Too Much Excitement On The Commute Home

[Vikeonabike]

Not the drivers fault, you really shouldn't have been cycling out of the sun...Not without shouting TORA TORA TORA anyway!

 

[benb]

Why do helmet cammers always manufacture incidents where there isn't eally one?

 

[RedRider]

Difficult to spot something like that coming Good footage but don't support the naming and shaming/reg sharing angle.

 

[dawesome]

Difficult to spot something like that coming Good footage but don't support the naming and shaming/reg sharing angle.

If the reg wasn't posted nobody could identify an idiot driver.

 

[RedRider]

Well each to their own but I don't support it. We can all recognise idiot driving but I doubt I'd recognise/remember the number plate if I saw it out and about.

 

[gavintc]

In the defence of the driver. It is a right hand drive van with massive blind spots and in my opinion, it is just the sort of thing to watch out for. The cyclist was not cycling in a defensive manner, but had 'presumed' he had been spotted.

 

[ferret fur]

yeah....right

By the way... HC 239
If you have to stop on the roadside:

• do not park facing against the traffic flow

 

[dawesome]

Well each to their own but I don't support it. We can all recognise idiot driving but I doubt I'd recognise/remember the number plate if I saw it out and about.

The courts probably will. If, God forbid, a driver exposed as a casual idiot on Youtube ends up killing someone. Trail of evidence innit.

 

[RedRider]

The courts probably will. If, God forbid, a driver exposed as a casual idiot on Youtube ends up killing someone. Trail of evidence innit.

I take your point and can see a small potential for something good to come of it but would it be used as evidence in court? And more importantly is it reason enough for us to turn into amateur surveillance machines? In my mind, no.

 

[400bhp]

I have The Seahorses playing in my head.​

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[400bhp]

Oh - nearly had a head on with a cyclist this morning cos I was "blinded by the sun". My fault.

I had a bit of a 6th sense moment - was actually simultaneously thinking "if another cyclist was heading towards me at this moment I couldn't see them".

 

[Graham]

In the defence of the driver. It is a right hand drive van with massive blind spots and in my opinion, it is just the sort of thing to watch out for. The cyclist was not cycling in a defensive manner, but had 'presumed' he had been spotted.

Assume this is tongue in cheek! I really can't see that cyclist should be on the look out for parked vans with big blind spots (as well as peds, potholes, puddles, oil on the road, cars pulling in front of them, cars pulling out on them, buses doing that, car doors opening into them, red lights, amber lights, the sun, the moon, other cyclists, motorbikes). I know of someone who did a u-turn like that and a motorcyclist went over the bonnet and died. Guy got sent down for dangerous driving.

 

[BSRU]

In the defence of the driver. It is a right hand drive van with massive blind spots and in my opinion, it is just the sort of thing to watch out for.

All the more reason to be careful when attempting a u-turn on a main road.

The cyclist was not cycling in a defensive manner, but had 'presumed' he had been spotted.

That's so funny.

 

[Col5632]

To me the van driver should have checked and double checked that nothing was coming before he tried a U turn on a main road, dont think the cyclist done anything wrong and was very lucky not to be seriously hurt

 

[BSRU]

Well at least Wiltshire police are doing their best to discourage reporting of anything.
Before they would send a form out, that would be filled in and returned so they could decide if it's worth their time.
Now, I have to visit the "Fortress of Solitude", the police "wisely" decided to move the station from the town centre, where most of the trouble is, to the outskirts of town almost in Oxfordshire, where I need to fill out the same form .