# Moron Motorists thread
**URL:** https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781
**Category:** General
**Created:** [July 4, 2026, 1:13am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781 "2026-07-04T01:13:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@jasonc](https://fixed.org.au/u/jasonc)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2026, 1:13am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/1 "2026-07-04T01:13:55Z")
We can use this for the moron motorists thread.
Post links to videos, articles, or whatever
Ride with cameras people!
I currently ride with and recommend the fly 12 sport for the front and the garmin varia rct715 for the rear
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### Author:  [@jasonc](https://fixed.org.au/u/jasonc)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2026, 1:14am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/2 "2026-07-04T01:14:55Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lntWOajv9xc)
Officer called me about this. They couldn’t get hold of the driver and decided to issue an infringement
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### Author:  [@jasonc](https://fixed.org.au/u/jasonc)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2026, 2:50am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/3 "2026-07-24T02:50:52Z")
Front -
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ktl9QMw6YE)
Rear -
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoL0bHlYMfs)
edit: fixed formatting
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### Author:  [@jasonc](https://fixed.org.au/u/jasonc)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2026, 10:35am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/4 "2026-07-29T10:35:27Z")
I don’t exist once the nose of the car is past me right?
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### Author:  [@HuffnPuff](https://fixed.org.au/u/HuffnPuff)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2026, 11:49am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/5 "2026-08-14T11:49:38Z")
Heard a horrid racket while waiting to cross rhe road yesterday arvo. Twin cab ute crashing down the road with a steer tyre flapping around into the guards and rim partially into the ground.
She kept going as far as I could see. Looked like no intention of stopping. Half expected to see a fleet of cop cars after her.
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### Author:  [@P\_N20](https://fixed.org.au/u/P_N20)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2026, 5:37am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/6 "2026-08-17T05:37:44Z")
Approaching a T intersection a few days back - bike lane between turn left lane and two turn right lanes. Cyclist with infant on rear seat waiting at the red light in the bike lane. Left green arrow comes on, so a bus driver decides to make a left turn.
As the bus turns, the rear end pushes into the cyclist and infant. They scramble to get out of the way and somehow stay upright. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, but the cyclist shakes it off and returns to waiting for the green light as if nothing had happened.
I told him he should report the bus driver. He acknowledged my suggestion, but continued merrily on his way.
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### Author:  [@brumby33](https://fixed.org.au/u/brumby33)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2026, 12:50am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/7 "2026-08-27T00:50:29Z")
3 cyclists, one of them now dead wre hit by a car in Gunghalin ACT this morning around 6.30am, not much in the way of details.
I happen to know that a previous member of ABN forum Ross lived in this area and rides but he said to me the other day that he hasn’t ridden recently so hopefully he is not involved.
The ACT is a very small region and quite a number of road deaths have been recorded this year.
This article doesn’t state actually what happened but…there was a motorist involved rightly or wrongly.
> **[One dead, two injured after three cyclists hit in Canberra's north](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-27/three-cyclists-hit-by-car-on-gungahlin-drive-canberra/107083180)**
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> One person dies in a crash involving three cyclists on Gungahlin Drive, closing the road in both directions.
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### Author:  [@jasonc](https://fixed.org.au/u/jasonc)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2026, 2:09am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/8 "2026-08-27T02:09:47Z")
> [@brumby33](#):
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> This article doesn’t state actually what happened but…there was a motorist involved rightly or wrongly.
probably should go in a cyclist fatality thread till any cause/blame is attributed.
very sad
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### Author:  [@Twizzle](https://fixed.org.au/u/Twizzle)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2026, 4:22am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/9 "2026-08-27T04:22:02Z")
I rode past a couple of hours after, very confronting. I’ve ridden that section often, it doesn’t scream out “dangerous”. There is no way the riders were at fault.
