Do they even care if we live?

[Rebel1012]

As some of you may know i am employed by the local goevernment council (United Kingdon)

This morning as myself...my partner and my 9 month old son were driving off up the road we live in a refuse truck (garbage wagon...a big one) coem towards us on the other side of the road at a good clip (probs wasent speeding but fast for the road which has a jnr school on it) there was a parked car on their side of the road which gives us the right of way as we have un restricted access to our section of the road....without indicating or slowing down they swerved round the parked car onto our side of the road.

In order for us to avoid crashing into it we had to break hard and swerve into a side road...they continued on without slowing, looking back or anything

At the time we were running a little behind for an appointment so we continued on...only when we reached where we were going a few minutes later it dawned on us what had happened.

I called up the department which manages the trucks and told them what had happened....almost 3 hours later i got a call back from a supervisor who said he had talked to the crew on the truck and they do not remember any incident on our road... and cannot recall seeing any one coming towards them...the loader even went as far to say he knows me and would remember if he saw me on the road..The superviser has decided seems confused and has told me he dosent think the incident happened at all or perhaps we were speeding and came at such a pace they didnt see us (we had set off around 40-50 yards previously and were still speeding up to the limit 30mph) and as such its our word against theirs and nothing will be done about it..

I called his manager and left a message with his secretary about the incident and they were ment to call me back...but never happened so oviously they dont belive their employee's running someone off the road is importnant...seeing as nothing was coming from them we reported it to the police as a trafic violation/ nearly missed accident...their response was they know me from work...they trust me...they know i wouldent lie about something like this and they believe what i am saying but without an independant witness the best they can do is warn teh driver as any case would fail on the fact its our word against theirs

In light of the above i have collected a extra sick note from my doctor...i was due to g back to work after a period off for stress/anziety on thursday....but i really dont feel upto it now

I mean from my view..everyone i care about was in the car...had my partner not swerved into the road we would have been under a massive rufuse lorry with god know how much rubbish in it...probibly a fatal crash for the car occupants....and they dont care!!!

I mean...hell what can i say....thats so f##ked up i cannot believe.....the more i think of it the more upset i get on the matter

[JustaCashier]

I don't have a car anymore, so I rarely drive, and it's probably all for the better in that I can keep my stress level down.

I figure I am quite suseptible to road rage. Not in that if someone is creeping along at 10 under the speed limit on an uncrowded freeway in good weather, I'm going to go ballistic on them. Sure, I'd be frustrated if I couldn't get around them, but would just cuss under my breath. No, my road rage would be directed towards the aggresive drivers. The ones that do any combination, or all of the following, tailgating, cutting off, weaving in and out of traffic etc.

There were many times I wished them to go flying off an elevated section of freeway, (always with the caveat that they don't harm any innocents in or out of theur car) soley based on their lack of concern that anyone else on the freeway could be hurt or killed by their actions. And, of course it would most likely be those swerving out of the way of the jerk, and said jerk goes speeding away scott-free, while the other car(s) get involved in an accident. Something like that actually happened, within about the last year, I beleive, in my area.

[Barefootgirl]

Its not exactly in your interest to make a completely fictitious complaint about a speeding dustcart, is it (in response to their statement that its your word against the driver's)? Hopefully there will be other people who either saw this incident and complained, or also missed being flattened by the speeding dustcart, and the weight of evidence will shift the driver.

Seeing as you got fobbed off by the Roads division, I would complain higher in the council. Complain to the Chief Executive if you have to - but be prepared for your bin to be "mysteriously" emptied over the pavement, or indeed, not to get emptied at all for several weeks.Of course, if any acts of petty revenge do occur...you go to the police and back to the Chief Executive.

[stormtreader]

Did you leave any swerve marks on the road? If you did, might be worth taking a datestamped photo of them.
Cant hurt.