Originally Posted by
rekmeyata
PM you? As long as you made a post on an particular thread you should get an update sent to your e-mail as soon as anyone post's regardless if it's quoting you or not. If your not and want that service you need to go into your settings located at the top right of this forum page.
Today is Sept 15th, thread started on Sept 7th. Less than 7 hours after it was posted no1mad added a link to my
glow down the road thread. 8 days later, I find it and start posting to the thread. Had someone (say no1mad) pm'd me (saying "check this thread out") I could have been in on the action 8 days ago. Now that I have posted to this thread, I'll get email notifications.
Originally Posted by
rekmeyata
Anyway, interesting article of the guy being hit and killed, but your analysis takes a huge liberty on assumptions with no facts to even closely resemble what really happened. I'm sure the investigation that wasn't publicised probably got to within 95% of the cause of the accident. I think the person behind him simply wasn't paying attention, or the lights being used were really cheap dim lights that the driver in the rain simply never saw. Most accidents that are the motorists fault are driver unawareness...which is true with car vs car too.
Perhaps, but as I added with the "*", my analysis was based on my own previous collision where I too turned away from the car before I was hit. That, and his girlfriend said that he was going to visit a friend north of where he was killed, he didn't have any friends who lived to the west of the point of impact, and that the two of them were aware of the shortcut, and frequently used it. But then again, I only lived next to the trail for more than a year, and used it daily myself, so what would I know.
My apartment was located just out of frame on the lower left corner of this photo
As for the quality of the lights, I haven't seen anything about what he was using, except that he had working lights. I just presented a hypothesis based on personal observations (>40 years worth) of other people riding bicycles. Headlights shine to the front, tail lights shine to the rear, and neither are usually very effective from the side during a blustery rainy night with lots of glare from a wet road.