My favorite is when they put the bike lane in the middle of the street between the right and left vehicle traffic lanes. I feel so safe with murder machines on both sides of me!
In 88.9% of cases, the cyclist had been travelling in a safe/legal manner prior to the collision/near miss. Most happened at or near a junction (70.3%) and most were caused by sudden lane changes by the motorist, with sideswipe the most frequent cause (40.7%).
And this one carried out on behalf of the Department of Transport in London:
The City of Westminster Council found that drivers were to blame for 68 per cent of collisions between cyclists and motor vehicles in the borough in the past 12 months. It found that cyclists were at fault for only 20 per cent. In the remaining 12 per cent of cases, no cause could be found or both parties were to blame.
Plenty of cars don’t stop for stop signs and traffic lights too. At least around all the crossings near where I live. Now, it’s possible that there are timing issues, but AFAICS the mentality is it’s okay to keep going as long as the car in front of me is moving. Regardless of the state of the lights.
I’ve been hit by a car a lost several weeks to amnesia from a TBI, forgive me for being afraid of murder machines when I have nothing but a painted line to protect me from them.
My favorite is when they put the bike lane in the middle of the street between the right and left vehicle traffic lanes. I feel so safe with murder machines on both sides of me!
D.C. has this with four lanes on each side and near highway speeds and people with domestic immunity zipping around through traffic. It’s nuts!
My favorite is when they do not stop for stop signs or traffic lights. I respect your life as much as you do.
Isn’t it fun to project generalizations?
Made come back to reddit (ew!) to get this saved comment
Nah.
Car drivers break the law slightly more than cyclists, with a far greater toll.
This separate study came to the same conclusion:
Cyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video Study
And this study:
Cyclists Are More Law-Abiding Than Drivers
Also car drivers cause the vast majority of accidents between bikes and cars.
Four in every five crashes between cars and bicycles caused by driver of car
This seperate study in Melbourne came to the same conclusion:
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/drivers-at-fault-in-majority-of-cycling-accidents/
And this one carried out on behalf of the Department of Transport in London:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/15/cycling-bike-accidents-study
And this study by The City of Westminster Council:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/crashes-involving-bikes-mostly-drivers-fault-9s2ssx06vn9
And one from Bavaria, Germany. In 2013-2016,
So that’s five separate studies in different cities and countries, using different methodologies, all coming to the same conclusion.
Cheers.
hardly surprising, there’s much less incentive to break road rules when you’re completely vulnerable to everyone around you and balanced on 2 wheels.
Damn, I wish I could save this on lemmy.
You can? There’s a save button under the comment
Pretty sure you can. Im using Jerboa and can bookmark comments and posts.
Nice, unfortunately not in memmy on ios
@marmo7ade @queermunist Who is “they” here? Cyclists?
Plenty of cars don’t stop for stop signs and traffic lights too. At least around all the crossings near where I live. Now, it’s possible that there are timing issues, but AFAICS the mentality is it’s okay to keep going as long as the car in front of me is moving. Regardless of the state of the lights.
I’ve been hit by a car a lost several weeks to amnesia from a TBI, forgive me for being afraid of murder machines when I have nothing but a painted line to protect me from them.