minor road crime any more" after a similar incident.