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The point of saying something is to make it less likely that she'll do the same thing again tomorrow.
Very close pass today. Don’t have camera.
Caught up with car at lights. Car was at the top of the queue. Woman in the car with head down on the phone. Didn’t say anything sure what’s the point. Anyway lights change and my new friend didn’t move for a good while. Queue cars behind her lashing the horn on.
I guess she wasn’t in that much of a rush.
I had similar from them before, where they wanted "door to door journey footage " for particular incidents reported. I explained repeatedly by email why this was a spectacularly dumb request and asked them for written confirmation of their policy and they eventually backed down.
The comments under the YouTube video are just depressing. Fair play to you for staying civil to that. Theres zero understanding how dangerous it was to you or maybe they understand and don’t give a flying fvck
They'd have more free time if they actually did their job rather than all this arsing around. Two of my complaints went nowhere because I was the passenge and they wanted a statement from the driver. Inconsistent rules are ridiculous. People are really going out of their way to save footage, call traffic watch, get to the Garda station then also manage to work around the Garda's random shift schedule and neverending annual leave. There's a complete lack of road policing as it is and next to no Gardai on the road (yet I've been stopped numerous times by them for "mistaken identity" while driving home from work)
That was a particularly bad pass. Driving way above the limit, undertaking, close pass, crossing solid white line, bus lane...what more do they want?
so you've an eyewitness statement, and footage - but they want the camera? this is fresh horseshit.
I see it quite frequently.
Five Lamps, out of town, people taking the left at the lights towards North Circular.
People heading out of town on the Clontarf road taking the right at Alfie Byrne road.
Dorset St. out of town, people taking the left onto Whitworth Rd.
On the flipside, a friend who has been living in the states for eight years recently came back, first time since covid, and was appalled by how badly Irish drivers treat pedestrian crossings.
I absolutely hated this in the states and Canada as a pedestrian, particularly in cities, a lot of people just ignored pedestrians and would turn halfway into the crossing most of the time, or if you were on the path about to cross they’d just blast through anyways
Yeah, they have that in Canada, and parts of the US. I spotted a rental doing it onto Pearse street a few years back and was able to mention it to him. He was from Canada and assumed that it applied here too.
Its illegal here but I can see people from abroad making the error where you can turn through the red once the pedestrians clear the junction. It wouldn't work here because it would require some motorists to act with decency but it works elsewhere.
Maybe so, I'd like to think my awareness is pretty decent but I was just thinking to myself given all junctions like that I encounter are left and straight on green would habit get the better of me.
i suspect you're doing yourself a disservice there.
we live quite near a light with a similar sequence, and you do occasionally see the mistake bing made, but it's not that common.
It's great that you are being honest about it. But I don't understand how someone can hold a driving licence and not understand a simple traffic light sequence such as this. But it happens all the time, all over the city.
It would be similar to a green right or left turn filter light, and someone thinking that allowed them to drive straight on through a junction.
Lights like that aren't uncommon, there's a few lights on the north side quays that are red for turning right or left due to pedestrian lights where straight on has a green.
Regardless of the junction, even if you're unfamiliar with the area, you literally have a light clearly indicating if you can go or not?
How exactly? The green light pointed straight ahead. Why would you thing a left turn would be allowed? Would you think the same on a right turn?
I think it's actually come up in this thread before were a guy wasn't so lucky and got knocked down.
that junction has come up for discussion before on boards, not in the cycling forum IIRC.
Can think of a couple of junctions near me it'd be nice to have a similar head start on, we don't even have cycle lanes around town for the most part.
Been through the courts one a couple of times recently, and there's definitely a delay between the straight on and left turn going green, regardless of the pedestrian crossing lights. Allows cyclists stopped at the red to clear the junction.
Looking at it there she panicked and forgot to unclip, not helped by the cyclist stopping in front of her, but all caused by the motorist at the end of the day, so yeah a fair conviction imo
I'm going to be totally honest here theres a good chance I'd have been caught out by that in the car. 😣
I'd have checked for the cyclist though being wired to do so but yeah the lights....
Precisely because there's a cycle lane there, they changed the light sequence purposely
Was just coming back to say, yeah I spotted that on a rewatch.
That camera is a fab piece of kit.
Pedestrian crossing, you can sort of see it in the screenshot here, orange light on the pedestrian lights.
Not a junction I know but normally you'd expect a green for left and straight ahead, what's the reason you don't get a green for left there at the same time as straight through?
I've seen the full footage of it and it's horrifying. Just don't know how I could cope in that situation.
The head on the fuker at the end of the video.
A link from from that thread^, this is horrible even in heavily censored form:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/noah-herring-harry-summersgill-drug-driver-footage-stockton-b951175.html
The thread discussing it over on Pistonheads is currently at 66 pages if you want to raise your blood pressure a bit:
Although to be fair there is a solid core of people saying he deserved his punishment.
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