While riding slow up hill a driver behind waits for a gap in traffic islands to pass safely.
The driver approaching further behind doesn’t want to wait & overtakes on the wrong side of the island almost colliding with the first car as it pulls out. The impatience driver now has nowhere to go as they are blocked on the wrong side of the road & has to pull back in behind the first driver, gaining nothing.
Incident type: Close call
Any incident that almost results in a crash.
2 cars pass not leaving the required 1m gap
Check out the mess that is 14th St. NW from Mount Pleasant down to Rhode Island Ave. yesterday morning…
1. U-turning vehicle;
2. Uber drop off in bike lane and door opening;
3. Van pulling out of driveway;
4. white car blocking the box;
5. barriers obscuring bike lane below FL Ave.;
6. steel plates and asphalt patches below U St.;
7. truck unloading in the bike lane;
8. Circulator bus pulling into bike lane for no obvious reason;
9. lane closed due to construction zone;
10. scooter rider about to enter bike lane; and
11. parking vehicle blocking lane after bus stop.
#obstaclecourse #iheartmycommute #bikeDC
Big Rig Close Encounter
#AVN702 not giving a shit about fellow aussies, including one on a UCI registered women’s team… and the rest of us.
Couple of Skippys tried to take me down in the AM
While cycling in USA we had a close call with a semi riding into Bridgeport California
I was cycling between my patients in the evening- this guy was walking down the centre of the road and was difficult to avoid! He kept walking ntowards me.
Less than a mile from home, on a four lane surface street, a car approached in my lane with traffic in the left-hand lane. It approached so close, it filled my rear-view mirror on my glasses. The driver was waiting for the other traffic to clear before passing me, but I wish they had waited further behind me. I also had a rear-facing, blinking, daylight visible red LED light.
Scooter’s on the Roe Hwy bike path zipping past.