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.
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.