Girl hits cyclist then jokes about it on Twitter.

I saw a stupid maneaouvure today, like insane. Guy is lucky.

Two lanes, large HGV in right lane indicating right about to turn. Out of nowhere, a cyclist tries to overtake it, whilst it is about to turn. I kid you not the guy must have been less than 50cm or so from being scooped under the wheels. He had the audacity to have a go at the HGV driver, so I cycled up to them and had a go at the cyclist as the HGV was clearly positioned correctly and indicating (I saw it a mile away!)
 
londonbairn said:
I saw a stupid maneaouvure today, like insane. Guy is lucky.

Two lanes, large HGV in right lane indicating right about to turn. Out of nowhere, a cyclist tries to overtake it, whilst it is about to turn. I kid you not the guy must have been less than 50cm or so from being scooped under the wheels. He had the audacity to have a go at the HGV driver, so I cycled up to them and had a go at the cyclist as the HGV was clearly positioned correctly and indicating (I saw it a mile away!)
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Just to even the Idiot driver vs cyclist scores.

I had a idiot of a bus driver nearly kill me today. He decided to over take me on a blind bend, when traffic coming the other way meant he couldn't take a wide enough path he just decided to cut back towards the curb. So there i am next to the bus with space rapidly running out.

Luckily i had predicted the actions of the bus driver and had already started to slow and move to my left. It missed me by a couple of cm.
 
I don't agree with the vigilanty stuff, but to some extent she has mowed down a person, sped off and then boasted about it on twitter. It's hard to have any sympathy.
 
Shadez said:
Just to even the Idiot driver vs cyclist scores.

I had a idiot of a bus driver nearly kill me today. He decided to over take me on a blind bend, when traffic coming the other way meant he couldn't take a wide enough path he just decided to cut back towards the curb. So there i am next to the bus with space rapidly running out.

Luckily i had predicted the actions of the bus driver and had already started to slow and move to my left. It missed me by a couple of cm.
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I find London buses pull out blissfully.

Sounds strange but ever since I started commuting to work, I have found myself being more aware of surroundings generally on my bike or not.
 
Every day is a cycle incident day but this morning I arrived at work shaking.

I was right here - https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=st...=lMpxvR6q1jnrTjL9Vi3ISA&cbp=12,285.63,,0,7.32 and indicated I was going over to the right (to go to Tesco Express).
I'd given plenty of time and did see a red car some distance behind me before I pulled to the white line.
I got to the bollards and just as I was going to cross over a bloke with a dog screamed at me to stop when this red car came overtaking at speed the other side of the bollards, drove further up past the next set of bollards and came over to the left after those :eek:
Another bloke took the drivers number and asked for my details because he witnessed it all, said I'd done nothing wrong and he should have just gone up the left of me which was a full road width.
I told him I wasn't getting involved because it is a daily occurrence but he insisted he was going to report him.
I'm pretty sure that at least 90% of the drivers in this thread can blame me.
 
Dimple said:
Every day is a cycle incident day but this morning I arrived at work shaking.

I was right here - https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=st...=lMpxvR6q1jnrTjL9Vi3ISA&cbp=12,285.63,,0,7.32 and indicated I was going over to the right (to go to Tesco Express).
I'd given plenty of time and did see a red car some distance behind me before I pulled to the white line.
I got to the bollards and just as I was going to cross over a bloke with a dog screamed at me to stop when this red car came overtaking at speed the other side of the bollards, drove further up past the next set of bollards and came over to the left after those :eek:
Another bloke took the drivers number and asked for my details because he witnessed it all, said I'd done nothing wrong and he should have just gone up the left of me which was a full road width.
I told him I wasn't getting involved because it is a daily occurrence but he insisted he was going to report him.
I'm pretty sure that at least 90% of the drivers in this thread can blame me.
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:eek: he went to the right of a keep left, thats a serious offense you can be disqualified for doing it.

[Gets into car] dirty stinking cyclist just forced that poor defenseless car driver to the right of a keep left. OMG we pay tax.... get a car.... use the cycle path.... jumping red light..... OMG:p
 
MickeyFinns said:
Sounds rough.

Definitely report it though, it's the only way the person will learn.
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Pointless, they won't.
As a cyclist you just have to have a 6th sense all the time but if it wasn't for the dog walker it wouldn't have been nice.
I keep saying I'm going to keep a daily incident diary but it would be scary reading.
 
My other half's uncle has been in a coma for just over 2 years now because of a stupid girl not paying attention. She hit him from behind and catapulted him over the back of her car.
 
No issue with cyclists myself, I just find it a little of an annoyance when the road is narrow and they're doing 10mph with oncoming traffic making it impossible to pass.
 
Hmm, does come across as being a bit dense. The "blown out of proportion" comment raised an eyebrow though and "it was a spur of the moment thing" implies that she doesn't think before she carries out an action. Probably how she knocked the guy down in the first place.
 
and says she didn't stop because she didn't think the cyclist had come off his bike
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First thing she's asked in the interview 'what did your tweet say'

That I knocked a cyclist over.

So she knocked him over without him coming off his bike? Skills.
 
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