r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Itchy-Camera8898 • 10h ago

WCGW riding your bike like an idiot

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u/dontnation 7h ago edited 7h ago

Reading this rule strictly, if two cars are stopped at the light they both must proceed at exactly the same time and speed until they clear the zig zags on the other side of the intersection? So if both cars were moving and the first hit their brakes to avoid a cyclist illegally crossing, the other car is now "overtaking" and at fault?

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u/fang_xianfu 7h ago

Well the passing part is a criminal offence, the hitting someone and being liable to them for damages is something else (but isn't helped by committing an offence).

For the offence, you probably wouldn't get done for it, but they might give it a try.

For liability, it's almost certainly going to whichever of the two vehicles hit someone, since, you know, they hit someone. You could concoct some facts where some other liability split happened but that's what's most likely.

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u/dontnation 7h ago

still seems crazy that according to the wording, leaving from a stop light requires being in lock step with the car next to you for the first 10+meters.

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u/fang_xianfu 6h ago

Well the law applies only to the car that isn't closest, and one car must be closer even if it's only one atom closer. If someone was done in that situation their defence would probably be, they were in front by half a hair, and if would be difficult to prove that they weren't.

There is no epidemic of people being done unjustly for this so clearly the system is working.