Chris Akrigg. Skills aplenty.

I live in Scotland (smug mode initiated).

@james-o A great philosopher once said: "naughty naughty, very naughty!"

@mjvande@pacbell.net TLDR typical Septic thinking the USA is the World. This is the UK, you know, the place without the guns.

@wtjs just because I feel the need to ask, doesn't mean that I expect a rational answer - it was more of a rhetorical question (hence the roll-eyes)

@chrisonabike yes, those would be suitable approaches for the hard of thinking...we need to know who those folks are 😉

@SVXY Yeah....it wasn't illegal for a husband to rape his wife until 1991, does that mean it's not really bad now because it used not to be an offence? Dick has been punished under the law as it stood at the time of his offence and whining that the law used not to be so strict is ridiculous. As for the rest of your drivel, it's amazing how you appear not only to have been present but actually inside his head to know exactly what happened. "Had he seen her clearly he would not have driven so close to her would he and slowed down" - I should think every cyclist on this forum has experience of drivers who have seen them and not slowed down and driven as close as possible. There has been plenty of evidence here and elsewhere that a significant proportion of driving instructors have contempt for and frustration with cyclists, it's just as feasible that he enjoys doing punishment passes on cyclists and simply misjudged this one. As for "He did not do an illegal manoeuvre forbidden by signage on that road", shouldn't you make a beeping noise when you back up like that? You've gone from "he didn't make an illegal manoeuvre" to "there wasn't actually a sign forbidding his illegal manoeuvre". Hilarious. I suppose if he'd been drunk you'd be saying there wasn't a sign saying "don't drive drunk on this stretch of road"? I'm afraid your desperation to defend a person who has ruined a woman's life by committing a serious criminal offence either through staggering incompetence and negligence or a misjudged act of malice has made you look extremely stupid.

Well okay then. The spread of 270 degrees means there is no way to avoid having it blasting you in the eyes. I use a knog cobber front light with 270 degree spread and there's no way I'd put it on my handlebars.

@belugabob I fear that you ask too much of the pair of pathetic sad git trolls infesting this topic. They clearly derive some suspicious stimulation from supporting stupid and offensive anti-cyclist positions and hoping for vituperative responses which gain them even further stimulation.

@jackcycles I feel the need to ask you to think very carefully about the phrase "preferential treatment for one group of road users" and be honest about who that applies to. 🙄

@SVXY Careless driving causing serious injury was an offence only created in 2022, before then it was only treated as Careless driving with a maximum of a fine, penalty points and a driving ban. He must have missed her, maybe because of the sun or another factor but was still driving at below the 60mph speed limit on that road. Had he seen her clearly he would not have driven so close to her would he and slowed down, even if he should have looked ahead of him more keenly. He did not do an illegal manoeuvre forbidden by signage on that road