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[1997-09-28 Sun] — Abused by couple in car

Sunday, Sep 28, 1997

@ Adrian Tritschler

Jo and I were riding to the Bicycle Show at Caulfield racecourse at 11.30 am. Riding two-abreast along Neerim road in Carnegie a car came up behind us and blasted on the horn, there was little traffic and other cars had driven past. I moved further to the left, then Jo moved closer to me, and as the car (an old white Ford Fairlane) went past the woman driving it started yelling and screaming that “we should get a f*cking license if we wanted to ride on the f*cking road”.

[1997-09-26 Fri] — Hit by Taxi

Friday, Sep 26, 1997

@ Adrian Tritschler

Around 4.45 pm riding north up St Kilda road in the cycle lane at around 40km/hr I saw a girl standing on the footpath in-front of me, as I was nearly level with her she waved at a cab, who must have come up behind me along the road. The cab swerved through the bike lane while alongside of me to pick her up, she was staring straight at me and looked terrified, I tried to avoid running into the cab as he came in at me, but hit the left rear door as there was no room between it and the parked cars.

[1997-09-10 Wed] — Yelled at by illegally parked driver

Wednesday, Sep 10, 1997

@ Adrian Tritschler

I was stopped at the intersection of Willesden and Poath Roads on the way home waiting to turn left across the railway lines. Owing to a broken down train the lights stayed red with the boom gates down, so I got off and walked up the road to the fruit and vege shop. Walking back down the road I watched the fourth in a line of about ten of the cars waiting to turn left pull out, drive down the wrong side of the road, through the red traffic light, and park in the middle of the intersection with its bonnet under the boom gate.

[1997-06-19 Thu] — Driver turns left across me

Thursday, Jun 19, 1997

@ Adrian Tritschler

On my way to work riding along the access road beside Dandenong road (Princes Hwy) when a very dilapidated Mazda 1200 (Victorian registration ###-###) overtook me, then slowed while indicating and started to turn left. As it was foggy and the road was wet I started to slide while trying to avoid running into him and screamed at the driver. He stopped part way around the corner and I hit his rear door with my right foot before zigzagging around him on the front.

[1997-04-17 Thu] — Hooted at... again

Thursday, Apr 17, 1997

@ Adrian Tritschler

Riding home at around 7 pm up Dandenong road, it was dark and I had on my dayglo Netti jacket and rear vista light. A black recent model car (probably Commodore), Victorian registration ###-###, came up behind me and the driver blasted on the horn for about 2 seconds until he was alongside, then sped off. Traffic was not heavy and there should have been no problem with him not being able to pass in my lane, or pulling into the next one.

Hit by a bus!

Thursday, Mar 27, 1997

@ Adrian Tritschler

Riding home at approx 5.30 pm heading west along Dandenong Rd, I had just turned onto the main road from the service lane, there were 2 cars and a bus approaching from behind in the left most lane, but they were a fair distance back. The two cars went past, although the second driver slowed right down and crawled past, the “Quinces” bus — Victorian registration ###-### — pulled in towards me as he went past, scraped along my pannier straps and as I threw my right hand out, brushed along my knuckles.

Lady turns left into me

Tuesday, Mar 4, 1997

@ Adrian Tritschler

On my way to work, riding along Willesden road Oakleigh. Just past the Greek school I was pulling up on the left of the two cars stopped at the pedestrian crossing, all of a sudden the lady driving the rear one (Maroon Mitsubishi Magna) decided to turn left into a parking space, no indicators, didn’t look. I hit her rear door and fell onto the car in the next parking space.

Taxi driver mayhem

Thursday, Feb 6, 1997

@ Adrian Tritschler

Taxi driver swears, swerves and tries to hit me Commuting to work along Dandenong road, I had just reached a section where the road widens from 3 to 5 lanes — the intersection with Warrigal road — with the addition of two left-turn lanes. I was moving into the rightmost of these (since it was also allowed to go straight ahead, while the left-most is left-turn only) when a Taxi, Victorian registration M####, blasted on its horn, and as the driver went past on my left, swerved at me and swung his fist out the window to try and punch me.

