"This guy was parked facing the wrong way in a parallel parking spot facing towards me as I was riding," Mr Morgan said. "He's come out of his bay straight towards me and cut across to the correct side of the road, nearly cleaning me up in the process so I've thrown my hand up in the air and said, "what the f--k?", and that was it, I thought nothing more of it. "The guy's gone further up the road and done a u-turn and tried to run me off the road. "I actually had to get on the brakes really quick because I'd run out of road and was being pushed into the curb. "Then I ducked behind him and tried to go around him, but he moved into the middle of the road trying to push me to the other curb and that's when I've had to go up on the footpath on the right."

Chris Morgan says he has barely cycled since the encounter Police charged a man over the incident on Saturday following an inquiry from WAtoday for this story. The driver was charged with contravening the one-metre rule, and was fined $400 and four demerit points. Mr Morgan, who used to ride up to 200 kilometres each week, said the close encounter had made him think twice about whether it was safe to ride on Perth streets, claiming police's lack of enforcing the one-metre rule was an over-arching concern. "Generally people treat the one-metre rule more like a five-metre rule these days because they don't want to get caught, but then you have that one per cent of the population like this who just don't seem to care," he said.

"I have a two- and five-year-old little girl and I've had to unfortunately weigh this incident up and try and decide whether or not it's actually worth me putting myself in these sorts of situations again because at the end of the day I have a family to consider. "I need to know that these laws are actually in place and going to work because at the moment I have absolutely no confidence in the police's ability to be able to follow through with these sorts of situations and charge offenders." WA Police have issued eight infringements and charged two people in the 13 months since the laws came into effect. Mr Morgan said he lodged his complaint and provided vision to his local police station in September. Before the man was charged at the weekend, it is understood police had attempted to contact the man, but he had not made himself available for a police interview.