Horrible bullying taxi drivers x2 on a lunchtime provisions trip. Yes, I need to be in the middle of the lane, don't rev your big diesel engines at me then try and push into the space on my right.
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Today's rubbish driving...
(11335 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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Driver more than driving but: The man in the white car driving up the Leith Walk contraflow with his window down as I cycled downhill who kindly shouted "TITS!" at me for no apparent reason.
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Two drivers making friends on Lothian Road at lunchtime: one in the right-turn lane gave one in the straight-ahead lane a friendly scrape. The one in the straight-ahead lane shuffled forward a bit to address the other through their window, in case they were going to rush off without acknowledging the contact, then they both got out to make friends with the drivers stacking up behind them.
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This morning I was following a SUV into Grove Street from Fountainbridge when they suddenly slammed on their brakes.
The reason was a fast moving Blue Audi TT reversing out of Grove St. And I mean fast moving!
He'd obviously been down Grove Street to the back if the queue of traffic (about 100yds) and decided it wasn't moving and he would wait so before getting blocked in, he decided to floor it in reverse. CrazyPosted 7 years ago # -
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That has to be one of the most difficult to understand headlines ever written!
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I researched that case - took us 20 months to get Drummonds in for PI which they failed to attend, and they attempted to dodge the ban by trying to surrender their O Licence. Hayley Drummond got an application in and swiftly transferred the fleet so that when Alan Drummond was banned she had a phoenixed company running.
As is common for such events the company applied for a variation to operate from a new base within weeks of the fatal crash.
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Grandad knocked off bike and killed by pillar of the community 'due to car's large blind spot'
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http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/george-eyre-anne-lyst-berwick-13693530.amp
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From above link
“We have never once heard any form of apology, which was hard to accept."
Which is apparently worth 18 months in chokey if you are an 18yo fixie rider with face jewellery, but only a community order if you are a 50yo "pillar of the community" careless driver
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"But as she followed other traffic onto the roundabout at around 20mph, she failed to see “entirely blameless” Mr Eyre on his bike."
The same thing that happens every time you are on a crowded roundabout, in a car or on a bike - drivers just following the car in front and not, you know, actually looking or giving way or anything like the road markings suggest.
I think the driver had the blind spot, not the car.
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Squeezed to the left by Windsor Windows at the traffic island just after Kaimes crossroad heading into town. Bus picking up at the bus stop just past it. I must be getting complacent and need to remember to be right across in primary there.
Also a bike down on the "QBC" just past the railway line on Mayfield Road (travelling towards Kings Buildings), looked like a possible dooring though I can't be sure. Shock, this was at the shops, where the bike lane lures you into the door zone around the parking spaces. Everyone looked ok but a discussion was ongoing.
And also in the QBC (has anything ever been so badly named), the Tesco Lorry parked facing oncoming traffic right in front of the store. Blocking the bike lane and causing traffic to back up.
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I was walking across to the top of Robertson Avenue this morning, looking at the green light and deciding that trying to jump on the bike and cycle off would be a bad move, when the driver who had been waiting at the red light on Slateford Road drove off through the red light. The driver behind nearly followed them, too.
This is why cyclists shouldn't run red lights. It sets a bad example to the drivers... ;-)
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Roundabout at the Scottish Parliament/Holyrood Palace - around 9.15 this morning.
Silver Hyundai i30 - EF60 FPD driver decides to not give way and drive at me whilst I'm going round the roundabout.
I jumped off my bike and on to the pavement to catch the vehicle reg plate only to be gesticulated at by the front seat passenger. Lovely!Suspect my hi-viz jacket and helmet were on invisible mode again.
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Motorbike aggressively ridden at me while pulling a wheelie just after 6pm last night. Given that we were on the Telford Path part of NEPN I called it into the police, not that there is much they can/would do. Rider wearing helmet and came past at speed, so despite capturing it on camera there wasn't much I could offer in terms of a description.
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White FC16 ZNA, deliberate close pass on Leith Street, followed by driver putting hand out the window to give me the finger as vehicle sped off down Calton Road. Reported to 101.
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SMIDSY from someone reversing out of their driveway onto my path. :-(
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Sixth sense caused me to cross into lane two on Minto Street at speed. Right enough, door of unlit parked car flung wide open as I passed. Must have caught something in peripheral vision, hospital otherwise.
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This thread always causes me psychic distress.
(As did the black car pulling out of west Great King Street without checking for bikes descending Dundas Street in the rain half an hour ago.)
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Car blazed though a red on Telford Rd opp WGH, just as I was wheeling bike across the crossing. Not sure how it missed my front wheel. Blatant red.
Possibly the only time I've not had the helmet cam on in weeks. No helmet as I took the NEPN all the way. grrr
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Council transit making revvy noises behind me on Abbeyhill, looking as if its driver wanted to try and pass me whilst I was looking back up towards Abbeymount for oncoming traffic and then revving along behind me all the way to the roundabout, finally passing me by going onto the wrong side of the road when entering Horse Wynd. I had to wait behind them at the next roundabout. They may have been one of the three who very closely passed me on Marionville Road, so I'll check some video and find a council vehicle report form.
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Wife is out and about and about fifteen minutes ago spotted a wee black car turning left out of South St Davids St onto Princes St. It ended up behind a stationary tram and resorted to honking furiously but impotently to get the tram to move out of the way.
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"I had to wait behind them at the next roundabout."
Did you make loud revving noises with your mouth to let them know about your impatience about them "driving in the middle of the road"?
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“He accepts his responsibility for the collision and it has always been his intention to plead guilty.
“He cannot necessarily explain the circumstances to how this collision came to happen.”
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Saturday Evening, a Trafalgar Tours coach overtook me approaching Shandwick Place (East bound) about a foot from my shoulder, and driving considerably faster than 20mph
About 5 minutes later I am riding close to the nearside tramline, looking over my shoulder before turning right on to Waverley Bridge and the same coach is travelling at my speed, about a metre behind me.
Despite all my waving (and shouting) he maintained this position until my sharp braking forced him to almost stop, buying me time to cross the tracks without him thundering over me.
Worst driving I've ever experienced from a bus.
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Punishment pass from powder blue Chevrolet flatbed truck 1950s style on the Lang Whang this morning. We were in two groups so after he did it to us we could see him doing it to our comrade 50 metres up ahead.
What a whanger
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