A cyclist refused to reverse to make way for a 60ft lorry after the two came face-to-face on a country lane in Hampshire.
The driver, who wished to remain anonymous, filmed the footage. It shows the female lorry driver asking the cyclist to reverse and “go back to the wide bit”, as it would be easier than reversing a 60ft-long lorry.
The cyclist refuses and insists that lorries should not be using country lanes.
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So where am I meant to go to a wide bit there’s a I can see a wide bit just three low see a wide bit there you think it’s easier for me to reverse I’m 60 foot long in the same width of this road
As you can see by the fact I’m in the Hedge both sides turn and go back well because surely it’s easier for you to go back as a push bike than it is for me as a 60 foot lry so where am I meant to go
Do a wide bit there’s a I can see a wide bit just three low wide bit there you think it’s easier for me to reverse I’m 60t long and the same width of this road as you can see by the fact I’m in the Hedge both sides turn go well because
Surely it’s easier for you to go back as a push bike than it is for me as a 60ft lry so where am I meant to go to a wide bit there’s a I can see a wide bit just three low wide bit there you think it’s
Easier for me to reverse I’m 60 foot long in the same width of this road as you can see by the fact I’m in the Hedge both sides turn go back well because surely it’s easier for you to go back back as a push bike than it is for me as a 60t
Lry
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Wow, so important
Karen should get a call from the police regarding illegal blockage of the road.
More evidence of the lockdowns sending people barmy🤙
In America we call this a "Karen". Sorry if this overblown sense of entitlement has migrated across the pond
She's old enough to know what she's doing. Then u got probs with mental health.
How long was the lorry??? Haha Just kidding. The cyclist was being silly about this.
That’ll be a retired Karen decked-out in her Rohan all-weathers gear enjoying her copper-bottomed public sector pension expecting a 60-foot truck to reverse whilst she could just step aside for 10 seconds….Is there a female equivalent of the anglo-saxon epithet “w****r” ? She surely is one, n’est ce pas ?
That lane needs to be bigger to avoid future problems, too bad whoever is in charge of that has 0 IQ
This is news?
It’s lucky the lane was so narrow meaning the lorry needed to go very slow or there may. It have been an opportunity to speak! I do appreciate the cyclist’s annoyance but surely her common sense should have to,d her what to do. Would have been interesting to see footage of how these. Two came face to face, because surely the cyclist would be seen to keep moving towards the lorry, unless she was ‘Mr Ben’ and just appeared out of no where.
Too many chromosomes under that helmet.
Cyclists own the roads now… All vehicles have to give them full priority at all times and road markings are optional. Question is, why dont vehicles have priority in cycle lanes. Strange world.
If it were in India, the lorry would have passed over the cycle/cyclist hands down.
Lycra-louts come in all shapes and sizes! And ages…
Its not a cyclist its a 'Karen'.
Her pre noun is 'Karen'!
Just wait, see who wants to waste their precious time on this planet more.
Cat fight
Thats just crazy ive had this afew time with my transit and my trailer seems to be older folk or women never had a bloke do this to me
Arrest both of them.
Was it necessary to play the same clip multiple times?
That cyclist is definitely a remainer. Retired public sector, wealthy, the worst person in the world, guaranteed.
Good for her for not allowing herself to be forced into the hedgerow.
The cyclist, wasted so much time and energy, talking rubbish ….when she could of just turned around and waited safely,while the lorry passed….
Old battle axe 😂
Lady driver, lady cyclist… yet conflict. Sad, but reflects the UK today. Large vehicles do have to visit farms – it would not be there without a commercial/service need to be there. The cyclist is out for leisure and cyclists pay no road tax (lorries pay a fair whack). Motorists have always given cyclists respect regarding their safety and the law has certainly accentuated this now, perhaps giving some of them a sense of absolute entitlement. But I reckon this lady cyclist should also respect and help someone just doing their job. I think the lady could very easily turn the bike round and walk (or even cycle) back to a wider bit of the lane as she is being politely asked to do. I am sure most motorists in cars (and indeed most cyclists) would do this to help a working lorrydriver – often the best & most helpful of road users – then they could have a happy chat and a good feeling they have helped someone doing their job. As a retired person I have the greatest regard for those working for their living whatever they do. I might suspect this lady cyclist is someone who just likes to get her own way and would not give any thought to this particular argument. Sad really that she feels better for being stubborn than being helpful to a still-working person – especially this courteous lady driver.
She’s doing a Runner from “The Oldfolks Home” and doesn’t want to backpedal. 😂
the driver should just put his feet up get some rest
Where isthe news here? Just an old women with mental problems wanted to have a small talk. Probably she would give up quicker if nobody speak to her.
Oh dear 😂😂😂
I read somewhere that, in the sky, considerations about right-of-way are based partly on practicality. It is far easier for an aeroplane to move out of the way than for a hot air balloon. So, when the two meet each other, normally the hot air balloon would have priority; it's just common sense.
The same applies here; it's far easier for the cyclist to move. And the cyclist has no business arguing with the lorry driver about whether the latter had a right to be there. As other comments have highlighted, large vehicles are necessary in the countryside; modern agriculture could not survive without them. The lorry driver presumably had no choice; there were no wider roads around.
These types of lanes are suited for cyclists not huge lorries.
ROAD RAGE HAS TAKEN ON SUCH AN AIR OF CIVILITY, HOW UTTERLY CHARMING, WELL DONE, CARRY ON, CHEERIOS AND PIP PIP!!!!!!!
The cyclist probably believes that she's being environmentally friendly by cycling!
If the HGV wont fit in the passing points then it shouldnt be down those sorts of lanes. This is bullying behaviour from driver and company alike. I say that as someone who has worked around HGVs for a large part of my working life.
To be fair, a thing that size shouldn’t be on a road like that, but she can’t reverse in that situation
Not all cyclists are arseholes please don't class us all as the same
Probably related to JEREMY VINE the old git.🤣😂
Silly old coffin dodger
Cyclist giving cyclists a bad name. This is one of those “ all motorists are the enemy “ people who will pick an argument and then go and tell the world they were a victim of road rage.
I'm willing to bet, she has a problem with the farmer farming his land and she saw the lorry go past her window knowing when it will be coming back and headed out on her bike just for this argument!
Had exactly this today, lycra warrior refused to move
Idiots
Ah yes generation 'take' being as selfish as always 😂
Why did she film this?! So she could win her argument in social media 🤔 Lame
That HGV is far too wide for that narrow country c category lane, which even has grass growing up the middle! This would have been obvious on a map but maybe her satnav wasn't accurate enough for HGV drivers? However, the only resolution is for the cyclist to get out of the way.
😂😂😂
They should ban this cyclist from the road, she clearly dosent umderstand road safety, and if she dosent have it at her age she never will
Wow….. humans…. always fighting
Cyclists are a menace.They now ride side ny side and the laws on their side
On narrow roads and roads with traffic makes it near impossible to overtake.
It js no wonder there are sometimes arguments.
Karen on a bike