[IanMSpencer]

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When he asked about “Why did

When he asked about “Why did you pull out with traffic coming down the hill?” then my response was “why did he?”. Then I noticed you added that as one of your test questions at the bottom. Anyway surely that would only be an issue if you caused the right hand driver to brake / manouvre like he caused. And unless you were bombing it onto the road (it was downhill but conditions wise I’m guessing you were not) then you would have been on the road a good few seconds before his manouvre, but he was probably doing one final check his right without checking left conditions hadn’t suddenly changed. 

However, I would have braked as soon as I saw his stupid ass coming across the lines and maintained space as possible rather then maintain momentum. 

Which car driver blamed you? The one coming down from the right or the one that suddenly appeared to stop him over taking the bus?

No bonus question on how many times they stated you should have been in the cycle lane?

hope all is ok though with yourself and your bike.

 

[IanMSpencer]

They’ve introduced a non-vike

They’ve introduced a non-bike lane bike lane to allow you to link from a service road. It drops down a steep bank onto the road with a give way into the cycle lane.

https://goo.gl/maps/EpGyMuFu4Rq8LoAf6

It is offset from a t-junction on the other side of the road which is to my left and I am turning left. There is a car a couple of hundred yards up the road to my right so I pull out, watching a car opposite – a BMW should have alerted my spidey senses. There is a bus at a bus stop 20 metres to my left, the road is not passable by a car with oncoming traffic.

Anyhow, I pulled onto the road and watched as the BMW then pulled across in front of me, I’ve got his side door about 2 metres in front of me, accelerating out. I swung out to the right to fill his mirror and to pass the bus at the bus stop, the driver then slammed his brakes on, and I ended up in the back of him.

I should have been a bit wiser to avoid setting myself up for a literal fall. I should have realised he couldn’t have made the manouvre he was attempting.

His comments were: “Why did you pull oout with traffic coming down the hill?”

“It was miles away”, I replied.

And “Couldn’t you see me pulling out?” to which I replied, “Yes, because you came right across in front of me when I was already eastablished on the road.”

Nice van driver asked after me, then another driver claimed to have seen it all and it was definitely all my fault.

Your test is: if there was traffic that stopped me pulling out, how could he make a right turn safely?

And at what point does a car pulling out of a side road establish priority over a road user on the main road?

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