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[dave the builder]

Highway Code rule number 101: If you knock a cyclist off his bike, stop, return to the scene of the accident and wrench his go pro from his helmet while he lies moaning on the ground.

If the Go Pro is attached to the cyclist's helmet surely you should beat the helmet off their head with a tyre iron /wheel brace rather than risking touching things with your hands     Covid is rife

[Lizzie Zoom]

Common sence says you allways check before you open a door.

What hacks me off is the fact that 90% of cyclists abuse the roads & traffic lights and pedestians just walk across a junction with a phone against thier ear and dont even look where they are going.  I can just imagine the attitude change with the new laws.

I was in town today with my daughter and 11 year old grandson when a young chap whizzed by us through a pedestrian zone on an electric scooter.  A few minutes later he came back down and zoomed up to us again.  I told him to slow own, and he was committing an offence by using one of those scooters in the manner he was.  First he said " sorry, I'll slow down"  then f.... off!

Of course there were no police officers around.  That is how the stupid get away with it!

[Varche]

Ii still have difficulty with the Spanish highway code. On dual lane roundabouts it is “ correct “ to be in the slow lane and go round not indicating at all until your exit.  Assume everyone else on the road is an idiot serves  well.

[Mr Skrunts]

When I did my driving course for the LAS my instructor said if you treat every other motorist as a complete idiot you won't go far wrong, words I've remembered for 45 years , and it's worked.

So true.  Last time I was on the M1 a Civic Type R joined the motoroway about 6 feet in front of me, zapped straight into the fast lane,  then used  the slow lane to undertake cars in lanes 2/3 then lane 2 for an overtake  going on to undertake 3 cars in the fast lane and carried on doing the same till I lost sight of him.

[Rangie]

When I did my driving course for the LAS my instructor said if you treat every other motorist as a complete idiot you won't go far wrong, words I've remembered for 45 years , and it's worked.

So true.  Last time I was on the M1 a Civic Type R joined the motoroway about 6 feet in front of me, zapped straight into the fast lane,  then used  the slow lane to undertake cars in lanes 2/3 then lane 2 for an overtake  going on to undertake 3 cars in the fast lane and carried on doing the same till I lost sight of him.

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Seen that type of driving so many times but they know chances are they will get away with it, however I believe some Police Forces are accepting dashcam evidence to pursue a prosecution don't know how successful the results are though.

[Doctor Gollum]

What if you don't have a left hand?

[Sir Tigger KC]

The Dutch Reach sounds more like a kinky sexual position than a way of opening a car door. 

[Raeturbo]

The poor motorist (us) are slowly and surely being forced off the road. It’s just a matter of time before they finally grind us down🙁

[Raeturbo]

However

              https://youtu.be/BQYReHvnPfc

[TheBoy]

Ii still have difficulty with the Spanish highway code. On dual lane roundabouts it is “ correct “ to be in the slow lane and go round not indicating at all until your exit.  Assume everyone else on the road is an idiot serves  well.

So, just like Milton Keynes then.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

If drivers now have to leave at least 1.5 metres distance when overtaking cyclists, surely that should mean that cyclists wont be allowed to use minor roads where there isnt enough space for vehicles to leave a1.5 metre gap. 

[Nick W]

If drivers now have to leave at least 1.5 metres distance when overtaking cyclists, surely that should mean that cyclists wont be allowed to use minor roads where there isnt enough space for vehicles to leave a1.5 metre gap. 

Remember, it's a speed limit. You don't have the right to overtake anything going slower, it's just accepted(well it used to be) that you might do so if it's safe.

[STEMO]

On the way back from Wakefield to Barnsley yesterday. Traffic light controlled road works, meaning only half of the carriageway was available. I was waiting behind several cars and there was a M&S truck at the front of the queue, bit of a tight squeeze for him when the lights changed, I thought.
So......just as the lights change, two cyclists decide to set off from the other end, the lights there were definitely on red. Mr M&S driver is having none of it and sets off from our end. The cyclists had to jump on to the pavement and were abused loudly as every driver passed. I don't know about the legalities, but I was very pleased the way it turned out. T.wats.

[dave the builder]

So bikes won't be allowed within 1.5 M of a car to overtake either in traffic then        

[Varche]

The poor motorist (us) are slowly and surely being forced off the road. It’s just a matter of time before they finally grind us down🙁

Won’t be long before driving a car is something from the dark ages, wait till driverless cars have priority over driven cars. I bet in the early days driverless cars will be able to use taxi/bus lanes. Or allowed to travel faster than driven cars.