Near misses - mod warning 22/04 - see OP/post 822

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Taxi man coming home this evening. I was indicating right to overtake a slower cyclist in front of me - we'd just moved off from a junction. But no, Mr Taxi Man's journey is more important than mine. So he proceeds to speed up and keep overtaking me, beeping furiously as he passed me into oncoming traffic, who had to brake. They're now beeping as well. A completely pointless manoeuvre.

When I caught up with him at the lights, a few hundred meters away, I reminded him that an arm signal is the same as those orange flashing lights on a car and denotes intention to change direction to other road users. He looked puzzled. Maybe he missed taxi school the day this was being explained.

Indication classes were dropped a number of years ago from the curriculum at taxi school.

josip wrote: »

A not so near miss over on the dashcam thread

What's almost as bad is the clown in the N-Plate car had his eye fixed on his far right and completely failed to notice what was directly in front of him! If car 1 didn't crush the bike car 2 would have! :mad:

buffalo wrote: »

HE SHOULD OF BEEN IN THE CYCLE LANE

Cyclists should pay Road Tax!

...:pac:....:pac:....:pac:

josip wrote: »

A not so near miss over on the dashcam thread
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=103122167&postcount=5888

I think we can all agree what the cyclist's hi vis wasn't hi vis enough and his helmet was barely even helmetty

buffalo wrote: »

HE SHOULD OF BEEN IN THE CYCLE LANE

He had a helmet and hi-vis, so all's good:rolleyes:

magicbastarder wrote: »

amusing one this morning, with a motorist deciding to pull out and overtake me approaching a roundabout, and thankfully realising (thankfully before he had pulled alongside me) that he was heading straight for a traffic island.

Be careful though, you'll be blamed if they break their car. I still have a little snigger everytime I pass this spot.....

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=88490012

While driving an extremely large vehicle yesterday I had a cyclist pedal faster so he could pass up the inside while I am moving at say around 30km/h and the road design terrible in my view as he was coming up in a broken line cycle lane which I was in as road space too narrow.

He proceeded to bang the side of the vehicle while shouting and continued to pass and then shoots out in front with the fingers and a dirty look.

Now to understand it better I did not pass this guy or on purpose try and block in any way but why would anyone have a fight with a 17ton vehicle???????

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Some people would argue with their shadow. I wouldn't over think it!

I know what you mean believe me it happens quite a lot.

I just worry I'll be blamed for killing or seriously injuring one as what they do is beyond crazy.

Darwin award stuff.

I've had cyclists hold on to the rear at speed, cycle into the rear and side.
Some have got handle bars wedged into side and if weren't looking in mirror they would be under the wheels.
This thing also cycling up on bends or 90 degree turns also.

There should be more education and policing IMO.

07Lapierre wrote: »

Cycling around NCD last Saturday. A nice clear sunny morning. A horse & rider is approaching me from the opposite direction. A car is also approaching me and its clear to me that the three of us are going to arrive at the same bit of road at the same time, so i begin to slow down. The car driver proceeds to move over onto my side of the road, and proceeds to overtake the Horse. The driver moves right over to the opposite side of the road, so much so, that i have nowhere to go! I have to stop, unclip from my pedals, and step off the road onto the grass ditch!. the driver keeps coming towards me, all while looking directly at the Horse!

Pet hate of mine, car drivers in Dublin, think its fine to overtake parked cars etc while traveling towards me at speed, very common around Goatstown, where I live. Simply no concept of a bike as a road user. They don't even slow down.

In a lot of cases they actually don't even see you as their brain doesn't register a bike same goes for motorbikes.

It is something that needs to be taught and education is key.

What is the usual answer given when a collision occurs is oh I didn't see you.

check_six wrote: »

What I found extraordinary was the lack of awareness of what was ahead on the road. Not even scanning 20 yards ahead, never mind 100.

The lack of scanning ahead of the object in front of you is a skill sorely lacking amongst drivers in this country.

