• It's probably not a popular view, but I think you've got a point. If a pedestrian steps out right in front of a car, most people would not assign blame to the unfortunate driver that ploughed into them.

    Except that they do if the driver did not perform an emergency stop to prevent a collision, even if it's the peds fault, it's largely on the hand of the drivers to avoid fatality.

    My personal view is that cycling up the inside of a moving vehicle that is indicating left is equally foolhardy, and the result is fairly predictable.

    I agree, but you have to remember why people cycle on the inside in the first place, they don't do it out of malice, they do it because society told them to, the cycle lane, the infrastructure, the berated drivers shouting at them to stay closed to the kerbs/go on pavement, etc.

    And then suddenly, people started blaming cyclists for doing what they were encourage to do.

    It seems to me that lots of forumengers are happy to "call out" cyclists doing irresponsible things, but when those actions lead to a fatality, they become entirely the fault of the motorist. I don't understand why.

    Because no one have yet (AFAIK) witnessed a cyclists being killed to make such statement.

    This topic should be nuked, it add nothing constructive other than fuelling Boris' bad cyclists rants.

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