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

tnegun · 17-01-2025 12:10PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123064491#Comment_123064491

The company reached out to me this morning and handled it very well, I won't go into too much detail but by the time I spoke to them at 9.30 am, they'd already formally spoken to them in person, warned them it was a breach of policy and passed on his along with their genuine apology.

MojoMaker · 17-01-2025 12:14PM

Can we still see the clip?

Seth Brundle · 17-01-2025 12:33PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123064666#Comment_123064666

I live very close to there and (probably like @tnegun) know that Leixlip has become quite congested in the last few years so there is a strong likleihood that during the day there will be a queue of traffic there trying to get through the village. Any overtaking of a cyclist is pretty much pointless and simply a case of MGIF.

CramCycle · 17-01-2025 01:49PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123066060#Comment_123066060

The new one that has come up on my commute is overtake to make the turn. The overtake in and of itself is relatively OK in that they give space and not in to oncoming traffic but it is so close to the turn that they intend ot take that I inevitably have to slow or stop. Maybe people really struggle with relative speeds etc but it seems bizarre. IN reality they might make up 1.5seconds but they have to brake so hard, I would be willing to bet it is not even that.

17-01-2025 02:07PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123064491#Comment_123064491

"This video is private".

Good to hear the company handled it well. Any half-sensible company would know that dangerous drivers hurt their reputation and their bottom line. Next year's insurance renewal depends on this driver's behaviour.

magicbastarder · 17-01-2025 02:09PM

yesterday if found myself lacking a camera again a couple of times; the worst when a keelings van driver performed a fast aggressive overtake less than 20m from a roundabout, for no benefit. he had to cut in hard across me to avoid hitting a traffic island.

tnegun · 17-01-2025 04:19PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123066434#Comment_123066434

I took it down as they were so up-front and decent about it, they even knew exactly what penalties the driver could expect if I decided to pursue it but I said I wouldn't as they had been spoken to already and offered an apology. The main thing is that going forward they and hopefully all drivers for that co will be more careful and considerate on the road.

JMcL · 20-01-2025 10:32AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123066331#Comment_123066331

I get this regularly. There's a roundabout on the way out of the town where I always take the lane on the exit to avoid dipsh!t5 squeezing through. They usually do regardless afterwards in the face of oncoming traffic either to hang a left into the petrol station about 100m down the road, or join the queue at the next roundabout about 300m beyond that

De Bhál · 20-01-2025 12:42PM

Out around Stamullen, Saturday. Driving standards out there wouldn't be the best. Getting from A to B at the highest possible speed seems to be the way.

McGrath5 · 22-01-2025 08:54PM

I was close passed this evening in Foxrock village by a van driver with the ironic name of “Lawn & Order” stuck to the side of it. Bonus points for no lights on as well.

beggars_bush · 22-01-2025 09:05PM

I've started moving out into the primary road position a lot more recently when there is traffic coming against me in order to stop cars approaching from behind from squeezing past me. A lot fewer close passes recently

monkeyslayer · 22-01-2025 10:02PM

Own your space, though you'll still get the odd lunatic doing what I call the eye of the needle overtake between you and what's coming towards him. Or her.

22-01-2025 10:28PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123086685#Comment_123086685

I've seen that van with the Law & Order font, great branding, albeit with sh1te driving.

crisco10 · 29-01-2025 04:36PM

General comment/musing;

I used to commute to work on my bike (approx 1hr per day on the road) and would have experiences worthy of this thread maybe 4 or 5 times a year.

I now wfh, but still spend 45mins a day pottering around D14/D16 on a long tail ebike with kids; it's been 15 months now, and not one near miss. Do drivers see the kids, prominent as they are, and change their behavior?

For example, there is one particular stretch where despite there being a cycle lane, the road feels quite narrow. I have noticed drivers being hesitant to pass me (even though they wouldn't be encroaching in the cycle lane to do so).

Maybe I change my behavior? (I don't think I have!).

Or am I just on a good run…touch wood…

….i do see ignorant driving to be clear, particularly near the school gates, but not dangerous.

magicbastarder · 29-01-2025 04:39PM

i was out for an hour and a bit today on the bike - mainly country roads - and had several stupid overtakes in that one spin!

e.g. a lad in a range rover who overtook around a blind bend (and there was oncoming traffic) or the chap driving the flatbed truck carrying a portakabin (so a wide load) who overtook into oncoming traffic.

JMcL · 29-01-2025 04:44PM

I now wfh, but still spend 45mins a day pottering around D14/D16 on a long tail ebike with kids; it's been 15 months now, and not one near miss. Do drivers see the kids, prominent as they are, and change their behavior?

There might be a bit of that, but it's not universal, or certainly wasn't several years ago when my kids were smaller. I've had MGIF followed by a left hook when the young lads was still in the child seat, and more recently I've had several instances of clowns close passing us when I've had him out on the bike. I'd say you've been lucky and long may your luck hold out!

CramCycle · 29-01-2025 08:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123113086#Comment_123113086

I had one skim me to show me it was dangerous to cycle with a child, some people are absolute c***s

tnegun · 29-01-2025 08:28PM

Leixlip is turning into a bit of a black spot for me lately, I'd a van suddenly move left as I was preparing to filter on the inside this morning on main street. Minutes later this bus barely changed driving line while passing me on a white line with oncoming traffic versus this much better pass coming in the opposite direction on the way home.

Cabaal · 02-02-2025 08:17AM

I like when HGV drivers don't drive to kill me

https://youtu.be/IBDXzrUGCJM

Mr Disco · 02-02-2025 08:35AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123126275#Comment_123126275

not seeing much wrong with that one?

Cabaal · 02-02-2025 10:13AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123126299#Comment_123126299

Congrats, you don't know the rules of the road and you cannot drive safely.

Gardai see otherwise.

CramCycle · 02-02-2025 02:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123126299#Comment_123126299

Really, overtaking on chevrons and swinging in because there was a traffic island (which he barely missed, but would have been visible before the overtake). If Cabaal was a km or two an hour faster (so basically imperceptibly faster from the drivers point of view), and if he hadn't pulled his brakes almost immediately he could have been under the rear wheels and this would be a much more sombre thread.

If you can't see the issue with that driving, all I can say is I hope you neither drive or cycle.

MojoMaker · 02-02-2025 05:45PM

Welcome to the cycling forum @Mr Disco - do contribute meaningfully.

Cabaal · 04-02-2025 12:39PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123127214#Comment_123127214

100% spot on.

While I didn't brake I did reduce my peddling as soon as I heard him begin the overtake because I knew they'd be a pinch point.

Had it been on the flat or down till the pinch point would have been seriously close, it was only that I was going up hill that I wasn't doing over 25km/hour.

There was no debating with the Gardai in relation to the HGV drivers behaviour,