Originally Posted by
Chicago Al
We had a very, um, lively discussion here a year or two ago started by a guy who had a terrible problem. He was going at high speed ( I think he said 40mph) down a fairly steep hill (in Massachusetts), road was two lanes, fairly busy, and he noticed the cars going his way were stopping. He figured it was because one intended to turn left and had to wait for traffic going the other way to clear. So he sped past the stopped cars on the right, only to find as he cleared the last one that---oops, it was a car coming the other way turning LEFT IN FRONT OF HIM.
Precisely the same situation caused a death of a cyclist in Toronto, Canada, just a few months ago. Cars were stopped, filtering on their right at a high rate of speed, ooops they were stopped to let a motorist in the oncoming direction to turn left into a driveway, cyclist tried to avoid turning car, slammed into a parked vehicle, died instantly. There's a ghost bike there now. It hit hard because its on a route that I drive regularly, made the exact same move many many times, realized it could have been me. Now when I filter it's slowly, and I take cues from stopped cars.
Slightly different scenario; he wasn't riding a fixie, had a full set of brakes, but the rest of the scenario was identical.
