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Who was at fault?
On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 00:54:17 +0100
TMS320 wrote: The taxi brake lights would also have come on. Precisely. The driver was 100% to blame for creating the situation but the person on the bike might have done more to avoid. As vulnerable road users we really need to pay attention to what is happening around us, and expect other road users to be careless, stupid or just plain nasty. A couple of "bad drivers in the UK" videos I watched earlier seemed to be mostly about drivers failing to anticipate other road users or being combative and inconsiderate towards them, then trying to make out that it was the other driver behaving badly. Thankfully I also found a video compilation of considerate driving, I may watch that again later. :-) |
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On 26/04/2019 20:12, MrCheerful wrote:
Riding along with your hands off the controls is not the safest way to ride a bicycle, in fact it is careless. The video is not good enough to show that. How do you know? |
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On 27/04/2019 02:02, Rob Morley wrote:
On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 00:54:17 +0100 TMS320 wrote: The taxi brake lights would also have come on. Precisely. The driver was 100% to blame for creating the situation but the person on the bike might have done more to avoid. As vulnerable road users we really need to pay attention to what is happening around us, and expect other road users to be careless, stupid or just plain nasty. A couple of "bad drivers in the UK" videos I watched earlier seemed to be mostly about drivers failing to anticipate other road users or being combative and inconsiderate towards them, then trying to make out that it was the other driver behaving badly. Thankfully I also found a video compilation of considerate driving, I may watch that again later. :-) Most crashes are due to one road user doing something wrong and the other road user failing to avoid, either through doing the wrong action, or not acting. It is normal to punish the one doing the original wrong not the one that fails to avoid - even when a more competent road user would have avoided. That isn't to suggest there aren't situations where it might be better to punish the one that failed to avoid. |
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