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

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  • #2402
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,709 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Enfilade wrote: »
    Is there a case to be made for Sy and Seth being the same man? Their f**k sakes are strikingly similar :pac:

    I'm guessing same part of the country lads?
    I'm just plain old me. I haven't the energy to be anyone else! :)


  • #2403
    sy_flembeck
    Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭sy_flembeck


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    I'm just plain old me. I haven't the energy to be anyone else! :)

    I'm just me too! Or am I? :D


  • #2404
    uberwolf
    Registered Users Posts: 7,578 ✭✭✭uberwolf


    tnegun wrote: »
    Result! The guard in question couldn't of been more on the ball or interested. I dropped the footage in on USB yesterday, driver produced their docs this morning and was shown the footage. They made some excuses about not being close to me or the approaching cars. Guard is proceeding with a fine for careless driving and said its €120 and 3 points (Online says thats €80 and 2 points) either way the driver will think next time they pass a cyclist.


    https://streamable.com/dmvu23

    That road looks so familiar, is it between maynooth and kilcock?


  • #2405
    padjocollins
    Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭padjocollins


    tnegun wrote: »
    Result! The guard in question couldn't of been more on the ball or interested. I dropped the footage in on USB yesterday, driver produced their docs this morning and was shown the footage. They made some excuses about not being close to me or the approaching cars. Guard is proceeding with a fine for careless driving and said its €120 and 3 points (Online says thats €80 and 2 points) either way the driver will think next time they pass a cyclist.


    https://streamable.com/dmvu23

    The speed he was going, what if the oncoming cars didn't hug the other side of the road ? I feel the 120 fine and 3 points isn't nearly enough. i'd be looking at 1k fine and 3 months off the road. He knew what he was doing, very dangerous. Anyway, a result nonetheless.


  • #2406
    sy_flembeck
    Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭sy_flembeck


    sy_flembeck wrote: »
    One of those was mine (must put that footage up here now actually)

    Killiskey hill from Ashford towards Roundwood. The first time he backs off is when
    I gesticulate that he's too close. Cost €120:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFixJzTIYFQ


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  • #2407
    micar
    Registered Users Posts: 1,876 ✭✭✭micar


    sy_flembeck wrote: »
    Killiskey hill from Ashford towards Roundwood. The first time he backs off is when
    I gesticulate that he's too close. Cost €120:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFixJzTIYFQ

    Heart skipped a beat at the end....he was so close to hitting you.


  • #2408
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,404 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    sy_flembeck wrote: »
    Killiskey hill from Ashford towards Roundwood. The first time he backs off is when
    I gesticulate that he's too close. Cost €120:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFixJzTIYFQ
    micar wrote: »
    Heart skipped a beat at the end....he was so close to hitting you.

    I was sure he was down, that was mental, and for what?!? a 2 second wait and there would have been tons of space, absolutely mental


  • #2409
    sy_flembeck
    Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭sy_flembeck


    micar wrote: »
    Heart skipped a beat at the end....he was so close to hitting you.

    Utterly pointless move. Gained nothing. I reckon he even broke the temporary light initially but obviously I couldn't prove that.


  • #2410
    sy_flembeck
    Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭sy_flembeck


    CramCycle wrote: »
    I was sure he was down, that was mental, and for what?!? a 2 second wait and there would have been tons of space, absolutely mental

    After the queue waiting to move at the light the road ahead was completely clear as far as the eye could see.


  • #2411
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 24,228 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    sy_flembeck wrote: »
    After the queue waiting to move at the light the road ahead was completely clear as far as the eye could see.


    Was on a similar road a few weeks back and 2 cars overtook me as I was trying to overtake a parked operating ambulance. First one almost took my arm off as I tried to indicate and then the second done the exact same only to end up behind me again 500m up the road at a red.


    Car 1 then tries to round me on the bend off the lights and again down the hill only to realise I was now going the speed limit and having to slow myself for the car ahead of me


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  • #2412
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    We should have a "pointless overtake" thread. So many of them. For what - 2, 3 or 5 seconds?


  • #2413
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,709 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    We should have a "pointless overtake" thread. So many of them. For what - 2, 3 or 5 seconds?
    Can't remember if I posted this one before...
    https://streamable.com/60jq90


  • #2414
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    Can't remember if I posted this one before...
    https://streamable.com/60jq90

    Ah jaysus


  • #2415
    wheelo01
    Registered Users Posts: 678 ✭✭✭wheelo01


    I occasionally drive the route 66 and 67, and there is always loads of cyclists about - probably something to do with it being flat :)

    The amount of this sort of thing I see, on what are essentially country roads, is outstanding/outrageous. Mostly all these people get is a few seconds and no more.

    While driving our that way, I am more times held up a couple of times per journey, but what do I care, I have already clocked in!! I always indicate when passing to let the following drivers know, but those ahead of me that extend that courtesy is very few.

