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Skudd · Super Spammer Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Karma :

Well almost, as close as I have been for a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMADNZWH9Gs
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Fisty · Super Spammer Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Karma :

Too fast, overtaking at a junction.
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sickpup · Old Timer Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Karma :

Filtering speed to high on a road with no escape routes off it in case of emergency.

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JP7 · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Dec 2008 Karma :

Yes, the driver is at fault there because he has obviously decided to take the gap left by the other driver in the queue, without looking properly to see who else is coming. Perhaps the driver in the queue flashed him or waved him out and he decided to go for it.

Your speed wasn't excessive, and you saw him coming with plenty of time to come to a safe stop.

But overtaking traffic approaching a junction on the right (filtering or otherwise) isn't the safest thing to do, because you open yourself up to what happened there (vehicle pulls out from the junction), or one of the vehicles in the queue makes the right turn just as you approach. The car is clearly there at the junction as you approach, so I'd have hung back a little to make sure he'd seen me.

Islander · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Aug 2012 Karma :

Far too fast for safe filtering IMO.

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krarkol · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Oct 2012 Karma :

Besides what everyone is saying about your riding, it really bugs me when people in cars do this. Just pulling out because the closest car to them left a gap and flashed them, they don't look and their only mission in life is to fill that gap!
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C1REX · Traffic Copper Joined: 20 Sep 2012 Karma :

I will also add that the overtaking was too close to all the cars when the whole right lane was empty. No reason to keep so close to the traffic.

Any car movement, open door or pedestrian crossing and you would be fucked in my opinion.
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barrkel · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Jul 2012 Karma :

I'm not sure of the speed. You can't use the visuals to estimate it, as the camera has a really wide angle lens that exaggerates speed. I tried a calculation based on distance between cars, but I'm only guessing on the distances, and I reckon it was about 20mph. That's not too fast IMO.

But filtering that close to stationary / slowly moving traffic is a lot more dangerous than steadily moving traffic. Queuing traffic attracts the following:

* Pedestrians crossing between cars
* U-turners
* Cars pulling out to do a little "filter" themselves and turn down a side street
* Cars emerging from hidden junctions coming through gaps in the traffic
* And what we saw in the video, cars on the right only looking right - these guys may be pulling out to go either way, but only looking in the wrong direction

I think you stopped safely and in control too, though probably closer than it looks in the video.
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Nov 2012 Karma :

Fwiw it "felt" fast as I was watching - although that could maybe have been because I was anticipating some near miss moment. OTOH, I personally tend *not* to filter at anything over about 15, and can frequently go down as low as walking speed. Helps to appease those wankers who like to fuck with your day by pulling out to the right slightly. Also, I don't live in London lol.
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Tungtvann · World Chat Champion Joined: 07 Dec 2012 Karma :

I always cover the brake in these situations, had someone do the same to me the other week. I stopped in time safely, but I heard the woman in the car next to me scream! Laughing

Notj7 · Brolly Dolly Joined: 24 Aug 2008 Karma :

No, you were going at the top end of what I would call "the safe limit" given the conditions, so the speed was okay. And you managed to stop in control and in plenty of time, the car driver should've seen you from a mile off.

Good obs Thumbs Up

, maybe a little slower unless completely dry tarmac next time.
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