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taking the right from this approach?
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Two cyclists(different times) hit the ground when taking a corner today when I was driving to the in laws. So be careful out there in the weather, roads still lacking grip
The Luas tracks make it one to avoid for me. Try going down Bridge St instead. You have a dedicated cycle lane for most of the south Quays. Leave the segregated lane at the last bus stop and cross three lanes to turn over the bridge.
blackbelt barrister has a look at this and it's a good enough summary.
Wasp got stuck in my helmet band this morning. Got the little bastard out before he stung. Lost an earphone though.
Little pricks.
Poor form to generalise and blame all wasps based on the actions of one bad apple (Its not like they're taxi drivers or anything😉).
This one is up before the courts
Another one just finished in the courts
The write up is worth a read
tldr: driver was convicted of dangerous driving and had his suspended license for 4 years. Driver has already appealed
One from yesterday I looked over my shoulder and the car was a reasonable distance back and not traveling too fast so I held out my arm just after the start of the first right turn junction and began to move towards the center and right lane. Not to be inconvenienced this driver who was eating and on the phone proceeded to pass anyway I guess they didn't have enough hands free to indicate or slow down! https://streamable.com/t9z0lp
I had a pre-covid case in which the initial garda I dealt with commenced the case as dangerous driving and brought it to his super. Got a call some time later from him saying it was reduced to careless driving for the simple reason dangerous driving is much harder to get a conviction for as you say.
Hope the little ****s get life or worse
That's a pretty bad one.
Careful now. The little bollix will come back tomorrow to get the other earphone. One earphone isn't much use to him.
A scary one
In regards victim blaming, I'd keep out to the middle right if turning right.
Car is 100% in the wrong, overtaking on a roundabout and everything else but I can't trust people to not know the right thing so I'd remove the choice.
Just advice, which I know some won't feel comfortable with.
That's one of those roundabouts which drivers can (and do) just drive over when it doesn't suit them. So positioning yourself in the road to prevent **** manoeuvres doesn't work so well
Auburn Ave
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It would have to help a bit, if you were further over it would have been difficult to overtake on even a drive over roundabout as you'd have to almost go onto the wrong side of the road to do it..
Again, not saying he had too, just what I would do as I don't trust people.
And I am not saying they done anything wrong, just that, the way the world is, I would have been much further to the right. The cyclist appears to be to the left of the single lane. Perfectly right to be there but I just would have held a line closer to the right / center of roundabout. Other car would have seen you earlier and the stupid overtake IMO was less likely as the muppet possibly thought he was going straight on. None of this excuses the behaviour of several motorists in this clip, it was not just the overtake that was bad (although that was possibly the worst bit).
Agree!
He should have been further out. If he had his hand out to indicate that he wasn't taking the first exit however he was in the right, if he hadn't he was stupid as traffic could presume he was exiting.
If I'm going through a roundabout usually I'll get in line behind other vehicles to cement my position on the road that way I'm already in position to take the centre of the lane going through the roundabout but also importantly, it prevents people joining the roundabout at the same time as me as they can't physically fit alongside me and nobody can squeeze past me.
If there's no traffic to queue behind I still move out to a central position on approach.
Mine was on the other side (sorry lads).
Waiting to go straight at a junction today. Jeep to my right was turning right.
Light turned green and I took off. Immediately had to jump on the brakes as a middle aged woman tore through the red light on her bike (shopping basket on the front). I literally missed her by millimetres.
My youngest let a roar out of her and we both got a serious fright.
Your one pedalled on like mad without a backwards glance!!
I didn't say the car driver wasn't't at fault - that was obvious! However, if he wasn't indicating (as required incidentally) he was stupid!
Cycling to work and approaching the right turn into the underground car park.
Gave the car behind me plenty of notice as I'd moved into centre of the lane.
Stuck out right hand and moved over to the right.
Was about to take my turn when the car behind me overtakes me.
I was furious.... as i turned towards the carpark.....i looked over and the driver had stopped at the next ser of lights.
He gained nothing by his overtake.
If you look at the point at which the car passes the OP they were over to the right of the hatch markings, i can't see a single bit of blame on the OP here.
The only possible way of removing the choice here would be to kerb the roundabout to stop idiots from driving over it.
Exactly, you only have to look at the immediately previous video to see a hand signal being ignored, and the OP wouldn't have been signalling while they were turning the bike anyway, any signal would have been on approach. The driver was a pr1ck, there's nothing else to say here imo
100% don't blame the cyclist at all and on relooking at it, yes more over than I thought at the overtake. I just would have been that far over upon entering. That in no way takes away from the 100% blame on the numpty driver.
It is getting worse out there, driver all over the shop on the M11 yesterday, passed a speed van at over the limit ( I was just under it but the speed differential between us, they must have been tipping 120+kmph minimum), and were swaying between the overtaking lane and the empty driving lane. I noticed the phone out in front of their head as they went by me. Witnesses two near misses on my one drive on the M50 this week, same thing, drivers in rush hour traffic on their phones. Luckily the car and 8 wheeler noticed the deviation and had space in the hard shoulder to move into. The old school driving errors of overtaking and then turning are creeping in more and more as well, at least one a morning for the last week in Dun Laoghaire.
of any clip i've seen posted here, my reaction to anyone saying 'the cyclist should have done something different here' would be 'hang up your cycling shoes, we cannot win'. a motorist driving straight across a roundabout, cutting up a cyclist; there's simply nothing available to the cyclist to anticipate or prevent this.
Had the misfortune to cycle down the quays from the Phoenix Park this morning. Not something I would like to do regularly. Buses passing within inches, bicycles lanes blocked by taxis, wheels bins, people. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone
Also from a legality perspective, road position on a bicycle is taken as indication. Also this aside, you shouldn't be overtaking on a single lane roundabout, whether someone has indicated or not.
From a personal point of view, how would you trust an indicator on a roundabout in Ireland anyway, only a minority seem to know how to use them.
Every time I'm on the M50, I see multiple drivers on their phones, often the ones zooming past at well over the speed limit.
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