Near Miss of the Day 225: Poor road design puts cyclists and drivers in conflict

Today’s video in our Near Miss of the Day series comes from Cork in the Republic of Ireland and shows a very poor road design that leads to cyclists and drivers coming into conflict as a cycle lane comes to an end immediately after a junction.

The footage was posted to Twitter by user Rightobikeit, who described the road layout as a “death trap.”

Responding to another Twitter user who was critical of the driver, he added: "This was not the driver's fault. The road design ran the 2 of us into a pinch point, on a bend which makes it worse."

Click through to read the full discussion on the thread.

Jesus wept! @corkcitycouncil did ye let some lad on work experience design this shite?FFS!! @Cyclistie @CorkCyclingCrew @IBIKEDublin @IBIKECork @CitizenW0lf @IrishCycle @SafeCyclingEire @cosaingalway @BazK_GoW3 @roadcc @CorkCyclist @sticky_bottle @Peteer pic.twitter.com/pqkRgS9YRM

— Righttobikeit (@righttobikeit) November 30, 2018

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