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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Dead Vermont cyclist
Date: 15 Mar 2025 10:03:53 GMT
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Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 22:47:32 -0400, Frank Krygowski
> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/14/2025 4:37 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>> On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:10:40 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 3/14/2025 1:25 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:44:15 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Nope, I'm not sympathetic. What rule could be more fundamental than
>>>>>> "Don't hit someone walking (or bicycling) with your car"?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> And if killing someone with your car isn't sufficient for forbidding
>>>>>> future driving, what would be?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Is the permission to drive really more important than a person's life?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Isn't there a law against riding your bicycle in the path of a moving
>>>>> car?
>>>> 
>>>> What nonsense!
>>> 
>>> Oh well, go ahead and do it....
>> 
>> I do it all the time. I did it many times on today's ride, as usual. I'm 
>> not nearly as fearful or as ignorant of the law as you are.
>> 
>> Man up, if you can.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that if I ride into the path of fast moving vehicles
> and get hit, it'd be my own fault. 
> 
> --
> C'est bon
> Soloman
> 

There is world of difference between riding on a road, as one should be
able to so, and other users of the road as every have to adjust to others
using the road, back in wales I can encounter all manner of vehicles and
animals!

Even in london and areas around get
pedestrians/scooters/bikes/horses/motorbikes/milk
floats/vans/buses/lorries.

All of which will use the roads in different ways, unless it’s a motorway
where all traffic is broadly traveling same speeds.

Roger Merriman