freediver wrote on May 15
th, 2008 at 10:07pm:
I passed a lady on my way to work this morning who had been hit by a car. She had blood on her face and her back tyre was bent, but she was sitting up by herself. I passed another bike accident at the same intersection a few months back. Last week at a different intersection I passed a guy who had been hit by a car. He looked unconscious, had blood dripping from his mouth etc. There's still a blood stain on the road.
Did you stop and talk to her FD? If not you have just assumed it was not her fault.
I was sitting at a traffic light on a 3 lane carriage way the other day and saw this lycra clad fool approach the light look up the adjacent left street to ensure nothing was coming and proceed straight through the traffic light, only to be nearly cleaned up by a motorbike coming from the opposite direction.
I guarantee you the headline would have read "cyclist killed by unobservant driver" instead of "f&*Kwit with a death wish kills himself and risks the lives of others by flagrantly disregarding road rules"
Personally I don't have an issue with cyclists. It is legal for them to use the roads, and I have no beef. Shame it isn't illegal for them not to use common sense in the process.
I have come around a blind bend at the speed limit only to have to slam on the brakes to avoid collecting a gaggle of lycra clad masochists riding 5 abreast and 4 deep on the road; it would have been a nasty crash and the ones that were killed would have pointed the finger squarely at me, when it was in fact the cyclists who were breaking the law.