The Reich side of the road

It also tells you NOT to overtake on the approach to a junction or a bend, and specifically and repeatedly admonishes cyclists to take great care passing vehicles near junctions. The driver may well have seen the cyclist on the approach and reasonably assumed that they wouldn't make a suicide dive up the inside of the turn. They should have indicated, but I'm not convinced it would have made any difference to the situation.

The clip states that Ben Cabango pled for mercy as the ban would require him to move his family. This is an "exceptional hardship" plea. Which was ignored. That is the most serious one I've heard of (having to move family), alongside others such as "losing job" etc. So if that sort of plea can be disregarded, why can't other lesser pleas?

@the little onion Should have gone to Lancashire!

"Ben Cabango has been hit with a six-month driving ban and over £1,000 in fines" Good. Every infringement of traffic law while driving a lethal weapon should be treated that seriously. Drivers routinely do things that they know are illegal, reinforcing the habit until it becomes natural, and aren't punished until they kill or injure someone. While punishment is part of the solution, as another thread on here says, we should make such behaviour socially unacceptable. As well as banning and fining criminals, we should also require them to be retrained and to pass a more stringent test. But, as ever, society loves their cars, and not much changes. Reminds me of the closing scene in 'How to get ahead in advertising' when he's riding a horse and listing the things that they can sell the gullible, especially cars. Great movie.

On the footballer being 'banned' after being caught on the phone - as I understand it, a straightforward phone offense is just 6 points* on the license, insufficient for a ban. In other words, the man has previous, so it can't be blamed solely on so-called 'vigilante' cyclists (i.e. upstanding members of the public). *cue football joke about the easiest 6 points that Swansea FC will get this season.

@wtjs Try Surrey!

I refer the Honourable Squirrel to the discussion of August 31st in Another Place.

@Smoggysteve Based on the clip being old, having been reported on previously with no apparent new information making it worth re-reporting now, and the "reporters" knowing what the resulting online commentary would be... Could they be sued/tried for incitement to violence?

I don't use tubeless 🤷

Highway code rule 182 specifically says to look out for vehicles coming up from behind when turning left. The van also did not indicate. The arrow on the road doesn't remove those requirements from the van driver, just because he has to turn left doesn't mean it isn't a left turn. Also rule 170 says: Take extra care at junctions. You should watch out for cyclists etc. Still, I would have expected the van driver to completely ignore the rules of the road and held back until after the junction.