go back you're on the wrong side of the road go back go back don't drive into me
why are you driving go back why are you hitting me
touch me again i'll smack you what's up why are you driving into me hey siri dial 999 please
people have caused a lot of crashes here this is why i'm just to look after my friends thank you
very much thank you sir my name is mike and i ride around with a gopro in london and i film drivers
behaving badly i guess there's a bunch of reasons behind that but the primary reason is because of
that bullying we all experience from some drivers as cyclists and i'm like tired of that i don't
want to put up with that anymore if we film and report these drivers we can make a difference
and sure i'm just one person making a small difference but what happens when you have
ten thousand of us and i think there probably are more than ten thousand in the uk what's up i don't
know maybe i message no get away from me get away from witnesses get away from me i've got witnesses
nope most of the time i just film on the way to and from work or on errands very occasionally
i'll take an out and go to regents park when regents park is very busy for gandalf's corner
i sometimes i'll take two or three passes down down the line of cars if i have time otherwise
i'll just rush past if i'm late for work i think i'm going to report him on here via the mit online
yeah we can do a video now um you do do whatever you feel you need to i'm very happy with you guys
thank you for coming everyone who cycles knows how often and people are on the phone or how how
many drivers are not doing what they should be doing i've seen footage of you in regents park
in particular yeah those are some of the scarier and more adrenaline-filled parts of what i do and
that basically it's because people go on the wrong side of the road the wrong side of a keep left
side and a pedestrian island just to skip a queue of traffic and that really burns me because a lot
of my friends go riding and training in regent's park and it puts them in danger i mean i'm i'm
not really a sports cyclist i'm just a transport cyclist um but i used to do some some training and
i feel with my friends there so i'm there for them go back back you go delta charlie 6'5
i know the feeling i also used to ride a motorbike
we are about to run the hyde park chum line that being west carriage drive in hyde park so we often
catch lots of phone drivers here basically i end up looking like a bit of a wally because i have a
camera on my cap i don't wear a helmet that'll probably cause a bit of helmet contention but most
of the time i'm riding around with a gopro here on my on my hat i i wouldn't bother if it weren't
for filming phone drivers but this this kind of position of a camera is about the only way you
could get the necessary evidence to catch a phone driver and as we know the law changed on friday to
become much more restrictive but before friday you had to really capture evidence of somebody texting
or looking through social media and liking or actually making a phone call that means i'd have
to get right up into a driver's personal space and be able to film what's on the screen of the phone
because just holding the phone wasn't enough that's changed now so hopefully it'll be a
lot easier what's the law now so the law now is you can't hold the phone you can't light up the
screen you can't app you can't take a picture or anything like that it's much much easier to
get the evidence hopefully that's necessary for prosecution but hey only time will tell because
like any law in the uk it quite quickly becomes modified by appeals to the high court in terms of
case law but i'm not an expert on that so i don't really know what's going to come you're completely
on the wrong side all right i'm sure all these guys feel really great about how you jumped the
queue huh back you go you're blocking a whole lot of traffic you have to carry a box of batteries
with your mikey i don't normally use six foot yeah um i know i don't i normally go through maybe only
a single change on an average day unless i'm at gandalf corner like i was in the tube strike then
i used all six spares because because i'm filming so much i want very very little fuss so i have the
camera set up for one touch button start so it starts recording and let's say we see something
of interest and you just bump the power button here and it says highlight added so later on
when you go and look at the footage there's a little yellow tag at the exact time where you
were interested so you're filming all the time all the time absolutely everything and i keep it for
at the moment about a year that's incredible a 42 terabyte nas under my desk i'm quite icy literate
i used to work in it i should send you a picture of my computer and that that that stock of all
the video gets just deleted as i need space so at the moment it's running at about a year's worth
but when i get home i just dump all the footage onto my main desktop and i only take out the
highlighted videos and they get filed in a project folder which is ordered by year month
day so i can find it easily and then a little text file in there explaining what each thing was
so i might have randoms being today's big laundry cargo bike and the dog and then maybe
i hit a button when i saw that uber driver on the phone and that i caught in the way to you
back that way you're dangerous to do that on that corner what did they not learn
thank you you're both awesome that's all right i think i'm at about a thousand ish reports
some haven't been actioned i try and run at about 80 nip rate so an nip means a notice of intended
prosecution and that's when the police send the registered owner a letter asking them to identify
who was driving and explaining that they want to prosecute the person for whatever offence it was
so by running at 80 percent i it allows me to keep exploring the bounds of what they will prosecute
and what they won't so that i understand better what to report the remaining 10 percent would
be drivers who just get a warning or a notice of that they were using the phone but there wasn't
quite enough evidence to prosecute them and maybe the final 10 would just be people with no further
action and you end up going to court sometimes luckily not very often only about two to five
out of every hundred cases two to five times and that's because the gopro footage is so good and so
clear that if the police have chosen to prosecute it they're almost always keel over guilty you've
caught a few quite high-profile people yes i caught guy ritchie chris eubank and frank lampard
frank lampard got off but guy richie and chris eubank both got done or using their phones yeah
i didn't recognize any of them i'm probably most embarrassed about not recognizing chris eubank
because i did actually know who he was the other two i might not have realized you need to turn
around and go that way i'm not moving call the police honestly nothing at all she walked off wow
she just walked off this is gandalf corner in regents park why is this so infamous
so basically it's infamous because when it gets very busy which is not that often so
i've been here maybe 20 times in the last 20 times here in the last couple of years
but basically the traffic along here backs up when it gets super busy let's stay quiet now
and then what some people want to go straight to malibun road and some people want to turn right
onto the continuation of the outer circle here so what they do is from way back there they'll
jump the queue and come down the wrong side of the road all the way here on the wrong side of
this pedestrian refuge and turn in today which is super dangerous well some they're more aware now
drivers on the wrong side after the past few years here but you know you're expecting traffic to come
from there not from the wrong side of the road straight head on at you and it's because of them
that i come here because it's super dangerous and this is where someone's driven into you
yes pushed you around the corner two times do you like to watch this channel called stop a douchebag
which is a fantastic channel and they're the russian guys who stop people parking
on the pavement which i'm quite a fan of of them doing and i've seen enough of them take a bonnet
ride bonnet surfing that i kind of know what to expect and i'm not so stressed about body surfing
you can see from this side how really quite wide that pedestrian island is
if you have a look now with the camera you notice how many petitions are walking around
and again this is a quiet time it's much busier during rush hour they really need the
breadth of this island for the number of petitions across here and i think
predictions should come before drivers and before cyclists as well as the latest highway code says
scary guys that's what they're here to look like so once the reporting is done you post some of
your footage onto youtube generally i wait for the results because to me the justice side of
things is more important it's the changing of the driver's attitude that's the primary thing and the
police ask you not to post footage on social media until after the whole court process has completed
um because apparently there's a chance you can you can prejudice the case
i suspect that would never happen for an ordinary mobile phone user but it might happen in the case
of an assault i do get people annoyed like why are you posting videos from a year ago
and it's because you know i have the results only from a year ago justice is a slow and
finely grinding process i'd like to see people running cameras i'm not saying you should make
as much of an effort as i am i mean i'm definitely putting some effort into it
even if it's not very much every day but if you run cameras you at least have a chance of come
back on someone that's abused you or close past you or done something to you so and the more of
us that are out there doing that the safer it becomes for all of us each one of us only has to
make a small difference for it to add up to be a very big sea change in road safety in the uk