Comment on What’s driving Cycling Mikey, Britain’s most hated cyclist?
C4d@lemmy.world 1 year agoThe folks being caught on their phones only have themselves to blame; the law is clear.
As for the prospect of taking revenge on the cyclist, the very thought is heinous - and helmet or not the liability for any injury would rest wholly with the driver.
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I’m sure he’ll find that comforting when he’s dead or injured.
C4d@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m not sure what you’re getting at here. Please elaborate.
adrian783@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“if I can’t run him over personally, I hope someone else does”
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I doubt that he’d find the fact that the liability rests with the driver comforting if he had a brain injury, or even died, because he didn’t wear a helmet.
There’s a saying in motorcycling - ‘The graveyard is full of people who had the right of way’. It’s a similar idea, in that it doesn’t matter who was right, or who gets the blame, if you’re dead.
Arrakis@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I bet you’re fun at parties.
C4d@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m trying to draw a distinction here between a typical collision and a driver taking revenge on a cyclist. The argument of contributory negligence is unlikely to survive intact if it can be shown that the driver deliberately drove into the cyclist with intent to harm. Contributory negligence is however very real in more normal circumstances if it can be shown that an appropriately specified and correctly worn helmet would have made a difference.
As for the graveyards saying, that’s very true. And very sad. I don’t think it was intended to be about someone actually trying to kill you, more about learning to be calm, to let things go and walk / cycle / drive defensively. Words to live by. I know too many who’ve died doing it the other way.