Community bus operator that cut up cyclist put another in hospital last year

Hi Again Road.c.c,

Did you contact the bus operator for a comment?  I ask again because this and the other close pass and contact videos you are showing seem to be no more than click bait. Persuade me otherwise. If its the case that when posting these you are also looking to, where possible get a comment from the company etc. responsible for the driver the thats great. Otherwise its a bit dissapointing at best and at worse rather cycnical.

Just because you are not getting paid to drive the bus or that it is not your full time job in no way reduces your duty of care to other road users.

Maybe if motorists were made personally liable for any and all emergency services, NHS treatment and insurance compensation costs when it could be found that they had driven at a standard far below that expected of a competent operator, then maybe they might take a little more care.

Hi Road.c.c,

Have you contacted the bus operator for a response?

Its probably disproportionately run by volunteers who have time, i.e. retired people and have a standard of driving consumate with that.  

The main problem is when vehicles roll up to the line but don't stop.  Two vehicles on an intersecting course that maintain the same bearing relative to each other will inevitably collide.  Put another way, if a driver doesn't move his head as he rolls up to a junction to look around the A pillar, he'll hit whatever is obscured by it.  The bus driver's head remains behind the A pillar in the video while he's looking and so the outcome is predictable. 

Easy spot for people pulling out on you - a moving vehicle is more likely to pull out on you than one that is not.

Part of the problem is that people don't look properly.  I've done it myself when driving; if you just give a quick glance to check the road is clear, it can be quite easy to miss a bike or motorbike.  The time I am referring to, luckily I had a second proper look and stopped, other wise the approaching cyclist would almost certainly have crashed into me.  I think that happened here, and maybe also with the Qashqai in Derby last week.

It's so important to take the time to look properly, and be awre at all times what is around you.  I think as cyclists we are massively more aware of this than most motorists, but it is something the government should be campaigning about.

The Soar Valley Community Bus web site says it is supported by Nottinghamshire County Council. Might be worth people contacting the council to see if they should continue to support this service if it cannot operate safely.

http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/contact-and-complaints/contact-us

No doubt there will be people who rely on the bus service, but if they're going to kill somebody some day - and it looks like they are heading that way, should public money be spent supporting this service.

Reminds me of the Coggeshall community bus service that consistently parked in yellow hatches blocking the wheelchair ramp at Kelvedon station yards from empty parking spaces.

Awareness courses = Feck off we can't be bothered to actually take this seriously.

Do we see HMRC running awareness courses for tax dodgers? 

Course not, that's serious stuff after all

Probably has something similar but with cyclists on it.