Cyclist catches motorist causing tail-end shunt

Cyclist catches motorist causing tail-end shunt

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Digger

14,591 posts

190 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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I was with the driver, right until the end. . . rofl

aw51 121565

4,771 posts

232 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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I don't see people behaving like this in the supermarket hehe .

" censored off, you censored pulled out blind fron that censored aisle you censoredcensored!!"
" censored off!"
etc, as a starter for ten...

Or the race to the newly-opened empty checkout, which someone is always going to come second in - " censored off, you censored , you overtook me to get to the censored checkout first!!" etc.

Fighting is optional when the verbals run out... Would make shopping so much more enjoyable cloud9 .

These people need to go and have a serious word with themselves silly .

shouldbworking

4,769 posts

211 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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bhstewie said:
Having watched the full video on Youtube it's just an absolute nothing incident that gets turned into something by matey boy with the camera on his head.

All I see there is a van driver who misjudged that traffic had stopped in a lane he was trying to move into.

Happens all the time or have I missed something?
You've missed the potential result. If the van had continued on its course, that cyclist would have been injured or killed. Not just a bit of bent metal if he'd been a car.

If you'd been the cyclist nearly squashed you would not regard it as an 'absolute nothing incident'


bitchstewie

50,791 posts

209 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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shouldbworking said:
You've missed the potential result. If the van had continued on its course, that cyclist would have been injured or killed. Not just a bit of bent metal if he'd been a car.

If you'd been the cyclist nearly squashed you would not regard it as an 'absolute nothing incident'
But it didn't.

Videos like the one where a tanker almost kills him I'm on his side 100%, but this just seems like an over-reaction.

If cyclists and drivers all went around wearing headcams or with dashcams in their cars and went off at every "potential result" you'd never get anywhere because traffic would be stationary with people filming stuff for Youtube.

I'm afraid I'm also a little old school in that I think that if you're on a bike you have to realise you're not a car and help protect yourself, and filtering at 20mph in heavy traffic doesn't help there.

Chrisgr31

13,440 posts

254 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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bhstewie said:
Videos like the one where a tanker almost kills him I'm on his side 100%, but this just seems like an over-reaction.
Not sure I necessarially agree. Obviously one wouldn't want to be in the cyclists position however from the clip it appears he was making progress, and we can't see what view the tanker driver had of the roundabout. Its possible that the tanker driver was already moving out on to the roundabout when the cyclist entered it due to the differences in their speed.

It may be that the tanker driver did pull out on to the roundabout after the cyclist had entered it, and should have seen the cyclist, the reality is we dont know, and that's probably why no action was taken against the tanker driver.

Whilst cams will in some cases have benefits I am slightly concerned that on occasions the person filming reacts purely because they know its on film.

NicD

3,281 posts

256 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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bhstewie said:
But it didn't.

Videos like the one where a tanker almost kills him I'm on his side 100%, but this just seems like an over-reaction.

If cyclists and drivers all went around wearing headcams or with dashcams in their cars and went off at every "potential result" you'd never get anywhere because traffic would be stationary with people filming stuff for Youtube.

I'm afraid I'm also a little old school in that I think that if you're on a bike you have to realise you're not a car and help protect yourself, and filtering at 20mph in heavy traffic doesn't help there.
That sounds like a dangerous overtake, not 'filtering'.

gruffalo

7,509 posts

225 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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Having watched the whole video it seems to me that the van driver did nothing wrong.

The cyclist on the other hand went out of his way to distract the van driver causing the accident, is there any way he can be made accountable for this?


Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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Chrisgr31 said:
Whilst cams will in some cases have benefits I am slightly concerned that on occasions the person filming reacts purely because they know its on film.
I think that is it. Of the three examples I've watched from this thread, the cam person has baited the other, or made a bruhaha over it for exaggerated effect.

wolves_wanderer

12,356 posts

236 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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gruffalo said:
Having watched the whole video it seems to me that the van driver did nothing wrong.

The cyclist on the other hand went out of his way to distract the van driver causing the accident, is there any way he can be made accountable for this?
When I was younger I nearly crashed into the back of another car whilst busy looking at a woman wearing the shortest skirt in the world. Could I have made her responsible or should I have been concentrating on what I was doing? scratchchin

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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wolves_wanderer said:
When I was younger I nearly crashed into the back of another car whilst busy looking at a woman wearing the shortest skirt in the world. Could I have made her responsible or should I have been concentrating on what I was doing? scratchchin
If she was calling you to look at her and flashing her bits, there might be an argument to be made there.

gruffalo

7,509 posts

225 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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Halb said:
wolves_wanderer said:
When I was younger I nearly crashed into the back of another car whilst busy looking at a woman wearing the shortest skirt in the world. Could I have made her responsible or should I have been concentrating on what I was doing? scratchchin
If she was calling you to look at her and flashing her bits, there might be an argument to be made there.
Quite, one was deliberate and the other was you just being a bloke and most of us have done and sometimes still do that but that is our fault not the young womans.


Countdown

39,690 posts

195 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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Halb said:
wolves_wanderer said:
When I was younger I nearly crashed into the back of another car whilst busy looking at a woman wearing the shortest skirt in the world. Could I have made her responsible or should I have been concentrating on what I was doing? scratchchin
If she was calling you to look at her and flashing her bits, there might be an argument to be made there.
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