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

Including one particularly clueless fcukwit overtaking only to come to a complete stop 50m later so she could turn right.

When interrogated why she had done it she did manage a vociferous "because I can!".

That's what you're dealing with out there - (a) poor driving and (b) a complete failure to take ownership of said poor driving.

At least he was honest. I'd actually prefer if the Hi-Viz Nazis just came out, like yer man, and said "No, it's nothing to do with ability to see you, I just dislike seeing cyclists on the road and want to make their lives a little bit less enjoyable wherever I can and mark them out as some sort of special sub-category of road user. Hopefully it would trigger the first of many more measures to make cycling less accessible". Because then I could just say "Nah, f**k off, not wearing one" without having to engage my brain to try and reason with people.

Looked over my shoulder to see this twat this evening https://streamable.com/8asn5s overtook 3 cars queuing to turn right using opposite turning lane before using the hatchings to cut me up. No idea what his problem is be he was shouting a pointing at me but then wouldn't make eye contact when I caught up at the next set of lights!

Was it the white Peugeot?

Absolutely Paddigol.

Sure the MSM and social media feeding these behaviours, mindsets, and outlooks *constantly*.

Not even an Irish thing, but a western "civilisation" thing at this rate.

I use that word above quite loosely.

Pop in to Leixlip Garda Station the next time you are passing, see what they have to say

What. A. C***

No doubt he's "well thought of in his community" and would be "full of remorse" if his superb driving skills let him down and he injures a cyclist the next time. It's funny how hindsight is thrown at pedestrians/ cyclists as some sort of mitigating factor in those cases. Whereas the reality is that people who find themselves before the courts are most likely serial assh**es on the road.

Yeah but the other guy was really important, and a great driver and in a BIG RUSH so he just had to get through. The nation's survival depended on it.

Straight the guards with that, can send it in to Traffic Watch with a link to the video.

The driver might be able to argue the initial pass was careless and an oversight but the 2nd is deliberately endangering a more vulnerable road user and needs to be before a judge to realise the error of their ways.

That's disgraceful, what happened there was he wasn't happy about you passing the central ramps on the outside, so intentionally drove alongside to keep you close to the kerb, before adding a punishment pass.

I assume you'll be reporting it?

What gets me about those kind of interactions - which to be honest, especially at the more benign end of the scale, occur much more frequently than the pure aggression kind - is the complete (TOTAL) lack of awareness by the driver of the danger that their driving and their multi tonne lump of moving steel poses, not just generally to traffic around them, but especially to vulnerable road users when pulling stunts like that. One mistake from the cyclist, one ill timed sneeze by the driver, or one unforeseen cat/ dog/ child, football shooting out in front of both parties, and the consequences could be catastrophic. It's the clearest signal that the driver has never in their adulty life experienced the roads as a cyclist and has no idea what distance needs to be given.

I'd hope that anyone reviewing that footage in Garda Trafficwatch sees it through that lens/ from that perspective, as opposed to "ah, shur they were going slowly and there was no aggression"

Yeah, I never post videos that show me as in the wrong