Driver in a small hatchback, who went straight through a red pedestrian light as a man waited to cross. Ped and I exchanged a startled look.
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(11332 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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Police in Edinburgh are appealing for witnesses following the incident which happened shortly after 4pm on Monday, December 5th, on Abercromby Place at its junction with Dundas Street.
A man was attempting to cross the road when he was struck by silver-coloured saloon car.
The vehicle did not stop following the incident and was last seen heading east along Abercromby Place before being lost from view.
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Me last night.
After getting home from hospital after toddler / coffee scare (he's fine), because it's late I say I'll pop down and get some carry out food for everyone.
Get into the car, and reverse straight into side of father in law's car parked at the dark bit of my drive, oops.
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Had cause to drive through to the West yesterday encountering a lot of very dense fog banks along the M8. I slowed down to what I felt was an appropriate speed based on visibility but the number of other cars tearing past was frightening. Even more so given a large number did not have any lights on. I cannot understand the idiocy behind this.
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I cannot understand the idiocy behind this.
They think that everything in front of them will be doing 70mph, same as them. They don't realise there could be an almighty pile-up of stationary vehicles in front of them.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-23970047
This is the result of said idiocy.
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I always claim that Newfoundlanders know how to drive in fog and Canadians know how to drive in snow/ice. But then I saw this...
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@deckard112
That's a pretty horrific story. I realise it's a few years old now but I'm surprised I've not heard of it before now. 130 separate drivers ploughing headfirst and blind into a thick fogbank - and the article has the gall to ask "if the fog had caused the crash"?
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@dougal the sad thing is that it only takes a few of those 130 to be idiots - I expect some people caught in the middle of that were driving slowly with fog lights on etc, but were hit from behind and consequently hit cars in front. I remember many years ago stopping (in full visibility) for a jam on the M1 and realising the lorry behind me wasn't going to stop - I made a mad dash up the hard shoulder and the lorry *just* stopped before it hit the car in front..... pretty terrifying
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SRD I always claim that Newfoundlanders know how to drive in fog and Canadians know how to drive in snow/ice. But then I saw this...
To be fair they are at least all going very slowly! My favourites are the slow-mo doughnuting police car and the skiing snowploughs. (I assume no-one was much hurt)Posted 7 years ago # -
I don't post on this thread much because, y'know, got to rub along and all that, but...
Called a driver in to the police tonight. Stopped for a red light at pedestrian crossing on Gilmerton Road. Couple cross over once the green man's on. Car ploughs straight through, scattering them like leaves. Slows a bit and drives off. No one hurt, but it dawned on me that if I'd taken primary I'd be dictating this from my bed in the spinal unit.
I reckon festive drinks were involved, or Facebook. Hope Plod does have a word - could have been quite horrible.
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Was yesterday. Around 9.30.
Female student cyclist waiting to turn right at Gilmore heading to Meadows round by King's Theatre.
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Young driving instructor already in ASL facing. Car with headlights.
Student pulls away signalling and car shoots off to try and get across first. Learner not with him so he's between events.He desists from running her over as she turns right and gives a frustrated - 'look at that - she doesn't know the rules of the road' signal for me to see.
Of course she maybe should have waited. He though was wrong launching from an ASL and not anticipating that she would try and go round at such an offset junction. I also wondered how he would advise clients in such a situation.
No I didn't get the driving school name. One man I reckon.Posted 7 years ago # -
Man in posh BMW on George Street who hard braked then swerved left across bike lane in to me and another cyclist, when attempting to park his car.
He got a shout and a couple of hard slaps to the back of his car. He then parked in the middle divide and got a talking to. Held his hands up and said sorry, but didn't seem very sincere.
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Transit van going down Gilmerton Road pulled a handbrake turn. Genuinely went sideways for a bit.
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"bla bla there's the cycle lane, you should be in it, get out of my way - I want to check off the serial number on my list of traffic light casings"
"I'm going right, and indicating right"
"bla bla bla bla"
"bla bla bla rude word bla"
"bla bla"
"bla"
"bla helmet bla"
"rude word"
"bla"
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The driver of the red van who tried to overtake me as I was turning right at the King's Theatre junction the other night. I had anticipated the lights changing to green and was pulling away swiftly and turning quite tightly to avoid getting in the way of the oncoming traffic. He tried to do the same but I was occupying the space that he wanted to put his van in so he sounded the horn. I raised my hand in protest whilst avoiding the potholes.
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http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/driver-charged-over-new-town-hit-and-run-1-4314822
Original story at top of this page.
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Far too many of the drivers in the centre of town today. Behaving badly;, pulling out of parking spots without looking or indicating; blocking side exits to drop off passengers; close pass overtaking; u-turning, overcooking and blocking the road (three separate occasions); blocking junctions; waiting, or parking on double yellows; double parking on busy streets; you name it they were at it.
Total nightmare Xmas shopping madness!
Oh and bonus points to the Holyrood park ranger who decided to open the gates and let traffic through Queen's Drive half an hour early. Cheers for that mate, it was fun suddenly having fast motors up our backsides as we climbed the road. Not. At least the shared use was fairly quiet...
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Coming up to the 5-way junction where Gorgie Road becomes Dalry Road. There's another Brompton rider in front of me and the lights for the straight on from Gorgie Road to Dalry Road have gone red, so I'm slowing and preparing to make some remark about funny-looking bikes to my fellow Brompton rider. Only she goes straight on through the red light.
