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I'm extremely cautious when filtering since I had a women passenger fling open the door of a Transit as I was creeping up the nearside.
The lights had just gone red so I knew no one was going to move off and I didn't hit the door, but she scared the **** out of me.
My point is an indicator or a sticker is not an excuse for dangerous driving.It is OK for cycles to undertake, it is up to other road users to understand this.
It is a SHARED space no-one is higher up the food chain.
There is a big difference between filtering and undertaking (implying that both vehicles are moving at speed).
Anyway, even if what you say is true (which it is, to a point) that doesn't mean cyclists shouldn't be careful regardless. Don't go up the inside of a lorry just because it's technically allowed and the onus is on the driver to look before turning.
Yes the lorry driver should have been paying attention and looked in his mirror before turning. However if it's true that the cyclist was sailing up the inside, odds are the driver could not have seen him even if he had looked. Granted that lorries need better mirrors!
It is the very least to expect that all road users keep there eyes open and aware of what is going on around them
Yes but it's [u]safest[/u] to assume that everyone else on the road is on the phone, eating a sandwich and playing with the radio all at the same time 😉
Cheers Horatio, that's the one
Gummi, just because the Highway Code says it that doesn't mean road users adhere to it, 211 is fine until you read the code properly and then it contradicts itself, more than once. Which makes it about as relevant as the corsa post?
Riding a bike is just a bit of common sense, im not trying to preach to the converted I'm just trying to explain that if you ride your bike as per the good book then you are not giving yourself a fair advantage, drivers do all sorts whilst driving along, due care and attention isn't something which takes priority whilst updating Facebook, texting, talking on phone etc.
the entrance to what looks like an industrial estate
There is an "adult club" on that estate that - according to the landlord who was telling me all this- has just had a car installed so that they can go dogging indoors if the weather is bad. 😯
you do all realise that he PLEADED GUILTY - so all your speculation about whether he was unfairly convicted is nonsense - he admitted driving carelessly (and as a result killing someone).
Aaaapapap. Don't you be coming on here with your hard facts and common sense attitude, there'll be none of that ere, just stick to speculation and the Highway Code,
What sort of car was installed at these premises MCTD? And what colour was it, did you notice 😕
😀There is an "adult club" on that estate that - according to the landlord who was telling me all this- has just had a car installed so that they can go dogging indoors if the weather is bad.
They should install a couple of turbo trainers for the folk who usually sneak up on the doggy carparks on night-rides. It's only fair
At last, I've found a way of distracting the arguments on this kind of thread!
It's funny you should say that.......... But a mate has been partaking in this illicit activity of an evening........ During some of our winter training loops which I noticed he was doing on an evening whilst his lad was at Cubs I replicated in daylight hours and one of the other lads on the ride during daylight hours I might add said that this was a common dogging spot, thts funny I thought as laddo keeps popping up here of an evening and then nipping back On STRAVA as well the thick ****, I mentioned this the other day and he didn't know where to put himself, I told him the Police had been up there with night vision cameras and had made a documentary, funny he's not been up since? And now goes in the complete opposite direction.
He's been getting some stick on the Strava messaging after a ride, and his sister in law is on his list, apparently she doesn't know anything about dogging,