Near Misses Volume 2 (So close you can feel it)

Kaisr Sose · 22-09-2022 11:23PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119651510#Comment_119651510

Me too. It must be pretty bad for a conviction for dangerous driving with 4 Yr ban in Ireland. That's upper level in term of sentencing. Career changing ban. Well done in going through to the end with it and to the judge on conviction/sentence. Sure to be appealed.

average_runner · 23-09-2022 08:19AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119651449#Comment_119651449

Fair play to the judge. Too often they do nothing about the behaviour on our roads!!

Mundo7976 · 23-09-2022 01:10PM

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Absolute knobhead driving a jcb tried to pass me here today whilst there was cars coming to other way, dunno what the fcuk he was playing at, had to wave him back, scared the sh!té outta me. He passed me further on near the x-roads with more cars coming towards only for me to be less than 10metres behind him for the next couple of km before I turned off. Fcuktard of the week.

TallGlass2 · 26-09-2022 01:44PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119647875#Comment_119647875

What I have started to do in these situations is literally put the hand out to tell the drivers behind I am coming out to the right, quick look in the face of the driver makes sure they have seen me and take up as much room as I need and then move back in once I have past anywhere it gets tight.

Not sure if it helps but it's what I have started doing where possible.

26-09-2022 06:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119667892#Comment_119667892

The follow up tweets 😲

https://twitter.com/revoltingbikers/status/1574438859315634184?s=20&t=v3q7mRGyKTGjA51p58XPKw

https://twitter.com/revoltingbikers/status/1574438953901498370?s=20&t=v3q7mRGyKTGjA51p58XPKw

DaveyDave · 26-09-2022 07:05PM

Doesn't know what happened = person didn't have control of the car and should not be driving.

Driving is a privilege not a right. It's far too easy to panic or do the wrong thing and send a 1,200kg+ box towards people.

Etc · 26-09-2022 07:36PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119668098#Comment_119668098

Right on brother 😶

average_runner · 27-09-2022 10:07AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119668098#Comment_119668098

You don't have all the information to make a judgement on the woman, for all you know she could of taken ill.

standardg60 · 27-09-2022 11:49AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119650501#Comment_119650501

Sad to report that poor cyclist lost a leg.

27-09-2022 07:59PM

He had another decent video up there in the last week about people cutting corners etc. interesting watch.

29-09-2022 12:28AM

The driver is the lucky one apparently

Driver has lucky escape after car overturns in Co Longford

https://www.independent.ie/videos/driver-has-lucky-escape-after-car-overturns-in-co-longford-42023431.html

CR 7 · 29-09-2022 09:08AM

How unlucky, driving along minding their own business and their car just overturns.

DaveyDave · 29-09-2022 09:15AM

"Car overturns" is a nice way of saying idiot driver not paying attention to where they're going crashes into stationary object directly in front of them and flips car as a result of their own actions.

Pinch Flat · 29-09-2022 11:57AM

I'm sure there'll be outrage in the press about the Longford incident (***sarcasm***).

Anyway, this spot in Dublin has turned into a favourite left hook spot for some motorists - ironically, it seems to have gotten worse after the recent cycling infrastructure improvements, which is not in the google maps street view.

https://goo.gl/maps/qzEvyY8PYfpLpZ4r8

Usually, someone speeding up the bus lane coming from Park Gate Street is a sure sign they intend to left hook here, and this morning was no different - the impatient motorist had obviously let his quota of one cyclist pass on the cycle lane, which excluded me and a few others whom he's overtaken in the bus lane, left hooking the guy in front of me, who had to swerve to avoid the car. I braked sharply to avoid contact. I've seen 2 or 3 cyclists clipped here in the past while.

CramCycle · 29-09-2022 07:23PM

Jebus, coming from Sandyford to Clonskeagh this morning. While crossing the M50 I had an Audi with kid in front seat drive wide around me and then cut into get to the back of the queue. I imagine I got through the next lights 6 to 10 minutes before them for all their rushing. The few T junctions onto the Clonskeagh road had the usual, I am unable to turn into my own lane so I'll block the cycle lane and mount the kerb a bit as I turn right. Finally as we passed the goat, the bike in front of me had not one, not two but three drivers pull out in front of him. One was a kids school bus, who sort of shrugged as if to say, what else was I going to do. I don't miss commuting in Dublin, people just don't give a f*ck. Parents dropping kids to school being the main offenders, the ones you would hope to be slightly more aware of the vunerable road users all over the place. Topped it all off by a 151 BMW coming through a car park in UCD at 70 kmph, again driving their kid somewhere, I didn't even have time to shout as I jumped out of the way.

Wildly Boaring · 29-09-2022 10:20PM

I was halfway across a pedestrian crossing (bike lane to bike lane) with the 3 year old on the bike and a mammy on the school run drove straight through.

I gave a roar and she looked back gormless. I was fully aware it could happen, kids would have no chance.

magicbastarder · 29-09-2022 11:03PM

not a near miss, but descending off howth head today, a guy in a white van parked on the right hand side of the road in front of me pulled out, clearly knowing i was there, but rather than waiting for me to pass, decided to accelerate to get past me. without giving consideration to the fact that i was already doing probably nearly 50km/h. so i ended up with the van driving alongside me for maybe 200m, desperately trying to accelerate past me, before he had to hit the brakes because of oncoming traffic, and tucked in behind.

