Woman found guilty of driving without due care... but Facebook still blames cyclist

You only have a to watch a few dashcam uk videos to see the submitter making things worse by carrying on into trouble or worse accelerating. All they had to do was lift off the pedal or slight brake to control the situation.

And indeed how many cars choose the correct lane at a roundabout? Plus, more and more, drivers going straight over at smaller roundabouts consider it as straight on and don't slow down at all, let alone give priority to traffic on the roundabout or joining from the right.

I was overtaken on the outside on a roundabout by another car while I was driving my car last Saturday. I was taking the third exit and had correctly indicated and positioned myself on the inside lane. The little Fiat shot past me in the outside lane and then cut in front at the thrid exit.

To be honest I was relieved as the driver had been tailgating me all the way down a steep hill and it was pouring with reain. The person then proceeded to tailgate the car in front, despite the fact it was chucking it down with rain. Some people simply haven't a clue. I was fully prepared to act as a witness in case the Fiat slammed into the back of the car in front.

We can apply that to a lot of driving. I took great pleasure in giving a car a couple of hard slaps as I crossed a zebra today and I had to pause for them. Car on my side had stopped as I approached, car on far side, in a 20 area, decided they could chance it and decided they didn't fancy the effort of pressing the brake pedal. I bet they leapt out of their seat at the noise.

Then I had a word with the driver who had stopped entirely on the zig zags next crossing down as he discussed where he was going to unload. I simply asked "Don't you know what that (points at road markings) means?" Got apology from business manager "We are trying to sort it out now " and entirely baffled look from driver.

But cyclists...

Looking at the streetview, all the pavements around the roundabout are shared use. Could this have been a 'get on the cycle path' punishment?

It would appear she was in the left of two lanes on approaching the roundabout and apparently intending to drive straight on. There are no lanes on the roundabut (as far as I can see from the Google Earth link), so no one can say the cyclist is 'in the wrong lane'. It looks as if he took a line away from the curb to avoid left-turning drivers from left-hooking him (I've been undertaken similarly on a multi-lane junction).

I'd say her approach to the roundabout was too fast to assess what the cyclist in front was intending. She seems to have assumed he is intending to continue round the roundabout (if she even saw him).

Or at least some puns on the perps surname:

Whilst this conviction is welcome, the World is not enough.

HoarseMann wrote:

Or at least some puns on the perps surname:

Whilst this conviction is welcome, the World is not enough.

Given how hostile the world can be to cycling, I expect the cyclist will just Die Another Day.

Do you actually read anything else on the road.cc website?

HarrogateSpa wrote:

This is the epitome of the road.cc formula: "aren't people unreasonable, why don't you get involved and berate the idiots criticising the cyclist?'

That may well be partly true here; and I understand that it's hard to produce engaging content on a daily basis. But really, couldn't you write something more interesting and/or positive for once?

What is not interesting and/or positive about a dangerous driver getting punished after nearly hitting a cyclist?

The short mention of the negative facebook comments just pads out the article a bit more but mostly it concentrates on the incident and the consequences for the driver.

More like this please Road.cc.

Northants Police publish a spreadsheet every month showing responses to all submitted footage. It gives feedback on unsuccessful submissions but only states 'action taken', not what action was taken, on successful ones. I always thought it was just letter so it's good to know that some result in much more.

Since October they've added an additional column to the spreadsheet called "Recommended disposal" which, where a road traffic offence has been identified, will say either Letter, Points or Course.

It's a small improvement that goes some way to addressing people's complaints about feedback and we can only hope that the recommendations are followed.

I hope this is the case. Gloucestershire have nearly always given me feedback on my reports and it has been very useful. It has cut down the reports I make to only those which I think have a chance of action. I don't always agree with the feedback but I think I have a better understanding of the constraints they are working under.

They have just moved over to using Operation Snap and, unusually, I haven't had any cause to make a report since so I don't know how the new system works. Any one used it yet?

It has cut down the reports I make to only those which I think have a chance of action
Well, that algorithm would reduce my reporting load in Lancashire to zero

Thanks, I didn't know that, sounds like an improvement. No doubt I'll check it out at some point.