Sir Ridesalot said:Many drivers do not look for cyclists on the roads around here.
Because they are not looking for them these drivers simply do not see
a dark clothing wearing cyclist on a bicycle that is not lit by active
lighting.
Of course they don't, but let's be clear, here. This is not the
drivers' fault. Most of you are drivers. Don't try to tell me that you
would look for a person on a bike, with no lights or reflectors, wearing
black. You might say "What the hell is that?" as you run into it, but
we cannot assume that drivers are clairvoyant, or have super x-ray
vision. As sad as any traffic death is, the driver is not at fault
under these conditions.
I recall last Fall driving along, in the rain, and just barely avoiding
an idiot riding, without lights, without reflectors, wearing black, at
night, in the rain. Now, natural selection should weed this out of the
gene pool, but until that happens it's gonna [censored] me off. Had I hit the
guy, I would have felt like [censored] --- even though there was no way I
could have prevented it. As it was, that guy is alive through dumb luck.
Most bikes come with reflectors, [censored] though they are. He had to go out
of his way to remove them, then had the idea of wearing black on a rainy
night.
Quoted message said:
I urge all my friends to have a permanently mounted front and rear
blinky as a mininum for riding *IN CASE THEY GET CAUGHT BY DARKNESS*
especially during the shorter day-light days we are moving into.
Absolutely.
--
David L. Johnson
And what if you track down these men and kill them, what if you killed
all of us? From every corner of Europe, hundreds, thousands would
rise up to take our places. Even Nazis can't kill that fast.
-- Paul Henreid (Casablanca).
