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

something in the air about stupid overtakes. i was overtaken, across a white line, into oncoming traffic yesterday where it was blatantly clear there was ample overtaking opportunity ahead. if the driver had waited literally just two seconds, he wouldn't have scared the **** out of the oncoming driver.

i used to commute from near DCU to sandyford, and i never went near the five lamps - i went down griffith avenue, past east point business park, over the east link and out strand road from there. if i'd been heading to UCD i'd have swung up through trimleston and woodbine, might be an alternative route?

accelerating a car towards a roundabout to prevent an otherwise safe merge is clearly being wilfully dangerous. and considering they're also accelerating towards a vulnerable road user, would make it worse.

she was wilfully creating a hazard.

let's look at this in an alternate way; if you see someone pulling out of a side road ahead of you, and you think they're going to pull out before you get there - are you allowed accelerate specifically to prevent them? if you have the faintest whiff there's a hazard, you slow down. the first rule of driving a car is to avoid danger.

it's because the person merging into another lane has to give way to people already in that lane. but that also requires the people who are already in that lane to drive responsibly.

a very similar corollary is merging on a motorway. if you match your speed to the prevailing traffic, and see a gap it's safe to pull into, that is how you merge. however, if the driver 100m or 200m back sees you starting to do this and speeds up to prevent you from merging, they are the ones being a dick/creating the hazard.

or; you don't have right of way over a space you should not be in.

i've whatsapped that to a garda i know, he might know what to do with it.

Paul_Mc1988, might be worth holding onto that video for now, just in case it disappears from reddit.

i just rang the garda station in ballymun; they're aware of the video and the matter is under investigation.

cf the video someone posted in the journalism and cycling thread, about the case in the UK where a driver knocked a cyclist down and punched him unconscious.

well, whaddya know; an uneventul 32km spin, until about 3 or 4km from home - when a taxi driver drove out in front of me. and it was at the side of the airport.

i was almost all the way through this junction and he pulled out from the left, in front of me, with about 2m to spare. stared at me impassively when we both reached the next set of lights.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4171993,-6.2659726,3a,75y,168.82h,88.95t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sVl7jz7ItbIcFN8FPdvBWsg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DVl7jz7ItbIcFN8FPdvBWsg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D76.54344%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

then cycling downhill through ballymun, i was in the middle lane and the guy driving the bus to my left indicated and pulled out into my lane very possibly not knowing i was there. he'd have easily been able to see me in his wing mirror though.

yeah, i'm not sure what the usual terminology would be.

an aside, i don't like the use of the word 'forks' because it's a fork, and 'front fork' is a tautology in a sense.