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I think we need an approach that specifically seeks to protect the most vulnerable road users, such as cyclists. The relationship between a car and a car is very different from that between a car and a bike, or that between a lorry and a bike. If I'm driving my car through West London in heavy traffic and lightly bump into the car in front, the driver might not even get out if I wave an apology (and his car is shit): this is the model of the situation the coroner seems implicitly to be applying, completely inappropriately, in this ruling. We need to get into a situation where major alarm bells go on for HGV drivers when they see a cyclist (as they go on for most of us, no doubt, when we see an HGV). People need to think it abhorrent that a lorry driver was that close to a cyclist on a busy road.