It's finally happened, after many years of driving, scootering and cycling and watching endless people sail through red lights, often dangerous ones at high speed, saw one get caught last night
rolled up to one car back at the lights eastbound on Seven Sisters Road and Hornsea Road, as our lights go green, there's the noise of a speeding car, a brief toot of a horn and then an almightly smash, some sort of MPV has come through the lights from the North, presumably at speed and very late as they've smashed into someone pulling away in the southmost lane, swerved to miss them and run into the railings and them, awful noise of things smashing and breaking, brief pause while everyone at the lights looked at them and then everyone drove off, it was 9.30pm and cold and dark, seemed to be plenty of peds around anyway, I thought about being a witness for the chap presumably in the right but I suspected he might have set off early, no-one else had gone, and they were on the other side of three lanes of speeding cars
ah well, nice to see someone finally cock it up properly
oo and on the way in my first high speed left turn across me, rock solid primary in the bus lane going down the long hill into Camden from Holloway Road, 25mph+, car acclerates alongside and past me indicating left, I watch with interest than across me he comes and then tries to slow down enough to turn left with another cyclist waiting to turn right out of the side road and watching with interest, suffice to say the car makes a complete cock of it and even with anticipation I do lots of braking and fishtailing/trying to say on and thinking I won't be able to stop in time, I wouldn't have either but luckily he managed to get into the side road and tear away, grrr, not fun and yet another two pieces of classic footage lost forever, my PI settlement comes in fairly soon, I might have to slice a piece off for a snazzy camera thingy
you'd have loved both incidents, perhaps not the left turn
rolled up to one car back at the lights eastbound on Seven Sisters Road and Hornsea Road, as our lights go green, there's the noise of a speeding car, a brief toot of a horn and then an almightly smash, some sort of MPV has come through the lights from the North, presumably at speed and very late as they've smashed into someone pulling away in the southmost lane, swerved to miss them and run into the railings and them, awful noise of things smashing and breaking, brief pause while everyone at the lights looked at them and then everyone drove off, it was 9.30pm and cold and dark, seemed to be plenty of peds around anyway, I thought about being a witness for the chap presumably in the right but I suspected he might have set off early, no-one else had gone, and they were on the other side of three lanes of speeding cars
ah well, nice to see someone finally cock it up properly
oo and on the way in my first high speed left turn across me, rock solid primary in the bus lane going down the long hill into Camden from Holloway Road, 25mph+, car acclerates alongside and past me indicating left, I watch with interest than across me he comes and then tries to slow down enough to turn left with another cyclist waiting to turn right out of the side road and watching with interest, suffice to say the car makes a complete cock of it and even with anticipation I do lots of braking and fishtailing/trying to say on and thinking I won't be able to stop in time, I wouldn't have either but luckily he managed to get into the side road and tear away, grrr, not fun and yet another two pieces of classic footage lost forever, my PI settlement comes in fairly soon, I might have to slice a piece off for a snazzy camera thingy
you'd have loved both incidents, perhaps not the left turn
