When the subject comes up people search the internet for them and then have to highlight them in a series of car drivers acting dangerously!!
No need to search, the video was recommended to be by youtube, it was only after seeing it that I thought about this thread.
No need to get your knickers in a twist. 🙄
Nothing in a twist, just making a point, it's allowed, glad you took it in. On your bike!
At times that has happened yes. There is a thread in the cycling forum called near misses. At times some regular posters in this forum have gone in and blankly defended drivers. So yes it does happen. Maybe not to the regularity of cyclists in here but you have to remember that most cyclists are also motorists/drivers. The same doesn't reverse. I come in here as I'm both. A person who only drives and never cycles would hardly visit the cycling forum.
What's actually quite common in the cycling forum is a driver coming in to rant at a situation that happened e.g. "I was driving on a country road, came around a corner and a cyclist in the middle of the road almost caused me to crash. You all should be banned from the roads." That's actually a real example btw and a common theme. Now after some questioning about the details of the scenario we find out said driver was coming around a blind bend north of 80kph and such. They exit the forum proclaiming all cyclists are the same and there's no talking to you.
D_ckheads on both sides so! To quote Rodney King "Can't we all just get along?"
Any videos?
Great to see people defending illegal use of roads by unattended cattle while taking a swipe at cyclists.
Wait till you hear about drivers Chewy
Do the dangerous drivers we often see on this thread give fellow drivers like you and me a bad name?
Would it be a shock to learn that most cyclists also drive?
...I'm not condoning what those 2 farmers do...
Wrong as usual Andrew. At least you're consistent with it.
Note on this video> ... always drive past an accident like this (whether you're stopping to help or continuing on), because if u stop like the guy did in this vid the road is now completely blocked and the next car that comes along will crash into the two cars blocking the road. This goes double for icy/snowy conditions.
Speaking of icy/snowy conditions;
Damn thats some pileup - the guy filming is quite funny too
3 dead, and the guy was fretting about his phone charger.
I think he was referring to his car, a Dodge Charger
Some of the speeds in that video seem nuts considering the visibility and conditions.
But I've once driven 350km in near continuous fog and it was hard to know which was more dangerous, keep going at 120 in the outside lane or slow down to 60 in the inside lane and hope a bus/truck doesn't plough into the back of you.
You're constantly staring ahead trying to pick out lights/vehicles, but in the featureless white, your eyes can't focus on anything and after a while you develop a near-zombie state.
And then a bus goes past doing 130 in the outside lane and 15-20 cars tucked in behind following the leader 😐️
One from this afternoon on the R139 (old N32) with a 60km speed limit. Not sure if its viewable in the video but he was at the same crap further up. HMS Security services must has left the gas on back home
I’d be sending that one onto HMS, shocking stuff. That road is my least favourite road in the country. Always mad stuff happening on it, must also be one the biggest litter blacks spot in Dublin.
Coming from the airport you usually get a load of tools going left for the n32 in the m50 only lane-
or coming from darndale the bus lane might as well be another lane for cars…
Are both parties not of equal blame? Overtaking on solid white line, Hyundai not looking left before pulling out?
It’s a solid white line for a reason. Yes the Hyundai should have looked (very few do) but that’s a piss poor road and the BMW would have taken the vast majority of the blame if not all of it for a dangerous overtake on a solid white line.
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What bus lane?
This one- easy tiger
Grrrr! Grrrr!
Just checking because the R139 ( Old N39 ) doesn't have a bus lane
Your bang on there, no bus lane on the r139, years back it had some crazy bus Lane set up but that could have been 15 years ago, either way I avoid it all costs as the video posted sums it up quite well- numerous fatalities on it as well to add to its woes…
Exiting through an entrance. This seems common enough here in Balbriggan.
To be fair, most car parks (especially multistorey) in this country have the worst and most confusing signage.
But there is a big arrow on the road pointing inwards right at the entrance where they turned to come out. They knew exactly what they were doing.
There are 3 lanes at this roundabout. The right and centre lanes are for going straight on or around the roundabout. The left most lane, where the BMW was, is for exiting left only. I really hate when people do this as you're in the middle lane second guessing whether or not they are going to go left, through or around the roundabout.
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