Please report dangerous drivers to the police - Roadsafe. Report to plod, not just whinge here.

I am not a lawyer etc but my immediate reaction is that there is a higher duty of care on someone operating a 40 tonne vehicle for commercial purposes than there is on a member of the public going about on a cycle.

This leads me to question whether 70/30 is reasonable. If a ped had stepped out as the light went green and got run over, would we apportion some of the blame on them? (Perhaps we would or should - genuine question)

We are expected to protect people from their own stupidity, the argument "they shouldn't have been there in the first place" is rarely acceptable.

Interesting argument. You can see where they're coming from but 30% seems high.

I think a lot of the problem though is the culture that cyclists belong on the left hand side of the road, near the gutter.

Most on here are happy to take primary and ride down the middle of the lane but for many cyclists the default position is on the left hand side, even if they're going straight on and cars are turning left.

Cycle lanes like this only reinforce that.

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the Judge accepted that the cyclist could not have seen the lorry's
indicators due to the presence of a stationary vehicle.

But then, how did the cyclist get around the stationary vehicle that obstructed the view of the indicators?

I'm on the side of cyclists all day long, but really something is missing in the story, like a clear diagram.

Would the car be in the straight on lane? HGV straddles two lanes, that's not unusual, so the rider sees a car ahead going straight and in front of that an HGV that looks to be going straight, she's got a brief moment to make a decision.

I wanna see diagrams

Do we already have driverless HGVs? It's the driver not the vehicle that needs to check.

Yeah I want them painted in the middle of the lane fuck segregation.

Undertaking?

Not resting blame.

H17 ESB drives badly and should stop it

This idiot just t-boned my wife and I.

My back is in agony but wife would not call the police.

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but wife would not call the police.

But details have been exchanged right?

Just call the non emergency number to put it in their record.

what's happened there?
seems to be a gap between the discovery and the corsa. and i can't see a bike anywhere?

and i can't see a bike anywhere

They were in the Discovery?

...and I can't see a bike anywhere?

Can you repeat what the thread title said please?

This

I know it can be difficult to comprehend but being a cyclist does not mean I solely travel by bike.

Sorry, forgive my snarkasm - am feeling a little tetchy right now.

yes, i guessed you were in the disco.

it's just that it's hard to see what's happened from the photos.

hope all is well with you and mrs dj.

Maybe your wife really doesn't want it on record that she went to dfs?

So, wait. Somebody that travels in a discovery, also rides a bicycle. It's a mental world!

Only in a world of Trump and Brexit could this be reality.

Couldn't quite work out who the sponsor is there...

Amgen, I think.

holy fuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88uaie8BeJ4