Cyclists are among the most vulnerable road users…
Despite the repeated safety adverts on television, incidents like the one below continue to happen on Irish roads.
We recently saw a very near miss on a road in Kildare where a car overtaking a group of cyclists narrowly avoided a collision with an oncoming car.
This footage uploaded by Staying Alive at 1.5, and brought to our attention by The Sticky Bottle, shows a cyclist named Paul Knightly out for a cycle on a rural road when he encountered this tractor driver.
It was uploaded with a quote from Paul which said: “If I hadn’t braked, It would have been a different story, I’m actually getting hit by the foliage on the ditch to avoid a collision, the rear wheel locked up and skidded on the mud, I was that far in.”
This is very scary…
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