Had to bang on the car door before she saw me!!

[Boris Bajic]

I do not for a moment intend to defend the driving, which is not good driving. I do not even offer what I think is a credible mitigation.

Nonetheless, this situation resembles one I encounter fairly often. A car or van passes me while another waits ahead of us to join the carriageway from a side road on the right.

The driver of the emerging car looks this way, that, then this again. He or she sees the passing car, which may be obscuring me for those critical seconds.

There are plenty of opportunities to say that the distance of the passing car should indicate the presence of a slower vehicle... That two or three glances might betray my presence... That getting an eye test might be a f**king start... But the light is poor, the CD isn't playing properly, the kids are kicking the back of the driver's seat, the clutch is juddering and you don't know why....

The fact is that these incidents happen - quite often in my experience. Road users get distracted or fail correctly to interpret the evidence before ther eyes.

I back off in these situations if I see them coming. Sometimes I fail to spot the impending threat. That can be sh1tty, as it was for the rider in the OP. My sympathies and I'm glad it didn't come to a tarmac moment.

 

[BentMikey]

How can you expect anyone to see you on that stupid low thing? You're invisible. Only an idiot would ride that kind of contraption on the roads.

 

[guitarpete247]

Typical of Rossington drivers, from my memory of the place .

 

[MrJamie]

I wonder if from the drivers point of view, they approached the T junction, on approach the view to the left (where you are) is somewhat obscured by trees, so they look to the right and see a gap, then check left as the car overtakes and obscures you and commit to pull out behind it, before seeing you and squeezing through the pinch point with you. I'm not defending the driving at all, rather trying to understand it.

I'm curious if anyone thinks it would have been better to take a more primary position past the junction and pinch point, which may have prevented the overtake from the red car or made it more obvious it was overtaking something, although it did appear to give a lot of space.

 

[Sara_H]

Warning, this video contains expletives.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cam_pxwUL4

Shocking that she didn't stop, given that loud bang she wasn't to know that she hadn't hit you.