29-09-2022 11:16PM

Witnessed a pedestrian take a glancing blow of a car this morning, lucky not full bumper and got ktfo from hitting the ground. Driver hadn't a chance, the man on drink or drugs or both ran straight out into the road as he was passing with zero warning. Driver and witnesses pretty shook and the guy comes to and hops straight up as if nothing had happened telling the guy checking for a pulse and breath to get his hands off him. I kicked on as there were plenty there but wasn't 2 or 3 minutes before I met the ambulance, crossed my mind as to how willing a passenger they'd meet.

It was some time later I recalled an incident I got involved in months ago when a guy walking in front of me one evening in the same spot gave me cause to hang back due to how he was walking, read looked out of it on drugs or booze who then went 90 degrees hard right into the road from the footpath all of a sudden. Taxi driver nearly hit him and got out to get into it with him shoving him. I let a roar at the taxi driver to get his hands off him and he came over to me ready to get into it me then until I explain to him I was only looking out for him as if he'd hurt that guy or he'd fell after the shove and hit his head he'd be the one in that ****. Can't be 100% but I'd be fairly certain it was the same guy who got hit today.

Pinch Flat · 30-09-2022 09:43AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119680022#Comment_119680022

No dark coloured. Will keep an eye out for a repeat offender and maybe call Traffic Watch, for what it's worth. Anyway, not to be outdone and on the same day, I had a left hook literally on top of me at the Porterstown Road on the way home. I seem to be on a run lately, or maybe I need to get my see sense lights checked out.

https://goo.gl/maps/8mw5bDpWXoueWLLbA

AndrewJRenko · 30-09-2022 03:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119669988#Comment_119669988

Yes I agree, regular medical certification for all drivers would be a good idea.

magicbastarder · 03-10-2022 08:57AM

something in the air about stupid overtakes. i was overtaken, across a white line, into oncoming traffic yesterday where it was blatantly clear there was ample overtaking opportunity ahead. if the driver had waited literally just two seconds, he wouldn't have scared the **** out of the oncoming driver.

Pinch Flat · 03-10-2022 11:26AM

This morning was reminder that drivers simply don't give a sh!t about us cyclists, no matter what you do to ride assertively, be more visible, signal your intentions.

https://goo.gl/maps/3px1hCH3qPr2p9vF9

This morning it was the turn of Karen in her Toyota SUV. As I was approaching the roundabout, travelling a jot over 30kph, I looked over and signalled right to merge from the bus lane to a single lane through the roundabout. Karen was a bit back, but Karen wasn't having any of it - she actually accelerated to cut me off through the roundabout, brushing off me as she did. Let a roar so loud that it spooked the lady walking beside the roundabout (sorry!) but Karen just continued, looking blankly ahead as if I wasn't there. My voice is sore from the yell I let at her. I was hoping to catch her at Laurel Lodge - there's usually a queue of cars there but alas she's managed to get through the lights and join the queue through Blanch to the M50 - probably just as well

magicbastarder · 03-10-2022 07:38PM

i used to commute from near DCU to sandyford, and i never went near the five lamps - i went down griffith avenue, past east point business park, over the east link and out strand road from there. if i'd been heading to UCD i'd have swung up through trimleston and woodbine, might be an alternative route?

standardg60 · 04-10-2022 09:00PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119701772#Comment_119701772

Excellent, you will stick around for the left-hook discussions won't you?

I could do with an ally

magicbastarder · 04-10-2022 09:18PM

speeding up to prevent a safe merge would almost certainly be against the law, i'd assume. it's wilfully creating a hazard.

standardg60 · 04-10-2022 09:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119701912#Comment_119701912

Speeding up to cut-off someone clearly merging is dick behaviour, you condone that do you?

magicbastarder · 04-10-2022 10:10PM

53.— (1) A person shall not drive a vehicle in a public place in a manner (including speed) which having regard to all the circumstances of the case (including the condition of the vehicle, the nature, condition and use of the place and the amount of traffic which then actually is or might reasonably be expected then to be in it) is or is likely to be dangerous to the public.

https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2011/act/28/section/4/enacted/en/html

accelerating a car towards a roundabout to prevent an otherwise safe merge is clearly being wilfully dangerous. and considering they're also accelerating towards a vulnerable road user, would make it worse.

standardg60 · 04-10-2022 10:11PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119702091#Comment_119702091

So behaving like a dick as long as it's not technically illegal is ok in your view?

magicbastarder · 04-10-2022 10:19PM

she was wilfully creating a hazard.

let's look at this in an alternate way; if you see someone pulling out of a side road ahead of you, and you think they're going to pull out before you get there - are you allowed accelerate specifically to prevent them? if you have the faintest whiff there's a hazard, you slow down. the first rule of driving a car is to avoid danger.

standardg60 · 04-10-2022 10:23PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119702247#Comment_119702247

And you're basing that assertion on?

Near Misses Volume 2 (So close you can feel it)

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