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Old 06-17-14, 12:33 AM
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Originally Posted by kickstart
Not sure what your point is.

Isn't the whole reason to post and comment on incidents like this to learn from them, and hopefully not repeate them ourselves? Obviously the motorist was AFU, but were the actions of the cyclist absolutely perfect? To me it seems that possibly she was going a little too fast for where she was riding, I'm not trying to say she's at fault.

Maybe I'm wrong, perhaps A&S is intended to be a gossip thread with no educational value?
As far as I can tell from the video, she was riding at a reasonable speed. The point, though, is that the SUV was coming her way and taking up the whole width of the path. She could have been riding at 5 MPH and still gotten hit if the driver didn't slow down in time. In the video, he certainly didn't seem to slow down fast enough.

I will be honest. If I were her, I would NOT expect an SUV coming from the opposite direction taking up the entire width of the path like that.
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