Near Miss of the Day 67: Red light jumping black cab driver

Luxie wrote:

The bikes could be in the wrong here. The green light for them means Proceed if the way is clear, it isnt, there is still traffic turning right and the taxi is the last of those vehicles so could be over the stop line when the lights change so hasn't jumped the red light. 

or it could just be a bad driver and the cyclists, like everyone else on the roads, has to make allowances for others mistakes.

I reckon it's the former. I ride through this junction every day in the same direction as the taxi. It's rare to be able to turn right until the lights change and the oncoming traffic stops. I'm usually first in line to turn right, but if you get caught behind a bus etc, then quite often the traffic coming from the left (where the cyclists in this video are) is bearing down on you before you've cleared the junction. Reckon there needs to be a longer gap between lights going red in one direction and green in t'other.

Luxie wrote:

The bikes could be in the wrong here. The green light for them means Proceed if the way is clear, it isnt, there is still traffic turning right and the taxi is the last of those vehicles so could be over the stop line when the lights change so hasn't jumped the red light. 

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Doesn't add up, there are no other vehicles turning in front of the cab so the cab would not have come across and at the cyclist the way it did.

kie7077 wrote:

Luxie wrote:

The bikes could be in the wrong here. The green light for them means Proceed if the way is clear, it isnt, there is still traffic turning right and the taxi is the last of those vehicles so could be over the stop line when the lights change so hasn't jumped the red light. 

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Doesn't add up, there are no other vehicles turning in front of the cab so the cab would not have come across and at the cyclist the way it did.

all in all a deliberate act of selfish driving.....

White car turns right in front of taxi - motor cyclist sets off at same time and same direction as cyclists - cab starts a long way back behind the right turn white car so probably crosses at red but slows to let the motor cyclist through and appears to very neatly and deliberately accelerate into gap ahead of cyclists to left turn forcing them to slow.....the style of driving that causes those came out of nowhere, can't be my fault "accidents" no room for error...awesome skills not

Luxie wrote:

The bikes could be in the wrong here. The green light for them means Proceed if the way is clear, it isnt, there is still traffic turning right and the taxi is the last of those vehicles so could be over the stop line when the lights change so hasn't jumped the red light. 

or it could just be a bad driver and the cyclists, like everyone else on the roads, has to make allowances for others mistakes.

Though they are a lot more likely to be killed by those mistakes. So not really 'like everyone else on the roads' then?

FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:

Luxie wrote:

The bikes could be in the wrong here. The green light for them means Proceed if the way is clear, it isnt, there is still traffic turning right and the taxi is the last of those vehicles so could be over the stop line when the lights change so hasn't jumped the red light. 

or it could just be a bad driver and the cyclists, like everyone else on the roads, has to make allowances for others mistakes.

Though they are a lot more likely to be killed by those mistakes. So not really 'like everyone else on the roads' then?

Unfortunately you still have to make allowances to avoid being killed including if you see a taxis, Uber or mini-cab knowing they drive like cockwombles.

Lukas wrote:

Mind you, imagine what it must be like to be so uneducated that you are forced to drive for a living? 

I know it's quite a specific form of intelligence but The Knowledge is incredibly demanding and there's evidence to suggest that the brains of taxi drivers (or indeed anyone who has learnt specific memory-intensive tasks) actually develop more.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16086233

Doesn't stop a lot of them driving like total cockwombles though or of being subjected to a rascist / homophobic tirade while you're in the back of one as they confidently proclaim that immigrants are doing them out of an honest living...