Sh4rkyBloke
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- Manchester, UK
Nerazzurri said:I cannot believe there's people here trying to lay some responsibility on the cyclist.
Sh4rkyBloke said:Hmmm, not sure what the hand signal is for going straight ahead on the road I'm on at the moment... please enlighten me.
I agree that it's not clear whether th cyclist even looked over his shoulder (there's no mention of it) and the stills from the CCTV show him in one position and then further out into the lane on the next one.... but regardless of this, the taxi should have seen the pinch point and realised that the cyclist is heading to there too and that there's no room to overtake.
Crap driver, simple as.
Sh4rkyBloke said:Hmmm, not sure what the hand signal is for going straight ahead on the road I'm on at the moment... please enlighten me.
I agree that it's not clear whether th cyclist even looked over his shoulder (there's no mention of it) and the stills from the CCTV show him in one position and then further out into the lane on the next one.... but regardless of this, the taxi should have seen the pinch point and realised that the cyclist is heading to there too and that there's no room to overtake.
Crap driver, simple as.
BentMikey said:What amazes me is how srw thinks the cyclist should have signaled straight on!! Oh, and the cyclist very clearly went straight - it's pretty obvious from the loading bay markings that he didn't move out. It's the taxi that moved left in towards the cyclist.
Well, I for one would hate to be driving behind you on your bike!!srw said:You obviously don't signal straight on. You look behind you, stick your right arm out firmly, and straight, and that indicates to cars behind that you are about to do something funny.
srw said:And you must be looking at a different pair of photos from me. In the pair I'm looking at the cyclist is drifting outwards, the car is going straight on. It is not angled in, as the specious drawing suggests.
BentMikey said:p.s. I think there's some of the worst kind of victim blaming going on here. Go read the overtaking rules in the highway code please, and you'll see you're utterly utterly wrong. Shameful.
BentMikey said:As for signalling right when you're not actually intending to move out, and are instead going straight on, that doesn't seem very sensible or good riding practice to me. It's not National Standards, that's for sure.