[1996-12-14 Sat] — Verbal abuse, another P-plate driver

Saturday, Dec 14, 1996

@ Adrian Tritschler

Noon, stopped at a red light waiting to turn right from Warrigal road into Dandenong road, a red Ford Falcon (Victorian registration ###-###) tore past. Three teenage guys, P-plates, big-engine and small-brain. Driver swung his arm at me in an attempted punch as he went past on my left and screamed “You c*nt!” Refs: Originally in my bike incidents page.

02-Dec-96, Hit with object thrown from car

Monday, Dec 2, 1996

@ Adrian Tritschler

Riding west along Waverley road after leaving Jells Park at about 6 pm I suddenly was belted on the left hip and buttock with an object, the shock made me swerve, hit the gutter, and swerve back out into the traffic, I looked up to see four or five teenage guys in a blue Commodore with P-plates (Victorian registration ###-###) laughing and swearing out the windows. The object was some form of water-bomb, I believe a plastic juice bottle.

19-May-96, Car's A-pillar across back of hand

Sunday, May 19, 1996

@ Adrian Tritschler

I’ld been out riding all afternoon in the beautiful autumn weather and was coming home at around 17:30. Turned left from Madigan street into Rivett street, with a car close behind me, I had to take the next right turn so I indicated right as soon as I was around the corner. As I was pulling across the lane I heard the car behind me change down gears as the driver planted his foot.

Near miss, idiot with mobile phone

Sunday, May 5, 1996

@ Adrian Tritschler

Approx 16:00, riding down the hill along General Bridges drive to turn right into ??? road, a white panel van (Holden or Ford) covered in signwriting for some business, ACT registration ###-### approached from my left to turn right across in front of me. Unfortunately the dopey bastard behind the wheel was deep in conversation on his hand-held mobile phone, steering with his left hand and swung so wide around the corner that his wheels where in the gutter on my side of the road!

Very near miss, white MX-5 runs through Giveway sign

Tuesday, Apr 16, 1996

@ Adrian Tritschler

At 10.30 pm, Tuesday 16-Apr-96 I was heading north along East row and saw a white Mazda MX-5 approaching the Give Way sign from Northbourne avenue. I was wearing a white long-sleeved t-shirt, fluorescent yellow gloves and have a 5W headlight. The driver looked at me, sneered, and sped up through the intersection, causing me to brake hard and stand the bike up on the front wheel to avoid hitting him.

13-Mar-96 (approx), Yobs swerve and swear

Wednesday, Mar 13, 1996

@ Adrian Tritschler

At 17:20 on my way home, riding up Chisholm street in Ainslie a red sedan (possibly a Toyota corolla), ACT registration ###-### with three youths inside swerved in at me, the passenger in the rear wearing dark sunglasses and blue check shirt stuck his head and one arm completely out of the vehicle to try and punch me while passing, and screamed at me “Hey Fucker, get off the road!” while waving his arm around.

Chased and sworn at by boys in Mercedes

Wednesday, Sep 27, 1995

@ Adrian Tritschler

I was heading west along Bunda street at approx 17:30 to turn right into Petrie street, a white mercedes 220 (ACT registration, UPDATE either ###-### or ###-###) carrying 4 home-boys with their flannel shirts, baseball caps and loud rap music, drove up to the stop sign, stopped and accelerated across in front of me. I had to brake heavily to avoid running into the side of the car and yelled out “HEY!

Sworn at, threatened, then hit by Utility

Saturday, Aug 13, 1994

@ Adrian Tritschler

13-Aug-94 (Saturday afternoon); I was riding along the cycle path parallel to Marcus Clarke street heading towards the lake. The path crosses several roads and at one there is a stop sign facing the cross traffic on the road. It is not clear whether cars (once stopped) have to give way to cyclists on the bike path or not, even though the threshold for the stop sign is on the left of the path, meaning that cars must stop, give way, then proceed across bike path and road.

Fun and games with the lovely motorist

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

@ Adrian Tritschler

OK, I’ve decided that each time I meet some homicidal maniac doing some really dumb thing whilst nominally in charge of a motor vehicle, I’ll write it up here. This is mostly in response to the (lack of) response and interest shown on 16-Apr-96 when I attempted to follow up an incident with the police. The other reason was that somewhere in the back of my mind I got the feeling that one or two of the number plates were starting to look familiar.

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