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Tricky one indeed. We'd be heading down the rabbit hole of speculation and distances. Regardless of where you were, the driver shouldn't have even considered the maneuver.
Saying that however, that's how I failed my first motorcycle test. Tester told me he didn't fail me because of approach or trajectory, but to highlight that people will see it as an opening and take it, putting me (vulnerable road user) at a massive risk without a moments hesitation and I should dominate the center of the lane towards your exit as soon as possible.
Obviously, something that's way harder to achieve on a bicycle.It was a lesson really well learnt.
Chak-
Mmm...
Because the GoPro is on the bars and not face-mounted, it is difficult to appreciate that my line of travel was already changed from the moment I saw the speed the car approached the roundabout. You see the car closest to me for a split second, which slows abruptly, the other car that cut me up was accelerating past it.
I saw him from yards away and could see the speed was that of a car which wouldn't stop, possibly couldn't stop, hence staying in the 'wrong' lane.
To be honest, I'd sooner argue the toss, than be in a hospital bed or coffin.
pdlouche
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Clarifications:
The policeman on the phone said that he could not do anything, that he needed to close the enquiry and pass it on to a different department, that would contact me for the footage and take it from there. But he sounded very much like he didn't expect much success to come from it.
As for road positioning I think a map helps:
I am coming from the east side of the map
The leftmost lane is actually for first exit
My positioning on the dividing line was to be as wide and left as possible.
As per footage, I did not have time to indicate, as I was already taking evasive action
The point I am turning right to avoid the car is the point where I should have been going straight.
The car would have hit me to the west of the 'y' of 'Kembrey', had I not stopped and turned on the 'Park'.
There was a car coming in both lanes from the south heading north, so I had positioned myself expecting one of the two to be naughty.
YT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz5T1L4HEvY
I agree that I could have been more left, but had that been the case, the footage would have shown a collision.