Re: Sydney Bicycle accident

"Kwyjibo" <kwyjibo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Doug Jewell" <ask@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Trevor Wilson wrote:
>>> "Noddy" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> "Trevor Wilson" <trevor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> Swerving and stopping in front of a group of cyclists, then leaving 
>>>>> the scene of the resulting accident, is not only illegal, but 
>>>>> extremely poor form.
>>>> It depends entirely on the cir***stances.
>>>
>>> **Indeed. An engine fault is not a situation which calls for
endangering 
>>> the lives of 50 cyclists. It is a situation which calls for the driver

>>> to allow the vehicle to slow, whilst looking for an op****tunity to get

>>> off the road SAFELY.
>> One re****t that I saw (and bear in mind it was a re****t, so there is no

>> guarantee to it's truth), said that several cyclists overtook him
BEFORE 
>> they started ploughing into the back of the car. If he stopped in the
way 
>> you are describing you would expect the front cyclists to be the ones 
>> hitting him. If the front cyclists got past, and it was ones further
down 
>> in the pack that hit him, it tells me that there is nothing wrong with 
>> his stopping action, but it was the cyclists were riding too close to 
>> each other to be able to A) see the unexpected and B) react to the 
>> unexpected.
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> Precisely. For a hypothetical, try reversing the situation...........
>
> 5 cars driving nose to tail. The front car comes upon a cyclist and at
the 
> last minute swerves to pass the bike. The other 4 cars, driving to close

> to the car in front, don't have time to react and run straight over the 
> cyclist.
> Who does Trevor think would be at fault there?

**Try reversing the situation and I'll attempt to answer. Your scenario 
doesn't come close.

Trevor Wilson