Inevitible ?

[HLaB]

This video was in my you tube reccomendations and I just thought I'd share (apologies if its been aired before); whilst I natural feel sorryfor the injured party, there seems a certain amount of inevitibility from the start!

 

[byegad]

Yes. Top of places not to go really!

 

[the snail]

indeed, bit of a trainwreck, two dimwits brought together by destiny and stupidity.

 

[Browser]

God, watching that made my scrotum tighten!! Sadly, very likely to happen in that situation.

 

[Twiggy]

Letting people out at the lights is never a good idea.

Can potentially see why the cyclist goes that side though, a right hand turn for example, and not wanting to get stuck on the wrong side of traffic for it. Plus some states have "ride as far to the right as possible" laws.

Not a nice situation for anyone.

 

[DrSquirrel]

Way too fast to be going up a gap that small.

Doesn't deserve it... but shouldn't really complain.

 

[tongskie01]

Letting people out at the lights is never a good idea.

Can potentially see why the cyclist goes that side though, a right hand turn for example, and not wanting to get stuck on the wrong side of traffic for it. Plus some states have "ride as far to the right as possible" laws.

Not a nice situation for anyone.

this an equivalent to filtering on the left here in the uk.....more of the driver's fault. if you look at it clearly the car is in the middle of the right lane and seems stopped before the traffic light. probably the cyclist thought that the car is waiting for the lights to turn green and did not anticipate that it is actually letting a passenger out. the driver did not pull over properly not even indicating......

 

[2Loose]

Way too fast to be going up a gap that small.

Doesn't deserve it... but shouldn't really complain.

+1

 

[swee'pea99]

Just dumb. Asking for it. I see it every day - '99 times out of 100 you'll get away with that. Then comes #100...'

 

[CopperBrompton]

+1. Car driver's fault, but a dumb thing to do on the part of the cyclist.

 

[Simba]

Watching that reminded me of my incident with a car door, I was passing on the outside however and it was the driver also I suffered a broken collar bone and he has admitted liability.

 

[jimboalee]

Have another view of the slo-mo bit at the end. The car WASN'T indicating right to signal it had stopped to alight passengers. What does that tell the cyclist?

This happened to me when I was fifteen ish outside Ruckleigh School in Solihull. Motorist NOT CONTROLLING her passengers.

If you consider how this could happen ANYTIME a car stops in traffic, even with a three foot gap, you'd never pass cars on the inside.

 

[asterix]

Happened to me, sadly. Well, that's what the witnesses all say. All I know about it is waking up in HDU 24 hours later.

In my case the passenger would have opened the door across a green-painted cycle lanes.

Probably wasn't going fast because I took the impact of the door edge on my right upper arm (It had a big car-door-edge shaped dent in the muscle) and medical opinion is that could easily have broken the bone and I didn't. Unfortunately I did receive similar head injuries to James Cracknell (albeit with big financial compensation).

 

[swee'pea99]

Have another view of the slo-mo bit at the end. The car WASN'T indicating right to signal it had stopped to alight passengers. What does that tell the cyclist?

This happened to me when I was fifteen ish outside Ruckleigh School in Solihull. Motorist NOT CONTROLLING her passengers.

If you consider how this could happen ANYTIME a car stops in traffic, even with a three foot gap, you'd never pass cars on the inside.

Not so. You just pass them slowly, and carefully, and fully aware that many tin boxes contain numpties.

 

[beanzontoast]

Made my stomach go into a knot watching that. Even if the title hadn't given it away, you could guess what was about to happen.

On my commute, there's a cycle path running alongside the left of the main carriageway (Derby folk may know it - the approach to Exeter Bridge opposite the Council House, just before the hard divider starts) where drivers often parallel park alongside it while dropping their passengers off. A more dangerous place to choose to do this is hard to imagine. It unsettles me every time I see a car parked there.