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

Jesus, I hope they got to the fire/toilet/toilet-fire in time.

Got a phone call this morning from the Guard who had received my Traffic Watch complaint of a veeeery close pass by a coach a couple of years ago. Prosecuted in the court for Careless Driving, pleaded guilty and fined €200. The camera never lies I guess! I still have the footage on another laptop so I'll post it shortly.

Proof that Traffic Watch complaints, while time consuming, aren't necessarily a waste of time.

What did occur to me afterwards however, is that when he pleaded guilty it means he was admitting that he had done it on purpose. Which is a pretty scary thing. One thing though, he won't be doing it again!

Kudos to the investigating Garda though. She was extremely professional throughout.

I have another complaint gone in last week which is even worse and also involves a bus driver. I'll post how that one goes (eventually!). What this guy did was utterly disgusting - to a person wearing a gilet with a picture of a camera on the back. And the words' RECORDING MY JOURNEY' 🙄

He saw me. It's clear on the footage that he saw me. It's actually obvious believe it or not. As I say, I'll put the footage up here and it'll explain itself

Had a bit of a close pass heading inbound on the N11 near Stillorgan from a mini-bus, wasn't in any real danger as I was on the cusp of stopping at the lights anyway. What was more of an issue was that the bus came near to hitting a mother and child at the pedestrian crossing, and probably would've at least tipped the child if the mother wasn't on the ball and pulled the kid back out of the way.

I had a really scary pass last week by car driving wrong side of the road at over 100km. I had to stop pedalling and move in and I thought I was gone.

I have rear fly 6 footage only but can't make the reg out. I think it's captured but needs some work in a pro editing pacage Can someone recomend something online that I could put original footage through and not loose footage that's already not so good (fly 6 is not HD)

I dont know how to post footage. If someone has a special set of skills that will help ID car I would appreciate it.

I was quite shaken by it and how 1sec slow may have saved my life. The pics are just screen grabs.

Thanks

That looks insanely close play it in VLC player and step through it frame by frame and you might be able to pick it out. You can take stills from VLC too. If you can get a partial try input it here https://private.carsireland.ie/add.php and it will give back make, model etc. to confirm if you got it right.

Thanks for the replies. I will try the frame by frame but I fear I need an editing package to sharpen image. You can sense check a reg via NCT too. If you have a make and model that could only be the reg in the footage it would hold up as there are not many cars of similar make, model, col and similar reg.

I will try and put the video up on a link as it's the still does not convey how scary and fast it was, and how far they went in one second after passing. What is the best way to do upload. I don't do YouTube.

Can a mod upload it for me? Maybe someone had movie editing software and skills. I will ask a graphic designer if they can improve /sharpen it. I want to report this driver as it was frightening. I am not a shrinking violet and well used to close passes.

In mid Feb I experienced an even closer deliberate close pass in the Scalp heading to Kilternan. The driver tried to pass with on coming traffic but aborted, waited for traffic to pass and then skimmed past me with an open road on the other lane. They barely crossed the centre line and almost hitmy bars, accelerating hard. (it was a fast car). I got clear reg on this. I am averaging 1 very close per day now, one Sunday I had two on the same stretch of road on opposite sides just a few days before this. Again the vehicles passed without changing their line / moving out. They stayed on inside of white line, leaving way less than the 1.5m required in an 80km zone. Less than 1m, maybe as little as 50cm.

Its such a pain having to go to Garda. They need to make it easier to report these.

Drivers don't give a damn now about speeding or close passes as they are not being caught. There are no speed checks on Enniskerry Road. Its manic at times, motorists passing close or on blind Bends, often for little gain as the motorist just gets up to the next cyclist, sometimes passing with oncoming cyclists too. I am so pissed off at this now and it's worse its getting.

Stick your video up on streamable and then post the link. We'll all be able to see the video anyway

But it won't improve the image, I assume it'll make it worse

They're horrible passes, you should report them all, its a pain but its all we can do.

For what its worth I now experience far fewer close passes since changing my road position to take the lane. It forces drivers to complete a proper overtake and gives you somewhere to go if they do skim you. In saying that you aren't too far in in those pics.

It may complicate things, but as long as you have a complete chain of evidence, it should be okay.

I will try streamable. Yes, it will be worse as the resolution gets blown in the compression.

I agree but if you have a partial reg it can remove a lot of similar make and models. If you have enough of it the car can be traced by AGS by entering make, model, col and up pops the list of matching cars. I have only hope to cling to. Some data is there

The nut case driving the car is worth spending some time to bring them to account. It was a crazy pass, driving right up to car ahead and then pulling out blind into my path at 100km plus. 2 second wait and its a safer overtake for me, albeit above speed limit, so still crazy driving heading into a 50km zone. Most cars on that road Mon to Fri are regular users so know this.

I will be asking. Stepaside Garda if they can get footage from filling stations in Enniskerry and in Kilternan - which the vehicle most likely passed. Perhaps even their ststion too. As I was not they may not put much effort into it. That's understandable with their limited resources. It depends on the Garda too.