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The driver in the BMW was behind the cyclist and then squeezed around him, only to be stopped by a garda on the roadside just a little further up
A Dublin-based cyclist was muttering to himself in anger, after being passed in dubious circumstances by a driver in a BMW, when a garda appeared from nowhere just up the road and stopped him.
"What's your problem?" the garda asks the driver, as he criticised the overtaking. "You nearly hit him," he added, as he pointed to the cyclist, who was recoding at the time.
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The incident happened on a back road in Blanchardstown, Dublin, earlier this week; the footage recorded by a German national living in Dublin, Hermann Wilken.
The road was single carriageway in both directions, with the driver of the BMW overtaking the cyclist on a continuous while line and with oncoming traffic ahead.
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Though the driver did not appear to close pass, they had to turn significantly to the left to get back fully into the lane to accommodate an oncoming vehicle.
Wilken described the incident as "instant Karma", thanking the garda for his intervention on the day.
"It is not my fault that there is no bike lane, and the signs clearly ask the car drivers to maintain 1.5m distance," he said. "If a car driver has to wait because there is a red light or a right turner for example, it is never an issue.
"But if a car must wait 20 seconds due to a bicycle driver it is always a catastrophe. But to be honest, most car drivers drive carefully, and we can all coexist on the roads.
"And to be honest again, most cyclists in Ireland don't obey the rules and that is the reason why car drivers are so aggressive. I stop at every red light, because in Germany you will lose your driver's licence if you get caught, even as a cyclist."
