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What's clothing that allows me to not be at fault for being run over?
I thought traffic laws are only about having two breaks, lights at night etc
I'm not talking about being at fault.
I don't care about court, I'd rather not be run over.
This case seems like an honest accident, I don't think the driver is too blame too much here. The cyclist got into a blind spot (which is why I hate roundabouts for cyclists) and got hit.
Nobody seems truly at fault here, but making others more aware of yourself, and being more aware yourself might have made this avoidable.
Bad road design is yet again the biggest party to blame here.
You have to drive in a way that accounts for bad road design though. if you have to crawl around a corner you can't see well then you have to do that.
It is your responsibility as a driver to make sure that you can safely stop within the distance you can see, at all times.
If you can only see 10cm around the corner, then you have to drive at 5cm/s
If the cyclist got in that bad of a blind spot, then the taxi must have been HUGE. We have boatloads of roundabouts in NL and they are just fine.
I’m with you on that. Where I live some roafs in the city are not lit and people will wear dark clothes and bike at night without lights. Sometimes you don’t even see them until you’re right on top of them.
It can be kind of scary and even when being careful, there is a risk of hitting someone.
Something reasonably reflective and visible in low light.
If it's dark and no one can fucking see you, part of that is on you.
Same as driving at night with no headlights on. Which the cyclist was apparently also doing, as their light was out.
Don't dress like a fucking ninja in all black that you are only visible when you're looking at me through a windshield while being on my car's hood. That's how. If anything pisses me off is people like this with lights that have battery from 5 years ago that barely makes them working. Or preferably no lights at all riding a bicycle at dawn. It's like fucks have a death wish or something.
The difference between black shirt and a fluorescent red/orange/yellow/green/blue shirt is MASSIVE. You can spot a cyclist wearing these from kilometer away. Black one, few hundred meters or even less if it's road through shade/forest. I'm a cyclist too and all my shirts are such bright colors because I want to be sure I'm visible to others on the roads.