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What do people make of this BBC News video?

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  • November 2, 2017 at 2:15 pm #27804
    DaveE128

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-41839086/mother-releases-dangerous-game-cycle-crash-film-as-warning

    So the child is clearly at fault for riding on the wrong side of the road. The wheelie doesn’t help. But does that make it ok for the driver to plough into them when they could easily have slowed or stopped?

    The highway code says in the introduction to rules 103-158 “Always give way if it can help to avoid an incident.”

    It seems to me that the driver was either (i) keen to teach the child a lesson by scaring them with a 1.2 tonne metal object, but was too incompetent  to actually stop in time, or (ii) keen to teach the child a lesson by hitting them with a 1.2 tonne metal object.

    Which of the two people is more irresponsible and puerile? Which could reasonably be expected to display such behaviour at their age?

    I am glad to note that only bruising was suffered. Maybe we should all wear hoodies? yes

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  • November 2, 2017 at 3:28 pm #905439
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    davel

    Difficult to see how much the

    Difficult to see how much the driver slows, but it looks like they have plenty of time to stop and didn’t. Massive kudos to that licensed adult operator of heavy machinery for making the essential point that they own a residential street.

    Still, I bet the lad’s not going to forget that the rear wheel is the drive, not the steer, in a hurry.

    November 2, 2017 at 3:22 pm #905437
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    DaveE128

    Fair comments, but evasive

    Fair comments, but evasive action was left far too late to avoid a colision. They also swerved in the wrong direction, making a collision more likely not less.  I hope that wasn’t deliberate! It’s almost always better to brake hard (especially with ABS) to avoid hitting something or someone in front of you than to swerve. You usually can’t tell which way they will go if they move and you may lose control. If it was me driving, I’d like to think I’d have slowed down earlier to see what would happen.

    November 2, 2017 at 3:17 pm #905435
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    Natrix

    Difficult to judge, looks as

    Difficult to judge, looks as if driver tried to swerve to avoid the cyclist. Quite possibly too scared to stop in the middle of a ‘gang’ of hoodies……………….

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