Actually this is a perfectly safe manoeuvre for her as the lights for the slight right up the hill are green so there's nothing coming from the right. (I assume the pedestrian crossing lights on the Dalry Road branch of the junction were also green.) I yell "Oi! Red light!".
There's a lot of hooting from my right. There's been some sort of issue with the cars going up Henderson Terrace and they're queued back across the junction. After a moment that clears, but the drivers of three cars that were in that queue decide to go through the red light. This mean that the drivers of the cars at the bottom of Henderson Terrace, who want to go down Murieston Road, go through an even redder light, so that the drivers of the cars coming from Ardmillan Terrace, who now have a green light, find there are still cars in the junction. More hooting.
I was going to make some remark to the other Brompton rider when I caught her up again about red lights applying to cyclists. I didn't bother.
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NSFW language.
Third close pass that's been swearworthy in as many weeks. Much higher rate than normal.
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Grrrr. Merc driver who tries to overtake me on folder and MrSrd (with stoker) at the pinchpoint entering Polwarth roundabout. We were going straight on and MrSRD may have been a bit more left than he should have been, but I was dead centre and there was no room for a saloon between me and the street furniture. Much shouting from me, and gesticulating from driver there and further me.
Them all the cyclists in the ASAZ at the KIngs had to get off and shift because a construction lorry tried to turn left from Leven St into Gilmore Place.
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Four cars in a column passing through red at the slight-right to Home Street from Tollcross. It's a badly-designed junction I'll admit but you can't kid me that all four of those drivers were new to Edinburgh.
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The other evening on Saughton Crescent as I was passing a dark car, reg no beginning SK66, the driver pulled out without signalling, his car full of his kids he'd picked up from nursery. I had to brake sharply to avoid going into his side. When I caught up with him at the junction with Balgreen Rd I said it would have been helpful if he'd signalled.
"I didn't see you," he said. Not quite answering my comment, but still.
"It's just that cyclists are quite vulnerable at night," I said.
"Well you should wear hi-viz clothing."
I looked down at my well-lit bike, my hi-viz jacket and thought I wouldn't get much out of continuing the conversation. So I considered the conversation closed.
He didn't. He shouted his parting words as he turned the corner. "You're a f***ing a***hole."He's there every night about 6pm. Do cycle carefully around him.
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Three cyclists at the front of the queue at West Maitland Street to turn right. Car behind is impatient so when the lights change he goes off in a big revvy spin, cutting the corner. Joins the long queue of cars 100 yards further on. No surprise to see the mobile phone in his hand as I filter past.
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As I approached my normal right turn from Gilmore Place onto Lower Gilmore Place this morning, I noticed that there were stationary cars in the road so I had to slow down. It became apparent that a driver was waiting to turn right against the flow of oncoming traffic. Two other cars were waiting behind it to go straight on and a taxi was waiting to exit Upper Gilmore Place from the left. I decided to make use of the gap to the left of the queuing cars to pass, despite the lack of a painted cycle lane, and then turn right onto Leamington Road instead. Shortly after I passed them, the driver was presumably able to complete the right turn and freed up the other cars, the first of which I was able to hear pulling away noisily. Given that I was approaching the pinch point of the traffic island on the bend by this time, I moved to take the lane to indicate that I did not want to be overtaken. The next thing I know is that there was a small, hatchback car passing me at speed within about a foot of my bicycle, which caused me to scream out a very bad four letter word followed by wild gesticulations at the back of the car when I realised that I was going to remain upright. I tried to remember the registation: something like SN06 VOC but that would appear to be incorrect. I probably should have pulled over immediately because I was so vexated that I then forgot to even indicate when turning right. I suspect that the next driver behind me was taking it cautiously after seeing/hearing my reaction to the other driver so that was fortunate... Talk about a punishment pass :(
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Is this really a dangerous cycle lane or poor driving? The cyclists have the right of way. Reading the article to me it sounds like driver passing the buck when bad driving may have been the key factor.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.1924134,-0.5988731,3a,75y,169.84h,75.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sA7GyZv5YsCTP-V0R1EiV_w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
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Is this really a dangerous cycle lane or poor driving?
The two aren't mutually exclusive - but anyone pulling into a driveway should be looking for, not only cyclists but pedestrians, dogs, kids etc., most of whom won't be wearing high-viz or carrying lights.Posted 7 years ago # -
the whole "hi-viz" part of that report is infuriatingly illogical. The car's lights are not pointing at the cyclist, so it doesn't really matter how reflective his clothes are. I managed quite easily to see the cyclist's front light somehow or other. Strangely that's all I really saw of the cars too. I think what the driver means is that the cyclist should be wearing luminous clothing, which as Frenchy points out, should also be worn by everyone at all times; equally all cars should be painted with luminous paint.
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Usual nonsense about the cyclist didn't do x, y, z.
The driver didn't look. No hiviz is gonna change that.
Just demonstrates that the general public cannot be trusted to be in charge of dangerous heavy machinery.
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Ah yes, I used to live in Lincoln. Lincs drivers apparently still useless[1]. Station Road is a horrid road - very straight and hence "fast" but very narrow and with lots of entrances/exits. Rubbishy shared pavements at some places (like in the Streetview link above) but nothing useful in the way of infrastructure.
Looks like they've built a whole pile of stuff since I was last down that way. And painted some more pavements.
[1] I wonder if the imbecile who had a car pimped up Dukes of Hazzard style with Stars and Bars paintjob and polyphonic horn that played "Dixie" is still around? Given his driving style was pretty representative of the TV show I can only hope not
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