Well John you wanted us to report things we see or get involved with, here
is one and it it involves an office not enforcing the law.
Best of all I caught it on tape. No worries I am safe due to my commonsense
of slowing and swerving but still.
Location: Park Ave EAST in front of the OPP Station
Date Aug 24th 1:36pm
Traffic: Light
Weather Conditions: Partly Cloudy / Dry Roads
Details: Here I am doing my usual 30km route in town and on my last leg on
my way back in from Communication Road going about 39km/hr when this dump
truck decided to pull ahead of me.
You can see in the video I am pulling my left and up going what the heck...
costing and slowing down so I don't ram into the guy while swerving a bit to
get around him..
I'm certain that if I was a car going the same speed he would of never dared
to go as there would of been a collision.
As crazy as this maybe... here there was an OPP cruiser right behind him and
saw it and never did anything.
So it is obvious this officer would only enforce the law if there was a
collision... as if I recall this is a HTA violation of, proceeding while
falling to provide reasonable time to avoid collision.
Video is small as I had to compress it for email.. but look at the screen
shots and you shall see how of a close call this was...
Now don't forget here I am needing to coast and slow down at the same time
just to avoid collision with this guy.
Dan