To put people clear, this incident that happened in front of my eyes happened before this pic was taken on the B1257. This is more up on the moor as you can see. But before this stretch you are lower down on a section that is continually twisting with corners every few yards it seems and is narrower than this stretch and shrouded with trees on either side in places.
The lack of markings is due to the fact it is likely newly laid tarmac.
So whilst the act of leap-frogging as I have dubbed it (overtaking at speed consecutive vehicles) may not be wrong, where he did it with corners every few yards or so on a narrow road certainly is very risky to himself and to oncoming traffic. And I don't think my dad was driving too cautiously. He was not driving that slowly. The Dacia was overtaking cars much faster than our own. I looked back in the drivers side wing mirror to find an Audi Q7 next. When next I looked back it had become that Dacia who was very close indeed to the back of us. Almost tailgating us. So that driver had gone fast enough to overtake the Q7. He would go on to do it continually.
what you call leapfrogging is also known as making progress.
Looks to me like a pretty open road with good visibility.
It looks like a wide country lane with decent width carriageways and a dashed central line- I would expect this to be a national limit.
If this sort of maneuver was beyond acceptable limits, there would be a solid white line and/or a 50 limit.
finally, given the car is a dacia sandero and it overtook you with aplomb - chances are your Father was driving too slowly/over cautiously.
It was the woman's responsibility to check it was clear because she was pulling out onto a main road.
As we see her only put her seat belt on after the incident, it's likely she didn't notice the cycle because she was distracted by something else, maybe putting her purse away, handling a drink or snacks, fiddling with her phone etc. otherwise wouldn't she have already fastened her seat belt?
To make matters worse, she left the scene of an accident without exchanging details.
She knew full well she was in the wrong but had the audacity to say the cyclist was speeding. If she really thought the cyclist was at fault, why didn't she get out her car and check for damage to her own vehicle, as one usually would?
There are too many people on the roads who make mistakes and then refuse to own up to them. If you mess up, put your hands up and admit to it instead of being a wimp and trying to blame others.
I've seen some RLJ's but using that as an excuse to divert facts is beyond childish
Fact is she failed to give way
Fact there was an accident
Fact she should provide her details whether injury/damage or not - it was an accident and needs to be reported if requested by any party.
Fact she failed to stop and give those details
Fact she had no concern of the cyclist
Fact she wasn't wearing her seatbelt
Now if you still want to point out where this cyclist jumped the RED lights then please report it to the police I'm sure they'll tell you they will look into it whilst turning their back to you and laughing so hard a little fart pops out
Did you ask them if they were ok?