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Something for the weekend… back flip on a kids’ trike
Fri, May 01, 2009 15:38
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jaymack 2 minutes ago
I have a pair, they're an absolutely brilliant idea, simple to use and store in a jersey pocket. They're perfect for popping to the shop or pub from a campsite or cycling onto a ferry in normal-ish clothing and footwear. They are this year's top purchase.
FionaJJ 30 minutes ago
@mitsky That's what terrifies me. It's one thing to accept that humans make mistakes, but another to act like you never did anything wrong. He comes across as someone who is convinced he is the real victim in all of this. I'm less bothered about the lack of custodial sentence than I am about the brevity of his driving ban. If not being drunk or on his phone is considered to be mitigation, surely being an actual professional driving instructor means he really ought to have known how to watch the road!! The lack of compassion and humility should also be considered. He didn't even have the gumption to fake it. Someone else suggested that being close to the verge may have given her some protection, and I'm sure it did when it came to the actual collision, but I wonder if she'd have been a bit more visible if she had been further away from the edge?
chrisonabike 41 minutes ago
@SVXY Feel free to come back when any of that relates to this case. Or indeed makes sense by itself *. Actually, don't, if you would be so kind. * As you don't need reminding: hi-viz has little to do with night visibility, what you're after is reflectives; although those have also proved of zero guarantee of effectiveness in some other "the cyclist was there to be seen..." cases. And if you can safely overtake a car and certainly a bus (4 abreast seating - with an aisle!) you should have no difficulty overtaking said group of cyclists (you appear to have an abreast-fixation - FWIW I've never encountered more than a momentary 3-some). Assuming you were a competent driver. Or indeed waiting until they had turned off / moved over. Your reminded that another thing the Highway code doesn't say is "you MUST overtake slower-moving traffic..."
SVXY 2 hours ago
@SVXY At night a cyclist not in high viz will be hard to see and 4 persons cycling abreast are not only near impossible to overtake but cycling against the highway code which states you should not cycle more than 2 abreast. There may not have been provocation from the cyclist but there was no evidence of mens rea from the driver either. No cyclist should of course ever ride in sandals unless say a track over fields, even on a 20 or 30mph limit road that would be dangerous let alone a 60mph one
SVXY 2 hours ago
@mitsky Why should you be banned for life if you weren't even judged by a court to be driving dangerously, as he wasn't? At most he should maybe have got a few years longer ban and mandatory retest
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
@SVXY Shurely some feeble attempt at humour here! Or are you saying that a person on a bicycle in daylight is invisible from behind unless wearing hi-vis (and perhaps that's contributory negligence or recklessness?) but 4 persons (not sure where you get that from?) are ... also invisible? Because per previous comments about no mens rea you couldn't possibly be suggesting that this amounts to provocation, because that wouldn't apply if it was an accident. And careful competent trained driving instructors (no doubt fully in command of their emotions and committed to safe road use) wouldn't be provoked? Also: presumably 4 persons sharing the back seat in a car or bus are exempt from this "abreast" rule, even if the conveyance is not moving at all? Unless they're ... wearing sandals??
wtjs 4 hours ago
another Mail reader said: “She was swaying from left to right with each turn of her pedals. She was an accident waiting to happen” I'm surprised nobody else has yet commented about this aspect of what the unsurprisingly repellent Mail reader wrote: most of us sway with each pedal stroke, to varying degrees. The stabilisation setting on much camera video (almost all of mine) minimises the apparent degree of sway. There was nothing remarkable about Ms Tanton's cycling, yet exceedingly stupid and malevolent (forgive the tautology) expletive-deleted Mail Reader views this as an excuse for the ******* driver and an 'it's her own fault' comment because a cyclist just being on the road is enough for those b******s and for our very own loathsome trolls. Many of us, including me, would have been further out from the road edge, and could well have been even more horrifically injured as a result. Make no mistake: chance alone has protected those of us who have so far been lucky enough to evade such an assault from an unrepentant driver untroubled by his joke suspended sentence. She is forced to rely on the civil court for recompense and the punishment and justice which should have resulted from the criminal court case. I hope it's a massive settlement!
SVXY 4 hours ago
@SVXY Rape has always been a serious indictable only offence and it was right the marital exemption was removed. Careless driving even now remains only a summary offence, careless driving causing serious injury is now an either way offence but that is to do with the outcome. The offence remains careless driving not with intent like rape. Yes he should have slowed down but there is no evidence he saw the cyclist in which case he likely would have. Cyclists who choose to ride on 60mph limit roads could also help themselves by wearing high viz, not wearing sandals and ensuring they don’t ride 4 abreast
Deveron53 5 hours ago
I live in Scotland (smug mode initiated).
Deveron53 5 hours ago
@james-o A great philosopher once said: "naughty naughty, very naughty!"
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