You are reading a single comment by @Oliver Schick and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@Oliver Schick
TSK, I wasn't suggesting that the victim's action was completely safe--I was just wondering what grounds the judge could have had for claiming that she was in breach of the HC. It is unfortunately often the case that one way in which people try to deal with the sad reality of such a crash, one of the most comforting ways they find, especially if refusing to learn more about the issues, is in victim-blaming.
'Cyclist X jumped a red light? That's all right then, they deserved to be killed.' I kid you not, I have actually heard people say that. Most people aren't campaigners and need some sort of mechanism to resist the call to action that such facts have built into them, which is why they don't want to face the reality that there are many things wrong with the overriding status quo--it just seems too much work and too hard to change hearts and minds--, so that they concentrate on more superficial things.