It doesn't take much to look ahead and determine "if I overtake this cyclist will I actually get to my destination faster, or just end up at the next set of traffic lights where they will go in front of me again?"

It's probably my time cycling that has made me think this way and I rarely overtake a cyclist while driving in the city.

magicbastarder wrote: »

my wife knows a couple of people who go horseriding occasionally on the roads around NCD (well, specifically, from thorton park); horse riders seem to have similar complaints to cyclists, except they've the added bonus that their steed has a mind of its own.
most recently, one of the riders was complaining that she was overtaken by two motorbike riders, one of whom revved the bike hard as (s)he passed, nearly sending the horse into the ditch.

Well I hope to address that at a meeting tonight. My club are holding a meeting regarding our races and one of the topics i'll be discussing is what to do if you come across a horse on the road.

I do think a lot of people don't realize or know what they should or should do in this situation. especially cyclist who live in urban areas, but then cycle in rural area on the weekends/sportives etc.

magicbastarder wrote: »

and an almost identical incident on the way home.

I thought about your post today when a car squeezed between me and a bin lorry just before the roundabout in Laraghcon heading into Lucan. The three of us arrived at the traffic lights to cross the Liffey at the exact same time, so their fast close pass and dive leftwards to avoid the traffic island was in vain. Doubly so as I filtered around them into the bike box and crossed the river in front of them.

shootermacg wrote: »

Pet hate of mine, car drivers in Dublin, think its fine to overtake parked cars etc while traveling towards me at speed, very common around Goatstown, where I live. Simply no concept of a bike as a road user. They don't even slow down.

I think it's even worse on rural roads! Your cycling along and a car coming towards you. Then another car overtakes the first car and comes towards you at speed! It's a regular occurrence.

punisher5112 wrote: »

Here a pic

The Garda looks a bit strange with a leather lower half and an ordinary upper half.

Most motorcycle cops usually conduct their business with the helmet still on which can be annoying as it can be difficult to hear their muffled questions.

buffalo wrote: »

DFB have a photo, where they've blurred out the licence plate, and also blurred out some indecipherable symbol on the driver's door. :pac::pac:

https://twitter.com/DubFireBrigade/status/849675180825882634/photo/1

Spot the cyclist on the footpath

How does a car overturn in a speed restricted area (50kmph I think?)

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

The Garda looks a bit strange with a leather lower half and an ordinary upper half.

Most motorcycle cops usually conduct their business with the helmet still on which can be annoying as it can be difficult to hear their muffled questions.

He jumped in a car to attend that happens.

Kaisr Sose wrote: »

What's really concerning to me is the sheer number of these that are being documented here. Given its only a Boards sample, this attitude/behaviour/carelessness/lack of respect etc is actually at epidemic levels. However, the embattled Garda Commissoner tells us the cut backs had no impact on policing? The evidence that that is nonsense is evident every minute of the day on Irish roads. It will take years to change bad driving behaviours that has now become ingrained and acceptable to many motorists.

To be fair the cutbacks haven't had an effect on this. Policing of this sort of behaviour has always been non-existent. I don't know how long you've been about but in my opinion the current state of driving is actually a significant improvement on how people drove 20 years ago. Which is not to say there aren't still plenty of horrifying dreadful drivers who need to be off the roads, there are just more responsible ones now.

Of course there are more people swerving all over the road because they are on their phones now but the incidents of close passes and stupid oncoming overtakes are less than before. I did see a car acting oddly the other day. He was about 50m ahead of me but he was going about 20kph and as I watched he drifted slowly until his wheels were on the white line of the cycle lane, which must have worried the cyclist he was just behind. When I caught up to him I was surprised to see that instead of being on his phone as I expected he was using both hands to clean his glasses.

This is without even talking about drunk driving, it used to be that I was glad to see a taxi coming at me late at night because they were probably sober, unlike the drivers of a lot of private cars.