Near miss log

[granstar]

At work we now have incentives to report near misses with anything. The idea being pro-active to collect information of near misses or things leading to near miss accidents and dealing with issues where needed to reduce an actual accident occurring. Yeah it's all this red tape shitte blah blah...but it is actually stopping a few nasty incidents occurring and people are becoming more aware and involved in leaving work by foot rather than by an ambulance. So will it be any use to motorcyclists?

Dunno but i'll start as had one Saturday.

Riding along a double lane on right side a female driver driving along side pulled across in front of me.
I knew she was there because I had my farkin eyes open, and predicted she would do that.
Calmly I carefully braked to avoid running into her back door and let her in, had I been asleep she would have definitely taken me out.
My instinct then was to give a toot on the horn just to let her know the error of her ways however when I did that, she got a fright, looked in her rear view mirror to finally see a motorcyclist with headlight shining in through, and reacted in my disbelief, by pulling out of the way with out looking back and into the lane to the left she had just come from.
If anyone else was close behind her initially she would have crashed into them and likely sucked me into that pile up as well.

So my thought here is although an error of another motorist near missing me, with a chance of the bike being in a blind spot of a side mirror ...but nether the less both had been travelling the same direction some time, resolved by my situation awareness and defensive driving, my reaction of tooting the horn could well have caused a worse crash than the near miss.

Patience as a motorcyclist is a requisite, (Yeah, I know should have smashed her, but safety is the point here)

Share you near misses that you may think could help other riders get home safe, try keep yer comments on topic.

[Berries]

I get people pulling out on me every now and again. Like you I know when I am in or passing through their blind spot and occasionally get that spider sense before they change lanes on me. I laugh, I knew they were going to do it. Fuck, sometimes I ride in their blind spot just to see what happens - eyes open, brakes covered etc etc.

Have never used the horn other than to scare my kids, I can't see what it achieves. If the driver thinks you did it in anger then they are in a bigger vehicle so you lose. Horns are just an excuse for poor positioning if you ask me, and a failure to fully appreciate the reality of riding a bike on the road with other traffic and placing it accordingly. Not sure what you were expecting when you hit the button, but yes, sounds like you caused the second near miss.



What's wrong with kicking the mirror off like the good old days?

[RGVforme]

I can see that log filling up fast lol.

Cars pulling out of driveways from my right in busy traffic into the gap im in thinking its clear because they haven't seen me is a common one.

Multi car passing on passing lanes and having cars pull out to pass also as im going past them.

Parked in a roadside carpark between two cars and had some clown swing into the park and almost knock me off.

Blind corner cutting farmers lost townies and other BIKERS! on or over the center line.(Any biker who does this is a temp kiwi fool in my books fastest way around it or not its the road not The Isle of Man TT)

Gravel from driveways having been scrubbed out onto the road from use.

Harrier Hawks trying to take off with their breakfast possum or rabbit tend to hang about helmet height(Hawk nil helmet one though I did get covered in maggots)

There is bound to be more but a miss is as good as a mile..So I learn from it let it go and ride on.

[WNJ]

What about the fucker on the White reposl and his buddy almost taken out by overtaking a line of cars on way to paeroa but a car ahead was overtaking the first car, reposl dick and mate nearly in ditch having to go around car overtaking car,

[caseye]

What about the fucker on the White reposl and his buddy almost taken out by overtaking a line of cars on way to paeroa but a car ahead was overtaking the first car, reposl dick and mate nearly in ditch having to go around car overtaking car,

uh HUH, a white? REPSOL, how unusual.

[neels]

4 from one ride on Saturday.

Driver who had finished looking at the planes behind the airport U turned across the road straight in front of me, gathered things up and waved a finger, carried on my way.

Stray sheep from a flock being moved trotted across the road directly in front of me, let it cross the road then got on the horn so hopefully the farmer in the paddock would notice and come and retrieve his property.

