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ID/Link Date of incident What happened? Location Type Situation
283 Cycling along the left hand side of the left lane, a Ritchies Bus overtook me with about 20cm to spare. It gave me a hell of a fright. The bus was too dirty to see the bus number or license plate. -45.885332287772, 170.49722994061 Bicycle Problematic pass (usually too close)
304 didn't check mirror or indicate, pulled in to drop kids off for school -37.662708096153, 176.21086943791 Bicycle Road user turns across cyclist’s path
322 Car pulled out of East St onto Waione St. cutting me off. -41.232304920768, 174.89601076244 Bicycle Vehicle pulls out or across cyclist
338 Howick and Eastern Bus driver passed cyclist then pulled left into bus stop, nearly hitting cyclist. Words were exchanged. Police involved on request from cyclist. Bus driver issued with infringement notice for failure to give way. -36.861451172386, 174.77029584313 Bicycle Road user turns across cyclist’s path
355 Black Hyundai Wagon pulled out from Garnet Road stop sign, forcing me to brake and take evasive action
 -36.853756073549, 174.71804990059 Bicycle Road user turns across cyclist’s path
371 Driver pulled out of Williams Park without giving way, cutting off cyclist. Eldery driver seemed confused and not alert. -41.28054587594, 174.9069443444 Bicycle Vehicle pulls out or across cyclist
387 Coming down off the te puke highway and under the roundabout under the toll road. A car coming off the slip road to papamoa did not see me and pulled out in front of me. We both skidded and served to avoid a collision -37.714393060041, 176.28258815519 Bicycle Vehicle pulls out or across cyclist
403 Riding north bound along The Parade, just past the bus stop outside the Empire. Car parked across the white diagonal lines (i.e. not a car park) close to teh cycle lane. The passenger opens the car door in to our path. -41.336740396833, 174.7727976312 Bicycle Car door opened in cyclist’s way
419 Dixon and Dunlop earthmoving truck driver drifted across the vehicle lane into the shoulder (cycle lane). At least 1m into the shoulder before the driver suddenly pulled back into the vehicle lane -41.229904829523, 174.84189074462 Bicycle Vehicle pulls out or across cyclist
435 Over took me with around 30cm distance -41.301034564761, 174.77782655542 Bicycle Problematic pass (usually too close)
451 Cycling west on Luxford Street, with pre-scholler on the back. Car pass on the turn in to Rintoul Street and cut us off. -41.319839431373, 174.77777276772 Bicycle Problematic pass (usually too close)
467 Heading inbound to the city in the 'cycle lane', in the corner a SUV to my left moved across the white line into the cycle lane -41.269239839518, 174.78100721816 Bicycle Problematic pass (usually too close)
483 Car coming down Centenntial Highway illegally turning left onto SH2 on ramp, cutting off a number of cyclists who were crossing the road on a green light -41.247284800971, 174.81346387857 Bicycle Vehicle pulls out or across cyclist
515 End of a hill by the hospital construction site no car coming on the other way driver not only passed super close around 30cm distance but also honked which made even more scary -41.315673095736, 174.77812420898 Bicycle Problematic pass (usually too close)
531 car vis motorcyclist - car crossed into bus lane and collided with the motorcyclist -41.284471404441, 174.75299939402 Bicycle Other (please add information in the textarea below)
547 distracted driver - driving while texting on Karori road. Got aggro when called out on it -41.290425, 174.7210972 Bicycle Other (please add information in the textarea below)
563 Cycling down Carrington Rd in cycleway. Car undertakes other car turning right into side street. Car turning is blocking traffic as they haven’t fully pulled into median strip. The undertaking car causes me to brake suddenly as they used to cycleway to undertake. Wet road meant my brakes did not work as well and I lost traction.
Cars using the cycleway to undertake is a common occurrence. 		-36.878282101686, 174.71084599205 Bicycle Other (please add information in the textarea below)
579 Car driver attempted pass 50m before T junction and pulled over on two bike, knocking them off. Police not interested. -43.522943748801, 172.62718819035 Bicycle Road user turns across cyclist’s path
595 A truck did an extremely close pass while I was on my bike. This forced me to get off the road - luckily there was a gap between two parked cars to do that, otherwise I likely would have sandwiched myself between the truck and a parked vehicle.
When I approached the driver at the next red light they said they 'had to be close to me because there was oncoming traffic'.
-41.324272102176, 174.77503216487 Bicycle Problematic pass (usually too close)
611 Car reversed into me after passing, in order to avoid oncoming traffic. Road narrow due to presence of parked vehicles. Oncoming van should have given way but didn't. Oncoming van continued on with their day. Despite me having to jump off my bike and bike lying on Road behind car. -41.305854796246, 174.75931339431 Bicycle Other (please add information in the textarea below)
627 while cycling Northbound, a driver pulled out of the Caltex across the cycleway without looking and blocked the cycleway.

