What does the law say about your duty to animals on the road?
How heartless would you have to be, not to avoid driving over a duck waddling across a road?
Read More →Reducing collisions with cyclists – Part 4
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
Read More →Reducing collisions with cyclists – Part 3
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?
Read More →Reducing collisions with cyclists – Part 2
Effectively, sidewalks are stop signs. You must stop ahead of them and then you must yield to pedestrian traffic.
Read More →Reducing collisions with cyclists – Part 1
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
Read More →Humboldt Broncos Crash: The Elephant in the Room
Crown Counsel is seeking a 10 year prison sentence for Jaskirat Singh Sindu, the semi truck driver who caused the Humboldt Broncos bus crash.
Read More →New police breathalyzer powers: What about our rights?
Paul explains that our Charter rights are not absolute, but are balanced against laws that are justifiable in a free and democratic society.
Read More →Crashes aren’t accidents
The word "accident", and it’s connotation of unaccountable inevitability, is getting in the way of taking important steps to fix an ongoing, and growing, road safety disaster.
Read More →Not all injuries are visible: Don’t suffer in silence
A healthy sense of vulnerability can make our roads safer. An unhealthy level of anxiety can adversely impact a victim’s life, and can ironically make our roads more dangerous. It’s commonly known as “Driving Anxiety.”
Read More →Winter tires are not a reliable measure of security
Winter tire season has arrived. They’re required on most British Columbia highways from the beginning of October until the end of March. A reader prompted the topic, asking: “I live in Kelowna and do not have the proper Winter tires,
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