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Is this really what investigators are trying to put across?
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/8396474.iPod_use_may_have_led_to_cyclist___s_death/
If he had been using the iPod then I would question the validity of the argument that it makes traffic navigation more hazardous. If the guy simply allowed himself to daydream, to switch off then yes, I would say he was partly to blame. Hard but truthful. However I could see no real evidence presented in the article that the rider had actually been using the iPod when he stepped into the path of the lorry... The lorry driver was found to have been doing 56 in a 40mph zone. Would that have meant a reasonable stopping distance had the driver been under the limit.
The road where it happened has been pointed out by people and residents in the area as pretty bad for speeding lorries. There is an industrial complex somewhere along there so the chances of encountering a HGV or skip truck is pretty likely.
Let the floodgates open...
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/8396474.iPod_use_may_have_led_to_cyclist___s_death/
If he had been using the iPod then I would question the validity of the argument that it makes traffic navigation more hazardous. If the guy simply allowed himself to daydream, to switch off then yes, I would say he was partly to blame. Hard but truthful. However I could see no real evidence presented in the article that the rider had actually been using the iPod when he stepped into the path of the lorry... The lorry driver was found to have been doing 56 in a 40mph zone. Would that have meant a reasonable stopping distance had the driver been under the limit.
The road where it happened has been pointed out by people and residents in the area as pretty bad for speeding lorries. There is an industrial complex somewhere along there so the chances of encountering a HGV or skip truck is pretty likely.
Let the floodgates open...