Dummy opening post
it's because the person merging into another lane has to give way to people already in that lane. but that also requires the people who are already in that lane to drive responsibly.
a very similar corollary is merging on a motorway. if you match your speed to the prevailing traffic, and see a gap it's safe to pull into, that is how you merge. however, if the driver 100m or 200m back sees you starting to do this and speeds up to prevent you from merging, they are the ones being a dick/creating the hazard.
or; you don't have right of way over a space you should not be in.
I was more getting at how the poster had derived their statement purely from the posters post. No one has right of way over traffic which has already merged, just because that traffic is a cyclist who you can accelerate by and squeeze past doesn't change that fact.
WARNING: This is a hard watch. Three scumbags knock down a cyclist intentionally. I know it's not a near miss but its what can happen to you on irish roads
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/xzqx2o/scum_knocking_down_cyclist/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Back of the airport from the looks of it. Pure **** scum.
Ah sorry didn't know I screen recorded and uploaded to YouTube
https://youtu.be/Wa6OXxm5zpQ
i've whatsapped that to a garda i know, he might know what to do with it.
Paul_Mc1988, might be worth holding onto that video for now, just in case it disappears from reddit.
I was able to view the Reddit link with no problem - but I recall that it often asks you to sign in on mobile but not on desktop.
Going round on WhatsApp, allegedly stolen! Pure scum
Will do.
Should be public now. No news articles so hopefully he's OK
Hopefully none of that pond-life scum will be sleeping in their beds tonight
This mob are from Ballymun.
The car isn't stolen, its been around a while now.
The guy who's name appears in the video at top of the screen, initials SM, he has been posting various videos of that Audi tearing around glasnevin, ballymun, drumcondra.
Ballymun gardai are the ones that need to see that video, that lot have spent many a night in the cells up there.
If anyone has a garda contact in Ballymun Station make sure they get this video ASAP.
Another clue BTW, in that video their Snapchat group name appears, funny enough 2 in the car are from 'whiteacre' in Ballymun, which is the name of the Snapchat group.
This lot partied regularly in that Mc Verry Trust flat in constitution Hill where the body lay for days.
Not the brightest bunch. The car is either up in Ballymun in the gombeens driveway, or parked down near Hercules Gym off Bolton Street (where one of their girlfriends live), linenhall parade I think is the name of the street.
I'd say they'd be lucky to hit 100 if you added their IQ together but they don't give a ****, they won't do time if they are even lifted.
Hope the lad on the bike is OK.
i just rang the garda station in ballymun; they're aware of the video and the matter is under investigation.
Thanks for the update
Twitter page @howzatcp has another video of the SM character driving the same car like a madman on a different day around glasnevin, he's named in full there.
The Snapchat name on top of this other video belongs to a 'Hollie' who is the girlfriend of a 'Glen' that shares the same surname as christy from ASLAN.
Handy few hints there for any member of the gardai reading this thread. Unfortunately can't say anymore.
unfortunately the garda i was talking to seemed hopeful i had some new information which would be useful to them; unfortunately (or i guess fortunately?) i did not.
Non life threatening injuries
christ, he's lucky. that looked like quite an impact.
Does anyone know anything about legislation around using motorbikes on cycle lanes? I usually turn a blind eye to motorised scooters etc but a fella was taking the piss recently near Dundrum (on the R286 road) he was on a proper motorbike, not a scooter or electric bicycle, in the cycle lane. I caught up with him at the next traffic lights and challenged him, he said "I didn't hit you, so what's your problem?". He was wearing a black facemask with a skull on it didn't strike me as a fella to be messed with.
I don't think Gardaí have a tendancy to scour boards for clues, you'd be better off calling them.
I imagine the judge will throw the book at them and impose a severe suspended sentence.
Nail on the head. Ridiculous judicial system we have.
Anything less than attempted murder and GBH would be a joke
cf the video someone posted in the journalism and cycling thread, about the case in the UK where a driver knocked a cyclist down and punched him unconscious.
If I remember correctly they had a previous conviction for doing the same thing before as well.
Things are starting to get pretty bad here in terms of 'anti-cyclist' rhetoric, but it's a different ball game altogether in the UK these days
well, whaddya know; an uneventul 32km spin, until about 3 or 4km from home - when a taxi driver drove out in front of me. and it was at the side of the airport.
i was almost all the way through this junction and he pulled out from the left, in front of me, with about 2m to spare. stared at me impassively when we both reached the next set of lights.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4171993,-6.2659726,3a,75y,168.82h,88.95t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sVl7jz7ItbIcFN8FPdvBWsg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DVl7jz7ItbIcFN8FPdvBWsg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D76.54344%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192
then cycling downhill through ballymun, i was in the middle lane and the guy driving the bus to my left indicated and pulled out into my lane very possibly not knowing i was there. he'd have easily been able to see me in his wing mirror though.
Hopefully this judge doesn't preside over the airport hit case
I love how taxi drivers always seem to get a slap on the wrist because they have to provide for their family and a ban would stop them from doing this, but the fact they abuse cyclists, drive like they want proves need to be put in line especially because their families depend on it. They need to be held to a higher standard.
You'll be pleased to hear he's not a taxi driver any more.
He's now working as a courier.
no idea what the preceding events were, but i just passed a car pulled up outside a local school (secondary school) with hazards on, and the driver out and standing with a couple of schoolkids, with a bike lying on the footpath with a snapped fork.
could easily have been the motorist stopping because they saw the student come a cropper, rather than a actual collision; that would have been a rather unpleasant and unexpected surprise.
suspension fork, snapped just where the tines meet the crown.
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