From the UpRider: 'Yet another driver who doesn't respect the safety distance; the driver, having the entire road to himself, decides to pass within millimetres of me with his rearview mirror, which almost hit me' Find more at upride.cc
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From the UpRider: 'car pulls out without considering oncoming traffic' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: 'An e-scooter blows through a red light and cuts across turning traffic. The turning traffic would not have even seen him because they were looking into the sun.' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: 'Rolling through a roundabout, car pulls out in front with little regard to life or property.' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: '4x4 went to pull out without looking, but couldn't even climb a curb. It went back in and cancelled indicator, then decided to try again without indicating and still not looking...' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: 'A poorly judged and impatient overtake that results in an abort and a close call with oncoming traffic!' Find more at upride.cc
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From the UpRider: 'Dual lane road, not heavy traffic but the nob in his nans Corolla felt the need to push through in an already occupied lane. Add in an uneven surface on the railway crossing and it's even more dangerous. The rider who comes from behind reports he did the same to him just prior.'
From the UpRider: 'Jeep (6WHE682) veered into the bike lane' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: 'Standard, alarming Lancashire close-passing at speed incident at a typical place- the mentality encouraged by the police is: 'if you can't see vehicles ahead because of a sharp right bend, just overtake the cyclist anyway and swerve inwards towards the cyclist'
From the UpRider: 'You can hear this joker coming - he sounds his horn as he passes another rider 100m back. Anyway, I clearly indicated my intention to turn right around the roundabout and claimed the lane. Not good enough for XBA038 who proceeds to use his car as a weapon.' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: 'On a two-lane road, a driver, apparently irritated by a delivery truck in the right lane and a bicycle on the far left, dangerously swerved to overtake them before speeding away.' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: 'Driver seemed to be frustrated at being stuck behind me. Braked causing a loud skidding noise to intimidate me.' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: 'It was close pass.. and then he indicates to go left' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: 'Driver overtook, then turned in front of me!' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: 'The latest in the series of Stagecoach double-decker bus driver attacks on a cyclist, me. He was travelling at least 30mph as he overtook me when I was close to the centreline overtaking a parked vehicle. The police always ignore these reports no matter how close the pass.'
From the UpRider: 'Car approached fast to the intersection did not give way and did not check blind spot. Near miss' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: 'Driver left his lane just to buzz past me at high speed. Brought back some traumatic memories from when I was run over by a car 3 years ago.' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: 'Driver attempts a right-hand pass around the pick-up and into the shoulder in which I am riding. Despite no oncoming traffic, the driver makes a close pass honking the whole time.' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: Towards the end of a morning ride, no cars encountered until this stretch of road. Coming up to a set of traffic lights, this driver decided to pass with oncoming traffic and then slam his brakes on.' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: 'A car, travelling in the opposite direction, goes off to the side of the road to allow a large loader YQ79IL to overtake 2 cyclists in single file. The loader close passes the cyclists and appears to be travelling near the speed limit of 100kph' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: 'Motorbike passed our group at high speed and too close to me, within our lane. Did it to intimidate.' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: 'Driver squeezed between myself and another car to get by quicker, almost hit me.' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: 'Pedestrians on shared paths must be aware of their surroundings. This woman had her music so loud that she could not hear me call out ‚on your left‚ multiple times with increasing volume. She had to pull out her ear bud before she heard a word I said.' Find more at upride.cc
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From the UpRider: 'On a right hand bend a car overtook me into the path of an oncoming car then cut me off when pulling in, missed me by inches. Worst bit is that the overtake was also opposite a junction into a car park' Find more at upride.cc
From the UpRider: 'I was cycling along with parked cars on the right of the road, two cars passed then the third started driving straight towards me. I had to brake, stop and shout at the driver who did eventually swerve away from me. I was nearly ready to jump off my bike onto the grass.'
From the UpRider: 'Hilux fails to stop at the Carlisle PSP Crossing!' Find more at upride.cc