The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Cam" Thread Vol 3

[will_]

Mr2Mike said:

Yes they do, normally things they have an interest in and enough knowledge to contribute to.

Surely not. That would preclude an awful lot of the usual anti-cycling "characters" from threads about cyclists....

[will_]

Mr2Mike said:

will_ said:

Which facts?

The obvious ones.

Go on then. Point them out, if they are so obvious.

[GrumpyTwig]

• \*yawn*

[Mr2Mike]

will_ said:

Go on then. Point them out, if they are so obvious.

Are you sure don't mind being made to look even more stupid?

EDIT: Actually, why should I care when you clearly don't

"by and large, cyclists need to obey the same rules as motorists"

What part of that is not factual?

[mickmcpaddy]

will_ said:

Mr2Mike said:

will_ said:

Which facts?

The obvious ones.

Go on then. Point them out, if they are so obvious.

How about don't change lanes without looking and it is safe to do so.

[kev1974]

This thread needs more PLAY BUTTONS

[anonymous-user]

kev1974 said:

This thread needs more PLAY BUTTONS

This thread needs people like will to get knocked off his bike .... now get ready for the massive sense of humour failure from him and his 'chums'!

[Crosswise]

Mafffew said:

eldar said:

Driving while asleep!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-merseyside...

The article to go along with this is quite scary

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-42...

"Nicholas Walker, defending, said: "It is only good fortune no-one was very seriously hurt. It is every driver's nightmare to be on a road and see a HGV coming towards them."

He said Hughes has since been diagnosed with sleep apnoea and, when police spoke to him afterwards, he failed every driver awareness test."

"The court heard how Hughes had earlier started feeling sleepy but did not take the opportunity to take a break as he did not want to be late and get in trouble with his bosses." - I've read about this sort of thing a few times, particularly when an incident like this comes up. Is there much truth in it, and how is this allowed to continue?

I can completely understand a driver's reluctance to take a break in this kind of situation, even though they know it is the correct thing to do. I'm a professional driver in NZ where driver's hours are still recorded in a paper log book, abuse of this is endemic and I haven't worked a job where it is possible to be completely honest in your recorded hours as employers always push the limit. It's not unusual to work consecutive 14 hour days which puts you right on legal limit, it's hard enough to stick to without adding in unscheduled breaks.

One example from when I was driving tour buses. A driver on a Christchurch - Dunedin leg felt she was too tired to safely continue driving, nothing irresponsible, she just hadn't slept well. She phoned up her manager and arranged for a relief driver to be sent at a point which would not disrupt the tour as they had a planned stop. Obviously this is not a desirable situation for the company, it's not common to have a driver ready to take over at a moments notice, but she had done what she thought correct in the interests of safety. This was the first instance for this driver, but it was company policy to have a meeting with the driver in such a situation. The outcome, she was taken off tour bus routes and sent to a partner company driving city buses, she took a $3ph pay cut and went from working 60+ hour weeks with great perks to 40 hours.

[will_]

Mr2Mike said:

will_ said:

Go on then. Point them out, if they are so obvious.

Are you sure don't mind being made to look even more stupid?

EDIT: Actually, why should I care when you clearly don't

"by and large, cyclists need to obey the same rules as motorists"

What part of that is not factual?

Because "by and large" (whatever that means) they don't.

[will_]

cb1965 said:

kev1974 said:

This thread needs more PLAY BUTTONS

This thread needs people like will to get knocked off his bike .... now get ready for the massive sense of humour failure from him and his 'chums'!

Only if it's on film.

Shame you didn't have a camera on your car to video that crash you had with a cyclist (apart from the fact that it was completely made-up).

[will_]

Here's a video of a cyclist being knocked off his bike by a van, to cheer-up CBeebies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h2Q3WZDG_g

It will greatly annoy him that the cyclist got nearly £4k in compensation.

[InitialDave]

will_ said:

Here's a video of a cyclist being knocked off his bike by a van, to cheer-up CBeebies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h2Q3WZDG_g

It will greatly annoy him that the cyclist got nearly £4k in compensation.

