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

Agree.

Absolutely, just chalk it down to meeting a true Karen and forget about it.

Out of curiosity (and in no way am I implying you should use it), did anyone mention the cycle lane?

Yeah they're at fault, but you could have gone on the outside of the (stupid, bollarded) bike lane, and had an easier life. That's what I would have done anyway. In fact, even if they weren't there crossing, I'd have avoided that cycle lane. That's just me though: pathological hatred for them.

What I do nowadays is just cycle around dicks 9/10 times, without complaining or making a big deal of it all, just to have a less stressful and easier life: basically ride pure defensively.

Edit: I'm not insinuating that you made a big deal out of it: I don't know, either way.

Jees, let that be a lesson to you @TheHouseIRL, don't cycle in excess of 10km/h in case of obstacles and don't post footage of said cycle as your actions will be picked apart.

What about the parallel pedestrian crossing at the base of the hill, no one going to mention that? That's supposed to guide pedestrians and their safe crossing of the junction. Lights had turned green for road traffic well in advance of the mad cyclist approaching so pedestrians were effectively jaywalking but that means nothing in Ireland so pedestrians can cross with impunity even when unsafe to do so.

We have no definitive read on how far away he was. However, this goes back to my first point - if these were two cars, the blame would firmly be place on the car that pulled out without looking.

Of course she's to blame, but I'm merely pointing out my perception that it looks like he could have stopped: he's going uphill, not too fast, and from the time the bonnet of the car comes into his view, and he sees that the car doesn't appear to slow down for the cycle lane, it seems to me that he could have stopped before hitting her car. Perhaps I'm wrong, I could be, but perhaps I'm not and he rolled into her door slowly with the similar intention of a punishment pass, although that part is speculation on my part of course. However, I suspect he could have stopped before colliding with her car.

I find women just as bad, if not worse.

Oh sorry, I misunderstood. I meant that they will take liberties and not offer an ounce of apology.

Reported similar to traffic watch a couple of weeks ago. Overtake on the Porterstown Road, D15 near enough Castleknock Hotel where there's a straight stretch of road. Car behind overtook fully into the oncoming lane (I take primary along that road) but neglected to see the oncoming car which had to perform an emergency brake and stuck it to the road. Overtaking car didn't so much as slow down and pulled in on top of me barely avoiding both me and the oncoming car, as close as I've seen to a head on collision and have seen some stupid overtakes on blind bends and hills on that section of road for the sake of a few seconds. Got the reg but coincidentally caught the driver stuck in traffic at the Clonsilla level crossing. Confronted driver but he didn't utter a word so just noted further details like the L plate (had a passenger so was likely at least accompanied), no visible NCT (was a 06 reg) and tax expired since May which I relayed to traffic watch.

Got a call back from Blanch garda station a week later who had investigated car details. Advised the car was recently purchased so they had some grace period regarding tax and NCT. Asked if I had camera footage or the reg details of the oncoming car of which I had neither so they said there wasn't much evidence and a statement wasn't likely to proceed much further. They did say they'd contact the driver to get their take but otherwise at least the incident was reported and noted so collaborating evidence if he ploughs into someone in future.

No near miss this morning but tried out the new online Garda Traffic Watch portal, much easier than giving details over the phone so a nice addition. Just needs the ability to upload video if available but as mentioned supplying a link is probably easier for all concerned.

At 06:30 on North Quays, Dublin 1 a car shoots up the 24 hour bus lane practically the whole length of the quays from Heuston to O'Connell Bridge, nothing new and a daily occurrence. Sails through a red light at Bachelors Walk, again a regular event. In passing I scanned his discs to see tax was expired since Mar 2024 so it was his 3rd strike to warrant a report. Can't understand why you'd draw such attention to yourself when no valid motor tax in place.

Couple of other drivers noted with phone in hand and eyes not on the road in moving traffic. Gave a "really" comment in passing one who looked up at least. A couple of Gardaí on pedal bikes doing loops of the quays would have some tally at the end of a week.

I'd imagine their objections would be nullified by whatever tinkering they're doing with the law to make GDPR a non issue (I've personally always thought this excuse to be a red herring on the part of the Guards as the most explicit exception is law enforcement)