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Impatient driver (via Cycliq on Facebook).PNGVideo: Impatient driver pulls out at red light to get round cyclists, doesn't check mirror ... and gets hit by bin lorry
A cyclist in Western Australia has filmed the moment an impatient motorist pulled out into the road to try and get around him and other riders at a set of traffic lights – and drove straight into the path of a garbage truck after failing to check their mirrors.
The incident, filmed on a Cycliq action camera, happened on Tydeman Road in Fremantle, reports Perth Now.
The cyclist who provided the footage said: “We were turning right at the traffic lights and so were in the turning lane.
“There was a red arrow, so we couldn’t proceed through the intersection.
“A car came up behind us and began to beep at us because he wanted to go straight through the intersection, and given there was a green light for cars going straight, I imagine he thought we weren’t paying attention.”
The driver decided to pull out … and you can see for yourself how that turned out on the video.
Perth Now says that the cyclists, none of whom was hurt, went to help both drivers involved in the collision.
“It’s very easy to see drivers on their phones while driving if you are a little higher on your bike,” the cyclist added.
“I’m not saying the driver was on their phone in this case but perhaps he wasn’t paying as much attention as he could have and that resulted in him moving into the way of a huge truck.”
Chris Singleton, chief executive of Cycliq, which is based in nearby Perth, said: “If cyclists were a minority group then certain parts of the racial vilification act would come into play,” he said.
“You only have to look at the comments online so see the amount of vitriol directed towards cyclists.
“If a cyclist has a near-miss the comments are along the line of ‘next time you should finish the job’,” he added.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Does make you wonder about the layout of the junction. If the traffic turning right is signal controlled separately from the traffic going straight, seems a bit silly have right turning and straight ahead traffic sharing a lane. Also (looking at Google Streetview) it is only signed by markings on the road surface, so if there's a lot of traffic, they are easy to miss - this is one of the things that I hate most, when I am foolish enough to drive in London.
These cyclists were fortunate not to be hit by the car after it was cannonballed by the bin lorry. I wonder if the car driver will be prosecuted for their carelessness?
In Australia? I'd be very surprised...
Most junctions in Australian cities are like this and all routes are light controlled, as for markings, each lane has the appropiate light hanging above and forward of the stop line!
In this case though, the cyclists were turning right, so keeping to the left of traffic on their right. However the lane they was in was for both right turn and straight on. usually right turn light changes after the straight on light, right turn in the opposite direction also becomes green and straight on traffic is now red.
The driver new this and became impatient and pulled out without checking, so no ones fault but their own!
My biggest concern with shared lanes like this is being rear ended, the outcome for a cyclist wouldn’t be good. That lorry wasn’t hanging around and the cyclists were lucky, as mentioned, that the car didn’t get dragged into the back of them.
Brill!
Karma is a beautiful thing....
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!
Absolutely beautiful!
Oh dear...
Fortunate he wasn't shoved into the waiting cyclists, bit of a near miss that.
Excuse me a moment while I piss myself laughing
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If only all SMIDSYs ended that way.
Oh dear, what a shame, never mind eh. Yet another crap driver gets their comeuppance, and I wonder how the petrolheads will spin this one to be the cyclists' fault.
That's easy . . and I'll even try to Aussie-fy it too.....
"Bl**dy Nora, those bl**dy cyclists shouldn't be in the f**king road, run the f**kers off the road and then go have another tinnie. If those bl**dy cyclists hadn't been there I wouldn't have had to ignore my mirrors and pull in front of a f**king truck"
(Dialect based on Aussi dashcam footage releasd all over Youtube)