"start seeing motorcycles" stuff

[darxus]

http://ruiner.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/howclose.mpg (3.2mB, from http://community.livejournal.com/motorcycles/1370305.html)

I would appreciate you watching this short video. I met at least one person who is now dead because someone failed to see him while he was riding, with no excuse.

I have this kind of problem on a regular basis. If I didn't regularly expect people to be this stupid I would... not be so healthy.
One of the people actually said to me afterward, when I pulled up to them, "I'm sorry, I didn't see you!" Those words... piss me off.

Comments

[motomuffin.livejournal.com]

It has happend to me and frankly if I took him out I wouldn't have felt remorse over it.

Sweet of you.

Would you do it on purpose? Would you open your car door into a bike riding down the breakdown lane in highway traffic?

What about bicycles in the city? Would you "take them out" too? They're supposed to follow the rules of the road just like cars and motorcycles.

[mrpet.livejournal.com]

No I wouldn't do it on purpose. You a mearly presenting this quote out of context to draw a certain expected response.

If people drive their cars, motorcycles, bikes, whatever in a way that is against the law they cannot expect to be safe. It's just that simple. If someone hit a bike that was driving the speed limit in a way that was consistant with the laws of the road then they are not paying attention and probably shouldn't be driving. If the bike was speeding at twice the speed limit weaving in and out of traffic and they get hit then it's a different story.

I spend more time that I should have to looking out for other drivers. I do this because I want to be safe. I have seen people jump up over the curb to pass people on the right and almost take out the pedestrians that the original car was waiting for. It matters not that they were an asshole in a car or an asshole on a bike. In that case it was a car. I don't look for cars driving on the sidewalk and if I accidentally hit one when I was turning right I would not feel that it was my fault in the least.