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

RobertFoster · 04-02-2019 06:13PM

I was approaching this bend in the road today when I heard a noisy engine coming up behind me at speed. Considering how close we were to the bend (<200m) I thought the car would slow down, but no, I heard the revs get higher.

Before the car even reached me a second car came from the opposite direction. "He'll definitely have to slow down now", I thought, but no. Revs higher still, car coming towards us had to come to a stop and I had to brake hard as the overtaker squeezed between the two of us. I gave the bewildered looking oncoming driver an empathetic shrug. All in the space of 5 seconds.

He hadn't even reached the next corner by the time I'd turned, whatever his hurry was. I'm all for giving idiots a pass when mistakes are made, but this was intentionally aggressive and dangerous.

Feckin' boy racer in his modded 06 Cork-reg VW Polo, giving all boys racers tuners Corkonians Polos drivers a bad name.

Hurrache · 04-02-2019 06:20PM

It's a bit of an odd road that. I think people don't expect to find others either in cars, on bikes, or on foot on that stretch from Kilbride.

Duckjob · 04-02-2019 07:17PM

RobertFoster wrote:

I was approaching this bend in the road today when I heard a noisy engine coming up behind me at speed. Considering how close we were to the bend (<200m) I thought the car would slow down, but no, I heard the revs get higher.

Before the car even reached me a second car came from the opposite direction. "He'll definitely have to slow down now", I thought, but no. Revs higher still, car coming towards us had to come to a stop and I had to brake hard as the overtaker squeezed between the two of us. I gave the bewildered looking oncoming driver an empathetic shrug. All in the space of 5 seconds.

He hadn't even reached the next corner by the time I'd turned, whatever his hurry was. I'm all for giving idiots a pass when mistakes are made, but this was intentionally aggressive and dangerous.

Feckin' boy racer in his modded 06 Cork-reg VW Polo, giving all boys racers tuners Corkonians Polos drivers a bad name.

The most basic Driving 101 skill of slowing down and reacting to hazards is gone out the window on the roads these days as far as I can tell.

Only this morning, on a 10 minute trip back from the shop, I was close passed by a MGIF who then had to stop for the already red pedestrian lights < 50 yards away.
It wasnt the worse close pass I'd had, but it took the biscuit for sheer lack of
observational skills.

benjamin d · 04-02-2019 11:18PM

Duckjob wrote: »

...had to stop for the already red pedestrian lights

Refreshingly unusual

Ray Bloody Purchase · 05-02-2019 11:03AM

On the way out of town at Leonards Corner on Clanbrassil Street yesterday evening after five I saw a cyclist get a tip off a car as we were all stopped at red lights. The person on the bike was in the box for cyclists and a car behind him pulled up and gave him a bit of a nudge.

It was a bit odd. Don't know what the ass in the car was playing at. I asked the guy on the bike was he ok and he said he was. He gave the motorist a bit of well deserved lip.

Bizarre.

CramCycle · 05-02-2019 11:54AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmvtnnX4dt4

queldy · 05-02-2019 11:57AM

Ray Bloody Purchase wrote: »

On the way out of town at Leonards Corner on Clanbrassil Street yesterday evening after five I saw a cyclist get a tip off a car as we were all stopped at red lights. The person on the bike was in the box for cyclists and a car behind him pulled up and gave him a bit of a nudge.

It was a bit odd. Don't know what the ass in the car was playing at. I asked the guy on the bike was he ok and he said he was. He gave the motorist a bit of well deserved lip.

Bizarre.

Happened to me once...

Lady had trouble with the clutch, pushed my bike forward. I was standing at traffic light, luckily out of the saddle so I did not get any back injury. Wheel was fine, I was more surprised than angry.
I turned and look at her, with the face "oh come on are you serious?!", garda was right behind her - got off the car, asked me if I was fine, then approached her with not so good intentions I guess... I left them there and left with a smile :pac:

MileyReilly · 06-02-2019 03:23PM

In Carlow Town on the O'Brien road I just saw the closest call I ever saw. I don't know how the cyclist wasn't wiped out. Cyclist going straight on, car behind turning left at speed. He either didn't even see the cyclist or he deliberately tried to kill him it was that close. Cyclist had to swerve left with the car to avoid being killed.

If it was a less skilled cyclist it would have been a very different ending. Scary.

schemingbohemia · 06-02-2019 03:51PM

If someone was close passed at huge speed by a White Van 12 D on Monday morning going down Thomas Street in Dublin and wants a witness let me know. Guy seemed to be very very close to the cyclist and was driving like a loon, at speed in the bus lane. This was between 0915-0930.

Pinch Flat · 07-02-2019 11:15AM

Nasty one on Arran Quay this morning. Number 66B bus just turned early into the mandatory cycle lane, almost minced a cyclist in front of me who had to hop up on the path to avoid the bus. Bus 100% in the wrong. The cyclists drew up along side the bus - the driver was abusive and advised the cyclist to "get f**king glasses", then slid his window shut. Shocking behavior from someone in charge of a 25 tonne vehicle.

