Updated: Near Miss of the Day 293 - why wait when you’re driving the bigger vehicle?

Judge dreadful wrote:

However, it was patently obvious what was coming. Sometimes discretion is the better part of valour. Concentrate on stopping, rather than waving your arms about and shouting at the driver(s). I know, I know, we shouldn’t have to, but hey, self preservation society 

It wasn't obvious at all. The second car's indicator was masked by the first car until it was far too late, and there was no reason to assume from it's attitude approaching the junction that it was about to swing across on the wrong side of the road, at speed, without a clear view of whether the road was clear.

If you took the view that you should anticipate that the driver of every car was likely to do something illegal and irrational like this at any given moment, you'd never take the bike on the road at all.

zero_trooper wrote:

I don’t believe that it even registered with the driver that you existed (eye contact or not). They just rushed the junction, following the silver car as nothing significant was on-coming. i.e. something that would damage them.

Good luck with your complaint and keep us updated. When the footage is uploaded to A&S police, does it generate a reference number?

Yes, you get a reference number immediately and an officer will follow up with an email as to their decision within a few days.  

I have had three warning letters sent to drivers and two notices of intention to prosecute (NIP) so far this year (the latter for twats driving onto roundabouts, cutting in front of me when I had priority).  My commute is only two and a half miles each way and only about half of that on roads.  And I only report the worst incidents.  That is how fucking bad north Bristol is for crap drivers.

James, you should probably take this down until you hear from A&S.  I was asked by Cycliq (I use their Fly12 CE) for the footage of the NIP incidents and checked with A&S.  They instructed me not to share the footage as both cases were still sub judice.

Plasterer's Radio wrote:

A brown C-max....sexy.

you will deffo get more sex driving one of those.

Sports car:  "I'd like to have sex at least once"

People carrier:  "I've had sex at least once"

EK Spinner wrote:

Cutting the corner when turning into junctions has become so common now that I often find folk stopping to "flash" me out a junction when I am waiting on the giveway lines, all so that they can sweep into the junction. Do they not relaise just how far round their steering goes.

 

and then these folk get onto juries (believing themselves to be good drivers) and whether driving standards fall below that of a competent driver. It really is time that driving rules were policed robustly (not warnings or courses - strong meaningful punishment) and then driving standards would improve 

 

...and that traffic rules were enforced by police not by juries, 12-point "totting up" rules being the most heinous example. 

Bmblbzzz wrote:

 

...and that traffic rules were enforced by police not by juries, 12-point "totting up" rules being the most heinous example. 

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Traffic rules are enforced by the police and a court will establish guilt or otherwise.  Depending on the type of court, a jury may play the major part in this decision.  But that jury has no say in any punishment, that is the job of the judge.  So anyone who gets away with the 12 point ban has a judge (or magistrate) to thank. 

EK Spinner wrote:

Cutting the corner when turning into junctions has become so common now that I often find folk stopping to "flash" me out a junction when I am waiting on the giveway lines, all so that they can sweep into the junction. Do they not relaise just how far round their steering goes.

 

and then these folk get onto juries (believing themselves to be good drivers) and whether driving standards fall below that of a competent driver. It really is time that driving rules were policed robustly (not warnings or courses - strong meaningful punishment) and then driving standards would improve 

 

Good point about jurors believing that they are all competent drivers.

EK Spinner wrote:

Cutting the corner when turning into junctions has become so common now that I often find folk stopping to "flash" me out a junction when I am waiting on the giveway lines, all so that they can sweep into the junction. Do they not relaise just how far round their steering goes.

This.

Occasionally a driver will overtake me while we are both turning into a side road, necessitating them cutting the corner. There's one particular blind, car lined corner on my route which seems to be popular for this. Only once has karma struck (literally) with a car coming the other direction.