Slackbladder:
Carryfast do you even read other posts? As I have put in other posts there are no draconian sentences, for anyone be they cyclists or drivers, as shown in my last effort. I’ve stated before that if it’s your fault then you should pay the consequences, how’s that ignoring the fact that cyclists put themselves in danger? I am fully aware that they do, I’ve seen them do it. On the other hand you seem to think that no driver is ever at fault in accidents with bikes. At least I can admit that some, not all by a long way, cyclists are complete tools on the road. It seems that as soon as you mention cyclist on this forum, all drivers become blameless road gods that should not have to mix with the riff raff bike users, whose sole intention is to throw themselves under the nearest truck so the driver goes to jail for years. Odd that the majority of other threads detail how bad some drivers are. Your own posts clearly show incidents where it’s the drivers fault, the bus driver for instance, or is it the cyclists fault that he ploughed into the back of her at 26 mph because he wasn’t looking? The taxi incident is an indication of how lenient courts are to drivers. It’s one incident, I don’t need to list them all as it would take too long.
Cyclists have as much right to be on the road as anyone else, read your HWC if your not sure. Get over yourself.
As I read it you’ve ‘actually’ used an unrepresentative example,concerning the case of a cab driver,being fined £35 in relation to a collision with a cyclist,that we obviously don’t know all the facts about which led to such a lenient sentence,to then make the case that there are no potential ‘draconian’ sentences at all,of the type which you’d like to see,imposed ever on anyone driving a motor vehicle,who’s unlucky enough to end up in a collision with one of the typical suicidal maniac militant cyclist lot,which is plainly bs.
Yes in the event of a driver causing a serious accident then they should expect to pay the consequences.However that doesn’t seem consistent with the current situation in which we’ve got anarchy on the roads.Caused by the combination of bonkers road traffic regs,which refuse to seperate two types of traffic, ( motor vehicles and cyclists ),by not allowing cyclists to use the pavements,added to which is the situation that too many of those cyclists on the roads have absolutely no road sense whatsoever to the point of having suicidal tendencies.
In that environment there’s no way that any driver with any sense would be stupid enough to support your ideas in which you seem to be saying that drivers should be jailed in the case of all accidents involving motor vehicles and cyclists considering that in most cases such accidents are very likely to involve at least serious injury if not fatality in the case of the cyclist.
So in your ideas who exactly decides ‘fault’ in an environment where the idea of many cyclists being suicidal nutters who’s sole intention is to throw themselves under the wheels of a truck etc so ( under your rules ) the driver ends up going to jail,is a fact.Added to which is the absolutely bonkers idea of mixing motor traffic with cyclists instead of putting those cyclists where they belong on the pavement wherever possible.In that environment motor vehicle users need every bit of help,in the case of discretion shown by the courts,that they can get.Without that then every road journey by motor vehicle is likely to turn into an unacceptable risk,to the driver concerned,of losing their freedom all because some stupid cyclist wants to treat every journey as a tour de france race stage and/or hasn’t got a clue concerning what it takes to stay alive using such a vulnerable method of transport amongst general road traffic.That’s in addition to bonkers road traffic laws which put them into that situation instead of putting them on the pavement where they belong.
