First up Cotham Road, 14:15 on a Sunday Afternoon - GN56FJA is forced to aggressively overtake a bike which shouldn't be in the way.
It's not too dangerous, the oncoming golf doesn't even flash their lights -and they have given the bicycle lots of room. They even waited until the top of the hill had been cleared, so there was enough visibility to see the oncoming golf before pulling out. You wouldn't see such courtesy in London.
Yes, a car is required to give way to a pedestrian waiting to cross or on a zebra crossing -but what if there is an island? Once a traffic island appears, you can ignore the other lane, so they aren't on your bit of the zebra crossing. And as they aren't waiting to cross the zebra crossing -they are on it- that rule doesn't apply either.
Finally, at about 14:30, you can see why we really hate these people, when RO57WFG gets abuse from the parent purely because it turns straight over them while turning from Clifton Park to Clifton Down Road.
The parent and child were probably turning left, so there was no need to slow down or indicate -and this VW Touran was clearly in a hurry -because the man driving didn't indicate at the miniroundabout either. But he achieved his goal: got to the bridge first, where unlike the tax dodging family, the driver paid for the upkeep and the illumination of the bridge.
This shows that one single cyclist can, in the space of fifteen minutes, nearly cause three collisions. You can also hear a small child in the background asking questions about why the deranged parent is shouting registration numbers at the car. What kind of example is that? He will grow up to be one of those people who get banned from supermarkets for shouting at people.
"Murder Most Foul", published 1947 suggests that British drivers are among the worst in the world.
ReplyDeleteNothing's changed. Nobody's learned. Nobody wants to know.
Sad, innit.
I am assuming you have your camera mounted on your helmet. I tried that too, but found it bounced around too much - I'm getting much better quality video with it mounted on the handlebars (although you can't whip the camera around to see the idiot who is overtaking you with 3 inches to spare).
ReplyDeleteWhen you hear the road and brake noise coming off the handlebars you'll see why the helmet works. We are going to instrument a different tax-dodger next week, to see whether their bike behaves better.
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