Strict liability, law change to protect vulnerable road users?

birkee

Inactive wrote: »

Not stupid at all, a good driver will be aware that somebody is about to step out and adjust their speed accordingly, as I said I have never put myself in to a position where I needed to " slam on the anchors ", if you have, then perhaps some further driver training may be in order.

And it could be that you haven't encountered some of the idiots some of us others have.

Seeing people waiting to cross is one thing, others just step into the road without checking the traffic, becaue they walk along the pavement and then step out. No indications they were going to cross the road to give a motorist advance warning.

And if you say you have never encountered any of these, then you have been driving for a VERY short time, or I choose to disbelieve you.

Inactive

birkee wrote: »

And if you say you have never encountered any of these, then you have been driving for a VERY short time, or I choose to disbelieve you.

I have been driving for a long time, and you are free to believe whatever you like.

vikingaero

Easiest way for safe roads is to put a spike on the drivers airbag and spikes on the outside of cars. Problem solved.

Inactive

vikingaero wrote: »

Easiest way for safe roads is to put a spike on the drivers airbag and spikes on the outside of cars. Problem solved.

I agree with the " spikes on drivers airbag "..

sequence

vikingaero wrote: »

Easiest way for safe roads is to put a spike on the drivers airbag and spikes on the outside of cars. Problem solved.

Too true! Safety improvements in cars are to the detriment of other road users.

Strider590

vikingaero wrote: »

Easiest way for safe roads is to put a spike on the drivers airbag and spikes on the outside of cars. Problem solved.

Got spikes coming out the side of my cycling shoes (well screw heads anyway)
Follow the highway code:



And we'll all be fine

vaio

you have special shoes for cycling? I'm impressed

Strider590

vaio wrote: »

you have special shoes for cycling? I'm impressed

They're the pedal clip type, it means you can push/pull at the same time, rather than only on the downstroke = same effort, twice the power and no bobbing up/down in the saddle.

In my late teens I was a competition level XC mountain biker, but got held back because I couldn't quite afford a decent enough bike.

molerat

Inactive wrote: »

It could prove that you were driving too fast for the prevailing conditions..;)

I cannot recall the last time that I had to " stand on the anchors "..

Narrow footpath with an alleyway between properties. Two kids ran full pelt out of the alley and straight across the road. What speed was too fast for that situation then ?

Stood on the brakes but still hit one of them (or he hit me part way down the front left wing). Police said not my fault and later the mother appeared at my house with little scrote that got knocked over in tow to apologise to me, wouldn't happen now.

thenudeone

As an occasional cyclist and participant of the world naked bike ride in London https://www.worldnakedbikeride.org/uk, I would support measures to help cyclists, but I strongly suspect that a change such as you describe would lead to a massive increase in fraud, which careful motorists would have to pay for.