kwackers wrote:What facts?
Fact: A guy on a bike moves out a couple of feet to overtake another vehicle he was coming up on.
Fact: The car behind had plenty of time to consider what was going on, more importantly they should have taken a teeny tiny amount of time to observe and predict.
Fact: The car sounded their horn whilst behind the cyclist and at a point when it was useless. i.e. the cyclist was at the side of the vehicle he was overtaking.
Fact: The motorist has supposedly sat a test and as such has a standard of driving that's legally required in order to satisfy their license conditions.
Fact: The cyclist has no such requirement - for all the driver knows it's a 12 year old with no road sense.
Did I miss anything?
For someone claiming to be observant, yes you did actually.
Fact: The cyclist failed to check for faster moving traffic behind prior to his overtake.
Fact: The cyclist then failed to indicate his intentions to other traffic.
Fact: The cyclist then took his attention off the road in front for an extended period to insult the driver behind whom he cut up due to said overtake.
At 0.38 sec in the video, the truck gets through the pinch point without infringing on the admittedly narrow cycle lane. That skinny little MX5? could have overtaken any cyclist there without risk. The cyclists stupidity alone caused all that commotion.
This is no different than travelling on a motorway at 70mph, changing lane to overtake a 60mph car in front and being hit from behind by an 80mph car which you didn't check for and failed to indicate to.