Cyclist knocked down.

[Chubba]

Me and the fam where driving home yesterday from Kalk bay, just going up the steep stretch of Boyes drive (towards town). One car in front of me is a White Audi A4 2.0l (family loaded), and in front of him is a bakkie and trailer with rubber duck (of course going really slowly due to the gradient)

 

As we reach the peak of the steep section where the retaining wall falls away, the tjop in the white audi reckons he can over take the trailer on the LEFT, veers left, accelerates to over take and hits a women on a MTB (flicked her handle bar).

I stop to check if she's okay, very shaken but 100%. Her B/F had some distance on her up the hill and was unaware of the situation.

The dude in the Audi (got his reg details) stops, gets out to see if she is okay. As he walks back to his car, i say to him "nice driving, you could have killed her" and he aggressively says to me "dont judge me, everyone makes mistakes" (WTF!! - you nearly killed someone, because you where driving like a farking retard). Fortunately my wife and kid where in the car, and my wife says leave it alone, you'll end up getting into **** if you do anything.

The B/F realising something is wrong, cruises back to find some pandemonium, says a couple words to the driver and he pisses off.

 

Could have ended tragically, very lucky for the cyclist.

 

I hope she is not feeling too sore today!

Edited December 27, 2011 by Chubba

['Dale]

Phew!

Close call.

 

Take it easy out there, riders.

[Chubba]

If anyone knows the person knocked down, please PM me.

[ranger]

Hope she's OK and you got the idiot's registration number. This should be reported to the police and a charge of reckless driving laid against him.

[Wayne Potgieter]

NAME AND SHAME.

 

Id like to make a mistake with a bat on his windshield.

[Icycling]

Glad cyclist is OK.

 

If the motorist was overtaking on a solid white line - then it not a mistake - it is against the law and must be reported. Don't know exactly where this was but most of that road has a solid white line

 

My 2c worth

[firewolf]

lotsa emotions at an MVA scene. Like the driver said we all make mistakes. But you know what??? In my 18 years of experiance of impacts between a car and a human body it is always the human body that looses out. So... Dude (read driver of car, any car,) your vehicle, and your driving mistakes, can kill.

[Clinton1]

lotsa emotions at an MVA scene. Like the driver said we all make mistakes. But you know what??? In my 18 years of experiance of impacts between a car and a human body it is always the human body that looses out. So... Dude (read driver of car, any car,) your vehicle, and your driving mistakes, can kill.

 

Now maybe I misread the first post but I'm very interested in how overtaking on the left is a "mistake"? It seems like it was a deliberate move on the driver's behalf?

 

For those who know the area, was this a two lane road or did he overtake in the yellow?

[Capricorn]

another apparent case of fear and/or embarrassment vented in rage (new 29er that cant roll down a slight incline).

 

Wish that driver would realize that while everyone makes mistakes, some are allowed less mistakes than others, drivers of vehicles being in that category.

 

What a defence: everyone makes mistakes. jerk off.

 

His disgusting disregard for road markings reminds me of one of the accidents on the provincial traffics website: pedestrian standing within yellow lane on N1, pickup driving in yellow lane, but has truck on his right in the slow lane. Pedestrian, probably from khayelitsha, gets horribly creamed.

[TheSaint]

Glad that the cyclist is fine.

 

Boyes Drive has become so dangerous since the coastal drive is being worked on. Many cyclists have had so many near misses on that road. Speeding has become the order of the day.

 

Something really needs to be done. Law enforcement needs to be out in full force for the next few months running up to the Argus.

[DJR]

Boyes Drive has become so dangerous since the coastal drive is being worked on.

Agreed. Best done very very early on a Saturday or Sunday, otherwise I avoid it.

[gummibear]

Fortunately my wife and kid where in the car, and my wife says leave it alone, you'll end up getting into **** if you do anything.

 

Glad she is ok and a good thing that you listen to your wife

[ccc2]

Report it to Helen Zille's tweet (or whatever you call that type of media). my daughter reported some ass tailgating here in the suburb where we live and the local 'traffic police'paid a visit to his parents and issued him with a warning.

[Chubba]

Would preferably like to chat to the lady knocked down and work with her to lay a charge.

I have no issues with being involved.

[Minion]

Would preferably like to chat to the lady knocked down and work with her to lay a charge.

I have no issues with being involved.

In light of the transport department's new stance on charging drivers involved in fatal accidents with murder, I wonder if it would be possible to lay a charge of attempted murder.

[Shebeen]

Me and the fam where driving home yesterday from Kalk bay, just going up the steep stretch of Boyes drive (towards town). One car in front of me is a White Audi A4 2.0l (family loaded), and in front of him is a bakkie and trailer with rubber duck (of course going really slowly due to the gradient)

 

As we reach the peak of the steep section where the retaining wall falls away, the tjop in the white audi reckons he can over take the trailer on the LEFT, veers left, accelerates to over take and hits a women on a MTB (flicked her handle bar).

I stop to check if she's okay, very shaken but 100%. Her B/F had some distance on her up the hill and was unaware of the situation.

The dude in the Audi (got his reg details) stops, gets out to see if she is okay. As he walks back to his car, i say to him "nice driving, you could have killed her" and he aggressively says to me "dont judge me, everyone makes mistakes" (WTF!! - you nearly killed someone, because you where driving like a farking retard). Fortunately my wife and kid where in the car, and my wife says leave it alone, you'll end up getting into **** if you do anything.

The B/F realising something is wrong, cruises back to find some pandemonium, says a couple words to the driver and he pisses off.

 

Could have ended tragically, very lucky for the cyclist.

 

I hope she is not feeling too sore today!

round about here?

 

google streetview

 

had a lady decide to reverse on me here the other day, after realising she had missed the brass bell turnoff. luckily myself and the four cars behind could go back before she collected us. GP plates, and on cellphone