exarch said...okay bob,
let me try to paint a picture for you but this time i'll use words.
car that your wife is in, intending to turn right.
<please let me know if you don't get any of this>
she starts to turn right and gets hit in the front right quater panel.
this is oncoming traffic
<this could be anything - bikes, tractors, elephants>
as she has pulled out into oncoming traffic.... the LAW says her fault.
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now as mentioned you have not given us anything except a third party account of an incident.
no facts about where your wife's car was, how wide the road was, you have only given us a rant to stir up the masses.
while i have had my head out of my ass this weekend i had a bit of a think about your proposal of registration for bikes.
it actually made me think about all the other things you need to register thanks to the nanny state we live in.
cars, boats, personal water craft (owners should be shot), motorbikes.
pretty much anything that people can hurt other people with.....
so here's the point.
your "bike registation idea" is solid and will gain backing ONLY if you also support luxury activity registration.
your grounds being a pack of knobs got hit on their bikes by your wife pulling out infront of them.
fine....
register your kites, there may be wind
register your boads, they float and may cause damage if un-attended
register your shoes, because you may run into someone and running shoes cost a premium
register your football, those things are hard
register your kids scooter, it's got wheels
register your kids bikes... same thing isn't it?
getting the point..... probably not but you cannot say i haven't tried.
p.s. those lycra clad morons are someone's kids, they are someone's partner, they are someone's parent.
what would your reaction be if someone turned their car into your kids while they were riding their bikes?
blame the cyclist????? have another think about it and get back to us.
WTF! So when some one is turning right, and some idiot comes up the inside from behind and tries to overtake, slams into you its oncomming, and your fault?
Isn't this along the lines of when you stop at a pedestrian crossing the fool behind you deceides to overtake and hits the pedestrian. So in your explaination it must be the pedestrians fault because they walked into oncomming traffic!
Oh, yea, sorry I forgot, if its a pushbike its everyone elses fault.
Mate I ride with absolute respect for everything bigger and faster than me, I treat every one of those things as though they
can't see me. I only ride a pushy around to the beach or shops. I rode a motorcycle for years and this theory has kept me unscathed.
You seriously need to refresh your road rules if you honestly believe you have right of way comming up the inside of a right turning vehicle.
