| Re: Holy shatz! Cop stops bicycle!
In article <postmaster-D81410.17142012062004@news1.west.earthlink.net>,
"Daniel T." <postmaster@eathlink.net> writes:
> I saw something close. I was making a left turn (with the green light)
> when a bicyclist ran the light just as I was turning. Needless to say
> the bicyclist was going too fast for anyone to really react to his
> presence. He ended up hitting an SUV (note the bicyclist hit the
> vehicle, not the other way around.) The bike was totaled and the rider
> found himself flat on his back. Amazingly, the bicyclist wasn't hurt, of
> course the driver of the SUV wasn't hurt either, how could he be? Hell,
> I didn't even see any scratches on the side of his vehicle...
Those things do happen, but that's nothing like the scenario
Mr. Stern describes, of drivers bashing their cars into each
other in a valiant effort to avoid hitting a red light-running
cyclist. I expect in the incident you describe, the SUV driver
didn't do much by way of collision avoidance manoeuvers; maybe
the driver didn't even know the cyclist was there until he hit
his SUV. But that's admittedly all speculation on my part.
I think a more plausible hypothetical situation would be where a
startled driver panics, hits the binders and gets rear-ended.
But that would be the fault of the driver behind him, doing the
rear-ending.
> I'm not going to claim that what Mr. Stern says never happens, but I
> expect that when something like that happens but its a car rather than a
> bike that is "ramming" through a busy intersection against the light, a
> hell of a lot more damage occurs.
True. I have seen some sickening aftermath of where (car driving)
street racers, and subjects in police pursuits, have tried
unsuccessfuly to run red lights. With stuff like that going on,
the authorities have far more important things to deal with than
going after law-flouting cyclists.
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