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Author	EVE_ddred
Comment	> that some motorists do weird shit around us. I've been riding for around a year and I'd say I've only had one close call, but plenty of things I notice only happen when I'm on the bike and not in the car. The close call, I'm convinced, was a completely deliberate attempt to kill me. I was traveling along the M8 heading easy at junction 15 around 9pm with almost no traffic on the road. A car was middle lane hogging, the next exit is Charing Cross (which I intend to take) roughly a mile and a half away. I don't undertake, I actually go out of my way to move over to lane 3, I'm wary of the driver because he's in the middle and I approach with caution to get an idea of what the intend to do. They're fidgeting with their radio and cruising on the middle lane so I assume, while they're a moron, they're going to stay in lane 2. I then accelerate hard to quickly pass them and as I do it, the car swerves out to come into lane 3 with no indication with probably a foot or two distance from me as I pass. I took the charing cross exit, pulled over and basically sat for 5-10 minutes calming my nerves that someone could be that dangerous on the road. The weird things I've noticed though: * People expect you to filter when it conveniences them and not to do it when it doesn't. * When cars are parked on the opposide side of the road, cars will just pull out and expect you to move over and let them squeeze between you. * Some cars will think you're trying to race them when moving off when you're usually being pretty restrained. Usually if I spot a reckless driver, my first instinct is to just give way and let them go about their business somewhere far away from me. As for the OP though... rear ending someone is almost always the person behind's fault either trying to catch underbraking or driving too close / at inappropriate speed. The only way you could blame the person in front is if they swerved in front of you before braking, reversed into you or some other maneuver that is clearly intended to make you crash into them.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/tj5ws8/bike_crash/i1ltsh1/
Created	Tue 22nd Mar 2022 1:13am
Status	normal ()

> that some motorists do weird shit around us.

I've been riding for around a year and I'd say I've only had one close call, but plenty of things I notice only happen when I'm on the bike and not in the car.

The close call, I'm convinced, was a completely deliberate attempt to kill me. I was traveling along the M8 heading easy at junction 15 around 9pm with almost no traffic on the road. A car was middle lane hogging, the next exit is Charing Cross (which I intend to take) roughly a mile and a half away.

I don't undertake, I actually go out of my way to move over to lane 3, I'm wary of the driver because he's in the middle and I approach with caution to get an idea of what the intend to do. They're fidgeting with their radio and cruising on the middle lane so I assume, while they're a moron, they're going to stay in lane 2.

I then accelerate hard to quickly pass them and as I do it, the car swerves out to come into lane 3 with no indication with probably a foot or two distance from me as I pass.

I took the charing cross exit, pulled over and basically sat for 5-10 minutes calming my nerves that someone could be that dangerous on the road.

The weird things I've noticed though:

* People expect you to filter when it conveniences them and not to do it when it doesn't.

* When cars are parked on the opposide side of the road, cars will just pull out and expect you to move over and let them squeeze between you.

* Some cars will think you're trying to race them when moving off when you're usually being pretty restrained.

Usually if I spot a reckless driver, my first instinct is to just give way and let them go about their business somewhere far away from me.

As for the OP though... rear ending someone is almost always the person behind's fault either trying to catch underbraking or driving too close / at inappropriate speed. The only way you could blame the person in front is if they swerved in front of you before braking, reversed into you or some other maneuver that is clearly intended to make you crash into them.