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Sorry where is this rule? Also, not saying cycling into someone and berating was great (although in say filtering you go through narrow gaps and someone could walk out without looking- obviously you slow to accommodate that but also people should look properly too).
It’s just funny that people immediately attack the person cycling and defend the van driver who parked by coming up with lame excuses. I guess cycling on the pavement/jumping lights if it is safer is fine in people’s eyes here too?
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Not attacking anyone, and I don’t believe it is a rule, it’s just common sense.
You’d fail* a driving test if you drove into a gap seeing full well that there was already a car coming the other way in that gap and you met head on/had to stop.This thread is to call out bad cycling. Which includes riding through too small of a gap towards oncoming traffic and hitting a pedestrian who was crossing. “They should have looked” or “the van should have given way” are not relevant excuses. The Van’s being there in the first place is not the matter up for discussion.
*at least get a minor fault
PhilDAS
Even if initially the van should have given way, once it has begun the maneuver and is in the gap, you no longer have priority