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*While I agree that there are stupid/uninformed cyclists out there, in no way should fgss be advocating a safety campaign that is basically a "blame the victim" campaign.
This just wreaks of the same backwards thinking that "women who wear short skirts deserved to be raped" does.
Yes of course, riding on the left of a lorrie means they can't see you but that doesn't mean you deserve to be hit. *
Sorry Roxy, but to me that is a crock of shit.
I see loads of cyclists that put themselves in a position of danger with HGV's due to ignorance or stupidity and my thought is 'don't you know what risk you're taking?' I don't look at how a girl dresses and think 'don't you know what risk you're taking'
to attribute a similar mindset to both circumstances is in my opinion erroneous and misleading