Close pass with Blue Van Man

[Monkreadusuk]

I could of but Ive had near misses on that road before where I've nearly been up against the curb.... Driverr coulda gave a quick beep and I could of moved

Driver coulda waited until it was safe to pass.

 

[Hip Priest]

Bit of a rubbish pass. I wouldn't report it to the police.

 

[Maylian]

I wouldn't bother reporting it myself, misjudged pass that happens all the time. You had a perfectly clear road which you could have moved to a strong secondary position. Seems a bit of something and nothing to me

 

[HLaB]

With a bit of shoulder checking you probably would have seen a BVM eager to get by and suggested to you it might have been apt to pull in past the parked cars.

 

[bianchi1]

My reading of the situation is that the blue van started the overtake prior to the white van pulling out of the side road toward them. They then had two options...crash into the white van or swerve left toward the cyclist riding in a primary position.

The positive way of regarding the situation would be that the blue van driver hit neither other road user. In my opinion the driver of the white van is to blame for this situation.

 

[Mugshot]

Been said before but I'm trying to get my post count up, I think you could have moved to your left a bit more after you'd cleared the parked cars

 

[Jezston]

Yet another head cam thread about making something out of nothing. Bad driving happens every second of every day.

What a horrifically sh*tty attitude. People get killed on the roads every day, let's just shrug and move on, eh?

 

[BentMikey]

The white van caused it, or did the blue van driver just try overtaking impatiently where he shouldn't have, through a set of pinch points and across a junction? People, it's time to stop excusing bad driving. It's not acceptable.

 

[Boris Bajic]

The white van caused it, or did the blue van driver just try overtaking impatiently where he shouldn't have, through a set of pinch points and across a junction? People, it's time to stop excusing bad driving. It's not acceptable.

I found the driving of the Blue Van to be poor but not exceptionally so and really not worthy of comment. Others will differ in their views.

I wondered why the OP had stayed (or appeared to have stayed) so far out in the carriageway while traversing the crossing. I would not have done so. That doesn't make me right. But I do find I get wound up less and shout less than some folk who post on here.

I would not report the incident. Many would.

There are things that make me hopping mad and I've taken action in the past. One of those was the dispicably racist regime in RSA for much of my life. I found it deeply uncivilised and used every means I could to stand against it and anyone who supported it.

Another was the genocide in the Balkans in the 1990s. Likewise, I made a big fuss. I am not against taking a stand.

But against a van driving close to a cyclist who might easily have pulled in to the right, I'm not sure I'd even bother to put a stamp on an envelope.

Annoying, but not Soweto.

Others may think otherwise.

 

[BentMikey]

My approach is simpler: Don't bring a deadly weapon too close to me.

Mitigating the blue van driver's bad driving there is that it was done somewhat slowly, but it was still a significant error of judgement to overtake there and that impatiently. He has room for learning in that incident. As for the cyclist, you and I may not like his position, but it does not excuse the van driver's misbehaviour.

 

[davefb]

what the blue van did, is "a major way motorcyclists die" apparently , overtaking near a t junction... it's also why as a driver you should ALWAYS LOOK LEFT when doing what the white van did, but drivers often don't because you want to keep moving..

its' pretty poor driving on both their counts. Dunno about reporting.

 

[BentMikey]

Here's an example of someone trying an overtake across a junction, and someone else pulling out of that junction without looking properly.