Road rage

Effects

So I witnessed some pretty crazy road rage today.

Cycling on Cuffe towards Stephens Green and there's a cyclist about 10m ahead of me.
A car pulls left out of Mercer St onto Cuffe St in front of the cyclist, who swerves right to avoid the car. The driver doesn't seem to even look for the cyclist when he pulled out.
His intention was to then also to change to the right lane so he hit the cyclist as he pinched him between his car and the car to the right.
Cyclist raised his hand in a WTF gesture but kept going. I was able to stay in the left hand lane.
Driver stopped to look at his car and then took off like mad. He under took me in the lane for turning left and continued on straight to Stephen's Green.
He then drove up the wide cycle lane there and started beeping and flashing the cyclist he had just hit, while screaming out the window he was going to smash his face in. I'd imagine it was a pretty frightening experience. I was thinking of that hit and run at the bottom of Clontarf Road earlier this Summer as it was happening.
The cyclist rounds the next corner, at the bottom of Leeson St., and I saw him move a lane to the right to avoid the car behind him. The car then cut into the right hand lane almost causing another accident.

The cyclist then made a U turn which it seemed the car wasn't able to follow.

Pretty unnerving to watch from behind and I just wish I'd got a reg of the car. Doubtful the Gardai could do anything about it anyway.

Crazy to think someone can hit a cyclist and then chase off after them in a car the way he did.

He had either L or N plates on the car so I assume he's not driving that long. If he's already treating cyclists like that I hate to think of what could happen down the line.

Tenzor07

My eyes hurt...

Tenzor07

Could always be worse: http://jrnl.ie/2391483

Effects

Tenzor07 wrote: »

My eyes hurt...

I'll get a helmet cam for next time.

Tenzor07

Effects wrote: »

I'll get a helmet cam for next time.

And paragraphs, commas and spacing!

JBokeh

Tenzor will carve a grammar swastika into your forehead if you don't. It is like a normal one, but with a full stop at the end, and proper formatting :pac:

Effects

Tenzor07 wrote: »

And paragraphs, commas and spacing!

Better?

Tenzor07

....*Thinks about putting down knife*......

Kaisr Sose

Tenzor07 wrote: »

And paragraphs, commas and spacing!

The use of the comma is a dying art..., and the modern style of writing tends to be looser, less rigid ietc,

Anarchy is not far off!

Tenzor07

Kaisr Sose wrote: »

ietc,

Anarchy is not far off!

****...looks over at shiny knife....****

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Tenzor07 wrote: »

Could always be worse: http://jrnl.ie/2391483

Tenzor07 wrote: »

And paragraphs, commas and spacing!

Seriously?

"Could have been worse", such a rediculous statement to make...

Pinch Flat

I cycle into Dublin daily and I'm strongly thinking of getting a camera. The amount of crazy things I see on a daily basis. 99% of things go straight over my head, but it's the odd thing or incidents like this that make me think about it. Like yesterday when some nut job decided to swing around me and veer in front of me to take a left - almost taking me out and sending the people scattering who were crossing at a green man while numb nuts ploughed through.

Bottom line is there's a lot of very very frustrated people in cars out there - it's this constant futile rush to try and 'beat the traffic' and get from a to b a few seconds quicker. Chances are matey above has never cycled, so we've this whole swathe of road users who think they are 'entitled' to use the roads without a joy of consideration for others. They will happily mow you down without it even occurring to them that you're there and the consequences of their action.

A complaint could be made to the guards but having your own footage in a scenario would be very useful if you wanted your day in court with someone who's obviously a danger to other road users.

degsie

So the cyclist did an illegal u-turn?

Jawgap

degsie wrote: »

So the cyclist did an illegal u-turn?

the defence of necessity would apply - the cyclist feared for his safety and undertook an illegal, but harmless maneuver to take himself out of the situation.

.....next!

Pinch Flat

degsie wrote: »

So the cyclist did an illegal u-turn?

Yeah he should have just stayed there and taken a potential beating or gotten himself mown down by an enraged nut case

Lumen

This story makes sense if the psycho driver thought that the cyclist deliberately rode into/thumped the side of his car.

Tenzor07

Rex Nice Pellet wrote: »

"Could have been worse", such a rediculous statement to make...

A what?

Kaisr Sose

Lumen wrote: »

This story makes sense if the psycho driver thought that the cyclist deliberately rode into/thumped the side of his car.

Getting into the realm of what if's etc. which is probably best left out of this. Speaking of illegal u-turns adds no value either.

A cyclist is regarded as a vulnerable road user, and one a motorist is obliged to take/put due care and attention into not hitting! That normally means being far enough away from them, so that a cyclist could not hit, or strike out at the vehicle. Lack of such due care and attention is an offence, as is being inconsiderate towards other road users. It is normally those two that cause most of the cycle / motorist incidents/confrontations.

...being mindful of the commas and such like

Tenzor07

Road rage Xtreme!

Effects

The cyclist had no choice but to make that u turn to get out of the way of the motorist. He was in a crazed state and was driving like a lunatic. The cyclist's initial fast reaction saved him from being knocked down and then he had to contend with further disregard of the rules of the road from the driver and a serious threat to his life.
To me it was just another example of drivers who think they can do what they want on the roads and treat cyclists as vermin.

Lumen

Kaisr Sose wrote: »

Getting into the realm of what if's etc. which is probably best left out of this.

But it's Friday!

"makes sense" and "is justified" are two completely different things. I'd use another Nazi analogy only I don't want to upset Alek. :pac:

Alek

I'm fine with humorous Nazi analogies and Friday is a good day to temporarily suspend Godwin's law, just don't mock the tragedy / victims.