    I think most don't even realise what they have done (not an excuse, merely an observation)


  • #2416
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,709 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Just seen this on Twitter - the system here is a joke...

    https://twitter.com/SamMcCormack97/status/1332294829255036929?s=19


  • #2417
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,515 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    I was told by a Gardai that I would indeed have to be knocked of and seriously injured for any action to be taken. He then went on to lament the terrible state of driving on Irish roads. He was 100% sincere.


  • #2418
    tnegun
    Registered Users Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭tnegun


    Insufficient evidence for prosecution seems to be the fall back once they run out of time. I think it's 6 months to prosecute and then that response is triggered which would match the date on the video. I got it for the AirPort Hopper incident and even when stuff was stolen from the front of the house and I had CCTV plus the identity of the guys involved after 6 months had elapsed for each.


  • #2419
    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,162 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    The thing is RightToBikeIt has had similar incidents prosecuted before. Its a total lottery based on the Gard/supervising inspector you get.


  • #2420
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 28,277 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Was there something strange in the air today? I was out on the bike and in the car, and there were multiple drivers breaking red lights, late reds, one coming close to a sixty-something gent who waved his hands in frustration. The usual people parking on every path and cycle lane and driving with their phones in hand as we've come to expect of course. One Range Rover lady managed the hat trick of pulling up on the wrong side of the road at traffic lights at Baggot St bridge, and driving off against a red light with her phone in her hand.


  • #2421
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 24,228 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Was there something strange in the air today? I was out on the bike and in the car, and there were multiple drivers breaking red lights, late reds, one coming close to a sixty-something gent who waved his hands in frustration. The usual people parking on every path and cycle lane and driving with their phones in hand as we've come to expect of course.

    Same yesterday. It's funny how the cold and dark makes the people in the heated lighted boxes act with an irrational urgency


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  • #2422
    Duckjob
    Registered Users Posts: 2,856 ✭✭✭Duckjob


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Was there something strange in the air today? I was out on the bike and in the car, and there were multiple drivers breaking red lights, late reds, one coming close to a sixty-something gent who waved his hands in frustration. The usual people parking on every path and cycle lane and driving with their phones in hand as we've come to expect of course. One Range Rover lady managed the hat trick of pulling up on the wrong side of the road at traffic lights at Baggot St bridge, and driving off against a red light with her phone in her hand.

    Sounds like a pretty routine day on Irish roads to me.


  • #2423
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭buffalo


    One for Trafficwatch on Monday morning:



  • #2424
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭buffalo


    buffalo wrote: »
    There was a hit and run near Kilcock end of September - a "silver SUV van" hit a female cyclist who "had appropriate lighting".

    Naturally the Garda then...
    Quote:
    encouraged other cyclists to make sure they have correct lighting and wear the right clothes.

    "Hi visible[sic] jackets on the bicycle and good cycling equipment is important," he said.

    "It is essential that people take the necessary precautions with the appropriate clothing and lighting."

    From this week's Liffey Champion. I exploded a bit while reading it.

    This Garda has now been promoted from Sergeant to Inspector! At least he's not in my area any more.

    I raised the comments with the Garda Press Office, no response. Awaiting a response from the Commissioner's office now, because the local JPC meeting didn't go ahead (Covid).


  • #2425
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,188 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    'but you weren't on the cycle path'


  • #2426
    cletus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,857 ✭✭✭cletus


    Jesus. I was actually sure you were going to go down there.


  • #2427
    tnegun
    Registered Users Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭tnegun


    buffalo wrote: »
    One for Trafficwatch on Monday morning:

    Just got straight to Leixlip or Celbridge garda station (Thats Applegreen in Celbridge right?) if its open. All traffic watch will do it is log it and then you'll have to try make an appointment with the Guard its assigned to some time in the next 2-6 weeks. If you go in and make a statement print off a couple of pics and have the footage on USB you've done all the leg work and have a better chance of a prosecution and guard taking an interest IMO


  • #2428
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,404 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    buffalo wrote: »
    One for Trafficwatch on Monday morning:

    As bad as it was, did the guy in the red hoodie think you were shouting at him? He had a look of , why the f*** was he shouting at me.


  • #2429
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭buffalo


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    'but you weren't on the cycle path'

    I'm hoping that at least the Garda won't say that, whatever about the driver. I do use the cycle track further along, after it twice yields to allow access to a petrol station and business park. Business trumps cycling after all.


  • #2430
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭buffalo


    CramCycle wrote: »
    As bad as it was, did the guy in the red hoodie think you were shouting at him? He had a look of , why the f*** was he shouting at me.

    ha! I never even noticed that. Looks like he's watching after me for quite a while too...


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  • #2431
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,709 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Bloody cyclists (not me!)...

    https://twitter.com/AlanDub13/status/1333059687412080640


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