Bit of a bugger there. You can see the van's squeezing over to let someone from the other direction have more room past the bus, obviously didn't look for a bike coming up the left.

I could kind of accept that as a genuine cockup, but total knob for trying to claim he was stationary at the time.

[Tinker2]

Saleen836 said:

Why do lorry drivers ignore red lights? I caught this yesterday, shame there was no sign writing on the lorry to enable me to report him...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGDZ4yuRutM

More importantly why were you listening to Christmas tunes in the middle of January!?

[Tampon]

I just leave this here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz_c6UH9Ev8

[Saleen836]

Tinker2 said:

Saleen836 said:

Why do lorry drivers ignore red lights? I caught this yesterday, shame there was no sign writing on the lorry to enable me to report him...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGDZ4yuRutM

More importantly why were you listening to Christmas tunes in the middle of January!?

The song i had playing on the radio is apparently copywrite so youtube wouldnt upload it properly until I edited it

[shost]

I can't believe that Type R driver got away with that. I thought car was going to come from behind but no cyclists looks pretty innocent. I would have dragged ny bent bike across his roof and bonnet though..

[Chrisgr31]

InitialDave said:

will_ said:

Here's a video of a cyclist being knocked off his bike by a van, to cheer-up CBeebies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h2Q3WZDG_g

It will greatly annoy him that the cyclist got nearly £4k in compensation.

Bit of a bugger there. You can see the van's squeezing over to let someone from the other direction have more room past the bus, obviously didn't look for a bike coming up the left.

I could kind of accept that as a genuine cockup, but total knob for trying to claim he was stationary at the time.

A a cyclist, and I havent read the full story, could have exercised more caution. It was possible that pedestrians could have crossed the road in front of a number of lorries he passed, and stepped out in front of him. Tanking along up the inside is all very well but you need to be going at a speed which is sufficient to allow someone to see you in their mirror

[will_]

Chrisgr31 said:

InitialDave said:

will_ said:

Here's a video of a cyclist being knocked off his bike by a van, to cheer-up CBeebies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h2Q3WZDG_g

It will greatly annoy him that the cyclist got nearly £4k in compensation.

Bit of a bugger there. You can see the van's squeezing over to let someone from the other direction have more room past the bus, obviously didn't look for a bike coming up the left.

I could kind of accept that as a genuine cockup, but total knob for trying to claim he was stationary at the time.

A a cyclist, and I havent read the full story, could have exercised more caution. It was possible that pedestrians could have crossed the road in front of a number of lorries he passed, and stepped out in front of him. Tanking along up the inside is all very well but you need to be going at a speed which is sufficient to allow someone to see you in their mirror

He wasn't "tanking up the inside" - he wasn't going fast at all. In addition he slowed at hazards (like the junction) and was covering the brakes throughout.

The van driver could have seen him in his mirror (had he bothered to look) anytime from 21 seconds on the clip to 33 seconds (just before the accident). More than enough time.

[The Dangerous Elk]

will_ said:

He wasn't "tanking up the inside" - he wasn't going fast at all. In addition he slowed at hazards (like the junction) and was covering the brakes throughout.

The van driver could have seen him in his mirror (had he bothered to look) anytime from 21 seconds on the clip to 33 seconds (just before the accident). More than enough time.

Agree, the cyclist is NOT at fault in any way whatsoever. 100% Van driver for not looking correctly (if at all)

[jke11y]

The Dangerous Elk said:

will_ said:

He wasn't "tanking up the inside" - he wasn't going fast at all. In addition he slowed at hazards (like the junction) and was covering the brakes throughout.

The van driver could have seen him in his mirror (had he bothered to look) anytime from 21 seconds on the clip to 33 seconds (just before the accident). More than enough time.

Agree, the cyclist is NOT at fault in any way whatsoever. 100% Van driver for not looking correctly (if at all)

I have cycled up that stretch of Kings Road hundreds of times (my old shop is in the video); what happened in the clip is absolutely typical, vehicles would always stray into the cycle lane and cyclists would bomb about totally unawares. I saw a few crashes in my time there, its a narrow bit of very busy road.