27.4.07
Traffic island, KU51 RXF cuts me up

At around 8:30pm on Friday the 27th of April I was riding along
Chesterton Lane from Mitcham's Corner towards the bottom of Castle
Hill.  I rode at around 35kph, and the incident happened towards the
bend and hill around behind Madgadele College.

I foolishly gave the car behind a chance to overtake, as we came to
the space between the line of parked cars, and the new obstructive
traffic island.

Unfortunately the driver didn't accelerate fast enough.

When I saw that the car wasn't going to complete the overtake safely I
signalled right (at about 0:00:09s in the video) and then shouted
`look out' several times; the driver could easily have abandoned the
overtaking manouvre but chose not to.  As a result they cut me up.

I caught up with the car at the traffic lights, and told the driver
they cut me up, but they were impassive.


(I'm told that in the video it looks like I might be riding on the
pavement at the end.  In fact, I stop at the kerb to dismount and then
wheel the bike to its parking spot.)