Near misses - mod warning 22/04 - see OP/post 822

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Some of the comments wuold make you wonder...

Apart from the DCC tweet, did the article originally reference a cyclist instead of a pedestrian? I've noticed sneaky edits in the Journal before, makes the comments even more confusing.

I think given the comments of Charlie Flanagan the other day I'm going to start bombarding the Garda Twitter account with screenshots of blackspots for parking in the cycle lanes.

this will of course involve a good bit of effort and also signing up for Twitter but I'm willing to make that sacrifice! will be interesting (read disheartening) to see what happens as a result.

I've never been slow in criticising Bus Eireann here and in particular the 133 route. But in my defence I'll always give the shout out when it's merited too. Yesterday morning I came northbound into Newtownmountkennedy and sensed something behind me. Glance over shoulder, see the BE livery and wait for the inevitable. But he stayed where he was, no histrionics or anything like that. An overtake opportunity came up and still he remained there. I knew there was a bus stop coming up but it was still a bit away. Surely not... but that's exactly what he was doing:



So after giving him a salute off I went an inevitably he caught me again and overtook - absolute textbook and then some. He got yet another acknowledgement for his roadcraft:



The front view show that there was also another guy in front of me:



The irony in all this is that when he next stopped, at the hotel in Newtown, two cars lined up behind him like sheep. Nothing approaching so I went past them. BOTH of them started to move into my path without looking.

Anyone reading this knows that any one incident can make or break a day on the bike. Well done that man for making mine!!

(Footage passed to BE with request that driver be notified)

RacoonQueen wrote: »

And when you look at the time on your video, it was 40 seconds from when you start showing recording to when he pulls into bus stop. Hardly a huge hold up for him...things like that need to be sent to the inpatient drivers to show how little time they would actually be stuck behind you since they could have overtaken earlier anyway.

TBH he was actually there for 1m17s but I cut it to simplyshow the manouvre

Does narrowly missing repeatedly slamming a smug Lexus driver's head into his steering wheel through extreme self restraint constitute a near miss for the purposes of this thread?

I was coming up Upper Erne St on a Dublin Bike last week on the way to a meeting. I moved out to the right to position myself for a right turn onto Fenian St. As I approached the junction, my spidey senses tingled that a Lexus coming up on my left was just a bit too close for comfort, so I kept a close eye on him. After we had both stopped, I noticed that he was stuck into his phone, checking Facebook and other apps while stopped at the lights. I didn't see if he was using the phone while he was actually driving, but I have my suspicions.

I kept an eye on him, and he kept his eyes on the phone for a good while, before putting it down on the console. He didn't notice me watching him at all at all. A few seconds later, he called me with a 'Hey' or something. When I turned, he had the window down. I could see he was wearing a golf jumper, which put me on edge before he even opened his mouth.

'Forgot your helmet' he asked, with a smug half grin looking up at me. So he was the one who was breaking the law, using his phone while in charge of the vehicle, and he has the nerve to try to lecture me about not wearing a helmet, which of course is not a legal requirement. I tore into the smug git, without swearing, pointing out the ridiculous nature of his position given his previous illegal action. The best he could respond with was 'I was making a comment on you'. He moved off to continue on straight to Holles St, and hunched over the wheel, he blurted out 'gob****e' when he was far enough away to ensure I wasn't going to test his airbag release impact sensitivity.

The arrogance of the self-entitled middle-aged white 'executive car' driver.

Almost run over this evening by a cyclist while crossing (on a green man) at the traffic lights in Terenure. We had to stop in the middle of the road while he ploughed on at full speed.

I shouted after him about the green light. He just looked back over his shoulder, shouted "I know, Man!" and laughed.

ewc78 wrote: »

A regular occurrence, see it happen all the time when I'm out running .

As regular as you see joggers jogging in bike lanes, or in the near-side of the road (where cyclists are generally supposed to be)?

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Kind of a near miss but some idiot was out cycling on the M4 hard shoulder between J6 and J5 (city-bound) just before 9am.
He had cycling gear on but I noticed that he wasn't wesring a helmet, not that it would be much use if he got hit!

As in most instances where cars hit cyclists. Metal/asphalt > styrofoam

Btw, my post is not excusing him for cycling on a motorway before any of our solely 4 wheel friends decide to hop on it.

Mikenesson wrote: »

Did you look both ways before crossing

Luckily, I did.

If I hadn't, he would have hit me while pedalling at full speed. The light was red for him when he was still 20m away from it.

He thought it was funny.

http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/video-cyclist-pushed-from-car/

Here is the video

smurph6 wrote: »

Has anybody seen that video doing the rounds where a man is deliberately pushed off his bike by guys passing in a car. Absolute thugs. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum but it really angered me

Jaysus thats scary. Hope that cyclist is ok? There are no words for that shower...