The motorist had given the true version of events to an ICBC adjuster (who has since retired) shortly after the collision. I knew that because of notes of that discussion within the ICBC file materials.That version of events changed over
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As fun as they might be, I don’t see the kinds of transportation and environmental benefits flowing from e-scooters like I do from their larger and safer cousin, the e-bike.
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As motorists, we have a strong moral duty, in addition to our legal one, to take care not to hurt much more vulnerable road users. But it is also reasonable to expect that vulnerable road users will look after our
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We don’t blindly move between vehicle lanes without checking our mirrors and shoulder checking. Why don’t we, as a matter of course, do the same thing before moving across the area of the road commonly occupied by cyclists?
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Effectively, sidewalks are stop signs. You must stop ahead of them and then you must yield to pedestrian traffic.
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In each of the scenarios I provide, the collision would have been avoided had the motorist met the standard of driving care we reasonably expect of motorists. But correspondingly, each collision would also have been avoided had the cyclist
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Rather than blaming cyclists and pedestrians for failing to take more care for their own safety, we need to be considering what more we can do to take more care for their safety.
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I love playing devil’s advocate. Challenging perceptions is fun for me. With road safety issues I get the bonus of doing my small bit to make our roads safer. I recently challenged perceptions about rights of way between drivers and
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I came very close to cutting off an oncoming cyclist the other day while I was making a left turn. It was one of those “close calls” that had been regular features of my driving experience until the Spring, 2012,
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For most collisions that cross my desk, the driver of one of the vehicles is totally to blame. It happens all the time, with distracted drivers blowing stop signs, crashing their vehicles into the back of lines of stopped traffic,
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