Near Miss of the Day 536: Motorist in pointless race to overtake cyclist before red traffic light

Scraping the barrel there.

lol, I guess it's avoided self-combustion so far!

I was more thinking that they would have only recently got the letter and then you factor in booking a slot, so driving it on the 7th is not a heinous crime !

I did get one for our car - something about the engine cutting out and you are left thinking "well, I've driven it a few miles like this !"

hirsute wrote:

I was more thinking that they would have only recently got the letter and then you factor in booking a slot, so driving it on the 7th is not a heinous crime !

ah, yes the date is quite confusing - it's been on recall since 2016, but that date is the last time the DVLA checked if the particular car had been fixed yet.

I'm confused. Don't we want it to catch fire once the owners safely out of it?

Well, that would be preferable to a loss of steering assistance when driving!

But having had a car fire myself before (thankfully quickly extinguished) I would say better if the car can be repaired and the driver improved.

Maybe there should be a recall system for drivers!

Re: Bus. Potentially got held up by right turning traffic and then had to stop there as the lights changed to red?

and tbf a bus that had stopped that far over the line braking if the lights had gone red, would have just carried on over ime.

and there are some shocking potholes on that road fwiw

I never understand those moves by cars though, and had a lorry do it to me once which wasnt much fun, the traffic is clearly stopped, not rolling forward or anything and the traffic light is clearly visibly red, why are they trying to overtake a cyclist at that point. makes no sense.

Awavey wrote:

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and there are some shocking potholes on that road fwiw

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That struck me too. effectively reduces options for riders to either of 2 positions (secondary- or primary+) - with no easy opportunity to change from one to teh other

Awavey wrote:

I never understand those moves by cars though, and had a lorry do it to me once which wasnt much fun, the traffic is clearly stopped, not rolling forward or anything and the traffic light is clearly visibly red, why are they trying to overtake a cyclist at that point. makes no sense.

Because they are not capable of thinking further ahead than "what am I going to do next". They decide to overtake the cyclist without even looking ahead and registering that the traffic is not moving and the light is red. That is the next thing to think about once they have got past. 

Jetmans Dad wrote:

Awavey wrote:

I never understand those moves by cars though, and had a lorry do it to me once which wasnt much fun, the traffic is clearly stopped, not rolling forward or anything and the traffic light is clearly visibly red, why are they trying to overtake a cyclist at that point. makes no sense.

Because they are not capable of thinking further ahead than "what am I going to do next". They decide to overtake the cyclist without even looking ahead and registering that the traffic is not moving and the light is red. That is the next thing to think about once they have got past. 

and that is, almost literally, beyond them. 

Here's an example of this - the action starts at 40 seconds although the first part sets it up

https://twitter.com/i/status/1358521892915847171

Belter!