the poor visibility caused by the high Placemakers fences and the coffee cart made it happen very suddenly. 		-41.255366444479, 174.79753111513 Bicycle Vehicle pulls out or across cyclist
643 I took the road around a bus at a bus stop. A black station wagon decided that this was the ideal place to over take me despite the island in the flush median ahead. Caught between the island and me, the driver decided that the cyclist was the softer target and overtook within about 30cm. -41.284076936118, 174.73965605979 Bicycle Problematic pass (usually too close)
284 No provision of safe crossing, waited 7 minutes for a gap in traffic to cross with a buggy and 2 kids

Crossed when a gap was available anticipating driver to slow down. Driver on phone swerved erratically to avoid collision.

4 year old said that was scary that car nearly hit us. 		-37.665979589058, 176.22322354663 Pedestrian
324 Pushing my baby across the pedestrian crossing adjacent to Aro Park. A car travelling eastbound overtook a parallel parking van and drove straight through the crossing while I was half way across. I had to run to the opposite side of the road with my buggy to avoid being hit. Vehicle drove away. -41.295572556847, 174.76842593564 Pedestrian
341 Confusion between driver and pedestrian (child) as not a clearly distinguished painted crossing. -41.338542411173, 174.76046047543 Pedestrian
271 Cyclist jumps red light for my crossing, not taking any attention to the traffic signals. -41.30922359999, 174.77855334199 Pedestrian
216 Very dangerous near miss by a extreme downhill mountain biker illegally riding. This is common on the hill on the walking only tracks which are very steep (over 30 degree angle). -41.271375695573, 174.7745299108 Pedestrian
233 A young teenager - looked 13-14? on his manual scooter rode down Wellesley St hill full speed and rode into the oncoming bus lane to do a jump trick onto the crowded footpath. The oncoming bus was lucky to slow down and stop as it had stopped at a bus stop. The teenager's friends then followed on their scooters down the hill on the footpath cheering the teenager on. The bus driver gave a stern look to the teenager but no action was taken on preventing the kid to do it again. -36.851007141377, 174.7644051893 Pedestrian
272 Cyclist nearly collided with a fellow pedestrian at this pedestrian crossing and they ignored the red light. -41.303065523181, 174.77924184454 Pedestrian
344 Family walk - 2yo in buggy 4yo on bike. All on the footpath and driver on opposite side of the road. Indicated and pulled across nearly knocking 4yo off bike. Fortunately 4yo managed to stop clear of the drive but driver kept trying to drive. Slammed hand on his bonnet to force him to stop and driver protested that we had to move to stop him blocking the road!!! Driver ignorant to the fact it was not clear to turn then pulls race card!!! Considering reporting but no video so debating if worth the effort -37.660668712256, 176.2166877 Pedestrian
409 Nearly got hit by a car coming out of forresters lane onto Tory St.

Probably the 50th time this has happened 		-41.293892387438, 174.78097606383 Pedestrian
199 My daughter was crossing the road at a signalized pedestrian crossing that was green for pedestrians and was almost hit be a car that had to do an emergency stop. -36.712932309207, 174.72146957657 Pedestrian
218 Was walking in Johnston hill walking tracks and stopped as myself and an elderly gentlemen thought we heard some tree cutting noises, (there has been illegal tree felling in the area).
I took out my camera as a precaution . All of a sudden a mountain biker came down the track at high speed nearly hitting us. This all caught on camera. 		-41.274788760777, 174.74299697307 Pedestrian
442 A driver ran a red light, to turn right, while pedestrian crossing was green just as I stepped onto the carriageway. -41.227334866656, 174.88491449136 Pedestrian
313 Car taking a right turn into drive, waited for oncoming traffic then pulled in-front of myself, 4 year old on bike and dog. Slammed hand on bonnet and driver looked shocked that I hadn’t let them pull in!

