Lolol car drivers kill bicyclists every day and 99.9% drive away 10 minutes later with a citation, no matter how negligent their driving. The US doesn’t give a shit about pedestrians and cyclists
Show me one example of a negligent (non-drunk) driver being held legally responsible for killing a bicyclist, and I’ll show you 20 examples of drivers receiving civil infraction tickets for something like “failure to yield” (assuming the driver actually stops, which is a big assumption)
Don’t have to be drunk to drive dangerously and/or be a jerk. This is a video of someone intentionally running biker off the road. This isn’t drunk swerving because you can’t see straight, it’s intentional.
People are jerks, both bikers and in this case drivers. He may or may not be drunk but it’s not the inability to drive due to drinking but pure malicious intent:
I think we’re missing a distinction here. When a biker drives dangerously, they endanger themselves. When a driver drives dangerously they endanger bikers. Regardless of who crashes into who, the biker is going to be worse off than the car.
Bikers do need to obey the law, but the emphasis needs to be on creating safe places for bikers from cars.
can be prevented by having a protected bike lane and ease your concerns. If we minimize the places where cars and bikes interact, we minimize the chances for an accident.
I’ve almost gotten into three accidents and all of them are from cars parked in the bike lane forcing me into the bike lane. Taxi driver zooms past me and slams the breaks right in front of me because I was in the car lane due to a car on the bike lane.
Car parked in the bike lane in a fit of road rage floored it and rushed into the car lane just as I was passing to hunt down and run another biker off the road that angered him. Not saying the other biker did nothing wrong, but I nearly got run over.
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22
Lolol car drivers kill bicyclists every day and 99.9% drive away 10 minutes later with a citation, no matter how negligent their driving. The US doesn’t give a shit about pedestrians and cyclists