I'm making a compliant to DB as a witness. I told the cyclist to get the CCTV details from DB and take it from there.

mr spuckler · 07-02-2019 11:19AM

pedestrian near miss in Raheny village this morning. ped lights at the train station were red for traffic, amber for peds. guy walking with his daughter stepped off the path just as the ped light turned red, traffic light still red, motorist blasted straight through and nearly clipped the 2 pedestrians. the motorist then proceeded to park about 30m down the road, showing no urgency whatsoever to 'explain' her nearly racking up a KSI stat.

CramCycle · 07-02-2019 11:28AM

Yesterday morning I had two cars pull out in front of me on a roundabout, then two cars merge onto the cycle lane while I was in it. My favourite though was the young lad having a fag, while tailgating a taxi over 3km. He merged across me a bit so I let a roar at him it was a bus lane. He pulled alongside me, rolled down his window and shouted back "It's a bus and f'in Taxi lane". Nice of him to point out, I don't think it changed the point I was making that he should not have been there but anyways.

schemingbohemia · 07-02-2019 01:08PM

Nearest one yet was from a fellow cyclist yesterday evening heading towards Donnybrook from Leeson St. Came within an inch of my handlebars! I caught up with him and asked why he was so close to me - he was trying to avoid getting clipped by the motorbike behind, I said well why overtake me in that case, just wait?
He gave the "I'm sorry you were scared" non-apology, absolute ball-bag.

Thinkingaboutit · 07-02-2019 04:11PM

schemingbohemia wrote: »

Nearest one yet was from a fellow cyclist yesterday evening heading towards Donnybrook from Leeson St. Came within an inch of my handlebars! I caught up with him and asked why he was so close to me - he was trying to avoid getting clipped by the motorbike behind, I said well why overtake me in that case, just wait?
He gave the "I'm sorry you were scared" non-apology, absolute ball-bag.

When I cycled along the Grand Canal, some while ago, I got some really close overtakes from bikes, simply where I was going a bit slower as I wasn't sure about vehicles encroaching, or, a while back, some lady whose brakeless bike struck mine from behind on Lower Kimmage Road, I having stopped at the lights at the junction with Sundrive Rd, near Argus Jewellers. I told her very insistently that there are bikes shops like Wolf Cycles or other nearby, to use them, as bikes needs brakes, and no one on a bike likes being rear-ended. Some cyclists are careless or utterly clueless.

xckjoo · 07-02-2019 04:54PM

Just serves to show that it's not the method of transport that makes the idiot. A car just lets them show it faster and bigger

Vincenzo Nibbly · 07-02-2019 05:05PM

Tuesday - muppet cycle commuter in clonskeagh sticks out his magic arm without lifesaver check when i'm already overtaking him. slam on and narrowly avoid collision.
Wednesday - eejit filterer weaving in and out of traffic on beaver row without checking for other cyclists filtering on the left
Thursday - jackass on mtb drops in off the footpath without looking two inches from my front wheel crossing the east link

Bloody cyclists!

AndrewJRenko · 07-02-2019 05:42PM

Vincenzo Nibbly wrote: »

Tuesday - muppet cycle commuter in clonskeagh sticks out his magic arm without lifesaver check when i'm already overtaking him. slam on and narrowly avoid collision.

Had a similar one today with a young lady cyclist wearing a big hood with a big furry trim, making damn sure that, even if she did turn her head (which she didn't), she couldn't really see anything anyway.

I had held far enough back to avoid any drama anyway.

magicbastarder · 07-02-2019 06:42PM

odd one on the way home. inbound towards fairview, round about here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3637779,-6.2255642,3a,75y,283.26h,77.37t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syAZnomtc2atTfwcGz_Yhyg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

there was a bus stopped taking on passengers, pretty much where that billboard on the left is, but for whatever reason he was sitting very askew to the kerb, with his arse sticking well out into the other lane, and an artic lorry sitting behind him, who didn't have enough room to pass.
so i went up the side of the artic (he wasn't in the bus lane, seems to have been but pulled out to try to get around the bus) and swung out in front of him, to get past the bus. just as i was beginning to accelerate away, between the front of the truck and the back of the bus, a van nearly hit me. he'd clearly gotten tired of waiting, and had driven up the outside of the artic, two wheels on the median, and floored it just as he got the front of the artic, which was about the same time i did. i think he gave himself as much of a start as he gave me. i like to think so anyway.

Pinch Flat · 07-02-2019 10:04PM

Taxi man tonight, in the shared bus bike lane on the south quays dublin. Traffic quiet as I’m late leaving work. Cycling along the left of the bus bike lane - two empty lanes beside me. Taxi man pulls up behind. Beep beep. I look around, keep cycling. He tailgates me for a bit. Draws up along side me. What looks like abusive gestures/body language through a closed passenger window. I keep cycling. He drives off.

