Re: Dead Vermont cyclist

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:46:55 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
wrote:

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 05:07:12 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 22:47:32 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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On 3/14/2025 4:37 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:10:40 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

On 3/14/2025 1:25 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:44:15 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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Nope, I'm not sympathetic. What rule could be more fundamental than
"Don't hit someone walking (or bicycling) with your car"?
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And if killing someone with your car isn't sufficient for forbidding
future driving, what would be?
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Is the permission to drive really more important than a person's life?

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Isn't there a law against riding your bicycle in the path of a moving
car?

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What nonsense!

 
Oh well, go ahead and do it....

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I do it all the time. I did it many times on today's ride, as usual. I'm
not nearly as fearful or as ignorant of the law as you are.
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Man up, if you can.

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I'm pretty sure that if I ride into the path of fast moving vehicles
and get hit, it'd be my own fault.

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The problem with Frank's theory is if it doesn't work right you are
dead.
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Years ago I posted about two women on a motorbike with two babies who
rode out in front of a 40 ft bed truck hauling a 40 ft. trailer. The
guy did try to stop, in fact he flipped the trailer but the results
were one women and one baby dead.
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When I mentioned it to Frank he just shrugged it off saying "Oh, they
didn't do it right."

Several places on the bike paths I ride have highway crossings where
there is a stop sign for bike path users, but no stop signs on the
highway. I'd not only be a fool, a victim, but a law breaker if I ride
out in front of a vehicle.

Even if in a vehicle, if I pull over into the path of a faster moving
vehicle and get hit by that vehicle, I'd likely be at fault.

--
C'est bon
Soloman