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

24-01-2023 03:56PM

A nice collection of nutty driving from around Galway

https://twitter.com/DaCor_ie/status/1617898274186498049?s=20&t=8B7npConkn2exaGIPoibQw

CramCycle · 25-01-2023 04:18PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120154856#Comment_120154856

The judge would ultimately take into account that it was understandable with traffic volumes, that they were previously never of note to the gardai, that they need the vehicle for work, they have previously never ran over a small child before, surely thats the parents fault for letting a child walk on the pavement. Probably fine the parent a few €100 for the court poorbox.

Paddigol · 25-01-2023 04:46PM

LOLZ... Cram not having a good day!

That said, it's probably not far off what would actually happen.

sy_flembeck · 25-01-2023 04:51PM

The new traffic calming measure just outside a primary school near Enniskerry yesterday morning. Went through clear and then met this moron coming against me. He couldn't or wouldn't wait the (literally) 2 seconds it would have taken to let me finish my manoeuvre. Bear in mind the road behind me was completely free.

He stopped, opened the door and shouted that I was 'a f3ckin idiot'. It was my fault it appears! So I decided I wasn't letting this go and turned to go back to where he was adjusting his wing mirror (the noise on the video is from where I walloped it). Unsurprisingly, he hotfooted it then.

Apologies for the choice words but I was a tad vexed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOJ1dUBPwoc

Paddigol · 25-01-2023 05:47PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120156629#Comment_120156629

What's his argument? He has stop/ yeild road markings in his lane at the junction? Why does he need to cross the solid white line between lanes? You were at the junction before him? How can he possibly think he has a case to argue???

Its a classic case of ignorant asshat feeling brave because they're encased in metal. Wouldn't have a peep out of half of them if they had a similar issue in a supermarket. Which is probably what makes them so dangerous on the road, all that bottled up frustration.

AndrewJRenko · 25-01-2023 05:49PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120156458#Comment_120156458

It’s the child’s own fault for not wearing a helmet obvs.

CramCycle · 25-01-2023 10:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120156629#Comment_120156629

Not the C word I expected 🤡

VonLuck · 26-01-2023 08:59AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120156891#Comment_120156891

The argument will always be that "I was nowhere near you". People don't care that they cross the while line or don't use their indicator or run through a light when it turned red a couple of seconds before, as long as they haven't caused an accident. They'll always break the rules of the road if it's more convenient for them.

CramCycle · 26-01-2023 10:32AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120159185#Comment_120159185

Its so weird though because that view of "I didn't cause an accident" rather than the truth of "thankfully everyone else reacted to my breach of the rules so no physical harm was done". I was coming to the T junction at the end of the cycle path coming up from Dun Laoghaire train station earlier this week. Bike had a red and was stopped, cars had green. As I approached, amber came, one car sped up, then red and a Land Rover flew through. The bike light was green at this stage and the cyclist had pushed off, now thankfully the cyclist glanced a second time and stopped. He let a roar and the Land Rover driver started giving out to him, as if somehow, the near miss was the cyclists fault. Some people are just ****s. The irony being the Land Rover stopped to give out for so long, his lights had went green again. So if he had followed the rules, he would have been in the same place but with one less person being nearly run over.

magicbastarder · 26-01-2023 11:08AM

it's just an instant adrenaline rush reaction, someone shouts at you, you shout back. well, for many people it is.

VonLuck · 26-01-2023 12:23PM

It is that instant gut reaction alright. I remember many years ago when I had just got my full drivers licence and I was driving in the city centre at night. I made a right turn, not seeing a cyclist coming the opposite direction. Luckily I stopped before making the full manoeuvre but I instinctively beeped the horn at him even though the cyclist did nothing wrong!

Straight away I put hands up and apologised as he looked on at me in disgust. At least I learned a good lesson, although I still cringe thinking about it to this day.

Wildly Boaring · 26-01-2023 01:05PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120159520#Comment_120159520

Yep, I walked over a zebra crossing lately and a driver flew through on the phone.

I roared "HEY", he rolled down the window and shouted something. I replied with a comment on his excellent driving.

He then stopped the car. Opened the window fully and kindly advise that he would "Break my face" if I didn't shut up.

At this point in hindsight, you should always shut up. God knows what kind of lunatic you're dealing with. Bare-knuckle boxer, knife wielding physco.... or just a wannabe hard man with a big mouth. I did not shut up and very luckily he was the later.

Adrenaline rush reaction

CramCycle · 26-01-2023 04:59PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120160054#Comment_120160054

There are days where I feel like the guy in falling down and part of me would welcome that reaction, there are other days where I am sensible and I just keep going. I really must get checked over by a mental health specialist as it can't be good to have such extreme differences in reaction to the same events.

As for the adrenaline reaction, I get it but nonetheless, that lasts a few seconds, and i have had people give out and then within seconds apologise. Ive done the same and then took a deep breath and said sorry, my fault, I just got a bit of a scare.

I'll happily admit I'm wrong, even if I intially didn't, if I am, and I think many people do. unfortunately the people who would admit an error in judgement are not normally the types to regularly make massive errors in judgement, so I think it is still more weighted against some people just being d*cks rather than purely adrenaline.

Who knows, maybe I'm the bad guy.

magicbastarder · 26-01-2023 05:24PM

the issue with the sort of interactions described above, is that generally, the motorist in the sort of scenario WB outlined, is blissfully unaware that they've done something wrong, and they react before they've time to assess what just happened. so their default reaction is one of surprise and anger.

Thargor · 27-01-2023 09:29PM

Conor McGregor got taken out on his bike today:

https://v.redd.it/332mdpsbinea1

Wildly Boaring · 27-01-2023 10:30PM

Christ he took it well

John_Rambo · 27-01-2023 10:42PM

Heavily muscled athlete used to a few knocks.

27-01-2023 11:38PM

https://twitter.com/SafeCyclingEire/status/1619034546720346112?s=20&t=4ck7iorZnBbf_8sx5RDU1w

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AndrewJRenko · 28-01-2023 07:54AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120167448#Comment_120167448

Surprised that he doesn’t have some level of security with him. If you’re worth €100 million or more, you could well be a target of others for all kinds of reasons.

Squidgy Black · 28-01-2023 01:06PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120168109#Comment_120168109

Christ that has to be one of the worst I’ve seen. Solid white line as well

Tenzor07 · 28-01-2023 06:26PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120168686#Comment_120168686

Surprised he's going around on what looks like a fairly cheap/basic Orbea bicycle in a pair of cheap looking MTB trousers too...

DaveyDave · 28-01-2023 07:54PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120170253#Comment_120170253

To be fair people don't know bikes. If he had a carbon XC bike with the blingy kashima coated seat post nobody would know it's €8,000. At least with the rest of his stuff like watches you know it's expensive because they're tacky as hell.

harmless · 28-01-2023 08:14PM

If you are looking at it from the point of someone who participates in road bike events then you can see why someone with a practically unlimited budget would get all the go fast stuff. But if all you want out of it is the cardio exercise does it matter what speed you are going?