If you run down a cyclist & run, don't tell Twitter(!)
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Ideally, don't be knocking down cyclists. If you do, stop! If you didn't stop, probably best not mention it on Twitter, even more-so if you work in a field that doesn't allow those with a criminal record.
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http://ipayroadtax.com/no-such-thing-as-road-tax/i-knocked-a-cyclist-off-his-bike-i-have-right-of-way-he-doesnt-even-pay-road-tax/
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http://ipayroadtax.com/no-such-thing-as-road-tax/i-knocked-a-cyclist-off-his-bike-i-have-right-of-way-he-doesnt-even-pay-road-tax/
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Her licence wants ripping up as she is clearly in no way safe to be on the roads.
Hit & run, tailgaiting, speeding and using a mobile whilst driving (the reason she has been caught) are all serious matters.
Glad to hear the guy is alright.
It's from a pro-cyclist website so unsurprisingly it's a pro-cyclist article.
Feel free to quote where it says drivers "fear" cyclists though, because for the life of me I can't see it anywhere.
As for the woman, I hope she get's the book thrown at her.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22602141
I can't quote as I'm on the iPad, however third paragraph down it goes on about how young women are fearful of bike sand stranger danger and this why they mock cyclists
Not anti cyclist anything, I was merely responding to the idiotic writing in the article.. Do I think she was right to hit him, no. D I think she should of driven off, no. Do I think she should boast about it? No.
I have no problem with cyclists on the road, it's the ones that give the majority a bad name that I have a problem with.
It's pathetic is what it is...
I did try to find an "unbiased"source, but it's not widely circulated, yet.
It was easy to link than write my own article, but I have looked on Twitter, and the police response is still there, the other tweets mentioned exist and her account is gone, so I've no reason to doubt the rest of the article.
Btw, bazaar1, "doubling up" isn't against the law. They're allowed to do that.
To be fair - post 8 sounds more anti "irresponsible road user" than anti-cyclist.
"For such women, perhaps the thought of being a cyclist – unprotected from ‘stranger danger’ and open to the elements – makes them shudder, and the way to reject and despoil this “other” is to vilify and mock it?"
That's saying that perhaps the women are scared of being outside their cars, not of cyclists themselves.
It's hardly making a concrete claim in any case, just speculation as to the questionable motives of people who rant about others for no good reason.
I wasn't having a to at your article choice op, but the written article itself, I didn't know it was legal to double up, so I stand corrected, I presume there are rules about it though? Fr example I came round a blind corner yesterday and there were three cyclists side by side, had I been going at a faster speed or less aware that its a road notorious for blind bends id of taken them all out in a split second - I can't see how that's not dangerous.
I woman almost pulled out of a junction in front of me yesterday people need to be extra vigilant on the roads
Three abreast isn't allowed (unless the outside cyclist is merely overtaking), but two abreast takes up little more room than a car or van.
One cyclist or two abreast, you shouldn't overtake a cyclist on a blind bend, because you are meant to give them a full car's width space between them and your car while overtaking, which would still put you in the other lane with just one cyclist, if you are driving correctly.
Anyway, yeah, the article is definitely slanted towards cyclists, but there's not really much of a positive for drivers generally in that tale.