Taxi P58 (53 plate silver TX1) doing some serious close passing yesterday down Minto Street. No evidence but reported to PS in the hope it’s “on the system” in case something worse happens. Probably time to use the GoPro for commuting. Glad it’s just twice a week these days!!
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Today's rubbish driving...
(11337 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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A man has admitted killing a teenage cyclist after driving at "grossly excessive" speed in dark and foggy conditions.
Sami Ula Jabbar was travelling at about 80mph in a 30mph zone when he collided with 16-year-old Harley Smith.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-61594832
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From link, this is a bit unusual!
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Sheriff Hamilton said: "Your attitude to driving almost beggars belief – that something could hit the back of your vehicle and you would think nothing of it. It could have been a toddler coming out from between parked cars, it could have been the cyclist hitting your vehicle and going under your wheels.
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Also the roaster seems to have been to removed from his driving position already (hopefully not long after this incident). Whether this is him realising driving for a living wasn't good for him, his employer realising he had anger management issues and not suitable to represent them or some other reason it is a good thing.
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After recieving complaints from local residents #NECPT carried out a Road Traffic initiative in the Mitchell Street and Maritime Lane area of #Leith 8 vehicles were observed to drive through the no entry signs resulting in drivers being issued with 3 points and £100 fine
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https://mobile.twitter.com/edinpolne/status/1532100125442572290?s=21&t=lj1VbmAaZkju0IFDyY245Q
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Cycling along Seafield Road East, doing about 20mph, lots of drivers overtaking me perfectly safely. And then one, apparently uniquely incompetent, driver who felt the need to beep, gesticulate and pass immediately before a traffic island.
Not actually sure what I did to upset them, if anything.
Three minutes later, I filtered past whilst they were sat in the traffic jam on Salamander Street. Resisted asking them what the problem was.
Later, I didn't take quite as strong a primary position as I perhaps should have whilst coming down Abbey Mount, and a driver tried to overtake. They slowed down and then held a safe distance back after I impolitely told them to.
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I was out for about earlier and encountered some entitled numpty driving too.
2 occasions parked cars on the side of the driver but they barrel through regardless. Raging at one of them as it was a narrow road and forced me to practically stop going up a hill.
1 fairly close overtake
1 right turner who was too lazy to steer properly and was well over my side of the road.Posted 2 years ago # -
Has anyone else noticed an increase in private hire cabs being ****s by stopping *right* at the entrance/exit to SfP cycle tracks recently? They had their Immunity Lights flashing of course so were doing nothing wrong...but still it's odd, I've encountered it like, five times in the last week(different cabs and spots) and I'd only seen it once(and that a black cab) before now.
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and some of the helpful tips to avoid are -
To avoid such scams, the IFB advises:Keep a good distance - 2 seconds in dry conditions, 4 seconds in wet, and up to 20 in snow/ice
Drive safe and stick to the highway code.
Look ahead to spot any potential hazards including unusual driving behaviour.IN OTHER WORDS DRIVE PROPERLY LIKE YOU ARE MEANT TO!!
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Driver fined £1,100 for passing cyclist in Bridgend too closely
The footage from the bike's rear-facing camera is pretty scary. The driver is quoted as wibbled on pointlessly about how old he is, and how long ago it was that he last got a fine, as if that makes it OK to put someone's life in serious danger. And yet, on the forum where I first saw this, there are people seriously trying to defend him...
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Mr Humphreys said he and his son later measured the road and claimed the gap he left for the cyclist was sufficient and safe.
He said: "Taking into account the cyclist and his bike, there would have still been at least 4ft (1.2m) space."
A while since I learned basic maths; can anyone remind me if 1.2 is bigger or smaller than 1.5?
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I spy a white Audi SUV-thing. How totally unexpected and surprising...
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And another "I did nothing wrong*"...oops:
* More likely "I did nothing <rule 2> wrong" based on his choice of language. And funny that, while he doesn't like to be sworn at 'when he's got his daughter in the car' (as i that makes a jot of difference**) he doesn't seem to mind his wee girlie hearing her daddy f and blind, after displaying a selfish disregard for another road user's safety. Good example to the kiddy, there, mister.
** It doesn't, being a classic "won't anyone think of the children" style displacement tactic.
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(white audi man) He's unhappy because he refused a fixed penalty notice and therefore had to cough up more legal fees?
His definition of a foot must be quite small, as there's less than 4 feet between the car and the verge. If the camera is central on the bike then his wing mirror was probably not far off clipping the rider's handlebars.
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Yeah, that sort of cyclecam footage is a clickbait/outrage magnet because it's very hard to judge the distances from it intuitively, especially if there's a fisheye lens on the camera. I think the car was very very close. You can see just from the amount the car deflects from its original position that it must have been driven past the cyclist very close indeed.
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From the shadows, the car wing mirror is closer to the cyclist than the width of the handlebars.
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I received a response today to the complaint I submitted to Edinburgh Taxi Licensing following the tailgating incident in the video below. The response feels pretty satisfactory, and made me glad I took the time to report it.
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https://twitter.com/deaconthurston/status/1537439339210108928
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Mark Pearson heard loud thump on his way to work in Bangor, but saw nothing and carried on driving
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Somebody managed to drive their lorry onto the railway line at Wallyford...
https://twitter.com/NetworkRailSCOT/status/1539975663196770304
https://twitter.com/brisworld/status/1539982914389155848
Looks like they put it through the wall round the roundabout... (driver was OK, according to twitter.)Posted 2 years ago # -
Ooof, that could easily have gone far worse...
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I’m sure there will be some people not surprised about the lorry company involved…
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Those <rule 2>s
Surprised there’s not even more incidents given the way most of them drive
This was just last year:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/moment-20-tonne-bin-lorry-25235774.amp
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@chdot: Although Haddington Road was still closed this afternoon between the roundabout and its junction with The Loan, while hi-viz-clad workies stood around peering at the sizable hole the truck had left in the wall at the top of the cutting.
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