ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
http://www.thisishullandeastriding....P-cyclist-73/story-13928258-detail/story.html
Sad story, even sadder are some of the knuckle-dragging comments coming out.
I ride to work on this road, and have been double-overtaken (car passing me is also overtaken by another car) - on a single-carriageway road. I have been forced off the road by people overtaking me and coming back in too soon. Worst of all, I have been forced off the road twice by cars overtaking coming in the opposite direction and not waiting a few seconds for me to pass - so off onto the verge I go.
I was wearing hi-viz, and had two very bright led lights on (in daylight) - they saw me all right, and chose to force me off the road. Where else was I to go? Wobble/fall onto soft grass, or leave my DNA all over the bonnet of a silver Vectra at 60mph?
A cyclist dies, and they (motoring public) round on and blame the cyclist, and rant about RLJing, no road tax, no lights et al.
It seems to me that a 'mild inconvenience' caused by a cyclist to a motorist far exceeds the death caused by a motorist.
Are our journeys as motorists so much more important than a human life?
Sad story, even sadder are some of the knuckle-dragging comments coming out.
I ride to work on this road, and have been double-overtaken (car passing me is also overtaken by another car) - on a single-carriageway road. I have been forced off the road by people overtaking me and coming back in too soon. Worst of all, I have been forced off the road twice by cars overtaking coming in the opposite direction and not waiting a few seconds for me to pass - so off onto the verge I go.
I was wearing hi-viz, and had two very bright led lights on (in daylight) - they saw me all right, and chose to force me off the road. Where else was I to go? Wobble/fall onto soft grass, or leave my DNA all over the bonnet of a silver Vectra at 60mph?
A cyclist dies, and they (motoring public) round on and blame the cyclist, and rant about RLJing, no road tax, no lights et al.
It seems to me that a 'mild inconvenience' caused by a cyclist to a motorist far exceeds the death caused by a motorist.
Are our journeys as motorists so much more important than a human life?