Dashcam vision sought of anyone in the area.
“There’s no blame. We really need to throw our arms around each other. We need to show what a strong community we are,” [the Mayor] said.
The blame is the fact that cars are allowed on roads being used for a race at all. I’ve had the privilege of participating a few times in Brisbane’s Tour de Brisbane, and also in some other events around SEQ. The closes roads of TdB are an absolute dream. The events on open roads are absolutely miserable if you’re not good enough to keep up with a big pack.
We need to make it easier for these kinds of events to fully close the roads for them to be able to happen safely. The blame is firmly on our politicians and their constant obsession with never inconveniencing cars in any way, even to the expense of people’s lives.
The whining on facebook about how cyclists should be banned whenever something like this happens does my head in. If you can’t stop your car within sight distance, you are driving too fast. Doesn’t matter if it’s a cyclist or a tree across the road. Slow down!
It’s ridiculous that somebody downvoted you. I’ve seen it happen before when I’ve made similar arguments, and I’m getting pretty sick and tired of how infested this community is with car-supremacist fuckwads who support irresponsible driving.
Not a carsupremacist fuckwad, however I think we should be using this as a lesson to prevent reoccurrence, clearly this is a narrow road, and narrow country roads are usually 100km/h zones, you can come around a corner and have no idea, theres a car, let alone a gaggle of bikes there (not to mention the riders that sometimes ride 3 abreast). Its a setup for disaster.
Whoever was organising the race should’ve organised an escort car to advise cyclists are ahead (I find this personally super helpful), else arranged a road closure. Changing every speed zone in this country to 50km/h will not stop this from occuring, and it is impractical to boot. Should the driver have slowed down of course, will the majority of drivers who have been driving through the country for the last hour and a half, on a relatively barron country road slow down? of course not.
Remeber our pollies are to busy focusing on re-election, so they’ll do nothing to help us, so we’ve gotta do the steps ourselves.
If you can’t stop in your sight distance, you are driving too fast. Doesn’t matter what the maximum speed is. There’s no excusing this.