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### Author:  [@jasonc](https://fixed.org.au/u/jasonc)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2026, 4:39am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/10 "2026-08-27T04:39:11Z")
> [@Twizzle](#):
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> I’ve ridden that section often
that’s tough. riding sections where a rider has been killed or seriously injured makes you really think about what you can do to mitigate risks. I’ve driven past the Cameron Frewer crash site a number of times and sometimes there’s nothing you can do (alternatives are non-existent/limited, risk mitigates are just not possible)
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### Author:  [@Twizzle](https://fixed.org.au/u/Twizzle)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2026, 4:45am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/11 "2026-08-27T04:45:02Z")
Oh, there’s definitely risk mitigation there (single up, for a start), but 2-up is supposed to be safer, isn’t it? I’ve often wished for an on-road in that section as the parallel shared pathway is rubbish at pace and it would be nice to have my own lane. I can imagine how this accident occurred, it requires a driver to be tailgating in the right lane and ass-u-me that the left lane is clear when doing a lane change, or they were so busy tailgating in the left lane they never saw the bunch. There are places I will not ride - but this was NOT one of them. I suspect I will find other routes now.
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### Author:  [@warthog](https://fixed.org.au/u/warthog)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2026, 4:54am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/12 "2026-08-27T04:54:36Z")
I have mitigated risk in where and when I ride for years now.
If your number is up with somebody distracted, incompetent, impatient, aggressive or a combination of all, then it is up and nothing you can do. I make myself visible and limit exposure through quiet routes and times. Only measures I can take besides quitting, which I am not doing.
Device distraction should be a mandatory licence suspension. It is a similar risk profile to drink driving but no apparent focus on it and it is very prevalent now. We don’t know this is another example of it, but it is common.
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### Author:  [@Twizzle](https://fixed.org.au/u/Twizzle)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2026, 5:05am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/13 "2026-08-27T05:05:24Z")
Yep - no mitigation against stupid. The probability can be low, but never zero.
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### Author:  [@Ernestra](https://fixed.org.au/u/Ernestra)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2026, 9:38am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/14 "2026-08-27T09:38:07Z")
@Twizzle
Amen to that.
Condolences to all those members of the ACT community who have lost one of their loved ones.
Too many communities are affected by tragedy due to road trauma.
The singular emphasis of vehicular “safety standards” on vehicular “crash worthiness” (and not protection of pedestrians and cyclists) in Australia (and many other countries) is BS
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### Author:  [@jasonc](https://fixed.org.au/u/jasonc)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2026, 9:34pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/15 "2026-08-27T21:34:20Z")
don’t know if i bother submitting this one. will be too hard basket as the rego is ACT and the close pass occurred in qld
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### Author:  [@brumby33](https://fixed.org.au/u/brumby33)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/16 "2026-09-01T22:27:21Z")
It appears that the cyclist killed was a female Tri-athlete Originally from Perth. She passed away at the scene despite others around her trying to bring her back. She had intended to return to Perth this coming December.
Bridie Lee 32 was the lady who was killed when a blue Hyundai ploughed into them on Gunghalin Drive Palmeston, she was in Canberra on a temporary basis working as a data specialist at the Australian Bureau of Statistics. She was riding with her Club the Bilbys.
One Cyclist still in Hospital, one in a critical condition. No Details of driver in Blue Hyundai.
RIP Bridie Lee…
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### Author:  [@jasonc](https://fixed.org.au/u/jasonc)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2026, 12:00am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/17 "2026-09-15T00:00:05Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbs1fNe3d74)
left lane is left turn only. i was going straight
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### Author:  [@Ernestra](https://fixed.org.au/u/Ernestra)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2026, 5:14am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/18 "2026-09-15T05:14:46Z")
What a knob, driving that red Triton ute.
The psychology of that intimidatory behaviour is something like “ here’s an opportunity for me to be a bully without feeling bad about it” - based on the prevailing paradigm that a driver can get away with such behaviour according to the might is right philosophy.
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### Author:  [@heavymetal](https://fixed.org.au/u/heavymetal)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2026, 2:56am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/moron-motorists-thread/158781/19 "2026-09-18T02:56:42Z")
> [@jasonc](#):
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> probably should go in a cyclist fatality thread till any cause/blame is attributed.
> **[Driver to be charged over Canberra double fatal collision with cyclists](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-18/driver-to-be-charged-over-canberra-fatal-cyclist-crash/107168614)**
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> Police say the 40-year-old female driver will face two charges of culpable driving causing death and one charge of negligent driving causing actual bodily harm.
Charges laid.