RLJer crashes into taxi

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Cycling Dan

Cycling Dan

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subaqua said:
Aussie- has a big head
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You mean thick heads?
 
glenn forger

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I generally find New Zealanders reasonable and balanced until you get onto the subject of Orcs, when they become almost racist.
 
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Crankarm

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Oh yes, how funny that someone is seriously injured... :rolleyes:
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Yes it is actually. Serves him right as well. RLJers are total menace. They have contempt for other road users safety. Fortunately in this instance it only appears he injured himself and no one else. What if the taxi had swerved to avoid him hitting another vehicle, cyclist or motorcylist using the junction correctly killing them, the driver or passenger? You wouldn't post such a smug provocative post then would you? What if the person killed was one of your family? You wouldn't condone RLJing then would you? Road traffic signals are for the safety of every one. This guy obviously believes they don't apply to him. As I say I did laugh and am still chuckling a bit now. What an idiot.
 
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Crankarm

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Boris Bajic said:
One is torn here.

Horrible to see that someone was injured and unpleasant to read of the damage caused.

Nonetheless, it was a barmy thing to do. That is a fraught junction (I've ridden around and across it since before my teens).

It is good that this chap has come out and said "I was an idiot". Some pictures of his face would reinforce the message better than some broken glass. However, there is something of the post-conversion Paul here... Yesterday he was a speed-freak barmy RLJ-er and today he is a sensible rider with scars on his face. I've never known a conversion so quick and so complete. I'd bet this chap will continue to hop lights; he'll just do it with more care.

I once head-butted a car window at some speed. It didn't break, but my neck and bonce took a beating. I wonder how fast he was going to smash the glass...

As a red-light-hopper who has only partially repented and changed, I advocate consideration, care, extraordinary awareness of the behaviour of other road users and a healthy dollop of good fortune.
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I think the guy has only admitted to being an idiot as he was struck by the taxi causing the injuries that he sustained. It took nearly being killed to realise he was indeed an idiot for doing an idiotic thing. This makes him even more stupid than the most stupid idiot.
 
Boris Bajic

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Glow worm said:
I haven't read anywhere in this thread any condoning of RLJing unless I've missed something?
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I don't condone the hopping of red lights, but I used to do it frequently and now do it infrequently.

I dare say that many contributors to these pages are hoppers of red lights. On an average bimble from Paddington to Whitehall or the City, I see as many cyclists ignoring reds as I do complying.

There are places I just WOULDN'T do it. There are places I almost always do it.

If I'm on my slick-tyred-hardtail-street-warrior nail of a scratched and scuffed ratbike, I also hop kerbs, particularly on Oxford Street where busescan slightly compromise my forward momentum.

This Ocker in the OP is clearly one turnip short of a crop, but the wholesale vilifying of all RLJ activity one sometimes hears sits uncomfortably with the ground truth of traffic-signal gay abandon.

I hop lights, but do so with care. And do so rarely, so I am not being hypocritical when I say that the practice disgusts me.
 
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Rancid

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Green = if it's safe, then proceed
Red = do not proceed

all other arguments = load of old bollox.

Bodily harm due to stupidity = ^_^
Bodily harm due to stupidity and a self belief you are superior to all other road users and there for the rules only apply to you when you feel it is applicable = :hyper:^_^:hyper:
 
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Markymark

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As an occassional driver in London, RLJ scares me. Many do it, probably thinking they are doing safely, but it often adds another variable to already difficult junctions. I don't do it in the car and I don't do it on my bike. I have had to make emergency manouvers more than once to avoid hitting RLJ which luckily did not have more serious consequences.

I think riders that do so only have themselves to blame in situations as the OP but to call it funny is callous.
 
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