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My point is that if it was me in the situation, initially I would think I was lucky to be alive and I wouldn’t be able to shout etc at the other driver - perhaps due to the shock.
This has happened on numerous occasions, the worst ones whilst on a motorcycle.
I am debating buying a camera for cycling and the car as well. I suspect I would be posting a lot of videos as the standard of driving here is absolutely shocking.
TGR-
it seems that you're trying to raise a couple of points.
1) that if people are shouting and screaming, perhaps the incident isn't really that serious - because in your experience you haven't found the words?
my view:
- everyone reacts differently in these situations, it doesn't make anything more or less serious.
2) some videos you've seen appear to show close passes that you believe aren't actually that close, and so life was not at risk, so why upload it / report it to roadsafe?
my view:
maybe you just had to be there?
i think that life is in fact at risk in these incidents. the vehicle may indeed pass without making contact with the rider, but consider this: what if something causes the rider to fall into the path of the vehicle as they pass within millimetres, with very little time or space to react eg the rider hits a pothole / the rider is doored / a pedestrian steps off the pavement into the rider's path and knocks them into the path of the vehicle.
i have submitted clips to roadsafe before that, following review, have been deemed by the police as 'not dangerous enough' or 'not close enough'. reporting the incident is still a worthwhile exercise, it is my understanding that it does not serve solely as a means of prosecuting drivers for isolated incidents. the evidence submitted previously may be referred to by the police in future, should another incident occur involving the same vehicle or driver.
i don't report every incident i encounter, but if I am still shaken by it by the end of my journey i tend to report it.
- everyone reacts differently in these situations, it doesn't make anything more or less serious.
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Yeah but you realise people react to things differently? And honestly, I find it a little bit insulting to suggest the close passes I've had were not actually a big deal because I shouted out and got annoyed at the driver... Basically, this is not a good metric for anything.
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SwissChap
I don't understand your point. What do you mean, 'never have time'? People in these videos generally 'shout and scream' after the close pass, how does time come into it?
Well... to me that just sounds like different people react differently to just having narrowly avoided death. It escapes me how you deduce from this that the close passes might not actually be that close.