Cycling and Risk Taking survey

I don't know exactly how this works, either, Tom, but there have been a few crashes in which cyclists have been caught out by this type of manoeuvre. I think it may be that because of their assumption that the lorry was going to go straight ahead, they got closer to it. You'd have to ask an expert, though.

Hummm - ok. It's certainly plausible that people not used to long vehicles could completely misread their intentions from their road positioning. I think what i'm worrying about is that focusing on that particular aspect sort of implies that other aspects are less serious, i.e. that if a lorry hasn't swung right it isn't about to do something dangerous, which is obviously not a valid inference. Maybe it's so obvious it doesn't need stating, but then why do so many people ride up the inside of lorries?

Perhaps something for a subsequent version of the survey to address?