joebingo said:
Wasn't expecting that when it came. What is it about gutter huggers which mean that they have incidents like these and don't bat an eyelid?
Probably because they believe what car drivers say - and feel they have no right to be on the road (maybe because they drive often themselves).
It's the same kind of ignorance you get being a steering wheel anyway...
Martok said:
Just watched the video and to be honest I'd say the driver, the cyclist and the motorcyclist are all to blame here.
The driver is not in the best of road positions and has overtaken the cyclist at the lights instead of waiting as it's not that far afterwards that they turn left. They do at least put their indicator on if you look carefully.
The cyclist doesn't seem to be paying the attention to the road she should have, otherwise she'd have seen the car that had overtaken her indicating it was turning left and should have taken appropriate action so she didn't end up being nearly side swiped by the car.
The motorcyclist exacerbated things by overtaking the cyclist and then undertaking the car, so the car couldn't move in towards the turning any earlier due to this stupid manoeuvre.
Fortunately there was no accident here but things could have been a whole lot worse due to poor road behaviour from all three of them.
+1
I only just noticed the indicators (not that clear in the video) when someone else mentioned it... so I mentioned the overtake on the crossing/junction/lights.
Car - Ignorant (pushing past the cyclist at a junction)
Cyclist - Ignorant (get out of the gutter, specially at junctions)
Motorcyclist - Dickhead (squeezing past indicating traffic)