Dangerous drivers everywhere!!

[Earl Aelfheah]

 

1 hour ago, malumbu said:

This morning a van driver shot past me going down hill on Underhill, and then braked in front of me as he headed towards stationary traffic. I politely asked him what was the point of that.

This happens constantly. Cars accelerate hard to overtake someone on a bicycle (often passing too close), just to break hard in front of them, to then be left behind in a queue of traffic. It's annoying, often dangerous, and always unnecessary. I think it’s perhaps because of an erroneous view that as the 'faster' vehicle they’re getting ‘held up’; which in London of course, they’re usually not.

Edited June 23 by Earl Aelfheah

[bels123]

Another collision on Half Moon Lane. It’s hard to understand how this happens in a 20mph zone. 

 

7 hours ago, Earl Aelfheah said:

This happens constantly. Cars accelerate hard to overtake someone on a bicycle (often passing too close), just to break hard in front of them, to then be left behind in a queue of traffic.

*drivers accelerate hard……we don’t have self-driving cars yet 😉

[CPR Dave]

That post from "Dulwich Roads is also on Bluesky" is fucking dim. To me it reads like the person who wrote it has been in a car crash themselves and doesn't understand the meaning of words very well any more.

 

Edited June 23 by CPR Dave

[rjsmall]

11 hours ago, bels123 said:

Another collision on Half Moon Lane. It’s hard to understand how this happens in a 20mph zone. 

 

*drivers accelerate hard……we don’t have self-driving cars yet 😉

It's not hard to understand how it happens in 20mph zones - a lot of drivers ignore the speed limit knowing they are not going to get caught. There are a few static speed cameras around and that is about it - no mobile speed cameras, no average speed cameras and no police patrols enforcing the speed limit. I constantly get overtaken on the South Circular or Sydenham Hill by other drivers only to catch up with them at the next traffic light.

[Sue]

52 minutes ago, rjsmall said:

It's not hard to understand how it happens in 20mph zones - a lot of drivers ignore the speed limit knowing they are not going to get caught. There are a few static speed cameras around and that is about it - no mobile speed cameras, no average speed cameras and no police patrols enforcing the speed limit. I constantly get overtaken on the South Circular or Sydenham Hill by other drivers only to catch up with them at the next traffic light.

When I  use satnav,  it informs me if there is a mobile speed camera ahead.

This is useful, and does make me check my speed, but seems a bit pointless in terms of actually catching speeding drivers.

How does satnav know?

[Spartacus]

Don't know which sat nav you use Sue, but mine looks like this 

[Earl Aelfheah]

I think some of them use information from shared databases, which include crowdsourced data that updates on mobile camera locations. 

Edited June 24 by Earl Aelfheah