2012-01-16 - Rider Down, Kings Cross

If you can take it up with company obviously...

was having an interesting chat with one of the fellas i play footy with at the weekend.

He is Irish and has an irish driving licence. Essentially if he picks up points on his irish license he says it does nothing. He can apply to have britsih license and take the test and that neither license talk to eachother. Essentially he says he can keep a completely clean uk license and dirty his irish one for which there will be no ban when he gets 12 pts. He said that he knows a few people who do this.

Seems a pretty big loophole if this is the case but interesting and I wonder how common something like this must be in London.

Finally - I can not believe how ready drivers are to drive away from cyclist collisions. It really is unnacceptable and should be clamped down on. hope the victim in this case gets back on her bike and has better experiences in future.

It's definintely worth reporting to the police..

http://www.lfgss.com/post2599926-23293.html

I noticed this on twitter as well, and saw a blog article about her highlighting Kings X as a dodgy area only a week before this accident - http://bit.ly/z4Aj3g

Private Hire in London (vehicles, companies & drivers) is licensed by TfL. As above, it's worth reporting to the police and TfL T&PH.