I hope he picked up a fare.

mr spuckler · 08-02-2019 11:08AM

cycling though an estate near mine on the way home yesterday. there was a motorist ahead of me on a stretch of road where several cars were parked on the left hand side and there was maybe 1 1/2 car widths of space for her to drive through.

instead of that she managed to clip 2 cars, ripping their mirrors off in the process, then kept driving down the road for a short stretch. I accelerated after her before she pulled in, went back up the road and pulled in where the damage had been done. so I assume she went in to make reparations.

when I first saw her she was pulled up outside a pub - I honestly don't know if that's because she had been drinking / was picking someone up that she then got distracted by or maybe stopped to answer her phone etc but there's no reason that anyone who was properly paying attention to the road should have hit the cars as she did.

Hurrache · 08-02-2019 11:23AM

Gardai - Take that video down, the driver deserves their good name!
UK Police - Appalling driving, thanks for the footage, now off to jail for the driver. (Well he got a suspended sentence, but the good intent was there)
https://twitter.com/SurreyRoadCops/status/1093540291938795526

hesker · 08-02-2019 11:37AM

Hurrache wrote: »

Gardai - Take that video down, the driver deserves their good name!
UK Police - Appalling driving, thanks for the footage, now off to jail for the driver. (Well he got a suspended sentence, but the good intent was there)
https://twitter.com/SurreyRoadCops/status/1093540291938795526

Man that’s bad.

xckjoo · 08-02-2019 11:44AM

Hurrache wrote: »

Gardai - Take that video down, the driver deserves their good name!
UK Police - Appalling driving, thanks for the footage, now off to jail for the driver. (Well he got a suspended sentence, but the good intent was there)
https://twitter.com/SurreyRoadCops/status/1093540291938795526

Jesus. Hope that pedestrian takes a civil case to cover the cost of their ruined pants :pac:

Hurrache · 08-02-2019 11:52AM

He looked fairly relaxed I thought. Maybe his life flashing before his eyes was still running it all happened so fast.

Seth Brundle · 08-02-2019 11:58AM

Hurrache wrote: »

Gardai - Take that video down, the driver deserves their good name!
UK Police - Appalling driving, thanks for the footage, now off to jail for the driver. (Well he got a suspended sentence, but the good intent was there)
https://twitter.com/SurreyRoadCops/status/1093540291938795526

Hurache, please take that video down as the driver is still entitled to their good name!

Duckjob · 08-02-2019 12:36PM

Had a very close and ignorant pass from one of our wonderful "professional drivers" driving a white Toyota Prius in Santry this morning. Pretty sure he had space on his other side and it was him being #justanothertaxic*nt.

I think I only have rear footage as my GoPro had given up. Going to review it later to see if it looks as bad as it seemed to be before I decide whether to pop into the garda station with it or not.

TheJak01 · 08-02-2019 01:05PM

Not one, not two, but three drivers hurtled through the red light up fosters avenue from the N11 inbound. Not even chancing it with the light having turned red, they just got tired of waiting for the left turn light to go green and went for it. I actually thought with it only being Green for straight on I'd be fairly safe there, but had to squeal on the breaks when a white van started moving. Not to let me carry on, two more cars behind took the opportunity of me being stopped to jump through the red light. Flabbergasted.

rubadub · 08-02-2019 01:14PM

TheJak01 wrote: »

Not one, not two, but three drivers hurtled through the red light up fosters avenue from the N11 inbound.

The junction where the leopardstown roundabout was is comical. What is more worrying is the drivers do not even appear to me more alert while blatantly going through a light which has been red for a good while, just breezing through calm as can be.

Further on even the google truck is going through ambers! check this link below, if you follow through the light the same van & cars are there so it did not stop and I would have guessed the google truck would be going slow, and there is no traffic coming behind it (which some might use as an excuse to continue), it is not too bad but you would think the drivers would be very cautious.

https://goo.gl/maps/gByRwvH1jBk

When the luas came in first when the luas passed those lights would go green immediately, but they changed a year or 2 ago and take ages to turn green again, needlessly delaying traffic. I wondered if the people in charge of the lights are now treating it like others, factoring in huge delays before turning green for all the people who will inevitably be breaking the lights.

Duffryman · 08-02-2019 01:17PM

Hurrache wrote: »

He looked fairly relaxed I thought. Maybe his life flashing before his eyes was still running it all happened so fast.

Yeah, that clip is seriously shocking. But I can't get over how calm the guy is. He carries on just as if nothing has happened. Unreal.

jjpep · 08-02-2019 01:22PM

TheJak01 wrote: »

Not one, not two, but three drivers hurtled through the red light up fosters avenue from the N11 inbound. Not even chancing it with the light having turned red, they just got tired of waiting for the left turn light to go green and went for it. I actually thought with it only being Green for straight on I'd be fairly safe there, but had to squeal on the breaks when a white van started moving. Not to let me carry on, two more cars behind took the opportunity of me being stopped to jump through the red light. Flabbergasted.

Nonsense, only cyclists break red lights. <puts fingers in ears. Starts whistling loudly and looking at ceiling>.

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

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