SMIDSY

SMIDSY

1. (Britain, Australia) Sorry mate, I didn′t see you.
   • 2010, Matt Croucher, Flash Point‎, page 13:

     The motorist claimed Smidsy after the crash — ‘Sorry mate I didn't see you’.

The acronym is used by motorcyclists and cyclists in reference to traffic collisions in which the driver of a car or larger vehicle claims not to have noticed a two-wheel biker. It is usually derogatory, in that the claim is often that the driver was not at fault (when he/she patently was). SMIDSY was also used as a title of a BBC series on road safety broadcast in the 1980s.

A related usage by the UK government is LBFTS (“looked but failed to see”).[1]

• LBFTS

• mysids