When learning to drive
I was told by my instructor to leave enough room for a car door to open when passing parked cars because an occupant could open one unexpectedly.
Seems like sensible behaviour. I usually do it even if I am in a car and would not get hurt by someone doing that.
If I were likely to be the one hurt I would make sure I did it 100% of the time.
Cyclists should take sensible precautions. It is only sensible.
If a woman lies down naked in a park it is illegal to rape her. Unfortunately, in the real world, that is no protection from harm at all and her lying down naked is a bit daft. Any sensible person would not do it because they are likely to come to harm even if the harm is as a result of an illegal act. The likelihood of it happening is not eliminated by it's illegality.
The onus of care is not all on the car drivers. It is shared by the cyclists in the real world but not in the minds of some of them it seems.
Just because a car has a greater capacity for harm does not mean the cyclist has no responsibility for their own safety, that is really terrible logic.
As you say, it swings both ways. I am sure many car drivers could take more care but then so could many cyclists. If they both took more care I am sure the number of fatalities on the roads would greatly diminish.
75% of cycling accidents happen at junctions. One big thing that could change is car drivers not doing what happened to you and pulling out on cyclists, the other is cyclists not undertaking, especially near junctions.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 11 Sep 2017, 19:26,
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Yet when I follow the Highway Code recommended distance away from parked cars (1-1.5 m)
for the very obvious reason that I can't trust some cunt not to open a door on me (which is frankly dangerous thing to have happen to you at any speed) then some cunt behind me will start shouting, parping their damned horn or even driving at me, because having the parked cars take up half the road is not enough. The fuckers want the whole of the road to themselves for driving or parking on.
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Cyclists are cunts
Drivers are cunts
Right that's that all sorted
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Fadgebadger (1 like), Tue 12 Sep 2017, 8:05,
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