That was ■■■■■■’ close. 
AEBS to the rescue. Might have the odd false positive but it reacted quicker than the driver could.
What kind of ■■■■■■■ crosses the road without checking its clear? Should have ploughed on through.
SuperMultiBlue:
What kind of [zb] crosses the road without checking its clear? Should have ploughed on through.
The kind who sees a green light that says to cross and crosses,he couldn’t account for mr ■■■■■■■■ tipper ignoring a red light!!
xichrisxi:
SuperMultiBlue:
What kind of [zb] crosses the road without checking its clear? Should have ploughed on through.The kind who sees a green light that says to cross and crosses,he couldn’t account for mr [zb] tipper ignoring a red light!!
That´s what it looked like to me too.
Cyclist, bless em, don´t usually stand and wait like these guys are doing. That tells me that they are not going until they get the green light.
Sure, they should have checked it´s clear but they got the green light so tipper dude had a moment of “WHat´s that over there” I think.
Could have been ■■■■■■ nasty though. Sometimes these electronic gizmos and gadgets work properly.
looks like there s a few wet manginas in that lot,though for once it looks like trucky is to blame.
possibly a bit of lycra amber gambling in there as well?
the vid is a great advert from banning cyclists off the road completly though.
no cyclists…no squashed cyclists,no inconvenience for all other road users…end of problem.
xichrisxi:
SuperMultiBlue:
What kind of [zb] crosses the road without checking its clear? Should have ploughed on through.The kind who sees a green light that says to cross and crosses,he couldn’t account for mr [zb] tipper ignoring a red light!!
They may have had a green light but crossing and especially from a blind position without checking is a special kind of stupid.
Instead of darwin dealing with these in the correct manner they get to live another day and ■■■■ up someone elses in the process.
At the end of the clip isn`t the camera helmet guy crossing on a red light for cycles?
And with the crossing red light on he seems to go back to the truck?
Brains of a leeming maybe?
If the truck crossed a red light he is in the wrong, no argument, but some people don`t look out for their own safety at all.
Conor:
AEBS to the rescue. Might have the odd false positive but it reacted quicker than the driver could.
Possibly.
AEBS doesn`t detect pedestrians or light motorcycles. It may have been help here because there were a group of cycles, but to assert that AEBS was the saviour here is a bit bold.
Also, this is how we learn.
I bet next time these people are at a blind crossing (NEVER seen one of these before) They now know to check it´s clear visually before crossing.
Nothing better to make you learn than a VERY close call.
They won’t though. They will just blame the truck driver then carry on doing the same thing over and over again.
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El Deano:
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Exactly the point I was trying to make. A close call and one witness immediately crosses on the red!
It`s just mob rule. So long as one is the crossing, another one will feel entitled to enter the crossing.
Maybe its time for a jay-walking law in the UK? The same way motorists are forced to wear seatbelts for their own good, and motorcyclists must wear helmets, shouldnt pedestrians and cyclists be prosecuted for self endangering acts such as crossing on red pedestrian lights?
Should cyclists even be on the pavement in the first place?
If that road had been wet, then almost certainly there would of been a lycra clad arse with DAF imprinted on it. Close call indeed.
Raises some issues though. There is a mention of louvered traffic lights. Am I the only one to sometimes find that they are almost invisible in daylight at cab height at some junctions?
Take a close look at video again .
Watch WAIT sign on pole .
Yet they still charge on like a herd of frightened wildebeest , once the first is brave enough to go .
Janos:
If that road had been wet, then almost certainly there would of been a lycra clad arse with DAF imprinted on it. Close call indeed.
Raises some issues though. There is a mention of louvered traffic lights. Am I the only one to sometimes find that they are almost invisible in daylight at cab height at some junctions?
I definitely agree with that. I did some drops in London the other day…man, half of those things I could not see! Had to really, REALLY, look hard to see red or green.
Casual Observer:
Take a close look at video again .Watch WAIT sign on pole .
Yet they still charge on like a herd of frightened wildebeest , once the first is brave enough to go .
Mail biased headlines?
“lorry almost ploughs into cyclists”
Should it have been
“lorry avoids accident as cyclists run in front of it” ?
steviespain:
Janos:
If that road had been wet, then almost certainly there would of been a lycra clad arse with DAF imprinted on it. Close call indeed.
Raises some issues though. There is a mention of louvered traffic lights. Am I the only one to sometimes find that they are almost invisible in daylight at cab height at some junctions?I definitely agree with that. I did some drops in London the other day…man, half of those things I could not see! Had to really, REALLY, look hard to see red or green.
It should only be the green that’s louvred to stop it being confused with a red light before it.The red and amber should be open.But the TFL muppets seem to like to louvre both the green and the amber which effectively means that the only warning of the change to red,if you’re too close/low or too far/high to see through the louvres,is when the red lights up.Although amber means stop anyway but it still requires at least the warning of a stale green light on the approach regardless which louvres obviously removes/hides.In which case louvred green lights,let alone green/amber,obviously just effectively means a single on/off red light traffic control.When the obvious solution would be to synchronise the two different lots of lights so they could never be confused. 
Franglais:
Casual Observer:
Take a close look at video again .Watch WAIT sign on pole .
Yet they still charge on like a herd of frightened wildebeest , once the first is brave enough to go .
Mail biased headlines?
“lorry almost ploughs into cyclists”
Should it have been
“lorry avoids accident as cyclists run in front of it” ?
It really looks suspiciously like the truck driver seemed confident that it wasn’t a red light but a far too fast approach regardless. 
Franglais:
Casual Observer:
Take a close look at video again .Watch WAIT sign on pole .
Yet they still charge on like a herd of frightened wildebeest , once the first is brave enough to go .
Mail biased headlines?
“lorry almost ploughs into cyclists”
Should it have been
“lorry avoids accident as cyclists run in front of it” ?
In fairness if people read the article instead of just the headline it’s quite sympathetic to the truck driver even pointing out that in the video that the light for the truck appears to be green
It would be really interesting to see the dash cam footage of that tipper, I’m guessing the tipper was chancing it through the lights and not banking on the Lycra clad loonies all hiding behind that wall.