Two Idiots

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Andy_R

Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
Location
County Durham
so they're both guilty...taxi driver for not looking, cyclist for no lights or brakes. next time taxi driver will hopefully look, cyclist will be lit up like an xmas tree and will be able to stop. sh!t happens..nothing to see here, move along now.
 

Angelfishsolo

A Velocipedian
He said he didnt look.

No he didn't. The paper reported he didn't look and the police charged him with it. It says nowhere the Taxi driver admitted to that charge.
 

gambatte

Middle of the pack...
Location
S Yorks
I guess getting fined for no lights etc the copper would have to know specifically which law was broken. We've seen on vids on here, they're not always on the ball in that respect.
 

gaz

Cycle Camera TV
Location
South Croydon
No he didn't. The paper reported he didn't look and the police charged him with it. It says nowhere the Taxi driver admitted to that charge.

my mistake, misread it.

Simply pointing out another case that the motorist could jump on. "The driver got fined the idiot cyclist who also broke the law got nothing"

As i said the other day, that just differentiates the cyclist from us for us. Not going to affect what joe public thinks.
 

Angelfishsolo

A Velocipedian
my mistake, misread it.

As i said the other day, that just differentiates the cyclist from us for us. Not going to affect what joe public thinks.

Misreading is so easily done :smile:

I enough people point out that he was not a cyclist but somebody on a bike it "might" sink in. Then again I have taken my naive pills today.
 

Norm

Guest
But - the taxi driver did not look. Therefore no matter what lights the cyclist had, the driver would not have seen him.
Not necessarily true as bright lights would have lit up the inside of his cab like daylight, so he would have known there was something there, even without looking.
 
Not necessarily true as bright lights would have lit up the inside of his cab like daylight, so he would have known there was something there, even without looking.

Ah but then he would be using illegal lights unless he had another BS Kite marked light as well which won't light up the inside of anything ;)
 
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