http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Most Dangerous Driving I've Seen in a While (Vid) en Wed, 13 May 2026 03:45:46 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-72365 Mon, 28 May 2012 10:14:03 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 72365@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's a frankly ridiculous bit of driving as well! Just either not paying attention, or completely misjudging the speed of you coming the other way! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-72263 Sun, 27 May 2012 19:41:51 +0000 Kenny 72263@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah right. It is on contour.com, so I've copied it to YouTube. Let's see if this works.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgl_d-ebXBc&amp;feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgl_d-ebXBc&amp;feature=youtu.be</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-72157 Fri, 25 May 2012 15:03:16 +0000 Min 72157@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Youtube is even worse for trolls than the EEN. Delete the comment and pity the fool.</p> <p>Just remembered this morning after being undertaken on the Picardy Place roundabout that someone in a silver car tried to undertake me whilst I was turning right out of hermits croft last week. Didn't get a good enough look but i might have been the same one. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-72156 Fri, 25 May 2012 14:55:15 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 72156@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Interesting comment on this vid on YouTube from blobby273:</p> <p>"<em>I like how the rider narrowly misses hitting the car when its [sic] reversing in its parking space and then judges the driver for his errors first class hipocrisy [sic].heaven forbid he should loose [sic] a second by slowing down to allow the car to park .</em>"</p> <p>So with clear line of sight, and reversing lights still on, with a very limited range of movement available to the car, and me moving at around 10mph, having slowed initially because the car was completely blocking the cycle path; that is analagous with driving on the wrong side of the road round a blind 90 degree bend at 25mph+ almost crashing into a parked car and the possibility that there would be a car or cyclist coming the other way, or kids playing in the street (as there often are)? Seriously? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-72050 Thu, 24 May 2012 23:55:32 +0000 chdot 72050@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If it's Flickr or Vimeo just the URL - no extra code. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-72049 Thu, 24 May 2012 23:52:13 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 72049@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If it's YouTube you just need to copy the url address and then paste it in. No fancy tags required! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-72047 Thu, 24 May 2012 23:46:15 +0000 Kenny 72047@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's pretty grim. Here's one from yesterday (fingers crossed this embedded video works):</p> <p>[ later ]</p> <p>Hmm. The embed tag isn't working here. If someone can tell me how to embed a video, I'll try again... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71984 Thu, 24 May 2012 16:52:45 +0000 custard 71984@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Its a dodgy little corner that. always take it relativly tight to the kerb for the reasons shown! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71934 Thu, 24 May 2012 13:45:34 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 71934@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Madam Raven wrote in citycycling a while back that drivers must actually enjoy sitting in queues. It could be the only rational explanation for them desperately trying to overtake before joining the back of one. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71929 Thu, 24 May 2012 13:42:26 +0000 crowriver 71929@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What a tool. </p> <p>Some (young, male, baseball cap wearing) muppet in a blue Micra cursed me from his driver's window in Musselburgh on Tuesday, telling me to "get over to the *@!#*@!# side" (I was waiting to turn right) before turning left 10 metres further on into a car park.</p> <p>Is there some kind of new "must get to the car park" rage phenomenon? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71921 Thu, 24 May 2012 13:29:36 +0000 Uberuce 71921@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't understand why it's not effortless for the authorities to revoke the licence from this kind of twuntious little slapcraver, when he's so obviously afflicted with glandrot of the brain. </p> <p>That reminds me of a question I wanted to put in the pause over on Cycle PC's thread... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71917 Thu, 24 May 2012 13:24:44 +0000 Tom 71917@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well done. I know what a pain it can be contacting the police. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71916 Thu, 24 May 2012 13:20:02 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 71916@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>Hi Anthony,</p> <p>Thank you for your email. I have forwarded on to our road policing team who will be in touch should they need anything further from you.</p> <p>Regards</em>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71895 Thu, 24 May 2012 11:28:20 +0000 DaveC 71895@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wow that is down right dangerous. Any young child crossing the road there, would have been killed for sure. You can see from the way the car is leaning over, its driving round that corner far too fast! Take in to account its an Audi which traditionally have a harder ride for better handling, unlike my old Citroen which lumbered on its soft suspension.</p> <p>Good luck and I hope they caution the driver at the very least.</p> <p>Oh and take care cycling the opp way, knowing now what this idiot drives like. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71893 Thu, 24 May 2012 11:18:02 +0000 PS 71893@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It was a wee silver car with a young(ish) lad in it that dangerously overtook and swerved in front of me to get to the back of a line of stationary traffic on East Preston Street on Tuesday evening. </p> <p>Can't say for sure that it was the same car, but a similar MO in the same geographical area. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71872 Thu, 24 May 2012 10:24:51 +0000 Tom 71872@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Exactly my thoughts Anth. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71871 Thu, 24 May 2012 10:22:02 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 71871@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Have just done so. I'm just glad, the more I watch it, that it wasn't a video with him suddenly having to brake and hitting a cyclist coming the other way. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71870 Thu, 24 May 2012 10:21:53 +0000 Kirst 71870@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If I didn't have whooping cough I'd almost certainly have been coming the other way at that time. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71866 Thu, 24 May 2012 10:11:00 +0000 Tom 71866@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Report him please, you'll be doing everyone a favour. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71861 Thu, 24 May 2012 09:58:38 +0000 Min 71861@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That is absolutely ridiculous. Especially knowing that road well and knowing that there are always parked cars immediately after that corner (looks like he almost hit them) and at that time of day often loads of kids out playing. Tosser of the highest order. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71860 Thu, 24 May 2012 09:56:20 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 71860@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sod it, I'm going to email LBP the link and see if they want the numberplate. It's just round the corner from St Leonard's! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71859 Thu, 24 May 2012 09:51:27 +0000 earthowned 71859@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Really what was the point of that overtake? Everytime I see something like that a small part of me dies inside... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71857 Thu, 24 May 2012 09:41:45 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 71857@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yep, very easily (thankfully, pondering reporting it).</p> <p>The mobile footage is remarkably awful (showed someone at work this morning) - has been uploaded in 720p so on computer screen it's nae bad. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71855 Thu, 24 May 2012 09:39:26 +0000 wingpig 71855@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Can't see it at work but saw it earlier on mobile. I've been keenly awaiting some test footage from your new camera; can you make out the registration on the raw footage? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6720#post-71847 Thu, 24 May 2012 09:21:26 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 71847@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hopefully the link below will work (sent from my phone - I can't then view on this computer...)</p> <p>Anyway, it <em>might</em> not look like much, but he really is going round a 90 degree blind turn, almost clipping the pavement in the process, at speed, just to get past a couple of cyclists and park 5 seconds earlier. Couple of young guys, clearly a testosterone pass.</p> <p>If <em>anyone</em> had been coming the other way....</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcup91W2wfE&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcup91W2wfE&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player</a> </p>