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Today's rubbish driving...
(11258 posts)- Started 12 years ago by Stepdoh
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Posted 7 years ago #
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Close pass, with oncoming traffic, from work van tonight on The Wisp, just passing Danderhall.
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Chap on his hand-held mobile while driving a van branded Apex Roofing Contracts this morning.
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Apparently camera battery ran out before I got to Danderhall, so can't find out the company name. VRN was NA03 PYT though.
EDIT: Ooooh, SORN and expired MOT.
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@Frenchy
Well done. That's one close pass that will get its just deserts then?
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Well done. That's one close pass that will get its just deserts then?
I love your optimism!
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White van man this morning driving south on Redford Road while eating a packet of crisps. I can only presume he was steering with his knees.
I would've had it all on video if I'd not left my helmet cam at home.
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Hooted at by a Virgin Van while I was overtaking some parked cars on Slateford road this morning. When I checked my garmin it was showing 35km/h (22miles/h) so quite how he was planning on overtaking me I don't know.
At this point, I looked back and noted his number plate. I think he figured out what I was doing and backed off.
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Charlie Irons coach driving up Merchiston Ave this morning with a mobile in one hand. So clearly visible, I could even seen it was Apple device.
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I successfully used the cycle lane to reach the ASZ heading east on Dundee Street for the first time last night, although as I got there I realised that the car at the front of the queue was in the ASZ so I positioned myself at an angle at its front-left. As the lights changed, I moved away quickly and pulled out to pass the car that was parked outside the pizza place. Given that I would be shortly turning right onto Gilmore Park, I held a strong primary, which was responded to with very loud revving from right behind me despite the fact that moments later the driver turned left onto Drysdale Road.
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Got overtaken by a car going down Craigleith Rd this morning. The woman then braked sharply as she realised what speed she was doing. 20 yards later we caught up with the long queue of traffic at Orchard Brae roundabout. I off course filtered to get closer to the front - so it was another pointless overtake.
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argh
aarghhhhhhhhhhh
aaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhElliott has 69 previous convictions, including 13 offences of driving while disqualified, 18 of driving without insurance, thefts, dangerous driving and fraud.
I'm sure the magic 70th conviction will be the one that makes him change his ways.
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He's only 26! That's about a conviction every 6 weeks, assuming he waited till he was 17. I assume he's been getting multiple convictions for each incident, but still...
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@IWRATS: Your optimism was misplaced. The police rely on ANPR to deal with SORN, no MOT etc.
They'll get stopped sooner or later if they keep driving about.
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Small white van at the front of the queue in the right-turn lane at West Maitland Street. Both lights go green, so he decides at that point he wants to go left into Palmerston Place, so he cuts across the coach which is heading straight on. Sharp brake from the coach, lots of horn and off the van goes. Came very close to being hit; if he had then the road would have been blocked for a clearup and TRAFFICK KAOS in the City Centre. Shows how easily these incidents can occur purely because of impatient/stupidity.
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Standing waiting at a set of traffic lights this morning. Light for northbound traffic turns red, and the first two people at the front of the queue are a cyclist and the driver of a Citroen Berlingo (SP06 XBA). I didn't see what happened beforehand, but the cyclist turns to give the driver a dirty look.
Light goes green, cyclist sets off. Driver floors it, passing too closely and causing a cloud of black smoke to envelop the cyclist.
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@Frenchy - that was me. I was a little annoyed by driver trying to overtake me and revving in a queue a couple of times (queuse was moving at max 10mph). I was trying to maintain primary having decided not to filter. At the top of the queue I turned to check the number plate in case the driver did anything else stupid.
Were you wearing a yellow top and also went through Eskbank? Nice to see you.
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Not me through Eskbank - I was disguised as a pedestrian. I'll wave next time.
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I had quite a pointless close pass\drift from a Lothian Bus on Captains road last week which i reported to Lothian Buses using their online form.
Any guidance on how long to get a response or any better ways to lodge a complaint?
Footage here: https://youtu.be/nkR5xtojrQ4
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Not much advice other than to say that the time I made a complaint, I got a reply two weeks later.
Captain's Road is a nice wee stretch where it's fairly easy to get up to speed - worth taking the lane more strongly in future?
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Ahh ok, I'll be patient before chasing then, cheers.
Aye had a fair old tailwind so got up to speed pretty quick. I thought i had a pretty strong position considering he had to move way over to the other lane to overtake. An overtake I'm fine with, its the way he ran out of room in the other lane and just drifted across squeezing me into the parked car that bothers me.
...only to stop a couple of hundred yards down the road.
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Maybe it's the camera lens, but you cycle closer to the parked cars than I would.
Obviously this has nothing to do with the dangerous overtake and drift, just thought it was worth asking.
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I had rare sympathy for a taxi driver the other day when I was pedestrianing opposite McEwan Hall and saw the driver of a hatchback turning right from the left-hand lane out of Bristo Place, cutting up the taxi in the process. The taxi driver maybe didn't need to lean on the horn as much as they did though... A day later I witnessed a shunt at the same junction when a driver approaching the give-way on Teviot Place from Lothian Street abruptly braked, possibly due to not spotting a cyclist turning out of Bristo Place until the very last minute - the driver behind did not anticipate this, but the collision was fortunately at relatively low speed.
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White van driven straight down new street guy knew it was one way but went for it anyway.
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A wee bit rain and the driving standards in Edinburgh plummet.
1) Close overtake on Clermiston Rd
2) Nearly knocked down outside Royal High school as some parent decided to drive across my path.
3) Overtaken about 5 yards from Orchard Brae roundabout by some idiot wanting to go left.
4) A woman stopped in Stockbridge taking up both lanes with her hazards on. Might have broken down but surely she could have tried to pull over.Posted 7 years ago # -
Gilmerton crossroads northbound, there's only one lane, with a cycle lane leading up to the ASL box. Car stopped at red light heading north, slightly over the ASL line, but quite probably got there legally.
The driver of the Ford Fiesta (SK10 NZV) behind though, is apparently a very impatient man. Pulls into the bike lane, to squeeze alongside the first car, well into the bike box. Light turns green and the Fiesta driver tries to undertake through the junction, but a parked car means he doesn't have enough space, so he makes do with driving 2 feet behind the first car as they head down Gilmerton Road.
Very weird.
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We were given a toot by chap in brown Volvo estate tonight near entry to Juni green. This is rammed and the cars can't overtake a single bike as too narrow. But obviously if there are two cyclists and one comes out a wee bit then you can toot them. But then the cyclists can take the piss out of you by pulling into tanner's pub car park to let you pass.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Presumably this involved bad driving, somehow(?)
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Three men have been taken to hospital after two cars collided this morning in west Edinburgh.
Two vehicles - one a BMW 1 series - collided on South Gyle Broadway at 09:55. One of the cars was overturned on to its roof.
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An 87-year-old man who crashed his car into a coffee shop, killing a customer, has been given a 22-month jail sentence, suspended for two years.
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"one a BMW 1 series"
The important facts. How come I never get to hear what make of bike it was in the press?
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