For clarity we were at walking pace on the pavement. No further action taken as pointless but attitudes need to change in Tauranga! 		-37.663042805363, 176.21961256484 Pedestrian
395 I went to cross the road at the traffic lights, it was my turn to go the green man had just come up and a bus went through while I had a green man and nearly hit me -39.934839793826, 175.05537127994 Pedestrian
443 Saw someone walk through the first lane of stopped cars, didn't pay attention to second lane which had moving traffic. Car screeched to a halt. Person crossing didn't even realise due to wearing headphones. -41.291056699596, 174.77435412263 Pedestrian
619 Aged person walked straight into glass-walled bus stop, which has no edge warning tape and sticks out into the footpath. Ideally this could have some visible marking on the glass to reduce other sight-impaired or distracted pedestrians colliding with it. -41.293455010271, 174.77643634416 Pedestrian
201 My daughter was crossing the road at a signalized pedestrian crossing that was green for pedestrians and was almost hit be a car that had to do an emergency stop. -36.712932309207, 174.72146957657 Pedestrian
314 Half way across the zebra crossing with a buggy a car zoomed passed. Fortunately had realised on the crossing that they we not stopping and slowed to avoid collision/death of child. Also school kid on bike behind me. -37.673022057691, 176.23076981881 Pedestrian
509 An e-biker listen to headphones knocked over a toddler on the footpath and rode off obvious to the damage. -41.337107632086, 174.77253332407 Pedestrian
558 I was almost struck by a car while crossing at 79 Glendale Road, from the eastern to western side of the road. The car was headed southbound so fast that even after I looked right before crossing I didn’t see it coming around the slight bend at Levy Road before it was nearly on top of me. I dashed across the centerline and the car passed behind me headed south doing easily 75-80km/h. Near serious injury or fatality for sure. Still shaken. -36.916396611652, 174.64925853002 Pedestrian
400 The date of this incident is 25 April 2017; I couldn't type this date into the box above. (amended)

I was walking along the path signed as Adderstone Walkway, through the Adderstone Reserve. A young man on a mountain bike came around a curve towards me, quite fast. I stood my ground, and there was no room on the path for him to pass, so he had to swerve off the path to avoid hitting me. He was verbally aggressive towards me when I told him I didn't think this was a shared path.

I contacted Palmerston North City Council, and was told that this path is considered by Council to be a shared pathway, along with the others which make up the Turitea walkway through the suburbs and patches of bush in this area. I looked at the Road Code on the New Zealand Transport Authority website, and found that cyclists are instructed not to ride on footpaths, unless it is signed as a shared cycle/walking path. There is nothing on the Adderstone Walkway to indicate that it is a shared pathway. It seems ridiculous to me that these tracks would be designated shared pathways. Most of them are inaccessible or impractical for cycling simply because there are lots of stairs. The Adderstone Walkway is accessible to bikes, but doesn't seem suitable to share with walkers; it's not wide enough, it's winding, and the surface is gravel.

The wooden sign at the Pacific Drive end of Adderstone Reserve has a couple of stickers on it, one indicating no motorcycles, and one indicating no horses. The stickers are in shallow square recesses in the sign, and there are also about three more of these recesses on the sign; it looks like there were more stickers on the sign in the past, but some have been removed. The "no motorcycles" one has also been partly peeled off. This makes me wonder if there was a "no bicycles" sign on there at some point.

I got the impression the people at my local Council offices might just be confused about what is a shared pathway and what isn't, and didn't want to deal with my queries. When I replied to their initial email with the concerns above, I got no reply. 		-40.38926281351, 175.6439777 Pedestrian
302 Waiting to cross at pedestrian crossing at the bottom of Chilka St, 2x cars sped southbound through the crossing (much faster than the 30kpm limit in this area), ignoring the fact that I was waiting there with two small children. I put my hand out to wave so that a car would notice that we were waiting and the driver slammed on her brakes, almost sliding over the intersection. This is a really common occurrence - the crossing needs to be moved further north or road design needs changing so that drivers go slower/the crossing is noticed more by drivers. -41.322244981844, 174.7752338733 Pedestrian
369 This time and date is approximate. A scooter travelling in straight line in middle of footpath, most pedestrians were moving to the side to let him pass, but an elderly women didn't see him and stumbled to get out of his way. The scooter rider did also try to avoid hitting her, but she was startled and could have fallen. -41.313376355769, 174.77964727641 Pedestrian
386 Near miss of school kid crossing monaghan. Car turning right from Broadway to monorghan. Pedestrians here can't see cars coming behind them on Broadway when crossing between queued cars on monorghan. -41.325249447088, 174.81798057864 Pedestrian
450 Started crossing road at tactile tiles from South to North when car came around corner (turning left from SH1 northbound lane) so had to step back. Cars seem to go fast around this blind corner so it is difficult as a pedestrian to cross. -40.766525313402, 175.14797536964 Pedestrian
626 Walking east through the Mt Vic tunnel when a Bicycle collided with me from behind. His handlebar bonked into my wrist. -41.304017967897, 174.7909843252 Pedestrian