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

just found it, didn't think I'd find it so quickly

A driver approaching a road junction shall yield the right of way to another vehicle which has commenced to turn or cross at the junction in accordance with these bye-laws, and to a pedestrian who has commenced to cross at the junction in accordance with these bye-laws.

https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1964/si/294#:~:text=(2)%20A%20driver%20approaching%20a,accordance%20with%20these%20bye%2Dlaws.

something wrong with this tablet, I couldn't edit my last post.

going around them wouldn't be a great video to watch, cycling right up to them looks way better.

One that didn't involve me for once. Anyone who knows this stretch knows it's lethal for drivers pulling out across the cycle lane without looking.

Look for the cyclist coming in the opposite direction (with the flashing light). The Audi pulls straight out across his path and collides with the cyclist. The actual collision looks to be minor - presumably because the cyclist got on his brakes asap.

I didn't actually realise at the time they the two had collided, I thought she had just cut him off and the two were having words.

Notice though how the driver gets out and immediately starts berating the cyclist for the collision - eventhough she is very clearly in the wrong. This is the mindset we are up against daily. Could you imagine the same collision but with two cars? The driver who had pulled out on the road wouldn't even dream of blaming traffic already on the road.

Honestly, that's impossible to tell from the camera's vantage. We have no definitive read on how far away he was. However, this goes back to my first point - if these were two cars, the blame would firmly be place on the car that pulled out without looking. Traffic already on the road has right of way. Just because one of those vehicles is a bike, suddenly we're having a discussion about whether the cyclist could have stopped in time.

I have the original, less compressed version, and while it's still hard to say for sure - it doesn't seem so. It looks like she (the car driver) is only looking right, as that's where the vehicular traffic comes from.

Fair enough, I'll respectfully disagree.

You can see his head jolt forwards when he hits the car. I don't think anyone would voluntarily put themselves in that position, especially not in an instinctive split-second decision. Also, he's not cycling uphill. This is Parnell Place in Cork, sandwiched between the two arms of the Lee river. It's flat as a pancake.

Just the old attempted murder coming up to these lights today. Cars as usual parked in the dedicated parking spots with bike signs on them.

Lights going red as I passed the car currently parked just before the colour change on the cycle lane and I was moseying up going to turn right and a car overtakes me as I'm still on the left of the lane. Space there but he just cuts in front of me and I'd to swerve to avoid contact with him. Was very close.

I was like WTF but continued past him into the red box. He slides up and rolls down his window to say I should be in the cycle lane. I completely lost it with him. I was like do you not see the cars there? Told him to get away from me and moved further up. He continues forward and says the same thing again. By this point I'm just like fúck off and get away from me, the light had gone green and the car behind beeped him so I could only really go straight at this point so continued on.he was beside me right through the junction until I could get on the naturally blocked with cars cycle lane the other side.

Didn't get his reg or anything but at least the guy behind stopped and gave me the "what an asshole".

Maybe post a message to the drivers on the Motors forum.

Its the driver picking his nose or changing the radio station on one of those new giant ipads that cars have now that id be worried about hitting them. Every driver is careful, until they arent. Nobody maintains 100% concentration at all times even if the law seems to think they can.

have always found that junction a bit sketchy due to it's tight run from the Phibs end, to Iona

Blind bend? Check. Lorry? Check. Oncoming traffic? Check.

Luckily the driver of the white Nissan was switched on, and stopped with their hazards on to let the truck through.

Absolutely mental carry on.

May as well report that on the Garda website and see if anything comes of it.

https://garda.ie/en/trafficwatchreport/

Thanks, submitted. Last time I reported to AGS, I did so in my local station and nothing seemed to come of it.

Van behind is as bad. I cut off the video, but he goes for the overtake again after the cars you see in the video have passed. Only to be encountered by another oncoming car, and he bails out of it.

Overtaking on a solid line is an offence in itself nevermind the close pass so certainly should be acted upon.

I've been using a helmet mounted Techalogic for a few years. It's not perfect by any means but it does the job well enough. When this one dies I'd probably get another.

It would never fly precisely because it would be so successful. RSA/government are big on urging but draw the line at annoying motorists.