Loose cow wandered across the road directly in front of me, plenty of time to pull up while watching the mirror to make sure the bike behind wasn't getting too close.

Following an old guy in a ute indicating right at a roundabout, hung back from overtaking on the left because it just didn't look right, changed his mind and carried on straight through where I would have been.

Take up motorcycling they said, it'll be fun they said.....

[Jin]

I was on the northern motorway heading to city one evening and a car was in the right lane doing 95km with cars passing on the left. I came up a bit close to him following for awhile and he was completely oblivious to me and cars passing on the left. I put my high beam which lit up the entire interior of the car and he panicked and swerved out of his lane nearly swiping a car on his left. I thought shit and turned the high beam off and he regained composure and then just continued on his merry way doing 95km in the fast lane. I passed him along with all the other cars on the left. Makes you wonder where some people get their licences from.

[haydes55]

I was on the northern motorway heading to city one evening and a car was in the right lane doing 95km with cars passing on the left. I came up a bit close to him following for awhile and he was completely oblivious to me and cars passing on the left. I put my high beam which lit up the entire interior of the car and he panicked and swerved out of his lane nearly swiping a car on his left. I thought shit and turned the high beam off and he regained composure and then just continued on his merry way doing 95km in the fast lane. I passed him along with all the other cars on the left. Makes you wonder where some people get their licences from.

When I see people doing that I pull in front of them and slow right down til they change lanes to overtake me then pull along side them for a slow clap, or thumbs up them when they get in the left lane.

[rambaldi]

It was a couple months ago now but I had a green van almost take me out twice. He decided to merge all the way across from the on ramp to the right most lane. Just after the bridge had another vehicle almost take me out, but at least he was apologetic about it. Got to where the motorways all spilt off and suddenly the green van decides he isn't going to the Western but wants to be on the Southern. Well in to the cross hatched area. Needless to say I now make sure I am in the rightmost lane through where the lanes spilt now.

[WNJ]

uh HUH, a white? REPSOL, how unusual.

Can't be too many in NZ or (poss Waikato region). https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=re...JeDY4P3ZreM%3A

[RGVforme]

4 from one ride on Saturday.

Driver who had finished looking at the planes behind the airport U turned across the road straight in front of me, gathered things up and waved a finger, carried on my way.

Stray sheep from a flock being moved trotted across the road directly in front of me, let it cross the road then got on the horn so hopefully the farmer in the paddock would notice and come and retrieve his property.

Loose cow wandered across the road directly in front of me, plenty of time to pull up while watching the mirror to make sure the bike behind wasn't getting too close.

Following an old guy in a ute indicating right at a roundabout, hung back from overtaking on the left because it just didn't look right, changed his mind and carried on straight through where I would have been.

Take up motorcycling they said, it'll be fun they said.....

"Hung back from overtaking on the left" On a roundabout?.

Im hoping you mean a two lane roundabout but you then saying "Where I would have been" leads me to think perhaps it was not unless you ment at the merge point after the intersection.

Hmmmm

[neels]

"Hung back from overtaking on the left" On a roundabout?.

Im hoping you mean a two lane roundabout but you then saying "Where I would have been" leads me to think perhaps it was not unless you ment at the merge point after the intersection.

Hmmmm

Largish single lane roundabout with wide entry and exit, he was indicating right and started to turn right then straightened with just enough time to make the exit going straight through, by the time he changed his mind there was enough room for a car or a bike to carry on straight through past the back of the ute.

I don't trust anyone indicating at roundabouts any more.....

[yokel]

The closer to death you get the more alive you feel.

[Banditbandit]

I'm probably closer to death than you are ... I just feel old in the mornings ... then I have coffeee ...

[Woodman]

Its actually a "near hit". A near miss is a hit whereas a "near hit" is a miss. Stupid terminology when you think about it.

I had one a few days ago. Central otago gravel road, I was going down hill turning left and drifted wide into the path of a 4wd. Scared the crap out of the driver (sorry mate) but managed to avoid hitting him.