A ride full of SMIDSY's for me on my short 11.5 mile commute.
1) Within in minutes of leaving my front door I go through a large Rbt; I had to give way to a bus knowing it would reduce visibility I waited a bit longer and left a good gap. I get round to pass the first exit/entry still two car lengths behind a bus and able to clearly see a driver waiting at the entry for the bus to pass. He did so then waited a few seconds and then slowly drove onto the roundabout just as I was passing right in front of his windscreen and he just kept coming slowly TF. He did eventually realise his mistake and followed me to the 2nd exit, up the hill and eventually overtook a quater of a mile down the road (The hill is wide so most folk overtake there).
2) I got a mile down the road to a right turn 'T' junction where I can normally sweep in traffic thats light but for a change there was traffic this morning so I had to patiently wait for the traffic to pass. When it did a woman drove (again slowly TF) straight at me.
3) I then got another mile or two down the road and approached a diagonal staggered cross juction from the south on the main road (my visibility from the left lane is better than
google earth pictured from a car travelling from the north on the otherside of the road) and visibility to me travellin northbound was good; visibilty for the driver to southbound traffic would be terrible. Anyway, I could see a car travelling down Stone Lane at speed and realised despite his lack of visibilitity to the right on what is normally a fairly busy main road he was going to go for it (crossing straight over to Seargant Street) so I eased up on the pedals to let him. Only when he was halfway accross my lane did he acknowledge he saw me waving thanks (what was I suppose to do not give way and get dead, I don't think I was doing him a favour
Ah well things come in three's, they seemed to any way, the remaining 7 miles were uneventful
