[QUOTE 5057321, member: 9609"]I very much agree with this - it should be 100% the drivers responsibility not to crash into other road users, but in the bizarre world of driving many think it is 90%+ the responsibility of the more vulnerable road user to take care of themselves. I hate it but feel the need to comply.
And the situation is not helped by the courts who too often side with the motorist, take this case, driver blinded by low sun runs over lollypop man helping pregnant woman crossing the road.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/cri...-killed-82-year-old-lollipop-man-8933201.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-27982163[/QUOTE]
As that exemplifies, complying with the "hi-vis everything" expectation still doesn't even ensure that the motorist gets punished appropriately after they hit you, let alone reduce casualty rates, so why comply?
Personally, it's made me feel the need to campaign for Road Justice, to promote Road Danger Reduction instead of the failed road safety "common sense" at the Casualty Reduction Partnership (alongside others from other Cyclenation, CUK and BC groups, plus local bike shops, the IAM and others) which I'm pretty sure was instrumental in persuading Norfolk Constabulary to start accepting bike/dashcam reports and doing Operation Close Pass here.
However, the motoring lobby and their well-intentioned fellow travellers are still out there, handing reflective yellow stars (edit: to be clear, this is not only a pejorative - I kid you not, last year some of the reflective stickers handed out locally were actually star-shaped, handed to kids as a "gold star" - this year so far, I've only seen circles, so I suspect they've noticed the own-goal) to cyclists, schoolchildren, dog walkers and so on, telling them it's their fault if they don't "be safe be seen" despite us still not even having an eyeball magnet that we can use on motorists. You can't force someone to look at you and if you did, then what about the people they don't look at as much, as a result? If it worked, it would be a great example of Beggar Thy Neighbour, or more likely, Injure Thy Neighbour. Maybe those promoting hi vis don't care about their neighbours but I like mine! If it worked, "look at me" would be the ultimate anti-social approach to road safety when really, if there's lots of people for motorists to look at in an area, we should be focusing on getting drivers to slow the fark down so they have time to look and drive appropriately and punishing them if they do not - but good luck selling that to society when there's so many happy to hand out stab vests instead of disarm the knifers.</rant>
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