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  • don't add to the list of dickheads and stay out of their way then. pretty easy

    This is about the time that I wheel out this particular cut and paste job.

    The lorry driver who killed cyclist Catriona Patel was drunk and chatting on a mobile.

    The lorry driver who killed Eilidh Cairns had faulty eyesight (the police didn't even bother to discover this until the same driver killed another woman.)

    The lorry driver who killed cyclist Brian Dorling turned across his path.

    The lorry driver who killed cyclist Svetlana Tereschenko was in an unsafe lorry, failing to indicate and chatting on a mobile. The police decided to charge him with..nothing.

    The lorry driver who killed cyclist Deep Lee failed to notice her and smashed into her from behind.

    The lorry driver that killed cyclist Andrew McNicoll failed to notice him and side swiped him.

    The lorry driver that killed cyclist Daniel Cox was in a truck which did not have the correct mirrors and whose driver had pulled into the ASL on a red light and was indicating in the opposite direction to which he turned.

    Perhaps I should update this for the cyclists that have been killed in the past few months by inattentive or otherwise negligent drivers.

    Calling them dickheads? Because they were in the way? Get fucked with your victim blaming.

  • How do infer that in any way?

    You made a fatuous statement "don't add to the list of dickheads and stay out of their way then. pretty easy"

    The list of dead cyclists makes it pretty clear that staying out of the way isn't the issue here.

    We all have anecdotes of being in primary, or being "out of the way", and having heavy goods vehicles overtaking from behind and left hooking us, or pulling across us from being in another lane of traffic, or overtaking us and close us off.

    But the driver can't be in the wrong, can they.

    Because they have a sticker.

    It's the cyclists fault for not reading the sticker. The cyclists are just dickheads on a list, dickheads who should have just stayed out of the way.

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