oncoming traffic swerving

kramdra · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Oct 2010 Karma :

Nice long straight bit of road, 9am, good visibility. Road is reasonable compared to the rest, minor visible defects that no car would care about. Some days there is a large deep puddle, which I am happy to ride through > 70 and get wet feet, but today was mostly dry, no puddles. There is also a farm, so around October its coated in mud and shit, but today was good.

Two oncoming cars. As they get close the first pulls into centre of road, the car behind him does the same and I sound horn. I was 3/5ths towards the right of my lane and this forced me to move right over for the cunt. I use this road every day, I could see it was clear - no branches or shit.. there was no reason for it, no chance of predicting it and not much time to move.

Deliberate? or just a driver not respecting the impact force of a 200kg bike aimed at him? Nothing I can do about it... Its common when oncoming car is passing a cyclist or parked car (massive gap for cyclist, gnats pube for me), but that is predictable and easily avoided...

Beehive Bedlam · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Oct 2013 Karma :

I doubt it was deliberate. I regularly watch mindless drones sat at the wheel in my mirror swerving a pot hole they have no reason to in a car unlike myself on a bike.

AdamEf · Nova Slayer Joined: 19 Dec 2015 Karma :

First driver possibly texting and second just followed his line to avoid what he thought might be a hazard that the first was going around?

Similar effect to pointing in the sky at nothing and people around you will all look up?

Had a woman waiting at side road stare out of her window directly at me on way home and then pulled out of the side road anyway across my path with me travelling at 40mph towards her. Luckily controlled stop just in time, horn on all the way. Seems to happen way too often. I think a lot of people are just zoned out driving. Their eyes are looking, but they're not seeing.

Omega · Crazy Courier Joined: 07 May 2009 Karma :

I'd assume there was something in the way so they moved out. You might not have noticed it. If you had time to use the horn then it was probably more of an annoyance than a real hazard.

Better to forgive and forget than to let it wind you up. Safer that way.

bamt · World Chat Champion Joined: 14 Dec 2013 Karma :

That is quite possible, especially if you look at the way car drivers typically go around hazards - pull out very close to it, then stay out for a long time afterwards. Could have been an animal on the road, for example, which will have departed the scene very quickly, and before you were close enough to see.

Or they could have been inattentive or a psychopath who though it was funny.

Rogerborg · nimbA Joined: 26 Oct 2010 Karma :

You didn't see a hazard. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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faffergotgunz · Nova Slayer Joined: 10 Feb 2016 Karma :

Its the feckers that swerve over to the white line when im filtering that make me worry for their children.
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growler · Traffic Copper Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Karma :

think yourself lucky
I had a female in a 4x4 try to kill me rather than pass over a dead fox!
The fox was in the centre of her lane and she would have gone over it with out touching it but instead she move completely over the white line into my side and drove straight at me whilst staring at the fox
fortunately I have a rather loud horn which got her attention
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